Resume / Curriculum Vitae Vasco N. G. J. Soares

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1 Resume / Curriculum Vitae Vasco N. G. J. Soares Last updated: September 2, 2014 Personal Information Full Name: Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares Gender: Male Nationality: Portuguese Date of Birth: July 31, 1979 Marital Status: Married, one son Office Address: Escola Superior de Tecnologia Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Av. do Empresário - Campus da Talagueira Castelo Branco Portugal Office Telephone: Office Fax: vasco.g.soares@ipcb.pt, vasco.g.soares@ieee.org WWW: Education Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 2012 University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal Thesis: Performance Assessment of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues Five-year B.Sc. (Licentiate), Informatics Engineering, 2002 University of Coimbra, Portugal Additional Education and Training Cisco Instructor Trainer Qualification, Successfully Passed, Academia Cisco do Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal, October IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, March LaTeX Workshop, Núcleo Estudantil IEEE do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal, April 30 and May 7, Fundamentals of Wireless LANs, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, January Cisco Certified Network Associate 4 WAN Technologies, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, July Cisco Certified Network Associate 3 Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, February Cisco Certified Network Associate 2 Routers and Routing Basics, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, August Cisco Certified Network Associate 1 Networking Basics, Instructor Training, Academia Regional Cisco da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal, July

2 Advanced PL-SQL, Oracle, Portugal, July Pedagogical Training of Trainers, Portugal Telecom Inovação SA, Portugal, April to May Development of WWW applications, Portugal Telecom Inovação SA, Portugal, July Memberships IEEE Senior Member, December Student Member since October Teaching and Working Experience Professor in the Technical-Scientific Unit of Informatics at the Superior School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal (Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco - since September Supervised 1 M.Sc. thesis. - Supervised/co-supervised over 20 final year B.Sc. projects. - Teaching or taught the following subjects to B.Sc. students: Undergraduate Courses Informatics Engineering Information Technologies and Multimedia Subjects Internet Architecture (2008/09 to present) Data Communication Networks (2006/07 to present) Operating Systems and Networks (2006/07) Telecommunications Fundamentals (2003/04 to 2005/06) Systems and Computer Networks (2003/04 to 2005/06) Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry (2003/04) Computer Networks (2006/07 to present) Internet Architecture and Technologies (2006/07 and 2011/12 to present) Health Informatics Telematic Systems (2007/08 to 2010/11) Operating Systems Administration (2007/08) Informatics and Information Technologies Engineering Systems and Computer Networks (2003/04 to 2005/06) Internet Technologies (2004/05) Cardiopneumology Informatics and Data Processing (2005/06) Cisco instructor at the Cisco Academy of the Superior School of Technology of Castelo Branco, Portugal ( since September Teaching or taught the following courses to instructors and students: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 1 to 4 Networking Basics, Routers and Routing Basics, Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing, WAN Technologies ; CCNA Exploration Network Fundamentals and Routing Protocols and Concepts ; and IT Essentials: PC Hardware e Software. Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal ( since January Member of the research group Next Generation Networks and Applications Group (NetGNA Conducting research mainly on vehicular delay-tolerant networks. 2

3 Researcher and software developer at Portugal Telecom Inovação, SA, Aveiro, Portugal ( from March 2002 to September Conducted research in the area of semantic web. - Developed Java and web applications. Main Research Areas Vehicular Networks Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks Awards 1. Instructor Excellence Award, Cisco Networking Academy, Web Chair Outstanding Service Award at the 15th IEEE International Conference on e-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-12, Honorable Mention for the Scientific Production produced in the school year 2011/2012, awarded by the Superior School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal, June 14, Best Student Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2010), Split - Bol, Croatia, September 23-25, Best Paper Award at the Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20-25, Research Projects 1. Network of Excellence Euro-NF Anticipating the Network of the Future from Theory to Design, Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community, Information and Communication Technologies, Grant Agreement Number , between January 2008 and June Euro-NF Specific Joint Research Project VDTN Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (IT, INESC- ID, UPC), between March 2010 and February VDTN@Lab - Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks, Instituto de Telecomunicações Associated Lab. (Internal Project), between January 2009 and December Publications Thesis 1. Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "Performance Assessment of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," Ph.D. thesis, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, February Patents 1. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "Método de Encaminhamento Geográfico para Redes Veiculares com Ligações Intermitentes," Portugal, Patent , November 23, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Farid Farahmand, "Método de Transmissão de Dados em Redes Veiculares com Ligações Intermitentes," Portugal, Patent , April 27,

