Duke University

kishor S. Trivedi

Kishor S. Trivedi holds the Hudson Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975. He is the author of a well known text entitled, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications, published by Prentice Hall; a thoroughly revised second edition (including its Indian edition) of this book has been published by John Wiley. He has also published two other books entitled, Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, John Wiley. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society. He has published over 490 articles and has supervised 44 Ph.D. dissertations. He is the recipient of IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for his research on Software Aging and Rejuvenation. His research interests in are in reliability, availability, performance and survivability of computer and communication systems and in software dependability. He works closely with industry in carrying our reliability/availability analysis, providing short courses on reliability, availability, and in the development and dissemination of software packages such as SHARPE, SREPT and SPNP.

Javier Alonso

Javier Alonso Lopez received the masters degree in Computer Science in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, UPC) in 2011. From 2006 to 2011, he held an assistant lecturer position in the Computer Architecture Department of UPC. Since 2011, he has a Postdoctoral Associate position under the supervision of Professor K.S. Trivedi, in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University, Durham, NC. Dr. Alonso has published more than 20 papers about different aspects of dependability, availability, reliability and software aging in premier conferences and journals. He has also served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Dependability and Security Computing, Performance Evaluation, and Cluster Computing, and several international conferences. His research interests are in dependability, reliability, availability, and performance of computer and communication systems. He has special interest in software dependability and software aging and rejuvenation topics. He is been involved in JPL/NASA, NATO, NEC, Huawei, WiPro funded projects.

 Arizona State University

 Hassan 1st University

Abdelkrim HAQIQ

Abdelkrim HAQIQ has a High Study Degree (DES) and a PhD (Doctorat d'Etat), both in Applied Mathematics, option modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks, from the University of Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco. Since September 1995 he has been working as a Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Settat, Morocco. He is the Director of IR2M laboratory. He is also a General Secretary of e-Next Generation Networks (e-NGN) Research Group, Moroccan section. Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ's interests lie in the areas of applied stochastic processes, stochastic control, queuing theory, game theory and their applications for modeling/simulation and performance analysis of computer communication networks. He is the author and co-author of more than 50 papers (international journals and conferences/workshops). He was the Chair of the second international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Marrakech, July, 8- 10, 2010 and the TPC Chair of the fourth international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Portugal, December, 2 - 4, 2012. He is also an International Steering Committee Chair of the international conference on Engineering Education and Research 2013, iCEER2013, which will be held in Marrakesh, July, 1^st –5^th, 2013. Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ is also a TPC member and a reviewer for many international conferences. He is also a Guest Editor of a special issue on Next Generation Networks and Services of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), July-September 2012, Vol. 4, No. 3.

University of Canterbury

Dong-Seong Kim

Dong-Seong Kim received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Korea Aerospace University, South Korea in 2008. He was a visiting researcher at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA in 2007. He was a postdoctoral esearcher at Duke University, Durham, NC from June 2008 to July 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi. He is currently a lecturer (an assistant professor in US, and a full time continuing academic staff) in the computer science and software engineering department at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, since Aug 2011. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. He has published over 60 refereed international journal and conferences papers. He has served as the editorial board of Security and Communication Networks and KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and a reviewer for more than 20 international journals. His research interests are in design, implementation and analysis of dependable and secure systems and networks. In particular, intrusion detection systems, security and dependability modelling and analysis of enterprise systems, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, cloud computing systems.

Jin Bum Hong

Jin Bum Hong has received Bsc(Hon) degree in Computer Science in 2011, and he is currently working toward the PhD degree from Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research interests are security modelling and analysis of computer and networks, cloud systems, and cyber-physical systems.