Fernando Guirado received the MS an PhD degrees from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, in 2001 and 2007 respectively. He is currently and associate professor in the Computer Science Departament at the University of Lleida (UdL), Spain since 2004. His current research interest include modelling of parallel applications, optimization of streaming applications, peer-to-peer computing and simulation of distributed systems.