Dr. Jordi Garcia

Contact Information

Address

Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX)
NEAPOLIS building,
Rambla Exposicio, 61-69,
08800 Vilanova i la Geltru,
Barcelona, Spain

Email

jordig (at) ac.upc.edu

Phone

+34938967293

Web page

http://www.craax.upc.edu/jordi

Jordi Garcia Almiñana, PhD
Associate Professor

Short bio

Dr. Jordi Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Architecture (DAC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC BarcelonaTech. He has an MsC and a PhD degree, both in Computer Science from the UPC Barcelona Tech. Jordi Garcia joined the DAC in 1991. From 2001 to 2004 he was the vice-dean of university extension at the Barcelona School of Informatics (Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona, FIB), and from 2004 to 2010 he was the vice-dean, head of studies, also at the FIB. From 2010 to 2013 he was the academic director of the Center of Cooperation for Development, and from 2015 to 2016 he has been the Rector’s delegate of the SINO-Spanish Campus at the Tongji University, in Shanghai, China.

His current research interests are resources management strategies for smart scenarios, as well as (big) data management and processing for smart cities. Other research activities have been developed in the areas of massively parallel systems, optimization techniques for supercomputing, and the optimization of run-time environments. He has also been interested in the operating systems internal implementation, as well as the run-time interaction between the operating system (Linux) and the virtual environments (Java Virtual Machine).

Recent Publications

  • Jordi Garcia, Ester Simó, Xavier Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera and Sergi Sànchez-López, Do we really need cloud? Estimating the fog computing capacities in the city of Barcelona. In the Workshop on managed Fog-to-Cloud, in the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Zurich, Switzerland, November 2018.
  • Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Essentiality of Resource and Service-Task Characterization in the Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Paradigm. In the 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies 2018 (SaCoNeT), EL Oued, Argelia, October 2018.
  • Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin, An Architecture for Resources Management in a Fog-to-Cloud Framework. In Euro-Par 2018 Workshops, Torino, Italy, August 2018.
  • Xavi Masip-Bruin, Alexander Leckey, Antonio Salis, Denis Guilhot, Matic Cankar, Eva Marín-Tordera, Ana Juan-Ferrer, Anna Queralt, Admela Jukan, Jordi Garcia, Daniele Lezzi, Jens Jensen, Cristovao Cordeiro, mF2C: Towards a Coordinated Management of the IoT-fof-cloud Continuum. In 4th Workshop on experiences with the design and implementation of smart objects (SmartObjects2018), Los Angeles, USA, June 2018.

Publications

Selected

Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin. Essentiality of Resource and Service-Task Characterization in the Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Paradigm. IEEE International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT), El Oued, Algeria, October 2018.

Amir Sinaeepourfard, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin and Eva Marín-Tordera. Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) Data Management for Smart Cities. Future Technologies Conference (FTC 2017), Vancouver, Canada, November 2017.

Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Ana Juan-Ferrer, Anna Queralt, Admela Jukan, Jordi Garcia, Daniele Lezzi, Jens Jensen, Cristovao Cordeiro, Alexander Leckey, Antonio Salis, Denis Guilhot, Matic Cankar. mF2C: Towards a Coordinated Management of the IoT-fog-cloud Continuum. 4th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects (SmartObjects 2018), Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.

Eva Marín-Tordera, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Jordi Garcia, Admela Jukan, Guang-Jie Ren and Jiafeng Zhu. Do we all know what a fog node is? Current trends towards an open definition. Computer Communications, Vol. 109:117-130, September 2017. ISSN: 0140-3664.

Journals

Conferences

Book and chapters

  1. Marc Alier, David López, Fermín Sánchez, and Jordi Garcia. Using a crowdsourcing knowledge base to support the Social Compromise and Sustainability skill in Computer Science Engineering Studies. M.D. Lytras, D. Ruan, R.D. Tennyson, P. Ordonez De Pablos,F.J. García Peñalvo, L. Rusu (eds.). Computer and Information Science: Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research (revised selected papers), Vol. 278:251-260, Springer 2013. ISBN 978-3- 642-35878-4.
  2. Jordi Garcia, Daniel Garcia, Francisco Esteban, Marta Pujadas, Francisco-Javier Navallas and Ramon Miralles. A Survey of Sustainability Promotion Experiences: The IPSO Project. W. Leal (ed.), World Trends in Education for Sustainable Development, Vol. 32:295-309, Peter Lang Publisher. Summer 2011. ISBN 978-3-631-61956-8.
  3. Marc Alier, David López, Jordi Garcia and Fermín Sánchez. Les TIC i la sostenibilitat. E. Carrera and J. Segalàs (eds.), Tecnologia i Sostenibilitat. UNESCO Chair of Sustainability, UPC Barcelona Tech, 2010. Available on-line at: http://tecnologiaisostenibilitat.cus.upc.edu
  4. Fermín Sánchez, Maria-Ribera Sancho, Pere Botella, Jordi Garcia, Tomàs Aluja, Juan J. Navarro and José Luis Balcázar. Competencias profesionales del Grado en Ingeniería Informática. C. Vaz, M. Llamas and R. Silveira (eds.), IEEE TICAI 2008: TICs Aplicadas para el aprendizaje de la Ingeniería, pp. 147-154. 2008. ISBN 978-972-8688-63-9.
  5. Badar Muneer, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Naeem Mahoto, Shahnawaz Talpur, and Jordi Garcia (Editors). AI and Its Convergence with Communication Technologies. IGI Global, August 2023. ISBN: 978-1-668-47702-1.

Students

Current PhD Students

Souvik Sengupta
Resource Management Strategy in the Fog-to-Cloud System

Former PhD students

Amir Sinaepourfard
“Hierarchical Distributed Fog-to-Cloud Data Management in Smart Cities“, September 2017.

Yolanda Becerra
“Improving the Memory Management through Cooperation between the Operating System and the Java Virtual Machine“, September 2006.

Projects

 Current Projects

  • ICOS
    ICOS

    Funded by: Towards a Functional Continuum Operating System | Duration: September 2022 until 31 August 2025

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Past Projects

Previous Projects (Projects before joining CRAAX, ending on 2014 at top)

 European

Spanish-Austrian Integrated Action HU1996-0010, Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), Spanish Government. January 1997-December 1997. Advanced Techniques for Automatic Data Distribution.

Spanish-British Integrated Action 163B, Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), Spanish Government. April 1995-MarchAutomatic Data Distribution for High Performance Computers.

National

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIN2007-60625, Spanish Government. October 2007-August 2012. Computación de Altas Prestaciones V.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIN2004-07739-C02-01, Spanish Government. January 2005-December 2007. Computación de Altas Prestaciones IV: Arquitecturas, compiladores, sistemas operativos, herramientas y aplicaciones.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIC2001-0995-C02-01, Spanish Government. December 2001-December 2004. Computación de Altas Prestaciones III: Arquitecturas, compiladores, sistemas operativos y aplicaciones.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIC98-0511-C02-01, Spanish Government. July 1998-June 2001.Computación de Altas Prestaciones II: Arquitecturas, compiladores, sistemas operativos y aplicaciones.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT) TIC98-1704-CE, Spanish Government. January 1999-NovemberMemory hierarchy analysis and optimization tools.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIC95-429, Spanish Government. July 1995-June Computación de Altas Prestaciones.

Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), TIC92-880, Spanish Government. July 1992-JuneArquitectura y Compilación para Supercomputadores.