| 2003- |
senior research scientist at the
Research Group on Artificial
Intelligence (RGAI)
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
University of Szeged
H-6701 Szeged, PO Box 652,
Hungary
Fax: +36 62-425-508 |
| 2006 May-July |
visiting researcher at
Telenor R&D,
Snarøyveien 30,
N-1331 Fornebu,
Norway
|
| 2006 March-April |
visiting researcher at
IRISA,
IRISA/INRIA Rennes,
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu,
Avenue du Général Leclerc,
F-35042 Rennes Cedex,
France
|
| 2003-2006 |
postdoc at
Department of Computer Science,
University of Bologna,
Mura Anteo Zamboni 7,
I-40126 Bologna,
Italy,
Fax: +39 051 2094510 |
| 2001-2003 |
postdoc at
Computational Intelligence Group,
Department of Artificial Intelligence,
Faculty of Sciences,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1081a,
NL-1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands,
Fax: +31 20 444 7653 |
| 2000 |
postdoc at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science,
Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden NL-2333 AC, The Netherlands,
Fax: +31 71 5276985 |
| 1996-2002 |
research assistant at the
Research Group on Artificial
Intelligence (RGAI)
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
József Attila University
H-6701 Szeged, PO Box 652,
Hungary
Fax: +36 62-425-508 |
| 2001 | PhD degree, Leiden University,
the Netherlands.
Title of thesis: The shape of evolutionary
search: discovering and representing search space structure (1.1M).
Check the errata if you have the original
printed version. |
| 2001 | MSc degree in general linguistics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.
Title of thesis: A Framework for
Modeling Non-Supervised Learning
of Phonemes from Acoustic Input (856k). |
| 1998-2000 |
cognitive science phd studies at the Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest, Hungary. |
| 1996-2000 |
theoretical linguistics studies at
the József Attila University (predecessor of University of Szeged), Szeged, Hungary. |
| 1996 | MSc degree in mathematics and
computer science,
József Attila University (predecessor of University of Szeged), Szeged, Hungary.
Title of thesis: The Wave Model of Genetic Algorithms. |
| 1991-1996 |
computer science and mathematics studies at
the József Attila University (predecessor of University of Szeged), Szeged, Hungary. |
| 1987-1991 |
Secondary school József Attila Gimnázium in
Székesfehérvár. |
| 2007-2010 | Bolyai Scholarship. Awarded to young
researchers by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
for research excellence. |
| November 1997 | Pro Scientia Medal
of the Council of National Scientific Students' Associations (OTDT).
Awarded to students for research excellence. |
| June 1997 | Outstanding Student Award,
Faculty of Sciences, József Attila University (predecessor of University of Szeged), Szeged, Hungary. |
| April 1997 | 1st Prize at the
National Scientific Conference
of Students (in Hungarian OTDK) with the work entitled The Wave
Model of Genetic Algorithms. |
| June 1996 | Graduation with honors
(Master's degree in computer science and mathematics). |
| 1995/96 | Scholarship of the Hungarian
Republic. Full year scholarship awarded to students with an outsdanding
scholastic record, by the Ministry of Education. |
| May 1995 | 3rd Prize at the
National Scientific Conference
of Students with the work entitled Genetic
algorithms, introduction of species-structure. |
| 1988 | 2nd Prize at the Mathematical
Competition of the Three Counties
(Veszprém, Pest and Fejér). |
| 2003-2006 | Working in the European
BISON project I worked
on several gossip based protocols for aggregation (distributed data mining)
and communication topology management.
The goal was extreme scalability, adaptivity and fault tolerance via all sorts of self-*
properties (self-healing, self-organizing, etc).
We have also developed the
PeerSim simulator in Java, and we still maintain it.
|
| 2000-2003 | Working in the European
DREAM project I developed an
adaptive and scalable open source
framework for distributed computation
on the Internet.
From a technical point of view I programmed in Java (TCP/IP, serialization,
security) and from a research point of view I developed a communication
model which later evolved into the so called newscast model, a gossip based
scheme for topology management and information dissemination.
|
| 1996-2000 | Automatic speech recognition.
Design and partial implementation of a signal processing and recognizing
package in ANSI C++. |
| 1995-2002 | Study of genetic algorithms
(GAs) with a theoretical point of view focusing mainly on the relationship
between the structure of search spaces and the behavior of the algorithms.
|
| 1993-1998 | Developing, implementing (in
C++ language) and testing a new algorithm GAS for exploring the local optima
(ie, the structure of the landscape) of a given objective function. GAS is a GA
that also models species creation. A further algorithm called UEGO was
also designed and implemented that eliminates some of the drawbacks of
GAS in cooperation with the University of Almeria. |
| Motivation |
The common theme of my seemingly completely fragmented past and present research
is the desire to understand
the nature and emergence of structure, intelligence and knowledge,
both from a philosophic and a practical point of view.
This is obviously a very broad topic, but in all cases can be
characterized by something which is the opposite of top down design and control.
In other words, I prefer looking at simple things that result in something complex
and I try to avoid the opposite case.
|
| Communities |
Formerly my activity was largely within the evolutionary computing
community (EC). Now
I usually publish/review/edit in/for forums related to peer-to-peer (P2P)
computing.
