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were in fact introduced to the field of performance evaluation through their
contacts or visits with Erol's activities. Erol developed the first graduate
program in computer and network performance in France and revitalised
performance evaluation research within France-Telecom. Since then, these
efforts have given rise to many groups in the Paris area (INRIA, Paris VI,
ENS, Versailles, INT, France Telecom) as well as in Sophia Antipolis and
Grenoble, and some of them are still among the best in the world. Cur
rent research at four of INRIA's centres, Rocquencourt, Sophia Antipolis,
Rennes and Grenoble bears the mark of Erol's influence.
Erol has a remarkable track record at attracting and mentoring PhD
students and younger researchers, many of whom have become technical
and organisational leaders. He deploys considerable effort to secure the
intellectual and material resources to support graduate students, and has
graduated over 50 PhDs. He may also be commended for having graduated
numerous women PhDs, many of whom are well known academics.
1.4. Service to the Profession
Finally, Erol has made seminal contributions to the organization of his
field by being a founding member of ACM SIGMETRICS, and the founder
(together with Paul Green of IBM) of IFIP WG7.3. A founder of the jour
nal Performance Evaluation, he has been active in editorial boards such
as Acta Informatica, IEEE Trans, on Software Engineering., Telecommu
nication Systems, the Computer Journal of the British Computer Society,
Recherche Operationnelle and Annales des Telecommunications (France),
and the Proceedings of the IEEE. He has served on the programme com
mittee as a conference or programme committee chair of numerous IEEE,
ACM, and IFIP conferences in Europe and the US. He has also founded and
helped organise for twenty years the International Symposia on Computer
and Information Sciences series in Turkey.
References
1. Gelenbe E., "A unified approach to the evaluation of a class of replacement
algorithms", IEEE Trans. Computers, 22(6), (1973), 611-618.
2. Gelenbe E., "On approximate computer system models", Journal ACM,
22(2), (1975), 261-269.
3. Gelenbe E., Mang X., Onvural R., "Diffusion based call admission control in
ATM", Performance Evaluation, 27&28, (1996), 411-436.
4. Gelenbe E., Mang X., Onvural R., "Bandwidth allocation and call admission
control in high speed networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, 35(5),
(1997), 122-129.