SERVICE

Note: This page is limited to service to the profession and the scientific community at large. Beyond teaching and student advisement, service to the university while in academia included standard items such as service on curriculum committees, recruiting committees, PhD or Masters program committees, publicity committees, tenure committees, etc.

Editorships

• Journal of Algorithms, 2000-2005
• Journal of Scheduling, 1997-2003
• Journal of Interconnection Networks, 1998-
• Journal of the ACM, Associate Editor 1969-1975 and 1979-1985, Editor-in-Chief 1975-1979.
• SIAM Journal of Computing, 1982-1986
• Revue Bleue d'AFCET, 1974-1977
• Foundations of Control Engineering, 1975-1986
• Performance Evaluation, 1980-1985
• Birkhauser Publications, 1980-1987 (Computer Science Series)
• Computing Surveys, 1983-1984, Category Editor
• ASA-SIAM book series (1993)

Session Chairman/Organizer

• IEEE Computer Conference, 1969
• Computers and Automata Symposium, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1972
• Princeton Conference on Information Systems, 1973
• IFIPS Performance Evaluation Symposium, 1974
• 4th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems, 1975
• 9th Hawaiian Conference on Information Sciences, 1975
• Computing Symposium of European ACM Chapters, 1975
• Computer Science Conference, University of Texas, 1975
• ORSA National Conference, 1976
• 1st Symposium on Applied Probability and Computer Science: The Interface, Boca Raton, 1981
• 1st Symposium on Applied Mathematics and Performance/Reliability Models of Computer/Communication Systems, Pisa, 1983
• Indian IEEE Conference on System Sciences, 1984

Workshop/Symposium Organization

• 2nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems,
• IFIPS WG 7.3 Workshops, 1992 and 1996,
• Dagstuhl Workshops on Scheduling Theory, 1997 and 1999,
• Scheduling Theory Workshop, Luminy, France 2001.
• General chair, Sigmetrics Conference, 2004

Service on Technical Program Committees includes

• 2nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems, 1969 (program chairman)
• IFIPS Computer Performance Evaluation Conferences, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2010
• ORSA Conference on Applied Probability and Computer Science: The Interface, 1981
• IFIPS Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, 1981
• INRIA/AFCET Mathematical Modeling Methodology Conference, Paris, 1983
• ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, 1983, 2003, 2010.
• International Seminar on Teletraffic Analysis and Computer Performance Evaluation, 1986
• South American Computer Science Conference, 1986.
• Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 1998
• INFORMS Applied Probability Conf. 2001, 2003, 2004.
• Mathematical modeling and analysis (MAMA) workshop, 2001,2002,2003.
• First Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, 2003.
• Algosensors, 2009

Short Courses in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling of Computer Systems

• Queueing Theory, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967
• Analysis of Operating Systems, University of Michigan, 1986
• Applied Probability and Combinatorics, British government supported, Durham, England, 1976
• Winter School of Computer Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, 1976
• Combinatorial Scheduling Theory, University of Texas, Austin, 1977
• Bin-Packing Theory, University of Texas, Dallas, 1981
• Algorithms and Complexity, UNESCO supported, CISM school, Udine, Italy, 1983
• Storage Allocation Problems, National Technical University, Athens, Greece, 1984
• Operating Systems Principles, University of Puerto Rico, 1988
• Probabilistic Analysis of Packing and Partitioning Algorithms, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1990
• Scheduling Theory, French government supported, Auch, France, 1992
• Applications of Stochastic Planar Matching Theory, Dutch OR Society Supported, 1993

Award Committees

• ACM Outstanding Contribution Award (5 years)
• ACM Distinguished Service Award (5 years)
• ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award (6 years)
• ACM Fellow Committee (5 years)

Numerous proposal review panels for federal granting agencies

Government Sponsored Research Studies

• Mathematical Modeling of Computer Systems French government supported, Paris, 1972
• National Academy of Science Summer Study; Countermeasures in Fleet Defense, August 1973 Woods Hole, Massachusetts
• National Science Foundation Sponsored Study;Research Directions in Operating Systems, 1976 Austin Texas
• Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling NATO sponsored, Durham, England, 1981
• German government supported Seminar on Applied Stochastic Processes, Oberwolfach, Germany, 1985
• National Research Council study group on Probability and Algorithms co-editor and co-author of a report, 1991
• Review of Computer Science in South Africa Foundation for Research Development, Pretoria RSA, 1991