This is a broad definition because many communities are interested in P2P,
such as distributed computing and systems, networking, multi-agent systems,
database systems, and so on.
My attraction to P2P comes from the combination of my interest in
self-organization, and my ambition to do things that actually
(or at least might) work.
|
| tutorial |
Peer-to-Peer Systems and Gossip Protocols, at
SASO 2007, 2007 July 8, MIT, Boston (MA), USA.
|
| supervision |
Boglárka Tóth and Tamás Vinkó,
I. prize at the National Scientific Conference of Students,
Eger, Hungary, 2001 |
| self-organizing algorithms |
University of Szeged, Hungary, Spring semester 2007 |
| peer-to-peer algorithms |
University of Szeged, Hungary, Fall semester 2006 |
| self-managing systems |
PhD course at Università di Bologna, Spring semester 2005 |
| complex networks |
4 classes at Università di Bologna as part of
"complex adaptive systems" (Spring semesters 2004, 2005 and 2006) |
| evolutionary computing |
1 semester at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002,
1 semester at József Attila University in 1997 |
| artificial intelligence |
4 semesters at József Attila University from 1997-1999
(both on the faculty of sciences and faculty of arts) |
| numeric methods |
5 semesters at József Attila University from 1996-1999 |
| algorithms and data structures |
2 semesters at József Attila University in 1995 |
| journal associate editor |
Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
|
| journal reviewer |
The Computer Journal |
International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems |
Computing |
Journal of Grid Computing |
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications |
Future Generation Computer Systems |
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence |
Evolutionary Computation |
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing |
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing |
Optimization Letters |
Computer Networks |
Swarm Intelligence |
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
Acta Cybernetica |
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering |
Distributed Computing |
Journal of Discrete Algorithms |
Parallel Computing |
International Journal of Computer Mathematics |
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review |
Ad Hoc Networks |
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management |
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia |
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
|
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems |
eTransactions on Networks and Service Management |
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems |
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems |
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics |
Software Practice and Experience |
AI Communications |
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing
|
| PhD thesis opponent |
Michel Meulpolder (2011, Delft University of Technology) |
László Toka (2011, Eurecom, Telecom Paris, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics) |
Marco Biazzini (2010, University of Trento, Italy) |
István Bíró (2010, Eötvös Loránd University) |
Attila Fekete (2008, Eötvös Loránd University) |
Péter Kersch (2008, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) |
Spyros Voulgaris (2006, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) |
Laszlo Gulyas (2005, SZTAKI, Budpest)
|
| PC member |
LION 2012 |
BIONETICS 2011 |
ECCS 2011 |
GECCO 2011 |
IWSOS 2011 |
MSOP2P 2011 |
PDP 2011 |
LION 2011 |
SAC 2011, SCS track |
BIONETICS 2010 |
CEC 2010 |
P2P 2010 |
PPSN 2010 |
ANTS 2010 |
HICSS 2010 (DUC mini-track) |
LION 2010 |
SAC 2010, SCS track |
PDP 2010 |
BIONETICS 2009 |
SSS 2009, SOS track and P2P track |
PDP 2009 |
SOPDS 2009 |
HICSS 2009 (ADS mini-track) |
LION 2009 |
ECOSOA 2008 |
P2P 2008 |
ESAW 2008 |
BIONETICS 2008 |
PPSN 2008 |
DAPSYS 2008 |
Euro-Par 2008
vice chair of topic: Peer-to-Peer Computing |
SOPDS 2008 |
MSOP2P 2008 |
BIONETICS 2007 |
EEMMAS 2007 |
P2P 2007 |
CEC 2007 special session on
EC for decentralized systems |
ICPP 2007 |
ICCCN 2007 |
DPUbiq 2007 |
MSOP2P 2007 |
MA4CS 2006 |
BIONETICS 2006 |
ICCCN 2006 |
P2P 2006 |
Euro-Par 2006
vice chair of topic: Peer-to-Peer and Web Computing |
SelfMan 2006 |
ICDCS 2006 (P2P track) |
STD3S 2006 |
IEEE StoDiS 2005 |
Euro-Par 2005
vice chair of topic: Peer-to-Peer and Web Computing |
ESOA'05 |
AISB'05 SIC |
International Symposium on Computational Intelligence |
GECCO 1999 |
PPSN IV
|
| conference reviewer |
IPDPS 2011 |
DSN 2007 |
DSN 2006 |
PODS 2006 |
NOMS 2006 |
SelfMan 2005 |
ECCS'05 |
ICAC-04 |
DSN-2004 |
DISC 2004 |
ANTS 2004
|
| proposal reviewer |
EU FP7 ICT FET |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) |
Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) |
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
|
Here I list (mostly invited) talks that I gave at seminars of different
institutions, or invited talks at conferences.
I do not list regular conference
talks, project presentations and internal working talks.
This is work I like most, both published and unpublished.
This list is volatile and biased towards fresh stuff.
Check the full list of published papers and
technical reports if you don't find here
what you're after.
Titles listed here are unpublished.
When a paper gets published
(appears under publications)
that covers a paper in this list (extended, revised,
etc., version), the paper in question is removed from here.
When the unpublished version is more extended than the published one, it is
not removed from here however.