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Tamer Başar received B.S.E.E. degree from Robert College, Istanbul, and M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University. After stints at Harvard University and Marmara Research Institute (Gebze, Turkey), he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, where he is currently the Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has published extensively in systems, control, communications, and dynamic games, and has current research interests in modeling and control of communication networks, control over heterogeneous networks, resource management and pricing in networks, and robust identification and control.
Dr. Başar is the Editor-in-Chief of Automatica, Editor of the Birkhäuser Series on Systems & Control, Managing Editor of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG), and member of editorial and advisory boards of several international journals. He has received several awards and recognitions over the years, among which are the Medal of Science of Turkey (1993); Distinguished Member Award (1993), Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995), and Bode Lecture Prize (2004) of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS); and the Quazza Medal (2005) and Outstanding Service Award (2005) of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (of USA), a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC, a past president of CSS, and the founding president of ISDG.
Marco Conti is a senior researcher at IIT, an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His research interests include Internet architecture and protocols, wireless networks, ad hoc networking, mobile and pervasive computing. He co-authored the book “Metropolitan Area Networks” (Springer, London 1997) and is co-editor of the book “Mobile Ad Hoc Networking” (IEEE-Wiley 2004). He published in journals and conference proceedings more than 150 research papers related to design, modeling, and performance evaluation of computer-network architectures and protocols. He served as TPC chair of IFIP-TC6 Conferences “Networking2002” and “PWC2003”, and as TPC co-chair of ACM WoWMoM 2002, IFIP-TC6 WONS 2004, WiOpt ’04, and the 6th IEEE WoWMoM 2005 Symposium. He is the TPC chair of IEEE PerCom 2006 conference, TPC co-chair of the ACM MobiHoc 2006 Symposium, and general co-chair of IEEE WoWMoM 2006 Symposium. He is Associate Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, and he is on the editorial board of: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks journal and Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: An International Journal. He served as guest editor, among others, for IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM MONET, ACM WINET, and Performance Evaluation. He is member of ACM, IEEE, and IFIP WGs 6.2, 6.3 and 6.8.
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Guest Editorial. Wireless Netw 12, 529–530 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-6532-3
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