KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ali M. Abbasov minister@mincom.gov.az Prof. Dr. Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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Development and progress are the primary objective pursued by every state pursues. There are many methods and means to accomplish such objectives. The improvement of existing communication networks and development of new state-of-the-art communication networks contribute significantly to this process. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is deemed as being crucial for achieving sustainable economic development. As a result of a carefully planned approach the Government of Azerbaijan has achieved noteworthy results, both in developing the ICT sector and by implementing innovative and advanced technologies in many fields of the economy. Azerbaijan has consistently developed its e government and has, thanks to its innovative approach and preparedness to face new challenges, gained invaluable experience through the introduction of these technologies which simultaneously has improved the general quality of life in Azerbaijan significantly. Economic and political stability provide the essential foundation for a country’s dynamic growth. Economic and political reforms taking place in Azerbaijan together with the process of integrating its economy into the international economic system, has resulted in achieving a high economic growth-rate and democratization of society in Azerbaijan. During recent years, Azerbaijan has ranked as fastest growing country in the world if measured in terms of GDP growth. GDP growth has averaged 24% per annum in Azerbaijan during this time.

The Content of the speaking:

• E-Azerbaijan
• Advanced Technology Boosts Democracy
• Telecommunications
• Internet
• Space Industry
• Regional Innovation Zone
• West-East Superhighway

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Ali Abbasov (born 1953 in Azerbaijan) is the current Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

He entered Azerbaijan Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry on specialty of “Automation and Teleautomatics” in 1969. In 1972, he was transferred to Moscow Power Engineering Institute by the same specialty in order to continue his education and graduated from it in 1976. From 1977 to 1981, he continued his education in graduate school (aspiranture) under Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and obtained the academic degree of candidate of sciences by defending a thesis in the field of microelectronics in 1981. In 1982-1992 years he conducted scientific-research and practical works on development and application of computer networks in Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he was appointed to the post of director of Scientific Center of Information and Telecommunications Institute

Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences and worked on this position until year of 2000. During this period, he was selected the leader and executive of “Automated Republican Control Systems” (ARCS – Azerbaijan) project, curator of EARN and Internet networks throughout the republic, he also worked as head executive on application of information systems and several special-purpose computers of national significance throughout Azerbaijan in field of information technologies in NATO Science Committee.

In 1996, he received the title of professor in the field of Informatics and announced as the international man of the year in the sphere of engineering and technology by Cambridge biographical center. As of 1994, he become expert of UNESCO on information and communications. He is the full member of New York Academy of

Sciences as of 1997, and from 1998 – International Informatization Academy, from 2000 – International Academy of Sciences, from 2001 – Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. During 2002 to 2004, he worked as lecturer in Azerbaijan State Economic University and at the same period he was the head of “Information technologies in world economy” department. During this period he has been the president of Association of Computer Networks (AZRENA) on Science and engineering of Azerbaijan and led projects such as “Development of scientific and educational Internet networks”, “Establishment of distance education systems in the Republic”, “Virtual Silk Way” etc.

In 2000, he become deputy of Milli Majlis and member of General Assembly of European Council in 2001. On 20 February, 2004, he was elected Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Abbasov speaks English and Russian as foreign languages. He is author of 150 scientific-technical works, as well as 6 monographs.

Victor Kureichik kur@tsure.ru Prof. Dr., Vice Rector for Research and Graduate Studies Taganrog Institute of Technology Southern Federal University Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Science Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering Science Academician of International Academy of Informatization Academician of New-York Academy of Science

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Meanwhile, a new millennium of scientific achievements and inventions which is not based on the idea of “What can we take from the nature?” but “What can we learn from the Nature?” has started. Now it is true that the design, technological production and systematic plans of nature are beyond mankind’s intellect. The nature achieved these successes in the result of billion years’ of evolution. We can walk through this path of evolution only by using new information technologies which is a basis of development-modeling. This will take as us much time as it takes to create new methods and techniques and to write algorithms in the fields of science and technology.

Meanwhile, bionic algorithms (BA) are a new technique to solve optimum, intelligence, and projects issues. They are based on the modeling process which is going in the nature. The main sides of bionic algorithms are genetic and evolution algorithms. The author analyzes formal duties of genetic algorithms and new modificated genetic operators which are aimed in the usage of recently gained knowledge in these topics. He also describes new modificated genetic algorithms which allow solving positive issues of artificial intelligence productively.

One of the main problems of nowadays’ science and technology is the creation of Intellectual CAD Systems(ICAD). The main purpose and goal of ICAD is tat they help the development and the usage of bionic technologies, algorithms which “have been under bio influence”, also the methods and technique of Evolution Modeling (EM) and Evolution Design (ED).