4 Refereed Book Chapters 1. Vasco N. G. J. Soares and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Cooperation in DTN-Based Network Architectures," in Cooperative Networking, M. S. Obaidat and S. Misra, Eds.: Wiley, 2011, pp Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Farid Farahmand, "Stationary Relay Nodes Deployment on Vehicular Opportunistic Networks," in Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, M. K. Denko, Ed. USA: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group (hardcover), 2011, pp Refereed Journal Publications 1. Sweta Jain, Meenu Chawla, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Joel J. Rodrigues, "Enhanced Fuzzy Logic- Based Spray and Wait Routing Protocol for Delay Tolerant Networks," International Journal of Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., May 2014 (article first published online). 2. Sweta Jain, Nikhitha Kishore, Meenu Chawla, and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "Composite Mechanisms for Improving Bubble Rap in Delay Tolerant Networks," The Journal of Engineering, IET, pp. 1-7, January Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Farid Farahmand, "GeoSpray: A Geographic Routing Protocol for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," Information Fusion, Elsevier, vol. 15, pp , January Paulo R. Pereira, Augusto Casaca, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joan Triay, and Cristina Cervelló-Pastor, "From Delay-Tolerant Networks to Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 14, no. 4, pp , João A. F. F. Dias, João N. G. Isento, Bruno M. C. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Performance Assessment of IP over Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks through the VDTN@Lab Testbed," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN), SpringerOpen, January Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Traffic Differentiation Support in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," Telecommunication Systems, Springer, vol. 48, no. 1-2, pp , October Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Towards Intelligent Caching and Retrieval Mechanisms for Upcoming Proposals on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," Journal of Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS), vol. 7, no. 1, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Performance Analysis of Scheduling and Dropping Policies in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, IARIA, vol. 3, no. 1 & 2, pp , Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Impact of Vehicle Movement Models on VDTN Routing Strategies for Rural Connectivity," International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation (IJMNDI), Inderscience Publishers, vol. 3, no. 2, pp , December Refereed Conference Proceeding Publications 1. Sean C. Alvarenga, Bruno B. Zarpelão, and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "A Notification Architecture for Smart Cities based on Push Technologies," in XL Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática (CLEI 2014), Montevideo, Uruguay, September 15-19, Ricardo Rio, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Alexandre Fonte, and Bruno B. Zarpelão, "Desenvolvimento de uma Plataforma Tecnológica para Recolha, Armazenamento e Gestão de Informação Estratégica da Águas do Centro S.A.," in X Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI 2014), Londrina, PR, Brasil, Maio 27-30, (in Portuguese) 3. Nikhitha Kishore, Sweta Jain, and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "An Empirical Review on the Spray and Wait Based Algorithms for Controlled Replication Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks," in 4

