Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications








Contributing Author

Celso Ribeiro

Handbook of Optimization in Telecommununications
Celso Ribeiro is Full Professor at the Department of Computer  Science of Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He chaired the departments of Electrical Engineering (1983-1987) and  Computer Science (1993-1995) of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 1976) and an M.Sc. degree in Systems Engineering (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1978). He obtained his doctorate in Computer Science at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France) in 1983. His research is supported by the Brazilian Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and by the Rio de Janeiro State  Foundation for Research Support (FAPERJ). Professor Ribeiro acted as  President of the Brazilian Operations Research Society (SOBRAPO, 1989-1990) and of the Latin-American Association of Operations Research  Societies (ALIO, 1992-1994), and as Vice-President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS, 1998-2000). He was a visiting researcher at AT&T Labs Research, International Computer Science  Institute (ICSI, Berkeley), École Polytechnique de Montréal, and  Université de Versailles (France). He is the editor of four books and the author of  almost 100 papers in international journals. Professor Ribeiro supervised 11 doctorate dissertations and 26 master of science theses.