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Things which I am involved rigth now:

 Development of an startup company: A Social Media Agency specialized on events diffusion in Social Networks (SN)
Events include:
•    Social events: nightlife/clubbing, sports events, festivals
•    Corporate events: conferences, conventions, trade fairs
•    Branding events (e.g. Red Bull, Custo, etc sponsored events for a new product)

 + Info comming soon....

Things which I have been involved in the past

• My Ph.D.Thesis, obtained in July 2008@ at UPC, Barcelona. The topic is Artificial intellegence as applied to Computer Networks. More in detail Group Selection patterns applied to Grid Computing and Virtual Organizations. It can be classified in Artificial Intelligence topics such as Collective and Swarm intelligence applied to the emerging technogy of Grid Computing. See some slides: See slides.
• EU Project EC-GIN: research & development of network mechanisms to allow better performance for Grid applications. Hired by Just in Mind spanish SME with headquarters in Barcelona, Spain.

• My work in Artificial Intelligence applied to Grid Computing at thinkingrid startup company. (2006 -2007)
  
• Agent Grid Repast Simulator, released open source, version 0.2 beta at July 2007, the first Grid Simulator focusing on Artificial Intelligence Research, open source developped at my work in Thinkingrid. (2006 -2007)   See the demo video 

• EU Project CATNETS: Research on decentralized economic models for Grid Computing. (2004 -2007)
• Grid Catalunya project, applying multiagent systems to Grid Computing (2003 -2004)
  
• FreeLing open source Natural Language Analyzer (2002 -2003)

This is my list of academic publications at UPC so far:

2008

Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa. A Group Selection Pattern applied to Grid Resource Management, accepted IEEE Special Issue on Grid Resource Management by September 20078[pdf]

 Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardáiz, Ramon Sangüesa, O. Rana, and L. Jolita. "OptimizingDecentralized Grid Markets trough Group Selection". Proceedings of Web/GridInformation and Services Discovery WGISD08/CISIS 2008 (accepted).[pdf]

2007

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Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa . Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Multiagent Systems. Eighth Annual International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 07). October 2007  [pdf]

Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa. A Group Selection Pattern for agent-based Virtual Organizations coordination in Grids, accepted to the 3rd International Workshop on Agents and Web Services in Distributed Environments (AWeSOMe'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov29 - 30, 2007.  [pdf]

Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa. A Group Selection Pattern Optimizing Job Scheduling in Decentralized Grid Markets. Poster accepted to the International Conference on Grid computing, High-Performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov29 - 30, 2007. [pdf]

I.Chao, R.Bruner, F.Freitag, P. Chacin, L. Navarro,O. Ardaiz,L. Joita, O. F. Rana. A Decentralized Grid Market Infrastructure for Service Oriented Grids. Special Issue on SOA, German Journal of Information Systems Management Wirtschaftsinformatik, accepted for 2nd round. [pdf]

O. Ardaiz, I. Chao, R. Sangüesa, "Plaza Tool to Support Collaboration in Consumer-Provider-Resource Networks: Case Study in Computational Grids", 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, Sept 2007.

L. Joita, O. F. Rana, , F. Freitag, I. Chao, P. Chacin, L. Navarro, O. Ardaiz.A catallactic market for data mining services.  Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 January 2007, pages 146-153.

T. Eymann, W. Streitberger, D. Veit, M. Catalano, G. Giulioni, O. Rana, L. Jolita, I. Chao (2007). Evaluation of Economic Resource Allocation in Application Layer Networks – A Metrics Framework
Erscheint in: Proceedings der 8. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007

Nico Bevilacqua, Isaac Chao , Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro. Prototyping the access of handheld device clients to a distributed service insfracstructure. 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 07), Ulm University, Germany, September 2007.

2006

Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa, Tag Mechanisms Applied to Open Grid Virtual Organizations Management, “Second International Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies”, coallocated with The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Dublin, Ireland June 2006 [pdf]

O. Ardaiz, I. Chao, R. Sangüesa, "Unveiling and Fostering Social Networks in Grids", 14th Spanish Distributed Systems Conferences, San Sebastian,Spain, Jun 2006.

Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz (2005) - "Application Deployment using Catallactic Grid Middleware", Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2005), co-located with ACM/USENIX/IFIP 6th International Middleware Conference 2005, 28 November - 2 December 2005, Grenoble, France. ISBN:1-59593-269-0. Publisher: ACM Press New York, NY, USA. The paper has been nominated by the workshop organisers as one of the top two papers of the workshop.

L. Joita, O. F. Rana, Pa. Chacin, I. Chao, F. Freitag, Leandro Navarro, O.Ardaiz. Application Deployment on Catallactic Grid Middleware. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 12, 2006, art. no. 0612-oz001

 

2005

Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz and Ramon Sanguesa, “Achieving emergent cooperation in Grid Virtual Organizations using Tag Mechanisms” (WIP), 2005 International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multi-agent and Grid Systems (SOAS’2005) At University of Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 11 - 13 December 2005

Oscar Ardaiz A1, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, “An architecture for incorporating decentralized economic models in application layer networks”, Multiagent and Grid Systems Issue:   Volume 1, Number 4 / 2005 Pages:   287 - 295 Special Issue:  Smart Grid Technologies & Market Models,Guest Editor(s):  Daniel J. Veit, Torsten Eymann, Nicholas R. Jennings, Jörg P. Müller

Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Werner Streitberger, Omer Rana, Liviu Joita, Dirk Neumann, Björn Schnizler, Daniel Veit, Oscar Ardaiz, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Michele Catalano, Mauro Gallegati, Gianfranco Giulioni, Ruben Carvajal Schiaffino, Floriano Zini, “Catallaxy-based Grid Markets”, Multiagent and Grid Systems Issue:   Volume 1, Number 4 / 2005 Pages:   pp. 297 - 307 Special Issue:  Smart Grid Technologies & Market Models,Guest Editor(s):  Daniel J. Veit, Torsten Eymann, Nicholas R. Jennings, Jörg P. Müller

Pablo Chacin, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Isaac Chao and Oscar Ardaiz, Integration of Decentralized Economic Models for Resource Self-management in Application Layer Networks, Title:  Autonomic Communication: Second International IFIP Workshop, WAC 2005, Athens, Greece, October 2-5, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Editors:  Ioannis Stavrakakis, Michael Smirnov, ISBN: 3-540-32992 DOI: 10.1007/11687818, Chapter: pp. 214 - 225

P. Chacin, F. Freitag, L. Navarro, O. Ardaiz, I. Chao. Integration of Decentralized Economic Models for Resource Self-Management in Application Layer Networks. Second IFIP TC6 International Workshop on Autonomic Communication, Athens, Greece, 2005.

 

2004

Isaac Chao,Ramon Sangüesa and Oscar Ardaiz, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Resource Management Multiagent.System for a Multimedia Processing Grid,  Workshop on Grid Computing and Its Application to Data Analysis (GADA) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, GADA, JTRES, MIOS, WORM, WOSE, PhDS, and INTEROP 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 25-29, 2004. Proceedings Editors:  Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Angelo Corsaro SBN: 3-540-23664-3 DOI: 10.1007/b102133

Isaac Chao, Ramon Sangüesa and Oscar Oardaiz , “Grid Resource Management using Software Agents”, ERCIM News No.59 - October 2004 - Special theme: Grids - The Next Generation.

and my CV in pdf