Publications Council

The Publications Council’s scope of activities is focused on ICST’s publication program, including conference proceedings, journals, books, magazines, online publication portals, the EU Digital Library, etc.

The Publications Council provides recommendations in:

• Recognizing nascent and emerging technological areas that could benefit from new ICST publications;
• Monitoring the overall growth, quality and future planning of ICST publications;
• Identifying methods for improving operational procedures and supporting services for ICST publications; 
• Providing recommendations for editorial board positions for ICST publications;
• Recognizing new types of publications that would further expand and complement the ICST publications portfolio;
• Setting the rules and regulations that ensure the democratic nature and processes of research promotion mechanisms within the realm of ICST publications, and;
• Moderating the operation of such mechanisms through the related sections of the ICST Agora platform.

Paolo Bellavista - Vice Chair

Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Italy

Paolo Bellavista is an associate professor of computer engineering, within the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. He is Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and serves in the Editorial Board of several International journals/magazines, such as IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Springer Journal on Network and Systems Management, and Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. He has been a member of Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees of several international conferences, including serving as Technical Program Committee Chair of IEEE ISCC'06, IEEE ISCC'10, ICST Mobilware'08, SEPCASE'07, and GPC'10, as General Chair of ICST Mobilware'09 and ICST Mobilware'10, and as Track Chair for IEEE COMPSAC'07, IEEE COMPSAC'09, and IEEE SOCA'10.

His research activities span from mobile computing in general to mobile agent-based middleware, from pervasive and opportunistic wireless computing to location/context-aware services, from replication in mobile ad hoc networks to adaptive multimedia, from vehicular to wireless sensor networks. He authored more than 30 journal/magazine articles and 80 conference/workshop papers. You can find more information about him at http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista

Albert Y. Zomaya

Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Head of School and the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking in the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. Prior to joining Sydney University he was a Full Professor in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Western Australia, where he also led the Parallel Computing Research Laboratory during the period 1990-2002. He is the author/co-author of six books, more than 300 publications in technical journals and conferences, and the editor of seven books and eight conference volumes. He is currently an associate editor for 15 journals, the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing and a Founding Co-Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics.

Professor Zomaya was the Chair the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1999-2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He has been actively involved in the organization of national and international conferences. He received the 1997 Edgeworth David Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales for outstanding contributions to Australian Science. He is also the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award (in 2000) and the Golden Core Recognition (in 2006), both from the IEEE Computer Society. Professor Zomaya is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.), and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. His research interests are in the areas of high performance computing, parallel algorithms, mobile computing, and bioinformatics.

Andrew T. Campbell

Andrew T. Campbell joined Dartmouth College in 2005 as an Associate Professor in Computer Science where he leads the SensorLab and is a member of the Center for Mobile Computing (CMC) and the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS). Prior to joining Dartmouth, he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (1996-2005) and a member of the COMET Group. His current research interests include people-centric sensing, intrusion detection systems for WiFi networks, and open spectrum wireless networks.
Andrew T. Campbell received his PhD in Computer Science (1996) from Lancaster University, England, and the NSF Career Award (1999) for his research in programmable wireless networking. Prior to joining academia he spent 10 years working in industry both in Europe and the USA in product research and development of computer networks and wireless packet networks. He spent his sabbatical year (2003-2004) at the Computer Lab, Cambridge University, as an EPSRC Visiting Fellow. You can find more information about him at his web page: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campbell/

Ken-Ichi Kitayama

Osaka University, Japan

Ozgur B. Akan

Ozgur B. Akan was born in Ankara, Turkey. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in June 1999 and January 2002, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in May 2004. Dr. Akan is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Dr. Akan is an Area Editor for AD HOC Networks Journal (Elsevier) and Editor for ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal and Guest Editor for several Special Issues of Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal (Elsevier), Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) and AD HOC Networks Journal (Elsevier). He has been a member of Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees of several international top ranking conferences including the General European Vice Chair for ICST/ACM NANONET 2007, Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for ACM/IEEE BIONETICS 2007, General Co-Chair of ACM PE-WASUN 2007, was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for ACM MOBIMEDIA 2006 and an International Vice Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2006. Dr. Akan is an IEEE Senior Member.

Dr. Akan received the 2006 Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award for his research in bio-inspired communication techniques for wireless communication networks, the 2006 Editor of the Year Award from AD HOC Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the TUBITAK-Career Award in 2005, and the 2003 Researcher of the Year Award in Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interests are in next-generation wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, biologically-inspired communication techniques, satellite and deep space communications, quantum communications and signal processing.

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor received a B Sc(Hons) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1980 and 1987 respectively. In between, he spent three years working for the Australian Public Service in Canberra. After periods at the Universities of Western Australia and Adelaide, he moved at the beginning of 2002 to Melbourne. In January 2003, he took up a position as the inaugural Professor of Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.

Peter's research interests lie in the fields of stochastic processes and applied probability, with particular emphasis on applications in telecommunications. Recently he has become interested in the interaction of stochastic modelling with optimization and optimal control.

To date Peter has around 85 papers in internationally-refereed journals and some twenty technical reports dealing with topics such as the theory of Markov chains, insensitivity theory, queueing networks, loss networks, matrix-analytic methods, network optimization and stochastic Petri nets. In addition he has several papers on performance analysis and control of telecommunications systems. He has co-authors from ten countries on five continents.

Peter has had considerable experience interacting with industry. For the four years up to the end of 2001, he was the Director of the University of Adelaide's Teletraffic Research Centre. This centre has existed for over twenty years entirely supported by funds earned from contract research and consulting activities for industry.

Peter is one of the chief investigators of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Modelling of Complex Systems. In addition, he was a key researcher in the CRC for Smart Internet Technology and has been the recipient of nine large grants from the ARC. He has been active on the organizing committees of many conferences, is the Editor-in-Chief of "Stochastic Models" and is an Associate Editor of "Queueing Systems". Web address: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/pgt/

Vinton G. Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is a vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state, and industry committees focused on cyber security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, installation in the Inventors Hall of Fame, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." Cerf holds a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and master of science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.