Mário M. Freire

“One of the problems of being a pioneer is you always make mistakes and I never, never want to be a pioneer. It’s always best to come second when you can look at the mistakes the pioneers made”.

Seymour Cray, Public Lecture at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories on the introduction of the CRAY-1, 1976.

Mário M. Freire is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, which he joined in the Fall of 1994. Dr. Mário Freire is the leader of the Network and Multimedia Computing Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)/UBI and maintains an active and well-funded research program in the field of network and multimedia computing.

Dr. Mário Freire received the Aggregated title in Computer Science from UBI in 2007 and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UBI in 2000. He received the M. Sc. degree in Systems and Automatics and the 5-year B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1992, respectively, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Presently, Dr. Mário Freire is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of UBI. He is also the President of the Center for Computer Science, which provides computer, networking and software services to Faculties and Services of the University. He also teaches courses at the M. Sc. level on network architectures and protocols and multimedia networks.

His main research interests include: networking and security issues for real-time applications, image and video coding, and medical image processing. More details about his research interests may be found at the Network and Multimedia Computing Group. See also his publications at DBLP and their citations in scholar.

Dr. Mário Freire has co-authored some European or international patents, such as:

- Method for the Transmission of Data Packets by Means of an Optical Burst Switching Network and Network Nodes for an Optical Burst Switching Network, International Patent WO 2006072406-A1, 2006 (Mário Freire, Nuno Garcia, Paulo Monteiro, and José M. R. Santos).

- A Method, Communication System, Central and Peripheral Communication Unit for Secure Packet Oriented Transfer of Information, International Patent WO 2007099045-A1, 2007. (Mário Freire, Marek Hajduczenia, Pedro Inácio, Paulo P. Monteiro, and Henrique Silva).

- Monitoring Method and Apparatus of Processing of a Data Stream with High Rate/Flow, European Patent EP 1780955-A1, 2007 (Mário Freire, Nuno Garcia, Marek Hajduczenia, Pedro Inácio, Paulo Monteiro, and Henrique Silva).

- Method for Aggregating a Plurality of Data Packets with Different IP Formats and Machine for Performing Said Method, International Patent WO 2007/118594 A1, 2007 (Mário Freire, Nuno M. Garcia, Marek Hajduczenia, Paulo P. Monteiro, and Henrique Silva).

Dr. Mário Freire is the co-editor of books published in the LNCS book series of Springer, co-editor of proceedings in IEEE Computer Society Press, and co-editor of books published by IGI Global Publishing, such as:

- Biomedical Diagnostics and Clinical Technologies: Applying High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing, Idea Group Reference, to be published, 2008 (Eds.: Manuela Pereira and Mário Freire).

- Information Networking: Towards Ubiquitous Networking and Services, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5200, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, November 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-89523-7 (Revised Selected Papers of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN’2007), Estoril, Portugal, January 23-25, 2007) (Eds.: Teresa Vazão, Mário M. Freire, and Ilyoung Chong).

- Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, LNAI 4819, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, February 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-77016-9 (Revised Selected Papers of PAKDD 2007 International Workshops, Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007) (Eds.: T. Washio, Z.-H. Zhou, J.Z. Huang, X. Hu, J. Li, C. Xie, J. He, D. Zou, K.-C. Li, M.M. Freire).

- On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4803 (Part I), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, November 2007, ISBN-10: 3-540-76846-7 (Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS 2007, Part I, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007) (Eds.: Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Mathias Weske, Pascal Felber, Aad van Moorsel, Calton Pu, Tharam Dillon, Michele Missikoff, Steffen Staab, Pilar Herrero, Daniel S. Katz, Maria S. Pérez, Domenico Talia, Mário Freire, Simão Melo de Sousa, Vitor Santos and Jong Hyuk Park).

- On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4804 (Part II), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, November 2007, ISBN-10: 3-540-76846-3 (Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS 2007, Part II, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007) (Eds.: Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Mathias Weske, Pascal Felber, Aad van Moorsel, Calton Pu, Tharam Dillon, Michele Missikoff, Steffen Staab, Pilar Herrero, Daniel S. Katz, Maria S. Pérez, Domenico Talia, Mário Freire, Simão Melo de Sousa, Vitor Santos and Jong Hyuk Park).

- Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications, Information Science Reference, October 2007, ISBN-10: 978-1-59140-993-9, 2007 (Eds.: Mário Freire and Manuela Pereira)).

