Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con
Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con
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HANDBOOK 2 SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION<br />
Authors’ Biographies<br />
Abolghasem (Hamid) Asgari (M'03-SM'09) received his B.Sc. from Dr.<br />
Beheshti University in Tehran, M.Sc. (Hons) from the University of<br />
Auckland, New Zealand both in Computer Science, and his Ph.D. in<br />
Electronic Engineering (ATM networks) from University of Wales,<br />
Swansea in 1997. He was with Iran Telecom. Research Center (ITRC)<br />
from 1986 to 1990. He joined Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd<br />
(formerly Racal Research) in 1996 where he is with the Security and<br />
Communication Systems Division as a Chief Engineer specializing in the<br />
data communication systems/networks. He has been involved in design<br />
and analysis of integrated services and network architectures. He has<br />
actively participated in a number of EC projects including IST- TEQUILA,<br />
MESCAL, ENTHRONE, VISNET, and NMP- I3CON projects. His main<br />
research interests are in wired/wireless network QoS management and<br />
monitoring, network performance evaluation, traffic engineering, service<br />
management, and wireless sensor networking. He has published more than<br />
50 papers in these areas. He also served as a Visiting Professor at CNRS<br />
LaBRI in University of Bordeaux 1, France. He is a Senior Member of<br />
IEEE.<br />
Mark Irons received a MEng in Electronic Engineering from the<br />
University of Wales, Bangor in 1997. He joined Thales Research &<br />
Technology in 1996, where he works as a Software Engineer in the<br />
Security and Communications Systems Group. He is skilled in the<br />
architectural design and implementation of distributed enterprise software<br />
across a broad range of application domains, including secure<br />
communications, IP network management, travel route planning and<br />
disruption management, and wireless sensor networks. He has participated<br />
in several EC research projects, including IST TEQUILA (Traffic<br />
Engineering for QUality of Service in the Internet, at LArge scale), IST<br />
PASR SUPHICE (Secure Unplanned Provisioning of High Integrity<br />
Communications Across Europe) and NMP- I3CON projects. He is a<br />
member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.<br />
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