Dr. Manish Parashar

Professor I
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 


Summary of Professional Contributions


Journal Special Issues

1.      Guest Editor (with L. Watson, X. Hu, B.P. Zeigler), Simulation, Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Special Issue on High Performance Computing in Simulation, SCS Press, 2007

2.      Guest Editor (with L. T. Yang and H. Jin), Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on Cluster Computing in Science and Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 9, Number 3, July 2006.

3.      Guest Editor, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 9, Number 2, April 2006.

4.      Guest Editor (with H. Tianfield, R. Unland and E. Chang) Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing For Engineering Environments, IOS Press, Volume 13, Number 1, January 2006.

5.      Guest Editor (with R. Bair and I. Banicescu), Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Special Issue on the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 8, Number 4, 2005.

6.      Guest Editor (with C. A. Lee), Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Grid Computing, Volume 93, Number 3, IEEE Press, March 2005.

7.      Guest Editor, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on Software Architecture for Scientific Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 14, Issue 5, April 2002.

Proceedings Edited      

1.      "Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006),” M. Parashar, J. Kephart, O. F. Rana and M. Yousif (Ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2006.

2.      "Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2005),” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, D. Bader, M. Parashar, V. Sridhar, V. Prasanna (Eds.), LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3769, ISBN 3-540-30936-5, December 2005.

3.      "Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2005)," A. Grimshaw, M. Parashar, and K. Schwan (Ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7803-9037-7, 324 pages, July 2005.

4.      "Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005)," M. Parashar, J. Kephart, K. Schwan and Y-M. Wang (Ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2276-9, 396 pages, June 2005.

5.      "Proceedings of the 2005 High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2005), M. Parashar and L. Watson (Ed.), The Society of Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), ISBN 1-56555-293-8, 253 pages, April 2005.

6.      "Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2004)," M. Parashar and R. Bair (Ed.), IEEE Computer Science Press, ISBN 0-7695-2115-0, 138 pages, June 2004.

7.      "Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2004)," J. Kephart, M. Parashar, R. Das and V. Sunderam (Ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2114-2, 343 pages, May 2004.

8.      "New Frontiers In High-Performance Computing (Proceedings of the HiPC Workshops 2003),"  C.P. Ravikumar et al., (Ed.), Elite Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-88901-05-9, 482 pages,  December 2003.

9.      "Autonomic Computing," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services, Seattle, WA, USA, M. Parashar, S. Hariri, C. Raghavendra (Ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, (ISBN 0-7695-1983-0) 197 pages, June 2003.

10.  "Grid Computing - GRID 2002 (Third International Workshop, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 18, 2002, Proceedings),"  Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  M. Parashar (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2536, (ISBN 3-540-00133-6) 316 pages, November 2002.

Journal Editorial/Advisory Boards

1.         Associate Editor, "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems," IEEE Computer Society Press, 10/06 - Present.

2.      Member of Editorial Board, “Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,” John Wiley & Sons, 05/01 – Present.

3.      Member of Editorial Board, “Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 02/02 – Present.

4.      Member of Editorial Board, "International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC)", Inderscience Publishers, 02/08 – Present.

5.      Member of Editorial Board, “Multiagent and Grid Systems – An International Journal," IOS Press, 01/06 – Present.

6.      Member of Editorial Board, “International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)," Inderscience Publishers, 05/07 – Present.

7.      Member of Editorial Board, “International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing,” Inderscience Publishers, 08/03 – Present.

8.      Member of Advisory Board, “International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications,” ISSN 1751-1461, 05/06 – Present.

9.      Member of Editorial Board, “Autonomic Systems,” Birkhauser Publishers, 06/08 – Present.

Conference/Workshop Steering Committees

1.      Co Founder, IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2004 – present.

2.      IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2005 – present.

3.       IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), 2008 – present.

4.      International Conference on Grid Computing, Chair, 2007 – present; Member, 2002 – 2007.

5.      IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS), 2004 – present.

6.      International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS), 2006 – present.

7.      Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, International Workshop on Heterogeneous and Adaptive Computation (CLADE), 2003 – present.