- Proceedings of the International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2007), Athens, Greece, June 19-24, 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, June 2007, ISBN-10: 0-7695-2858-9. (Eds.: Gunter Van de Velde, Petre Dini, Mário Freire, Athanassios Liakopoulos, Ciprian Popoviciu, Dimitra Simeonidou and Petros Th. Zerfos).

- On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4277 (Part I), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, October 2006, ISBN-10: 3-540-48269-5 (Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, Part I, Montpellier, France, October 29 - November 3, 2006) (Eds.: Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero, Daniel Grosu, Gonzalo Medez, Marta Sabou, Annika Hinze, George Buchanan, Aldo de Moor, Michael Gurstein, Mário Freire, Simão Melo de Sousa, Vitor Santos et al.).

- On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4278 (Part II), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, October 2006, ISBN-10: 3-540-48273-3 (Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, Part II, Montpellier, France, October 29 - November 3, 2006) (Eds.: Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero, Daniel Grosu, Gonzalo Medez, Marta Sabou, Annika Hinze, George Buchanan, Aldo de Moor, Michael Gurstein, Mário Freire, Simão Melo de Sousa, Vitor Santos et al.).

- Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2006) , Gosier, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, February 22-24, 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, February 2006, ISBN-10: 0-7695-2522-9. (Eds.: Petre Dini, Pascal Lorenz, Dumitru Roman, and Mário Freire).

- Telecommunications 2005, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos CA, July 2005, ISBN: 0-7695-2388-9 (Proceedings of the Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunication/Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources Conference/E-Learning on Telecommunications Workshop (AICT/SAPIR/ELETE 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-20, 2005) (Eds.: Petre Dini, Pascal Lorenz, Mário Freire, Pierre Rolin, Pawel Szulakiewicz, and Alexandra Cristea).

- Universal Multiservice Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3262, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, October 2004, ISBN: 3-540-23551-5 (Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN’2004) Porto, Portugal, October 25-27, 2004) (Eds.: Mário M. Freire, Prosper Chemouil, Pascal Lorenz, and Annie Gravey).

- High-Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2720, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, July 2003, ISBN: 3-540-40542-9 (Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on High-Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, (HSNMC’2003), Estoril, Portugal, July 23-25, 2003) (Eds.: Mário M. Freire, Pascal Lorenz, and Mike M.-O. Lee).

Dr. Mário Freire has served on the editorial boards or served as a Guest Editor in some refereed international journals, such as:

- Associate Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Wiley Journal.

- Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications, Hindawi Publishing.

- Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE.

- Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, IGI Global.

- Associate Editor, Advances in Business Data Communications and Networking (ABDCN) Book Series, IGI Gblobal.

- Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2008, Feature Topic on "Security in Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks".

- Guest Editor, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience Publishers, Second Issue of 2008, Special Issue on “Service, Security and Data management for Ubiquitous Computing”.

Dr. Mário Freire served as a technical program committee member for several tens of international conferences and chaired some of them, such as:

- Track Co-chair, 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Computer Networks, Hawaii, USA, March 8 - 12, 2009.

- Track Co-chair, 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Computer Networks, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16 - 20, 2008.

- Program Co-chair, Second International Symposium on Information Security (IS 2007), held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, November 25-30, 2007.

- General Chair, First International Workshop on High Performance Computing Applied to Medical Data and Bioinformatics (HPC-Bio 2007), Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France, August 25 - 31, 2007.

- Co-chair, First International Workshop on GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks (GOBS 2007), Athens, Greece, June 19-25, 2007.

- Program Co-Chair, The 2007 International Workshop on Service, Security and its Data Management Technologies for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU 2007), The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 22 – 25, 2007.

- Track Co-chair, The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Computer Networks, Seoul, Korea, March 11-15, 2007.

- Program Chair, The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, January 23-25, 2007.

- Program Co-chair, First International Workshop on Information Security (IS 2006), held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06), Montpellier, France, October 29 – November 3, 2006.

- General Co-Chair, IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (IEEE BROADNETS 2006), San Jose, CA, USA, October 1-5, 2006.

- TPC Co-Chair, International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2006), Track on Internet and Web-based Applications and Services, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, February 22-24, 2006.

- Program Chair, 4th International Conference on Networking (ICN’2005), Reunion Island, April 17-21, 2005.

- General Co-Chair, 3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN’2004), Porto, Portugal, October 25-27, 2004.

- General Chair, 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC’2003), Estoril, Portugal, July 23-25, 2003.

Dr. Mario Freire is a licensed Professional Engineer by the Order of Engineers – Informatics College (Portugal) and he is a member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society, a member of the ACM, and a member of the Internet Society. He is also the Coordinator of the Informatics College of Order of Engineers – Center Region.