ISCIS and erol gelenbe’s contributions

Abstract

We celebrate the 30th annual ISCIS (International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences) that Erol Gelenbe started in 1986 and pursued each year since then uninterruptedly as a service to the Turkish Computer Science and Engineering Community. We also outline his scientific contributions and wide collaborations over the last fifteen years covering half of the life-time of ISCIS. These include his innovative work on a new representation of Intermittent or Renewable Energy Sources, and Energy Packet Networks which are a convenient representation for the flow, storage and consumption of electrical energy, both at the microscopic level (in electronic chips) and at the macroscopic level (e.g. in buildings or data centres), his work on ICT systems that parsimoniously use energy in order to achieve quality of service (QoS). Pioneering work on Autonomic Communications and the Cognitive Packet Network is also reviewed, followed by network security, Emergency Management Systems, Gene Regulatory Networks, and analytic models of computer systems and networks.