Osman Balci Professor Office: 3160B Torgersen Email: balci@vt.edu Phone: (540) 231-4841 Website: http://manta.cs.vt.edu/balci/ Office Hours: TTh: 3:30 to 4:30 or e-mail for an appointment

Osman Balci is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 1975 and 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University (New York) in 1978 and 1981.

Dr. Balci currently serves as the ACM SIGSIM Chair (2008-11) and Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGSIM Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Knowledge Repository. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Annals of Software Engineering, 1993-2002 and World Wide Web, 1996-2000. He currently serves as the Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) Area Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, M&S Category Editor of ACM Computing Reviews, and as a Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Simulation. Dr. Balci served as an elected Director at Large for the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2002-06.

Most of Dr. Balci's work has been funded by the U.S. Navy since 1983. From 1998 to 2004, he provided technical services for the U.S. National Missile Defense and Missile Defense Agency programs in the areas of complex M&S VV&A and complex system independent verification and validation (IV&V). His current areas of expertise center on Software Engineering (Network-Centric Software Engineering; Architecting Network-Centric Software-based System of Systems; Software/System IV&V and Quality Assessment) and Modeling and Simulation (Modeling Methodology; Verification, Validation, Testing, Certification, Accreditation, Credibility Assessment, and Quality Assessment of Models and Simulations).