Current Professional Activities

• Speaker (1996-99) in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program.
• CSAB Accreditation Visitor.
• Tutorial Speaker, SAC 2000, March 19, 2000.
• Keynote Speaker at CCSC Midwest Conference 1999, Franklin, Indiana.
• Speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program.
• Member, Editorial Board, Parallel Computing .
• Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
• Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Software .
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE CS Press .
• Member, IEEE Computer Society/ACM Task Force on the "Year 2001 Model Curricula for Computing" (CC-2001)
• Guest Editor
  • Special Issue of JPDC on Scalable Web Services and Architecture Call for Papers . It has now appeared as Volume 63, No. 10, October 2003. Read the guest editorial.
  • Special Issue of IEEE JSAAC on Rcent Advances in Wireless Multimedia Call for Papers [HTML] [PDF]; It has now appeared as Volume 21, Issue 10, December 2003; Read the guest editorial.
  • Special Issue of Wireless Networks (WINET) on Advances in Mobile and Wireless Systems , appeared as No.2, Vol. 9, March 2003 .
  • Special Issue of Mobile Networks and Application (MONET) on Pervasive Computing, Call for Papers [HTML]. It has now appeared as Volume 7, Number 4, August 2002 . Here is the Guest Editorial .
  • Special Issue of IEEE Personal Communications on Pervasive Computing , Call for Papers . It has now appeared Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2001 . Here is the Guest Editorial .
  • Special Issue of Parallel Computing on Parallel Data Intensive Algorithms and Applications, Call for Papers [Postscript] [HTML] . It has now appeared Vol. 28, No. 5, May 2002 . Here is the guest editorial.
  • Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers on Data Base Management & Mobile Computing, Call for Papers [HTML].
  • Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering on Architecture-Independent Languages and Software Tools for Parallel Processing, Vol. 26, No. 3, March 2000 and Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2000 . Call for Papers [Postscript] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Special Issue of Paralle l Computing on Parallel Computing on Clusters of Workstations, Vol. 26, Issue 2-3, February 2000 . Call for Papers [Postscript] [HTML] .
• Associate Editor, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA99) , Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Special Session of ICSE 99 on Networks and Distributed Computing, Call for Papers [Postscript]
• Special Session of PDPTA 99 on Fault Tolerance and Reconfiguration in Distributed Systems, Call for Papers .
• Program Committee Member, PDSE'99, IPCCC'99 , ICSE 99 , ICDCS2000 , RIDE 2000 , PDSE 2000 , ACIDCA'2000, CIC'2000 , AMOC-2000 , ICPADS 2001, PDCS 2001 , ASPEISA'00 , WNMC 01 , AMOC-2002 , ICT 2002 , CIC 2002 , MDB 2002 , , MASCOTS 2002 , PDCS 2002 , HiPC 2003, IAT 2004, MAAS 2004
• Advisory Committee Member, HICSS'99, HICSS 2001, HICSS 2003 .
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 3rd International Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers.
• Co-Genral Chair, PDCS 1999.
• Program Chair, International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC-2000
• Track Chair, Parallel and Distributed Systems Track of SAC 2001.
• Co-Program Chair
  • Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing in conjunction with ICDCS 2000
  • Workshop on Pervasive Computing in conjunction with ICPP 2000.
  • Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing in conjunction with ICDCS-2001.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing in conjunction with ICDCS-2002.
  • International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2001
  • International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2002
  • International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2003
  • International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2004