In this article theory of evolution by I.I.Shmalhausen which is presented as an automatic process based on contrary relations. New modification model of Shmahausen’s evolution theory which bases on the principle of recreation of cubes. According to expressed ideas, new form of genetic research which allows to solve issues of artificial intelligence in a optimum way.

As a result of this a new structure of hybrid genetic algorithms which helps to increase the quality of technical answers and to create mathematic maintenance is presented.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Kureichik V.M. was born on 2 November 1945. He graduated from the Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering (former Taganrog Radio Engineering Institute) in 1967 with a Diploma in specialty "Calculating and deciding devices and apparatus". He received a Candidate of Engineering Science degree in 1971 and a Doctor of Engineering Science degree in 1978 from Taganrog Radio Engineering Institute.

V.M.Kureichik has been working at TSURE from January 1968 as an engineer, a chief of laboratory, a chief of Design Office, a chief of department of Research Institute. From 1979 to 1999 he was a Department Chair of CADS. In 1982 he became a professor, from 1982 to 1987 he was elected to the position of Dean of the College of Microelectronics and Electronics Engineering. In 1987 V.M.Kureichik founded the chair of CADS and had been its chairperson to 1999. From 1993 he is an active Member of Russian Academy of Natural Science. In 1999 V.M.Kureichik was promoted to the position of the Vice Rector for Informatics and director of Rostov Regional Center of New Information Technologies.

Fields of research: physical design of artificial intelligence in CADS, genetic algorithms and their use in CADS. V.M.Kureichik is a chief of section of the Department of Radio-Electronics and Control Systems of North Caucasus Research Center of High School. He created a research direction on genetic methods of optimization.

V.M.Kureichik is the author of more than 500 papers including 20 monographs and 40 inventions. He has been a scientific adviser of 58 Candidates of Science and 9 Doctors of Science. He is the president of Russian CADS Association; three times Soros Professor (1998, 1999, 2000) on Mathematics, member of American mathematics Society (1980-1996), Member of American Bibliographic Institute.

He was on leave in Syracuse, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dayton, New-York universities in 1978-79. In 1992 he gave lectures on CADS in Michigan State University, USA. In 1993-94 V.M.Kureichik made research on genetic algorithms according to the program in USA. V.M.Kureichik made program reports in USA, Germany, France, Poland, Bolgaria and Hungary. In 1998 he took part in world-wide exhibition CEBIT. On 20 April 2000 he was elected an Active Member of the Academy of Engineering Science of Russian Federation. His biography was published in the edition "Who Is Who I" "The World" in 2001

Mahmoud Daneshmand daneshmand@research.att.com PhD, Assistant Chief Scientist Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs Research

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This talk will contain an overview of AT&T Shannon Labs (the Research arm of AT&T Labs), and a more detailed discussion of our work in Information Mining and Software Research with applications in telecommunications industry including network operations, network security, IP network management, fraud detection, marketing, and business & consumer markets analysis. Over the past 10 years, AT&T Labs has had a focused program in information mining at very large scale. This has included inventing many tools & techniques, building quite a few applications, and collecting a few petabytes of telecommunications data. It also has included learning about what is useful and not so useful, possible and not so possible, and what directions we should be taking. Emphasis has been on near real-time mining; therefore on data streams, analysis within windows of data, and interactive visualization with record and playback. This talk will review some of the tools, techniques, learning and challenges of this research program thus far.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Mahmoud Daneshmand is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs Research; Executive Director of University Collaborations Program and Assistant Chief Scientist of the AT&T Labs; Adjunct Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of the School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has more than 35 years of teaching, research, and management experience in academia and industry including Bell Laboratories, AT&T Labs, and University of California at Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin, Tehran University, Sharif University of Technology, National University of Iran, New York University, and Stevens Institute of Technology. His current areas of teaching and research include Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Sensor Networks and RFID Systems including reliability, performance and data mining of sensor and RFID data. He reports to the AT&T Labs Chief Scientist and Vice President of Information & Software Systems Research.

He has a PhD and MA in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and MS and BS in Mathematics from the University of Tehran.

He has published more than 70 papers; authored/co-authored two books; holds two US patent; co-edited publication of two IEEE Proceedings on Computers and Communications; innovated and led execution of more than 40 Bell Labs and AT&T Labs large-scale projects on computer and communications; made extensive contributions to the Standards and regulatory organizations including ITU, ANSI, and FCC (invented the well known standardized Networks Outage Index). He has chaired multiple international IEE and IEEE conferences; gave keynote talks at IEEE conferences including ISCC 2008, ICT 2008, and ICISTM 2007. Organized and chaired four Academia-Industry Joint Research Collaborations Symposiums (UC Symposiums 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008) at AT&T Shannon Laboratories. Organized and chaired ICC 07 and ICC 09 panel on Industry-Academia Joint Research Collaborations. He is keynote chair of the GLOBECOM 2009.

