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   Mar 22th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.

   Feb 21th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.

   Feb 13th
    2012
Successful PhD thesis defense
Rafael has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots"

   Feb 7th
    2012
NSERC IRDF Fellowship awarded
Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Jan 11th
    2012
OCE First Job awarded
First Job fellowship awarded by the Ontario Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Aug 23th
    2011
MITACS Accelerate Fellowship awarded
The research project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been awarded a MITACS Accelerate PhD fellowship.

 June 5th
     2011
Conference paper accepted
The paper "An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011).

 
Academic Activities
 
Editorial activities





    		• 2012 Associate Editor of “Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks”



    Technical reviews – conferences, journals and books
       
      Journals




    		• 2012 “IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”


    		• 2012 “International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems”


    		• 2012 “Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications”


    		• 2011 “European Transactions on Telecommunications”


    		• 2011 “International Journal of Systems Science”


    		• 2011 “International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks”


    		• 2011 “IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B”


    		• 2011 “Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences”


    		• 2011 “IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics”


    		• 2011 “IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”


    		• 2010 “Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences”


    		• 2010 “EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking”


    		• 2010 “International Journal of Systems Science”


    		• 2010 “Revista de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquía, Colombia”


    		• 2010 “Pattern Recognition”


    		• 2010 “IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation”


    		• 2010 “International Journal of Computer and Applications”


    		• 2010 “Elsevier Journal of Decision Support Systems”


    		• 2010 “IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B”


    		• 2010 “IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control”


    		• 2010 “IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”


    		• 2008 “International Journal of Computer and Applications”


    		• 2008 “IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation”


    		• 2007 “IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A”


    		• 2007 “Journal of Advances in Fuzzy Systems”
       
      Conferences




    		• 2013 “2nd Int'l Conference on Informatics and Computer Sciences (CICCI 2013)”, Havana, Cuba


    		• 2012 “IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2012)”, Ottawa, Canada


    		• 2012 “IEEE GLOBECOM, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium”, Anaheim, CA, USA


    		• 2012 "51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control" (CDC 2012)", Maui, Hawaii, USA


    		• 2012 “IEEE WCCI Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Security, Surveillance and Defence (CISSD 2012)”, Brisbane, Australia


    		• 2012 “IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012)”, Brisbane, Australia


    		• 2012 “7th Int'l Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2012)”, Niagara Falls, Canada


    		• 2012 “International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WSAAN 2012)”, Ottawa, Canada


    		• 2011 “8th IEEE Int'l Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2011)”, Valencia, Spain


    		• 2011 “6th Int'l Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2011)”, Niagara Falls, Canada


    • 2011 “International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability (IWSI 2011)”, Rome, Italy


    • 2010 “ 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010)”, San Francisco, CA, USA


    • 2010 “IEEE GLOBECOM, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium”, Miami, FL, USA


    • 2010 “1st International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Web (SSW 2010)”,


    		• 2010 “ 5th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2010)”, Changchun, China


    		• 2009 “6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009)”, Rome, Italy


    		• 2009 “IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009)”, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Dresden, Germany


    		• 2008 “The 7th Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008)”, Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico


    		• 2006 “The 1st International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2006)”, Santa Clara, Cuba
       
    Conference and workshop organization


      2012


    		• Submission Chair of the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2012 - Spring), Hangzhou, China.




    		• Publication Chair of the 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2012), Belgrade, Serbia.




    		• Local Arrangement Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence (CISDA 2012), Ottawa, Canada.


      2011


    		• Submission Chair of the 4th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2011-FALL), Valencia, Spain.




    		• Submission Chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2011), Shanghai, China.




    		• Publication Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011), Barcelona, Spain.


      2010


    		• Submission Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2010) and its 2nd edition (WiSARN 2010-FALL)


      2008


    		• Executive Secretary of the 1st Ibero-American School on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ESICBA 2008)
       
      2006


    		• Exec. Secretary of the First Int’l Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2006)
       
    Academic Collaboration




    		• 2011/09 - 2011/12 MITACS Accelerate Internship program (with Larus Technologies Inc.)


    		• 2010/12 - 2011/3 MITACS Accelerate Internship program (with Larus Technologies Inc.)


    		• 2010/05 - 2010/07 Visiting Scholar at IMOB, Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium


    		• 2008/05 Visiting Scholar at MODO, Universidad de Granada, Spain



    		• 2008/05 - 2008/06 Visiting Scholar at IMOB, Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium


    Invited Talks




    		• 2010-12-17: "Nature-Inspired Optimization in Fault-Reactive Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" (IEEE CIS Ottawa Chapter, Canada)


    		• 2010-11-17: "Carrier-Based Coverage Formation and Repair Protocols
    in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks    " (Team SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada)


    		• 2010-06-15: "Artificial Ant Colonies for Coverage Repair in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" (IMOB, Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium)


    		• 2008-06-19: "Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization Approaches in Knowledge-Based Clustering" (Artificial Intelligence Lab, UCLV, Cuba)


    		• 2008-05-29: "Maintaining Fault-Tolerant Networks of Robots to Support Wireless Sensor Networks" (MODO, Universidad de Granada, Spain)


    Supervised Bachelor Theses
       


    		• “System for the Certification of Scientific Publications and Affidavits of
    Concluded Research Works    ”, Julio César Báez Vergara, B. Sc. Thesis (2007)


    		• “Module of Combinatorial Experimentation to the Evaluation of Neuro-Fuzzy
    Associative Model    s”, Aylín Labrador Morales & Ángel M. Navarro Moya, B. Sc. Thesis (2006)


    		• “Automatic Assessment of Membership Function Parameters”, Alain J. Varela
    Martín, B. Sc. Thesis. (2005)


    		• “Implementation and Validation of the Case-Based Module of a Hybrid Model”,
    Yasel Couce Sardiñas, B. Sc. (2005)
       
     
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