Carlos Becker Westphall

Carlos Becker Westphall
Photo in 1987 (age 26)
Born	(1961-09-16) September 16, 1961
Fields	Computer network, Cloud computing, Security
Institutions	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul University of Toulouse Federal University of Santa Catarina
Website www.inf.ufsc.br/~westphal

Carlos Becker Westphall is a Full Professor, since 1993, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is the founder of LANOMS (Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium), and of the Network and Management Laboratory at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

He has contributed to IEEE, as secretary and vice-chair of CNOM (Committee on Network Operation and Management), and as member of IEEE Communications Society Membership Programs Development Board; to IFIP as member of WG6.6 - Management of Networks and Distributed Systems; to Elsevier as editorial board (from 2004 to present) member of the Computer Networks Journal; to Springer as board of editors (from 1996 to 2012) and senior technical editor (from 2003 to 2012) of the Journal of Network and Systems Management; and to International Academy, Research, and Industry Association as Latin America Liaison Board Chair (from 2008 to present).

Obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1988, both at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Obtained a D.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Network and Service Management) in 1991, at the University of Toulouse, France.

Honors, awards and achievements

• Paper selected from ACM International Middleware Conference, Workshop Proceedings, 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[1] Extended Version at Wiley Journal - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2004.^[2]
• Tutorial at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010, in Osaka, Japan.^[3]
• Best paper of CLEI 2011, in Quito, Ecuador.^[4] Extended Version at CLEIej 2012.^[5]
• International Academy, Research, and Industry Association Fellow,^[6] and Award Plaque,^[7] in 2011.
• Keynote speech at GlobeNet 2012, in Reunion Island, France.^[8]
• Paper at IEEE ComSoc Technology News, in 2012.^[9]
• Tutorial at WorldComp 2013, Achievement Award,^[10] and Slides,^[11] in Las Vegas, USA.
• IEEE Communications Society 20 years member, Certificate of Appreciation, in 2013.^[12]
• Best paper of ICN 2013,^[13] in Seville, Spain. Extended version at IJANS, in 2014.^[14]
• Tutorial at NetWare 2014,^[15] in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Paper selected from ICN 2014, in Nice, France. Extended version at IJAIS 2014.^[16]
• Panel at Forum RNP 2015, in Brasília, Brazil.^[17]
• Keynote speech at ConSerpro 2015, in Florianópolis, Brazil.^[18]
• Tutorial at NexComm 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal.^[19]
• Paper selected from ICN 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Extended version at IJANS.^[20]
• Presentation at CyberSecurity 2016, in Brasilia, Brazil.^[21]

Westphall has published a paper in 1984 entitled "Receiver for modem in accordance with CCITT Recommendation V.22, in Portuguese", enabling the development of this modem in Brazil. He has presented the first master thesis about network management in Brazil, entitled "Proposition for Data Communications Management Functions" in 1988. He was the youngest Full Professor in Brazilian Federal Universities with 31 years old, in 1993. Supervisor of the first thesis of Ph.D. Program in Computer Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in 2000. The thesis was entitled: "Design, Development and Analysis of a Management System for Secure Telecommunication Networks". He has more than 450 publications and has contributed in more than 370 Organizing and/or Technical Program Committees for conferences in the field of Computer Networks and Network Management. Other important contributions was published in the papers entitled:

• "Performance evaluation for proactive network management", in 1996;
• "Distributed Network Management Using SNMP, Java, WWW and CORBA", in 2000;
• "Decentralized Network Management Using Distributed Artificial Intelligence", in 2001;
• "Grids of Agents for Computer and Telecommunication Network Management", in 2004;
• "Grid-M: Middleware to integrate mobile devices, sensors and grid computing", in 2007;
• "Intrusion Detection for Grid and Cloud Computing", in 2010;
• "A Cloud Computing Solution for Patient's Data Collection in Health Care Institutions", in 2010;
• "SLA Perspective in Security Management for Cloud Computing", in 2010;
• "Toward an Architecture for Monitoring Private Clouds", in 2011;
• "Environment, Services and Network Management for Green Clouds", in 2012;
• "Provisioning and Resource Allocation for Green Clouds" in 2013;
• "Optimizing Green Clouds through Legacy Network Infrastructure Management" in 2014; and
• "Cloud resource management: a survey on forecasting and profiling models" in 2015.
• "Model for Cloud Computing Risk Analysis" in 2015.
• "Decision-theoretic model to support autonomic Cloud Computing" in 2015.
• "Towards a Framework for VM organisation based on Multi-Objectives" in 2016.
• "RACLOUDS - Model for Clouds Risk Analysis in the Information Assets Context" in 2016.
• "A distributed autonomic management framework for cloud computing orchestration" in 2016.
• "A Framework and Risk Assessment Approaches for Risk-based Access Control in the Cloud" in 2016.
• "A Model for Managed Elements under Autonomic Cloud Computing Management" in 2016.

Research project:

• "AutoMan&Sec4Cloud - Autonomic Management and Security for Cloud Computing".

Editor of some books (proceedings):

• "IEEE LANOMS 1999 - 1st Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium".
• "IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008 - Network Operations & Management Symposium".
• "IEEE HPCC 2013 - International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications".
• "ICN 2014, The Thirteenth International Conference on Networks".
• "ADHOC-NOW 2014 - International Workshops of Ad-hoc Networks and Wireless ".
• "SECURWARE 2014, The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies".
• "ICN 2015, The Fourteenth International Conference on Networks".
• "CLOUD COMPUTING 2015, The Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization".
• "ICNS 2015, The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services".
• "MOBILITY 2015, The Fifth International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users".
• "UBICOMM 2015, The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies".
• "AFIN 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Future Internet".
• "ICWMC 2015 - The Eleventh International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications".
• "ICN 2016, The Fifteenth International Conference on Networks".
• "CLOUD COMPUTING 2016, The Seventh International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization".
• "ICSNC 2016, The Eleventh International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications".
• "ICWMC 2016, The Twelfth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications".

References

External links

• Carlos Becker Westphall
• LANOMS
• Computer Networks of Elsevier
• IEEE CNOM
• IFIP WG6.6
• Networks and Management Laboratory