Tugrul Yanik tyanik@fatih.edu.tr Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department of Fatih University

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The common SIP authentication mechanism in most applications is the HTTP Digest Authentication. This mechanism is easy to implement and delivers high performance results. But the various security vulnerabilities of this authentication method reqA„A±ires us to search for alternative methods. ID based signature schemes have significant advantages over certificate based signature schemes. Even though various ID based authentication schemes were proposed we couldnA?t come across an implementation that gives us an idea about the performance costs. In this paper we integrated two different ID based authentication schemes into a well known and widely used open source SIP proxy server and obtained real performance data. The results show that the current ID based signature schemes performance is not sufficient for the time being. But if further improved the advantages it provides could increase its visibility in SIP based applications.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Tugrul Yanik received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Aegean University (Izmir-Turkey) in 1996, his Mastera€™s degree in Computer Engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree from the Oregon State University in 2002. Tugrul has five years of technical experience in software engineering. He worked for one year at rTrust Technologies, a company designing embedded software in cryptography. He worked for four years at Mentor Graphics Corporation as a software developer, which is an Electronic Design Automation company. Four years ago he decided to pursue an academic career and joined the faculty of engineering at the Fatih University. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Fatih University in Istanbul-Turkey. His research interests include computer arithmetic, cryptography and network security focusing on VOIP security and security protocols.

Dag Wedelin dag at chalmers dot se Associate Professor Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg

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I will first give a brief overview of Computer Science, and how I see its relation to IT in general. I will also sketch the structure of the education in this and related areas in Sweden, and at Chalmers University of Technology in particular.
I will then give a personal example of the development of the Carmen System for resource optimization, a leading solution for planning crews and aircraft at the world's largest airlines. The system has been based on research and development in algorithms, programming languages and several other areas of Computer Science, and I will discuss how such competence made the development of this system possible.

Finally, I will briefly relate a recent joint project between Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg, and Qafqaz University, for a Master's Program in Computer Science at Qafqaz University.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dag Wedelin is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interests include algorithms, data structures, mathematical modelling, operations research, large scale discrete optimization, knowledge representation, machine learning and identification of complex systems. He also has a strong pedagogical interest, and has participated in the development of several new programs and courses at Chalmers, and is engaged in developing pedagogy especially in applied mathematics.

Rafig Aliyev raliev@asoa.edu.az Professor Department of Computer-Aided Control Systems, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

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Tracing the development of economics since 19th century up to present days makes it evident that at its core there is a sequence of rather precise and mathematically sophisticated axiomatic theories. At the same time, there is always a noticeable and persistent gap between the economic reality and economic predictions derived from these theories.

The main reason for why economic theories have not been successful so far in modelling economic reality is the fact that these theories are formulated in terms of hard sciences characterized by their nature of preciseness.

Real economical and socio-economical world problems are too complex to be translated into classical mathematical and bivalent logic languages, solved and interpreted in the language of the real world. The traditional modelling methodology (economics deals with models of economic reality) is perhaps not relevant or at least not powerful enough to satisfy the requirements of human reasoning and decision making activities. A new much more effective modelling language and theory are needed to capture the economic reality.

The sheer complexity of causation in the economic arena mandates a fuzzy approach. This study is devoted to fuzzy decision making as one of the most important problems of fuzzy economics.

We apply the obtained results to solving Zadeh’s problem of decision making with imprecise probabilities and to decision making on development of electronic company.

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Rafik A. Aliev received the Ph.D. and Doctorate degrees from the Institute of Control Problems, Moscow, Russia, in 1967 and 1975, respectively. He is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Computer-Aided Control Systems, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan, and a Visiting Professor with the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany and with Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus. He is also an invited speaker in Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

His research interests cover modern control theory, soft computing and multiagent distributed artificial intelligence, and computing with words. His current research is focused on generalized theory of stability, recurrent fuzzy neural networks, fuzzy type-2 systems, evolutionary computation, decision analysis with uncertainty square, and fuzzy economics.

Dr. Aliev is a regular Chairman of the International Conferences on Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing and International Conferences on Soft Computing and Computing with Words. He is an Editor of the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (Japan), a member of Editorial Boards of International Journal of Web-based Communities (The Netherlands), Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems (Iran), International Journal of Advances in Fuzzy Mathematics (Italy), and International Journal “Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing”. He was awarded USSR State Prize in field of Science (1983) and USA Fulbright Award (1997).