Name:

César Garita

Affiliation:

University of Amsterdam, Post-doc researcher

Contact:

University of Amsterdam

Computer Science Department

Kruislaan 403

1098 SJ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

cesar@science.uva.nl

Main expertise and current areas of research

Main expertise: federated/distributed information management for virtual enterprises.

Current research areas:

·         Virtual Enterprises and Virtual Laboratories.

·         Distributed/federated databases.

·         Grid-base information management.

·         Information and services brokerage.

Short CV:

César Garita obtained a Bachelors degree in Software Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology (ITCR), as well as a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Netherlands. The main subject of his Ph.D. thesis is the analysis, design and implementation of a Federated Information Management System for the support of Virtual Enterprise collaborations, focusing on Small and Medium Enterprises in the industrial manufacturing sector. Furthermore, he has been involved in several Dutch National and European research and development projects. Currently, he has a postdoctoral research position within the Computer Science department of UvA.

Key publications:

·         C. Garita, H. Afsarmanesh, and L. O. Hertzberger, “The PRODNET Federated Information Management Approach for Virtual Enterprise Support”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, vol. 12, pp. 151-170, 2001.

·         C. Garita, H. Afsarmanesh, and L. O. Hertzberger, “A Survey of Distributed Information Management Approaches for Virtual Enterprise Infrastructures”, in Managing Virtual Web Organizations in the 21st Century: Issues and Challenges, U. J. Franke, Ed.: Idea Group Publishing, 2001.

·         H. Afsarmanesh, C. Garita, Y. Ugur, A. Frenkel, L. O. Hertzberger. Federated Information Management Requirements for Virtual Enterprises. In Book Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises - Networking Industrial Enterprises, (L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, Editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Pages 36-48, 1999.

·         H. Afsarmanesh, C. Garita, Y. Ugur, A. Frenkel, L. O. Hertzberger. Design of the DIMS Architecture in PRODNET. In Book Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises - Networking Industrial Enterprises, (L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, Editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Pages 127-146, 1999.

Current projects

Acronym, Title, Brief description, Duration, URL

PRODNET [ESPRIT IV, project No. 22.647, 1996 - 1999] http://www.uninova.pt/~prodnet/

Co-working and information sharing infrastructure to support the production planning and management in extended/virtual enterprises.

Virtual Laboratory [ICES/KIS, 1999 - 2002] http://www.dutchgrid.nl/VLAM-G/index.html

The Virtual Laboratory project aims at the development of a hardware and software reference architecture, and an open, flexible, and configurable laboratory framework to enable scientists and engineers with working on their experimentation problems, while making optimum use of modern information technology approaches.