8.      High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC), SCS SpringSim Conference, 2005 – 2007.

9.      IEEE International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (Autonomic Computing Workshop), 2003.

Conference/Workshop General Chair

1.      General Co-Chair, 15th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India, December 2008.

2.      General Co-Chair, 17th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Boston, MA, USA, June, 2008.

3.      General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2008), Sorrento, Italy, July 2008.

4.      General Co-Chair, 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), Goa, India, December 2007.

5.      General Co-Chair, 13th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), Bangalore, India, December 2006. 

6.      General Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006), Dublin, Ireland, June 2006.

7.      General Co-Chair, 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2005), Goa, India, December 2005.

8.      General Co-Chair, 1st IFIP workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05), in conjunction with  the 2005 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2005), Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005.

9.      General Co-Chair, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), Seattle, WA, June 2005.

10.  General Co-Chair, 1st International Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems (RAMPDS 2005), in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005), Fukuoka City, Japan, July 2005.

11.  General Chair, High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2005), Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference 2005 (ASTC 2005), Society of Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

12.  General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2004.

13.  General Co-Chair and Co-founder, 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International World Wide Web Conference, New York, NY, May 2004.

Conference/Workshop Program Chair/Vice Chair

  1. Vice Program Chair, 8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 2008.
  2. Vice Program Chair, International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS’2006), Erfurt, Germany, September 2006.
  3. Program Co-Chair, 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06), Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September, 2006.
  4. Vice Program Chair, Peer-to-Peer Computing, 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), August 2006.
  5. Vice Program Chair, Autonomic Computing, 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-26), July 2006.
  6. Vice Program Chair, Peer-to-Peer Computing, The 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2005), September 2005.
  7. Program Co-Chair, 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2005), July 2005.
  8. Program Chair, Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous and Adaptive Computation (CLADE), in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Honolulu, HI, June 2004.
  9. Program Chair, High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2004), ASTC 2004, Arlington, VA, April 2004.
  10. Program Chair, Autonomic Computing Workshop, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Active Middleware Services, in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Seattle, WA, June 2003.
  11. Program Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing, in conjunction with Supercomputing 2002, Baltimore, MD, November 2002.