5 Tenth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2013), Bhopal, India, July 26-28, 2013, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, João A. Dias, João N. Isento, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Protocolos de Encaminhamento para Redes Veiculares com Ligações Intermitentes," in 12ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2012), Aveiro, Portugal, Novembro 15-16, (in Portuguese) 5. Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, João A. Dias, and João N. Isento, "Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2012), Split, Croatia, September 11-13, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Farid Farahmand, "Performance Assessment of a Geographic Routing Protocol for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France, April 1-4, 2012, pp João A. Dias, João N. Isento, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Testbed-based Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 2nd IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Communications & Services (MCS) - IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshops, Houston, Texas, USA, December 5-9, 2011, pp Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, João A. Dias, João N. Isento, Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Naércio Magaia, Paulo R. Pereira, Augusto Casaca, Cristina Cervelló-Pastor, and Javier Gallego, "The Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (VDTN) Euro-NF Joint Research Project," in 7th Euro-NF Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI 2011), Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 27-29, João A. Dias, João N. Isento, Mário P. Pereira, Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Paulo Pereira, Augusto Casaca, Cristina Cervelló-Pastor, and Javier Gallego, "WWW@VDTN A Web Browsing Application for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 16th IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD 2011), Kyoto, Japan, June 10-11, 2011, pp João A. Dias, João N. Isento, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Impact of Scheduling and Dropping Policies on the Performance of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2011) - Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium (ICC'11 CSMA), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011, pp João N. Isento, João A. Dias, João C. Neves, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, António M. D. Nogueira, and Paulo Salvador, "FTP@VDTN - A File Transfer Application for Vehicular Delay- Tolerant Networks," in International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON 2011) joint with 8th Conference on Telecommunications (CONFTELE 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-29, 2011, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "VDTNsim: A Simulation Tool for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 15th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD 2010), Miami, FL, USA, December 3-4, 2010, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, João N. Isento, João A. Dias, Bruno M. Silva, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Solutions for Vehicular Communications: a Review," in 10ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2010), Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, November 11-12, Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Mario L. Proenc a Jr., and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Impact of Content Storage and Retrieval Mechanisms on the Performance of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2010), Split - Bol, Croatia, September 23-25, 2010, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Farid Farahmand, and Mieso Denko, "Exploiting Node Localization for Performance Improvement of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010) - General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (ICC'10 SAS), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010, pp

6 16. Farid Farahmand, Ankitkumar N. Patel, Vasco Soares, Jason P. Jue, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Inter- Domain Traffic Routing in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks," in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010) - General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (ICC'10 SAS), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010, pp João A. Dias, João N. Isento, Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Paulo S. Ferreira, António M. D. Nogueira, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Creation of a Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network Prototype," in 5.ª Conferência de Engenharia - Engenharia' Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Covilhã, Portugal, November 25-27, Filipe Pires, Alexandre Fonte, and Vasco Soares, "Protótipo SISBLOQUE: Técnica de Filtragem e Bloqueio de Conteúdos Web," in 9ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação (CAPSI 2009), Viseu, Portugal, outubro 28-30, (in Portuguese) 19. Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Scheduling and Drop Policies for Traffic Differentiation on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 17th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2009), Split - Hvar-Korcula, Croatia, September 24-26, 2009, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Paulo S. Ferreira, and António Nogueira, "Improvement of Messages Delivery Time on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2009) Workshops - Second International Workshop on Next Generation of Wireless and Mobile Networks (NGWMN-09), Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Farid Farahmand, "Evaluating the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20-25, 2009, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "A Layered Architecture for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Improving Vehicular Delay- Tolerant Network Performance with Relay Nodes," in 5th Euro-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2009), Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-3, 2009, pp Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Farid Farahmand, "Impact Analysis of the Shortest Path Movement Model on Routing Strategies for VDTNs in a Rural Region," in 7th Conference on Telecommunications (CONFTELE 2009), Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 3-5, Farid Farahmand, Ankitkumar N. Patel, Jason P. Jue, Vasco G. Soares, and Joel J. Rodrigues, "Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Network: Enhancing Rural Connectivity," in 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (Autonet 2008), Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 4, 2008, pp Bruno Ramos, Vasco Soares, and Alexandre Fonte, "Sistemas de Medição da Qualidade dos Acessos Residenciais à Internet - Requisitos e Modelação," in Quartas Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores (JETC'08), Lisboa, Portugal, novembro 20-21, (in Portuguese) 27. Filipe Pires, Alexandre Fonte, and Vasco Soares, ""Democratizando" a Filtragem e Bloqueio de Conteúdos Web," in 4ª Edição da Conferência Nacional sobre Segurança Informática nas Organizações (SINO 2008), Coimbra, Portugal, novembro 18-19, (in Portuguese) 28. Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Paulo A. C. S. Neves, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Past, Present and Future of IP Telephony," in International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2008), Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5, 2008, pp Filipe Pires, Alexandre Fonte, and Vasco Soares, "A Filtragem e Bloqueio de Conteúdos Web Segundo o Projeto Sisbloque," in 3ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI 2008), Ourense, Espanha, junho 19-21, (in Portuguese) 6

