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Introduction to the Special Section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2017

Mehmet Ufuk Çag̃layan
Mehmet Ufuk Çag̃layan*
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Bogaziçi University, PK 8, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
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In Honour of Erol Gelenbe
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European Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 2017, pp. 167 - 170
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© Academia Europaea 2017 

This special section contains some of the papers presented at a Symposium held in September 2015 at Imperial College London, UK, to honour Erol Gelenbe, whose work on probability models started in his ThesisReference Gelenbe 1 , Reference Gelenbe 2 and in early work on virtual memory.Reference Gelenbe 3 , Reference Gelenbe and Iasnogorodski 4 His recent work covers search,Reference Filippoupolitis, Hey, Loukas, Gelenbe and Timotheou 5 – Reference Gelenbe and Bi 9 security in networks,Reference Gelenbe and Loukas 10 – Reference Gorbil, Abdelrahman, Pavloski and Gelenbe 12 neural computation,Reference Gelenbe and Timotheou 13 network routing,Reference Gelenbe 14 and the ‘hot topic’ of energy consumption by information technology.Reference Abdelrahman and Gelenbe 15 – Reference Gelenbe and Caseau 21

In this special section of European Review M. Pavella recalls Erol’s links to the University of Liege. P. Castillon’s paper presents the National Academy of Technologies of France where Erol is an active member. Alain Bravo discusses Erol’s question regarding the re-development of a viable European telecommunications industry. A. Hatchuel and M. Chen view the role of constraints to enhance creativity in Engineering Design, while Y. Rezaeitabar and U. Halici review brain computer interfaces. N. Szostak, S. Wasik and J. Blazewicz discuss the possible artificial emergence of life, and M. Civelek and A. Yazici discuss the role of object recognition in video surveillance systems. Finally, the paper by W. Serrano discusses the design of a recommender system for web search engines that uses the Random Neural Network and machine learning algorithms developed by Erol. Other papers on computer systems appear elsewhere.

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Erol Gelenbe signing the Book of Fellows of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Belgium in Brussels on 30 May, 2015.

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The mathematical genealogy tree of Erol Gelenbe, showing his academic ancestry and some of his 72 graduated PhD students. This chart was prepared by Dr Georgios Loukas, Reader in Computer Science at the University of Greenwich. London.

Mehmet Ufuk Çag̃layan is a Professor of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University, Turkey’s most selective institution in Istanbul. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1981, a Master’s degree in 1975, and his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1973. His research interests include Computer and Network Security, Computer Communications, Computer Networks and Internet, Wireless and Mobile Networks, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Software Design and Software Project Management. From 1979 to 1981 he served as an Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, and from 1978 to 1979 he was an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at DePaul University in Chicago. From 1981 to 1987 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He joined his current university in 1987 as an Assistant Professor. On leave of absence in 1989 to 1991, he was a Computer Scientist at BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Author of some 200 publications, he has been a Professor since 1999 and, since January 2007, he has been the Coordinator of the nationally funded TAM Project which aims at increasing the number of PhD graduates in Computer Engineering at his university and in Turkey, and from October 2000 to July 2004 he was the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Engineering. He has graduated several PhDs who are faculty members in Turkey’s leading universities, such as Professors Albert Levi and Sema Oktug, as well as many Master’s students.

References

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2. Gelenbe, E. (1971) A realizable model for stochastic sequential machines. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C–20(2), pp. 199–204.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3. Gelenbe, E. (1973) A unified approach to the evaluation of a class of replacement algorithms. IEEE Transactions. on Computers, C–22(6), 611–618.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4. Gelenbe, E. and Iasnogorodski, R. (1980) A queue with server of walking type (autonomous service). Annales de l’institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilites et Statistiques, 16(1), pp. 63–73.Google Scholar
5. Filippoupolitis, A., Hey, L., Loukas, G., Gelenbe, E. and Timotheou, S. (2008) Emergency response simulation using wireless sensor networks. Proceedings of First International. Conference on Ambient Media and Systems ICST, p. 21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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21. Gelenbe, E. and Caseau, Y. (2015) The impact of information technology on energy consumption and carbon emissions. ACM Ubiquity, June, doi: 10.1145/2755977.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Figure 1Erol Gelenbe signing the Book of Fellows of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Belgium in Brussels on 30 May, 2015.

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Figure 2The mathematical genealogy tree of Erol Gelenbe, showing his academic ancestry and some of his 72 graduated PhD students. This chart was prepared by Dr Georgios Loukas, Reader in Computer Science at the University of Greenwich. London.