Name:

Hamideh Afsarmanesh

Affiliation:

University of Amsterdam

Contact:

Computer Science Department & Informatics Institute

University of Amsterdam

Kruislaan 403

1098 SJ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

hamideh@science.uva.nl

Main expertise and current areas of research

Hamideh Afsarmanesh received her MSc from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1980, and her PhD from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1985, both degrees in Computer Science. From 1986 to 1994, she has been an associate professor of Computer Science, at the California State University Dominguez Hills, in USA. At the same time, from 1990 she has been with the Faculty of the Computer Science, at the University of Amsterdam in Netherlands. She has been involved and directed the research in many European (such as ESPRIT-III, ESPRIT-IV, 5FP, INCO-DC, and the DUTCH-HPCN, -NWO, and -ICES/KIS) and US funded projects. She has served as the Program Chairperson for International Conferences and Workshops in the area of information management and expert systems. Her current research interests fall in the areas of object-oriented and semantic database design and development, federated and distributed information management systems, inter-operable and cooperative database systems, and addressing specific requirements of emerging complex scientific and engineering application domains.

 Some Key Publications:

·         H. Afsarmanesh, E. Kaletas, A. Benabdelkader, C. Garita, and L. O. Hertzberger, “A Reference Architecture for Scientific Virtual Laboratories”, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 17, pp. 999-1008, 2001.

·         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. 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.

·         L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, C. Lima. Hierarchical Coordination in Virtual Enterprise Infrastructures. In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Special Issue on Multi-agent Systems Applications, 1999.

·         L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, A. L. Osorio. Flexibility and Safety in Web-based Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises. In Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 1999.

Current projects

TeleCARE [IST 2000-27607, May 2001 - Apr 2004] http://www.uninova.pt/~telecare/

The TeleCARE project aims at design and development of a framework for tele-supervision and tele-monitoring. It follows a federated multi-agent approach, that includes both stationary and mobile agents. TeleCARE is applied to assist elderly people at their homes.

THINKcreative [IST 2000-29478, Jul 2001 - Dec 2003] http://www.uninova.pt/~thinkcreative/

THINKcreative aims at establishing a working group to act as a European advisory group for the area of smart and emerging organizations. As such the project defines the direction and trends, as well as the required technology and tools supporting emerging VOs. The project falls within the framework of "knowledge and skills economy".

VOSTER [IST 2001-32031, Nov 2000 - Nov 2002] http://cic.vtt.fi/projects/voster/public.html

The aim of VOSTER is to collect, analyze and synthesize the results from a number of leading European research projects in the area of Virtual Organisation (VO). As such, this project investigates the R&D developments on geographically distributed, functionally and culturally diverse, dynamic and agile organizational entities that are linked through ICT.

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 the work on their experimentation problems, while making optimum use of modern information technology approaches. The project is demonstrated by several applications in the areas of Physics (Material Analyses of Complex Surfaces), Biology (the DNA array expression experimentation), and the Engineering (Electronic Fee Collection for Traffic control), among others.

Recently finished Projects:

 MASSYVE [INCO-DC, project No. 962219, Oct 1997 - Dec 2000] http://cic.vtt.fi/projects/voster/public.html

The project aimed at supporting the distributed production scheduling within the manufacturing domain. Research within the project focused on federated information sharing for multi-agent systems, to support agile manufacturing and production scheduling within a virtual enterprise.

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

The PRODNET project aimed at the development of a horizontal base infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises, focused on the Manufacturing sector. The project resulted a system that supports the co-working and information sharing among autonomous and heterogeneous enterprises towards distributed manufacturing in extended/virtual enterprises.