7 30. Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Iuri D. C. Veiga, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "OBS Simulation Tools: A Comparative Study," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008) Workshops - 13th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2008), Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008, pp Bruno P. Ramos, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Alexandre J. P. D. Fonte, "Internet Access Quality Monitor," in 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2008), Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, May 4-7, Filipe Pires, Alexandre Fonte, and Vasco Soares, "SISBLOQUE: A Proposal of a Web Content Filtering and Blocking System," in IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2008, Algarve, Portugal, April 10-13, Octávio Pereira, Paulo Neves, Ricardo Mostardinha, Eduardo Valente, Vasco Soares, Paulo Alves, Fernando Silva, and Helder Couteiro, "A Network Project Case Study Leveraging xdsl Technology," in IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2007, Salamanca, Spain, February 18-20, Refereed Poster Publications 1. João C. Neves, Mário J. Pereira, João N. Isento, João A. Dias, Bruno M. Silva, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," in Ciência 2010 Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, Vasco Soares, Bruno Ramos, Carlos Abreu, and David Reis, "K4@LL," in 2ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI 2007), Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, junho 21-23, (in Portuguese) Professional Activities Book Editorial Advisory Board Memberships 1. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Book Mobile Computing over Cloud: Technologies, Services, and Applications, to be published by IGI Global. Journal Editorial Board Memberships 2. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, IARIA, ISSN , since January Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, IARIA, ISSN , since January Reviewer for Journals 1. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Hindawi, Online ISSN: IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE, ISSN: Academia Journal of Educational Research (AJER), Academia Publishing, ISSN: Vehicular Communications, Elsevier, ISSN: International Journal of Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Online ISSN: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, ISSN: AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, ISSN: Wireless Networks, Springer, ISSN: (print version), (electronic version). 9. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor & Francis, Ltd, ISSN: (Print), (Online). 10. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Online ISSN: KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, ISSN: International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, IARIA, ISSN:

8 13. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, IARIA, ISSN: IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE, ISSN: European Transactions on Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISSN (printed): X, ISSN (online): Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Elsevier, ISSN Information Fusion - An International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion, Elsevier, ISSN IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on "Vehicular Communications and Networks", IEEE, ISSN: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN), Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN: Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on Delay Tolerant Networks, Architecture, and Applications, Academy Publisher, ISSN: Conference Technical Program Committee Member 1. Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2015), Rome, Italy, May 24-29, Eighth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2015), Barcelona, Spain, April 19-23, Seventh International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2015), Nice, France, March 22-27, Sixth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (AFIN 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, November 16-20, rd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2014), Vienna, Austria, November 3-7, th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS2014), Beijing, China October 28-30, International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Technologies (ICMWT2014), Beijing, China, October 28-30, th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars-2014-Fall), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 6-8, Eighth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2014), Rome, Italy, August 24-28, th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2014), Benidorm, Spain, June 22-27, Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2014), Venice, Italy, May 25-29, th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts 2014), Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, Tenth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2014), Chamonix, France, April 20-24, Seventh International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2014), Nice, France, February 23-27, nd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2-6, XIII Escola Regional de Informática da Região Norte (ERIN2-2013), Instituto Federal de Ciência, Educação e Tecnologia do Tocantins IFTO, campus Palmas, Brazil, November 20-22, th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2013), Tampere, Finland, November 5-7,

9 18. Seventh International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2013), Porto, Portugal, September 29 - October 3, Fifth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (AFIN 2013), Barcelona, Spain, August 25-31, Annual International Conference on Emerging Research Areas : International Conference on Microelectronics, Communications and Renewable Energy 2013 (AICERA 2013-ICMiCR), Kerala, India, June 4-6, Fifth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2013), Valencia, Spain, May 27 - June 1, Fourth International Conference on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS 2013), Venice, Italy, April 22-26, Sixth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2013), Venice, Italy, April 22-26, Ninth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, March 24-29, International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2012), Beijing, China, December 12-16, th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, st IEEE International Symposium on Communications Software for Intelligent Transport Systems (CSITS 2012), held in conjunction with 12th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, Fourth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2012), Nice, France, July 22-27, Third International Conference on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS 2012), Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France, April 29 - May 4, Fifth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2012), Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France, April 29 - May 4, Eighth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2012), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, March 25-29, Third International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2011), Rome, Italy, September 25-30, Fourth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2011), Budapest, Hungary, April 17-22, Second International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-26, Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2010), Athens/Glyfada, Greece, June 13-19, First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2009), Athens/Glyfada, Greece, November 15-20, Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20-25, Special Session on Multimedia in Ubiquitous Computing and Security Services (MUCASS 2008), held in conjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC 2008), Hobart, Australia, October 14-16, International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2008), Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5,

