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Alan Bertossi was born in London (England) in 1956. He got the Laurea Degree summa cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 1979. Afterwards, he worked as a System Programmer and Designer. From 1983 to 1994 he was with the University of Pisa as a Research Associate first, and later as an Associate Professor. From 1995 to 2002 he was with the University of Trento (Italy), as a Full Professor. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna (Italy), as a Professor of Computer Science. His main research interests are the computational aspects of high-performance, parallel, VLSI, distributed, fault-tolerant, and real-time systems.
He has published about 40 refereed papers on international journals, as well as several papers in international conferences, workshops, and encyclopedias. He has authored a book (on design and analysis of algorithms, in Italian) and he served as a guest coeditor for special issues of Algorithmica, Discrete Applied Mathematics, and Mobile Networks and Applications. He is a member of the editorial board of Information Processing Letters.
His biography is included in the 1999 edition of Who’s Who in the World and in the 2000 edition of Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. Since 1999, he has been a scientific collaborator at the Institute of Information Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy). During 2001–2003, he was the national coordinator of an Italian research project on algorithms for wireless networks.
Azzedine Boukerche is a Full Professor and he holds a Canada Research Chair position at the University of Ottawa. He is the Founding Director of PARADISE Research Laboratory at Ottawa U. Prior to this, he held a faculty position at the University of North Texas, USA, and he was working as a Senior Scientist at the Simulation Sciences Division, Metron Corporation located in San Diego. He was also employed as a Faculty at the School of Computer Science McGill University, and taught at Polytechnic of Montreal. He spent a year at the JPL/NASA-California Institute of Technology where he contributed to a project centered about the specification and verification of the software used to control interplanetary spacecraft operated by JPL/NASA Laboratory.
His current research interests include wireless networks, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless multimedia, QoS service provisioning, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, peformance evaluation and modeling of large-scale distributed systems, distributed computing, large-scale distributed interactive simulation, and parallel discrete event simulation. Dr. Boukerche has published several research papers in these areas. He was the recipient of the Best Research Paper Award at IEEE/ACM PADS’97, and the recipient of the 3rd National Award for Telecommunication Software 1999 for his work on a distributed security systems on mobile phone operations, and has been nominated for the best paper award at the IEEE/ACM PADS’99, ACM MSWiM 2001, and ACM MobiWac 2004. He is a Co-Founder of QShine Int’l Conference, and served as a General Chair for the first Int’l Conference on Quality of Service for Wireless/Wired Heterogeneous Networks (QShine 2004), ACM/IEEE MASCOST 1998, IEEE DS-RT 1999–2000, ACM MSWiM 2000; Program Chair for ACM/IFIPS Europar 2002, IEEE/SCS Annual Simulation Symposium ANNS 2002, ACM WWW’02, IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2002, IEEE Wireless Local Networks WLN 03-04; IEEE WMAN 04-05, ACM MSWiM 98-99, and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He served as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks and ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks Applications, and the Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing. Dr. A. Boukerche serves as an Associate Editor and on the editorial board for ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and the SCS Transactions on simulation. He also serves as a Steering Committee Chair for the ACM Modeling, Analysis and Simulation fo Wireless and Mobile Systems Symposium, the ACM Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks and the IEEE Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications Symposium (DS-RT). He is a member of ACM and IEEE.
M. Cristina Pinotti received the Dr. degree cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1986. During 1987–1999 she has been a Researcher with the National Council of Research at the Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione, Pisa. From 2000–2003 she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. From 2004, she is a Full Professor at the University of Perugia. In 1994 and 1995 she was a Research Associate at the Department of Computers Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. In 1997 she visited the Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (USA).
Her research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks, design and analysis of algorithms, data broadcasting, channel assignment problems, graph coloring, multiprocessor interconnection networks, design and analysis of parallel algorithms, parallel data structures, distributed computer arithmetic, residue number systems, VLSI special purpose architectures. She has published about 50 refereed papers on international journals, in international conferences and workshops.
She served as General Chair of IEEE WMAN 04-05 and as TPC member of several IEEE conferences. She has been a guest co-editor for a special issue of Mobile Networks and Applications. She is a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.
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Bertossi, A.A., Boukerche, A. & Pinotti, C.M. Guest Editorial. Wireless Netw 12, 669–670 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-6526-1
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