Miscellaneous Conference/Workshop Organization 

  1. Member of Program Committee, 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), Montreal, Canada, June 2009.
  2. Member of Program Committee, Second International Workshop on Adaptive Systems in Heterogeneous Environments (ASHEs), Fukuoka, Japan, March, 2009.
  3. Member of Program Committee, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 2009.
  4. Member of Program Committee, 7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2009), Wellington, New Zealand, January, 2009.
  5. Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA’08), Sydney, Australia, December, 2008.
  6. Member of Program Committee, 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience 2008), Indiana, USA, December 2008.
  7. Member of Program Committee, 6th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2008), in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th Intl. Middleware Conference 2008,Leuven, Belgium, December 2008.
  1. Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems(IDCS'08), In conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2008), Khulna, Bangladesh, December 2008.
  2. Member of Program Committee, Third International Workshop on  MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications (MONET´08), Monterrey, Mexico, November 2008.
  3. Member of Program Committee, Third International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'08), in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'08), November 2008.
  4. Member of Poster Committee, 2nd International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008), Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy, October 2008.
  5. Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Computing and Applications in Science (ADVCOMP 2008), Valencia, Spain, September-October 2008.
  6. Member of Program Committee, 9th   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Tsukuba, Japan, September 2008.
  7. Member of Program Committee, 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008), Portland, OR, USA, September 2008.
  8. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008), Vienna, Austria, September 2008.
  9. Member of Program Committee, 3rd IEEE Workshop on International Modeling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2008), Samos Island, Greece, September 2008.
  10. Member of Program Committee, 3rd Latin American Autonomic Computing Symposium (LAACS 2008), Gramado, Brazil, September 2008.
  11. Member of Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India, August 2008.
  12. Member of Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2008), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 2008.
  13.  Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic Service Discovery and Management (ASDM'08), in conjunction with SCC 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2008.
  14. Member of Program Committee, Symposium of Pervasive Grids, 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008) Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2008.
  15. Member of Program Committee, 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 2008.
  16. Member of Program Committee, 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing, In conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 08), Chicago, IL, USA, June 2008.
  17. Member of Program Committee, 9th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE-08), Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2008.
  18. Member of Program Committee Workshop on Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks: Theory, Application, and Future (MLCN'08), in conjunction with  the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, China, June 2008.
  19. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Science 2008 (ICCS 2008), Krakow, Poland, May 2008.
  20. Organizer, Workshop on Autonomics for Grid and Datacenters, 8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 2008.
  21. Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium, 8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 2008.
  22. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08),  in conjunction with The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2008), Kunming, China, May 2008.
  23. Member of Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P’07), ), In conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami, FL, USA, April, 2008.
  24. Member of Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS), In conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Miami, FL, USA, April, 2008.
  25. Member of Program Committee, High Performance Computing Simulation Symposium (HPCS 2008), SCS Spring Simulation Multiconference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 2008.
  26. Member of Program Committee, 5th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2008), Belfast, Ireland, March-April, 2008.
  27. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2008), Barcelona, Spain, March 2008.  
  28. Member of International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008.
  29. Member of Program Committee, 6th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2008), Wollongong, Australia, January, 2008.
  30. Member of Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies (eScience 2007), Bangalore, India, December 2007.
  31. Member of Program Committee, SC07 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, NV, USA, November 2007.
  32. Member of Program Committee, The 6th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2007),in conjunction with the 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach, CA, USA, November 2007.
  33. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Computing and Applications in Science  (ADVCOMP 2007), Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, November, 2007.
  34. Member of Program Committee, Second International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'07), in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'07), October-November 2007.
  35. Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modeling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, October 2007.
  36. Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, October 2007.  
  37. Member of Program Committee, Joint HPC-GECO/CompFrame’07, in conjunction with OOPSLA, Montreal, Canada, October 2007.
  38. Co-Chair of International Advisory Committee, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2007), Baltimore, MD, USA, October 2007.
  39. Member of Program Committee, 8th   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Austin, TX, USA, September 2007.
  40. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Self Organization and Autonomous Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS'2007), Leipzig, Germany on September, 2007.
  41. Member of Program Committee, New Trends in Network Architectures and Services: 2nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2007), Lancaster, UK, September 2007.
  42. Member of Program Committee, 2nd Latin American Autonomic Computing Symposium (LAACS 2007), Petropolis, Brazil, September 2007.
  43. Member of Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM 2007), co-located with Software Agents and Services for Business, Research, and E-Science (SABRE 2007), Leipzig, Germany, September 2007.
  44. Member of Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), Boston, MA, USA, July 2007.
  45. Member of Program Committee, The 2007 International Conference on Complex Open Distributed Systems (CODS 2007), Chengdu, China, July 2007.
  46. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshops on Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology (AOSDM ’07), Chengdu, China, July 2007.
  47. Member of Program Committee, 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), Toronto, Canada, June 2007.
  48.  Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Emergence in Decentralized Autonomic Systems (EEDAS), in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, USA, June 2007.
  49. Member of Program Committee, 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing, In conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 07), Jacksonville, FL, USA, June 2007.
  50. Publicity Co-Chair, 7th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007.
  51. Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium, 7th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007.
  52. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Science 2007 (ICCS 2007), Beijing, China, May 2007.
  53. Member of Program Committee, 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA, USA, April, 2007.
  54. Member of Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P’07), ), In conjunction with the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA, USA, April, 2007
  55. Member of Program Committee, Third International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS), In conjunction with the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA, USA, April, 2007.
  56. Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2007), Vienna, Austria, April 2007.
  57. Member of Program Committee, 4th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2007), Tucson, AZ, USA, March 2007.
  58. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM 2007), New Delhi, India, March 2007.
  59. Member of International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007.
  60. Member of Program Committee, 5th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2007), Ballarat, Australia, January/February, 2007.
  61. Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies (eScience 2006), Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 2006.
  62. Member of Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ADCOM 2006), Mangalore, India, December 2006. 
  63. Member of Program Committee, SC06 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Tampa Bay, FL, USA, November 2006.
  64. International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'06), In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06), Montpellier, France, October-November 2006.
  1. Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE Workshop on Modeling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2006), Dublin, Ireland, October 2006.
  2. Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management (AGNM06), Dublin, Ireland, October, 2006.
