Dr. Geyong Min

    Professor Geyong Min is a Chair in High Performance Computing and Networking with the Computer Science discipline in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK. His recent research has been supported by European FP6/FP7, UK EPSRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, and industrial partners including Motorola, IBM, Huawei Technologies, INMARSAT, and InforSense Ltd. Prof. Min is the Co-ordinator of two recently funded FP7 projects: 1) Quality-of-Experience Improvement for Mobile Multimedia across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks; and 2) Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks. As a key team member and participant, he has made significant contributions to several EU funded research projects on Future Generation Internet. He has published more than 200 research papers in leading international journals including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and at reputable international conferences, such as SIGCOMM-IMC, ICDCS, IPDPS, GLOBECOM, and ICC. He is an Associated Editor of several international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Computers. He served as the General Chair/Program Chair of a number of international conferences in the area of Information and Communications Technologies.

Topic of Keynote: Performance Modelling and Analysis of Data-Centre Networks Under Bursty Traffic

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Dr. Houari Sahraoui

    Houari A. Sahraoui is professor at the department of computer science and operations research (GEODES, software engineering group) of University of Montreal. His research interests include software engineering automation, model-driven engineering, software visualization, and search-based software engineering. He has published more than 150 research papers, edited three books, and gives regularly invited talks. He has served as a program committee member in several IEEE and ACM conferences, as a member of the editorial boards of four journals, and as an organization member of many conferences and workshops. He was the general chair if IEEE/ACM ASE 2003 and IEEE VISSOFT 2014, and PC co-chair of IEEE VISSOFT 2011.

Topic of Keynote: Deriving Knowledge from Examples to Improve Automation in the Model-Driven Engineering Paradigm

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