H O M E · P A G E
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francesc . comellas @ upc . edu
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P O S I T I O N
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. (retired)
R E S E A R C H · I N T E R E S T S
My research is in the application of Graph Theory to the design of topologies and communication strategies for interconnection networks and include:
- Design and analysis of deterministic models for complex networks.
- Study of graph invariants and parameters associated to complex networks in the context of biomedicine and social sciences.
As an example, the network associated to the Erdös number (since 1995, mine is 2). - Communication problems in networks: broadcasting and gossiping.
- The use of combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems like the design of certain classes of (complex) networks or communication strategies, planarization, the design of codes, coloring of graphs or frequency assignment:
- Simulated annealing, tabu search
- Genetic algorithms, genetic programming
- Multi-agent algorithms (ants), immune system based algorithms.
- The design of large networks, particularly the degree-diameter
problem. [[ latest results,
]] Also the ( degree-diameter table --2015 backup at web.archive.org-- for vertex-symmetric networks. (also Sept 28, 2016 capture)
Related to this research, I have supervised several PhD Thesis and PFC (Projecte Final de Carrera, roughly equivalent to a Master Thesis). See my mathematical genealogical tree here.
h-index: 32 ( Google Scholar), 23 ( Scopus), 22 ( Web of Science).
Generated by a former version of WordlClouds.com from the list of titles of my papers.
Darwin's tree of life (1837). A connection between graph theory and evolutionary algorithms ?
A theorem a day
Means promotion and pay!
A theorem a year
And you're out on your ear!
Paul Erdös (1913-1996) º€ø,žž,ø€º°`°º€ø,žž,ø€º
T E A C H I N G · A S S I G N M E NTS
I change couses quite often, and I like to develop applied/algorithmic stuff for these courses.
2021/2022. Fall term
(Schedule):
Simulació
3rd year, Aeronautics, EPS Castelldefels
(click
here for its location)
Models for Air Traffic Management
EPS Castelldefels
Ampliació de Matemàtiques 2
EPS Castelldefels
Former recent teaching:
Linear Algebra and Applications
EPS Castelldefels
Algorismes Evolutius i
Aplicacions
(code: 50532),ETSET
Barcelona
Probabilitat
i Estadística
EPS Castelldefels
Fonaments Matemàtics I
Fonaments
Matemàtics
II; EPSC.
Matemàtiques de la Telecomunicació
(code: 11479),
ETSETB
P R O F E S S I O N A L · A C T I V ITY
Vice-Dean and Head of Studies, Technical School of Telecom (Escola
Universitària del Baix Llobregat), 1996-1998.
Vice-Dean, School of Telecommunications (Escola Tècnica
Superior d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de
Barcelona) 1992-1994.
Visiting scientist, School of Computing Science, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada (1995/1996).
Visiting scientist (MEC/British Council Fleming Award),
Informatics Department, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, England
(1988/1989).
Associate Editor, Networks
(Wiley InterScience) and Journal of Complex Networks
(Oxford University Press)
Referee for the CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia
y Tecnologia)
Referee for Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics,
Information Processing Letters, Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, ....
Spanish coordinator for the Erasmus program. Projects:
ICP-94-F-4015/06,
ICP-94-I-1030/06, ICP-94-UK-1106/06, etc..
M Y · L I N K S
On
line
papers
Latin
grammar in Catalan , a 1932 book from my grandfather, Blai
Padró. ( another bio )
Java
applet on the Ising model
Java applet that perfoms symbolic regression using
Genetic Programming (local) .
(original)
See my paper Genetic
Programming to Design Communication Algorithms for Parallel Architectures.
Conway's
life in Java
This page was created in June 10, 1994. In 1996, a project to
keep "snapshots" of the WWW was started at
web.archive.org , with
computers at the new Alexandria Library and somewhere in
California. Go to the past and connect to
my homepage as it
was on December 1, 1996.
We put the first geocache
(geoamagatall) of the Iberian peninsula (February 18th, 2001).
Listen to an interview (Radio Barcelona), March 2001,
on this topic.
Another short interview related with the 5th anniversary
was broadcasted by Catalunya Informació (March 1, 2006). The newspaper AVUI wrote an
article in August 11th, 2006.
See also www.geocaching.com
F O R M E R · P O S I T I O N S
Before having my post at DMAT and from 1982 to 1985 I was with the Autonomous Government, Generalitat de Catalunya, Directorate of the Universities. From 1978 to 1982 I was a lecturer at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona where I did my Ph.D. on exact solutions to the Einstein's field equations (more on this): Solucions Estacionàries i Axisimètriques a les Equacions d'Einstein.
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