  3. Co-Chair of International Advisory Committee, 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2006), Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 2006.
  4. Member of Program Committee, 7th   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Barcelona, September 2006.
  5. Member of Program Committee, New Trends in Network Architectures and Services: International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006), University of Passau, Germany, September 2006.
  6. Member of Program Committee, First International Workshop on Agent Technology and Autonomic Computing (ATAC 2006), Erfurt, Germany, September 2006.
  7. Member of Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005), Minneapolis, MN, USA, July, 2006.
  8. Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Workshops on Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology (AOSDM ’06), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 2006.
  9. Member of Program Committee, 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Rhodes, Greece, April, 2006.
  10. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P’06), IPDPS 2006, Denver, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
  11. Member of Program Committee, 11th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments, IPDPS 2006, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
  12. Member of Program Committee, 2nd Workshop on System Management Tools for Large-Scale Parallel Systems, IPDPS 2006, Denver, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
  13. Member of Program Committee, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2006), Greenbelt, MD, USA, April 2006.
  14. Member of Program Committee, 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
  15. Member of Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2006), Vienna, Austria, April 2006.  
  16. Co-Chair of International Advisory Committee, The IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems, 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
  17. Symposium organizer, 155thP SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, CA, February 2006.
  18. Member of International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2006.
  19. Member of Program Committee, 4th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2006), in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Hobart, Newcastle, Australia, January, 2006.
  20. Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies (eScience 2005), Seattle, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2005.
  21. Member of Advisory Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW 2005),  in conjunction with the IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2005), Nagasaki, Japan, December, 2005.
  22. Member of Program Committee, 2005 International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems (SOAS 2005), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, December 2005.
  23. Member of Program Committee, 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, (Grid 2005), Seattle, WA, USA, November, 2005.
  24.  Member of Program Committee, Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005), Supercomputing 2005, Seattle, WA, USA, November, 2005.
  25. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA’05), Nanjing, P. R. China, November, 2005.
  26. Member of Program Committee, 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management (AGNM05), Barcelona, Spain, October, 2005.
  27. Member of Program Committee, 7th International Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS 2005), Barcelona, Spain, October 2005.
  28. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2005), Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, October, 2005.
  29. Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer and Service Oriented Hypermedia: Techniques and Systems, in conjunction with the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 2005), Salzburg, Austria, September, 2005.
  30. Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodologies (AOSDM'05), Taipei, Taiwan, China, July, 2005.
  31. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Self-Managing Enterprise Application (ASMEA ’05), CAISE’05, Porto, Portugal, June, 2005.
  32. Publicity Co-Chair, 5th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), Cardiff, UK, May 2005.
  33. Member of Program Committee, 10th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments, IPDPS 2005, Denver, CO, USA, April 2005.
  34. Member of Program Committee, 1st Workshop on System Management Tools for Large-Scale Parallel Systems, IPDPS 2005, Denver, CO, USA, April 2005.
  35. Member of Program Committee, 6th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-05), IPDPS 2005, Denver, CO, USA, April 2005.
  36. Member of Program Committee, 2nd IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2005), Greenbelt, MD, April 2005.
  37. Member of Program Committee, Special Session on Objects Oriented Programming Languages and Systems, 2005 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), Santa Fe, NM, March 2005.
  38. Member of International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005.
  39. Member of Program Committee, Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and eResearch (AusGrid 2005), Newcastle, Australia, January-February  2005.
  40. Publicity Chair and Member of Program Committee, 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004), Bangalore, India, December 2004.
  41. Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA’2004), Hong Kong, China, December 2004.
  42. Track Organizer, Autonomic Computing Track, Unconventional Programming Paradigms 2004, Mont Saint-Michel, France, September 2004.
  43. Member of Program Committee, The 8th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2004), Monterey, CA, USA, September 2004.
  44. Member of Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2004), San Francisco, CA, September 2004.
  45. Member of Program Committee, Workshop on Grid Computing Techniques and Applications, The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), Las Vegas, NV, USA. June 2004.
  46. Member of Program Committee, Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2004), 11th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2004), Brno, Czech Republic, May 2004.
  47. Member of Program Committee, 6th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (HPSECA-04), International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-04), Santa Fe, NM, April 2004.
  48. Member of International Program Committee (IPC), IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2004), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2004.
  49. Publicity Chair and Member of Program Committee, 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003), Hyderabad, India, December 2003.
  50. Organizer, Autonomic Applications Workshop, in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003), Hyderabad, India, December 2003.
  51. Member of Program Committee, ACM Group 2003 Conference (Group 2003), Sanibel Island, FL, November 2003.
  52. Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-03), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC, October 2003.
  53. Member of Program Committee, 5th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (HPSECA-03), International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-03), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC, October 2003.
  54. Member of Scientific Organizing Committee, Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement, ASCI/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, June 2003.
  55. Member of Program Committee, 11th High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2003), Orlando, FL, March-April 2003.
  56. Publicity Chair and Member of Program Committee, 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2002), Bangalore, India, December 2002.
  57. Member of Program Committee, ACM Java Grande and International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (JGI 2002), 17th Annual ACM conference on Object-Oriented Programming, System Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2002), Seattle, WA, November 2002.
  58. Member of Program Committee, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Active Middleware Services, in conjunction with the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Edinburgh, UK, August 2002.
  59. Member of Program Committee, 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 2002.
  60. Member of Program Committee, 11th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, IEEE Fourth Merged Symposium of the 16th International Parallel Processing Symposium and the 13th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP), Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 2002.
  61. Member of Scientific Organizing Committee, Caltech Visitors Program for the Numerical Simulation of Gravitational Wave Sources, California Institute of Technology 2001-2005, (http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/GWSourceSimulation/).
  62. Member of Program Committee, 10th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, IEEE Third Merged Symposium of the 15th International Parallel Processing Symposium and the 12th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP), San Francisco, CA, April 2001.
  63. Symposium organizer, 10th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Portsmouth, VA, March 2001.
  64. Member of Program Committee, Special Session on Distributed Objects and Components, 2001 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2001), Las Vegas, NV, March 2001.
  65. Symposium organizer, First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Computing, Washington, D.C., September 2000.
  66. Member of Program Committee, 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA `00), Las Vegas, NV, June 2000.
  67. Member of Program Committee, 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA `99), Las Vegas, NV, June 1999.
  68. Symposium organizer, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Antonio, TX, March 1999.
  69. Publicity Chair and Member of Program Committee, Sixth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-6), Portland, OR, August 1997.
  70. Member of Program Committee, Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS `96), Dijon, France, September 1996.
  71. Publicity Chair and Member of Program Committee, Fifth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-5), Syracuse, NY, August 1996.

