Biography

Michael Segal finished B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1994, 1997, and 1999, respectively. During a period of 1999–2000 Prof. Michael Segal held a MITACS National Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow position in University of British Columbia, Canada. Prof. Segal joined the Department of Communication Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel in 2000 where he served as department's Chairman between 2005–2010 and currently is a Full Professor. Prof. Segal serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. He published more than 170 journal and conference papers on topics including algorithms (sequential and distributed), data structures with applications to optimization problems, mobile wireless networks, scheduling and efficient networking.

Abstract

During the last several years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been the subject of intensive research. UAVs can be exploited to efficiently accomplish complex missions when co-operatively organized as an ad hoc network, thus creating the well-known flying ad hoc networks. The establishment of such networks is not feasible without deploying an efficient networking model allowing a reliable exchange of information between UAVs. The performance of the UAV-based network depends on the deployment of UAVs. In this talk we will consider various optimization problems that are raised in the context of efficient UAVs swarm maintenance and present efficient techniques to deal with them.