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Dr.-Ing. Jose F. Monserrat received his MSc. degree with High Honors and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He was the recipient of the First Regional Prize of Engineering Studies in 2003 for his outstanding student record receiving also the Best Thesis Prize from the UPV in 2008. In 2009 he was awarded with the best young researcher prize of Valencia. In 2016 he received the merit medal from the Spanish royal academy of engineering, in the young researcher category. He is currently an associate professor in the Communications Department of the UPV. His current research focuses on the design of future 5G wireless systems and their performance assessment. He has been involved in several European Projects, being especially significant his participation in NEWCOM, PROSIMOS, WINNER+ and METIS/METIS-II where he led the simulation activities. He also participated in 2010 in one external evaluation group within ITU-R on the performance assessment of the candidates for the future family of standards IMT-Advanced. He co-edited two special issues in IEEE Communications Magazine on IMT-Advanced and 5G technologies and is co-editor of the Wiley book “Mobile and wireless communications for IMT-Advanced and beyond” and the Cambridge book “5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology”. Jose Monserrat is senior member of the IEEE, manages around 0.5 M€ yearly budget, holds 6 patents and has published more than 50 journal papers. Currently the group headed by Prof. Jose F. Monserrat consists of 5 Postdoctoral fellows, 8 PhD students and 2 Master students.

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Antonio Brogi is full professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy, since 2004. His research interests include service-oriented, cloud and fog computing, coordination and adaptation of software elements, formal methods, and design of programming languages. He has published the results of his research in over 150 papers in international journals and conferences. He is member of the editorial board of the journal “Computer Languages, Systems and Structures”, of the steering committee of the CIbSE, ESOCC, and FOCLASA conference series, and he has participated in the program committee of a number of international conferences and workshops in his areas of research. He has been participating in various international and national research projects, both as project leader and as principal investigator for his University. He recently coordinated the UNIPI-PRA-2016-64 project “Through the fog” and participated as principal investigator for UNIPI in the EU-FP7-ICT-610531 project “SeaClouds -Seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications”.
 

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Indrakshi Ray is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. She has been a visiting faculty at Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, and at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University. Dr. Ray's research interests include security and privacy, database systems, and formal methods for software assurance. She is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and Computer Standards and Interfaces. She has been a guest editor of ACM Transactions of Information Systems Security and Journal of Digital Library. She was the Program Chair of ACM SACMAT 2006, Program Co-Chair for ICISS 2013, CSS 2013, IFIP DBSec 2003, and General Chair of SACMAT 2008.
 

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Prof. Jaime Lloret (jlloret@dcom.upv.es) received his M.Sc. in Physics in 1997, his M.Sc. in electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2006. He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional Instructor. He worked as a network designer and administrator in several enterprises. He is currently Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is the Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC) and he is the head of the "Active and collaborative techniques and use of technologic resources in the education (EITACURTE)" Innovation Group. He is the director of the University Diploma “Redes y Comunicaciones de Ordenadores” and of the University Master "Digital Post Production". He has been Internet Technical Committee chair (IEEE Communications Society and Internet society) for the term 2013-2015. He has authored 22 book chapters and has more than 380 research papers published in national and international conferences, international journals (more than 140 with ISI Thomson JCR). He has been the co-editor of 40 conference proceedings and guest editor of several international books and journals. He is editor-in-chief of the “Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks” (with ISI Thomson Impact Factor), the international journal "Networks Protocols and Algorithms", and the International Journal of Multimedia Communications, IARIA Journals Board Chair (8 Journals) and he is (or has been) associate editor of 46 international journals (16 of them with ISI Thomson Impact Factor). He has been involved in more than 400 Program committees of international conferences, and more than 150 organization and steering committees. He leads many national and international projects. He is currently the chair of the Working Group of the Standard IEEE 1907.1. He has been general chair (or co-chair) of 38 International workshops and conferences (chairman of SENSORCOMM 2007, UBICOMM 2008, ICNS 2009, ICWMC 2010, eKNOW 2012, SERVICE COMPUTATION 2013, COGNITIVE 2013, ADAPTIVE 2013, 12th AICT 2016, 11th ICIMP 2016, 3rd GREENETS 2016, 13th IWCMC 2017, 10th WMNC 2017 and co-chairman of ICAS 2009, INTERNET 2010, MARSS 2011, IEEE MASS 2011, SCPA 2011, ICDS 2012, 2nd IEEE SCPA 2012, GreeNets 2012, 3rd IEEE SCPA 2013, SSPA 2013, AdHocNow 2014, MARSS 2014, SSPA 2014, IEEE CCAN 2015, 4th IEEE SCPA 2015, IEEE SCAN 2015, ICACCI 2015, SDRANCAN 2015, FMEC 2016, 2nd FMEC 2017, 5th SCPA 2017, and JITEL 2017, and local chair of MIC-WCMC 2013 and IEEE Sensors 2014). He is IEEE Senior and IARIA Fellow.

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Dr. Senhaji is Full Professor at the University of Montreal, where he founded the Network Research Lab (NRL) in 2005. He is also research fellow at CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Senhaji published more than 200 journal and conference papers; he also holds 3 US patents. He supervised to graduation more than thirty graduate students in addition to 9 postdoctoral fellows. Prior to joining U. of Montreal, he spent several years, as senior research scientist, at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research), NJ, US working in the context of major research projects on the management of next generation networks. While at Telcordia Technologies, he received several recognition awards; he played a key role in a number of projects that resulted in a number of contributions ranging from performance evaluation and architectural studies of Telcordia Technologies products to developing and prototyping novel ideas (e.g., DARPA MetaNet project). Dr. Senhaji was also Assistant Professor at Western University (WU), Canada, Research director of Advance Communication Engineering Center (venture established by WU, Bell Canada and Bay Networks), Canada, researcher at CRIM, Canada, visiting scientist at GMD-Fokus, Berlin, Germany and visiting professor at University of Evry, France. He has extensive academic and industrial research experience in the area of the management of next generation networks including wireless and optical networks, QoS management, distributed multimedia systems, and communication protocols. He sits on the technical program committees of several conferences including IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences (e.g. IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC and IEEE WCNC).