10 Conference Publicity Chair 1. 1st IEEE International Symposium on Communications Software for Intelligent Transport Systems (CSITS 2012), held in conjunction with 12th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, Conference Web Chair 1. 15th IEEE International Conference on e-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-12, th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2011), Kyoto, Japan, June 10-11, th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2010), Miami, USA, December 3-4, Second International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2010), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, First International Workshop on Mobility in Future Networks (MobiFNet 2010), co-located with the 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2010), Busan, Korea, May 21-23, First International Workshop on Networking and Games (N&G 2010), co-located with the IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 20-23, First International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2009), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14, Reviewer for Conferences 1. 4th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS2014), Beijing, China October 28-30, International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Technologies (ICMWT2014), Beijing, China, October 28-30, Sixth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (AFIN 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, November 16-20, th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars-2014-Fall), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 6-8, rd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2014), Vienna, Austria, November 3-7, IEEE Global Communications Conference 2014 (IEEE GLOBECOM 2014) - SAC Internet of Things, Austin, TX, USA, December 8-12, Eighth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2014), Rome, Italy, August 24-28, th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2014), Benidorm, Spain, June 22-27, Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2014), Venice, Italy, May 25-29, th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts 2014), Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, Tenth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2014), Chamonix, France, April 20-24,

11 12. Seventh International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2014), Nice, France, February 23-27, XIII Escola Regional de Informática da Região Norte (ERIN2-2013), Instituto Federal de Ciência, Educação e Tecnologia do Tocantins IFTO, campus Palmas, Brazil, November 20-22, nd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2-6, th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2013), Tampere, Finland, November 5-7, Seventh International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2013), Porto, Portugal, September 29 - October 3, rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA), in conjunction with IEEE ICC'13, Budapest, Hungary, June 9-13, Fifth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2013), Valencia, Spain, May 27-June 1, Fourth International Conference on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS 2013), Venice, Italy, April 21-26, Sixth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2013), Venice, Italy, April 21-26, Ninth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, March 24-29, International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2012), Beijing, China, December 12-16, th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2012), Split, Croatia, September 11-13, The Fourth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2012), Nice, France, July 22-27, th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2012), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 19-22, Third International Conference on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS 2012), Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France, April 29 - May 4, Fifth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2012), Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France, April 29 - May 4, Eighth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2012), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, March 25-29, Third International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2011), Rome, Italy, September 25-30, The Fourth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2011), Budapest, Hungary, April 17-22, th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'2011) - Mobility Track, Paris, France, February 7-10, th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2011), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 26-28, Second International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-26, th IEEE International Conference on e-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom'10), Lyon, France, July 1-3, Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2010), Athens/Glyfada, Greece, June 13-19,

12 37. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010) - Selected Areas in Communications Symposium (SAS), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'2009), Cairo, Egypt, December 20-23, First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2009), Athens, Greece, November 15-20, Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20-25, First International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2009), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14, IEEE Globecom Communications Quality of Service, Reliability, and Performance Modeling Symposium, New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 November - 4 December, Special Session on Multimedia in Ubiquitous Computing and Security Services (MUCASS 2008) in conjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing (UMC 2008), Hobart, Australia, October 14-16, International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2008), Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08) - Advances in Networks & Internet Symposium (ANI), Beijing, China, May, Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008) - 2nd IEEE International Broadband Wireless Access Workshop, Las Vegas - Nevada, United States of America, January, Presentations 1. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks: An Introduction," Ciência 2010 Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, Vasco N. G. J. Soares and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks An Overview," 10º Seminário da Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis (RTCM), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, June 23, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues and Vasco N. G. J. Soares, "An Overview of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," Euro-NF JRA.1.5 WP, Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 3-5,