Dr Antonio Liotta

Dr Antonio Liotta is a Reader at the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex, UK. He is a Fellow of the U.K. Higher Education Academy and serves a number of senior advisory boards including: the Peer Review College of EPSRC (the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council); the scientific advisory panel of the IWT (the Belgian Research Council); the Board of Editors of the Journal of Network and System Management (Springer); and the advisory board of editors of the International Journal of Network Management (Wiley).

He is an active member of the networking research community. He has co-organized and co-chaired international conferences; has served the Technical Programme Committee of over 70 conferences; and has also contributed as keynote and tutorial speaker.

At the University of Essex, Dr Liotta leads the Pervasive Services team, known for its pioneering work on ubiquitous computing, advanced service management, and systems engineering. He a prolific and enthusiastic writer, with over 80 scientific publications to his credit in the areas of telecommunication services, distributed computing, and advanced networking. Recent articles have contributed to topical themes including: operator-mediated peer-to-peer; mobile grids; quality of experience management in context-aware services; and the legal issues of pervasive systems.
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