Proposal Reviewing

  1. Panelist/Reviewer, National Science Foundation of the United States.
  2. United States Department of Energy (DoE).
  3. U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF).
  4. National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
  5. Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO).  
  6. Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Journal, and Conference Reviewing (list not complete)

  1. IEEE Computer Journal.
  2. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  3. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
  4. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.
  5. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics.
  6. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
  7. The Computer Journal, British Computer Society, Oxford University Press.
  8. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Academic Press.
  9. Journal of Computational Physics, Academic Press.
  10. Journal of Computer Communication, Elsevier Science Publishers.
  11. Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier Science Publishers.
  12. Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience Journal, John Wiley & Sons.
  13. Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Kluwer Academic.
  14. Journal of Parallel Computing, Elsevier Science Publishers.
  15. Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press.
  16. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Sage Publications.
  17. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, IOS Press.
  18. SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation.
  19. IPSI Transactions on Advanced Research.
  20. IEEE/ACM Supercomputing International Conference.
  21. IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing International Conference
  22. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
  23. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, CSREA.
  24. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing.
  25. IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium.
  26. ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
  27. ACM GROUPS International Conference.
  28. ACM/IEEE/IFIP Euro-Par Conference.
  29. IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
  30. ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.
  31. SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing.
  32. IEEE International Workshop on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel.
  33. IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
  34. IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop.
  35. IEEE Workshop on Information and Computer Science.
  36. ACM Java Grande and International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments.
  37. ACM International Symposium on Distributed Object and Component-Based Software Systems.
  38. IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing.

 Society Memberships

  1. Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Computer Society.
  2. Vice Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2007.
  3. Member of Executive Committee, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), 2003.
  4. Member, Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).


Contact Information


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