KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
TITLE: "Next Generation Service Overlay Networks: Evolution of Intelligent Networks"
ABSTRACT:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Mehmet Ulema has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications field as a professor, manager, researcher, systems engineer, network architect, and software developer. Currently he is a professor at Manhattan College, New York. Previously, he held management and technical positions in AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, Daewoo Telecom, and Hazeltine Corporations.
Mehmet has been actively involved in numerous IEEE ComSoc conferences as well. He served as the Technical Program Chair of for the two premier ComSoc conferences: IEEE Global Communications (GLOBECOM) in 2009 and IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) in 2006. He served as the Technical program chair for a number of other conferences including the first IEEE Consumer Communications Networking Conference (CCNC) in 2004 and IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in 2002. He also served as the General Co-chair of IEEE NOMS in 2008.
He has published in various international conferences and journals. Also, he has written many internal reports, only some of which were released to the industry. He holds two patents. He gave a number of talks and tutorials on network management and wireless networks. He organized several special issues. He has been on the editorial board of a number of journals including the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, ACM/Springer Journal of Wireless Network, and the Springer Journal of Network and Services Management.
He has been an active member of IEEE and ComSoc for more than three decades now. Currently he is the vice-chair of the Technical Activities Council, the chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection and the Humanitarian Communications Technology Committees. He co-founded the ComSoc's Information Infrastructure Technical Committee and served as its chair. He also served as the chair of ComSoc's Radio Communications Technical Committee as well as various other positions within the Committee.
Mehmet received his MS and PhD from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 1980, and BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University in 1972.
|
Victor Kureichik
website: http://english.tti.sfedu.ru/asunits/kureychik/
email: kur@tsure.ru
Professor 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
|
TITLE: "Methods Inspired by Natural Systems"
ABSTRACT:
Currently, methods inspired by natural systems are widely used in almost all fields of science and technology. This is due to the fact that nature over millions of years of evolution has developed effective principles and optimization technology. Being used in technological systems they can make effective solutions. One of promising technologies is the Swarm Intelligence Method. It describes the collective behavior of decentralized self-organizing system. The term "Swarm Intelligence" was proposed by Gerardo Beni and Wang Ching in 1989. The block diagram of Swarm Intelligence can be described as a graph or hyper graph, usually consisting of multiple agents interacting locally with each other and the environment. Agents themselves are usually quite simple, but all together, locally interacting, they create the so-called "Swarm Intelligence". We studied and analyzed Swarm Intelligence algorithms to solve NP-complete optimization problems. The basic idea of these algorithms is the swarm behavior modeling. In the course of this work ant and bee algorithms, as well as the method of swarm particles have been investigated. The following problems have been solved on the base of these algorithms: traveling salesman problem, vehicle routing, the graph partitioning into pieces, items placement on the plane. These problems are used in computer design.
To make experimental calculations we have developed a software environment that implements the algorithms described above. The results obtained allow us to judge the optimal choice of algorithm parameters. Experimental studies have shown the effectiveness of swarm algorithms for optimization problems solving compared to standard iterative, heuristic and genetic algorithms.
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
TITLE: "Digital Natives in a Knowledge Society:
Emerging technologies require new competencies of teachers and learners"
ABSTRACT:
The modern stage in civilization development is characterized by increasing of the information and knowledge importance in social life, raising of ICTs part in gross domestic product, building the global information space. Since in the Knowledge Society the ICT competencies are the general base for forming and development of other competencies they also serves as a bridge between professional and social ones.
New generation of pupils have new abilities, new approaches, new concepts in terms of information and communication, computers and technology. Education has to take this into account and should permanently adapt itself to the new generation of “digital natives”. Plenty of them have a kind of intuitive mastery of informatics and computers, of electronic devices, of mobile equipment. Digital activities are like a mother tongue for them.
However, technological skills alone will not lead them to gaining necessary social role. New concept of education assumes that learners will acquire a combination of knowledge, practical and social skills relevant to the demands of today’s societies. In other words a successful educational strategy should be oriented on the new lifestyle concept and corresponding skills development alongside with technological innovations.
Given that the use of ICTs in and for education is now seen worldwide as both a necessity and an opportunity, it has become a major transversal priority across all UNESCO areas of competence. The UNESCO approach for developing ICT use in and for education is developed through its cross-sectoral thematic platform of “fostering ICT-enhanced learning”. In particular, new approaches to education give an important role to the use of ICTs and teacher’s ICT competences. UNESCO IITE, as the only UNESCO institution specializing exclusively in the field of ICTs in education, focuses its activities on strengthening the capacity of educational specialists in the Member States through implementation of education programmes and training courses of their professional development based on ICT application.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Mr Badarch holds an Engineering Diploma in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Computer Sciences (1978) from the Ural State Technical University in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, and a PhD in MIS and Computer Sciences (1989) from the Moscow Civil Aviation Engineering University, Russian Federation.
Mr Badarch's extensive academic career with the Mongolian Technical University in Ulaanbaatar began with his position of lecturer and assistant professor of Engineering Economics (1978-1984). From 1984 to 1990, he was Chair of the Computer Science Department, and established a new inter-university Chair on Computer Science and oversaw the implementation of a new programme on software engineering. In 1992, Mr Badarch was appointed President and Rector of the Mongolian Technical University, a position he held until 2003.
Mr Badarch joined the UNESCO Secretariat in May 2003 at the Organization's Mice in Moscow, and since 'then has been Programme Specialist in Education (P-3). Among his responsibilities in this position are the provision of assistance to countries in the cluster in elaborating and executing their National plan of action for EFA, the identification, design and implementation of both regular programme and extrabudgetary projects and activities in the field of education and training, and the coordination of programmes and projects on HIV and AIDS prevention.
In June 2005, Mr Badarch was also designated as Director ad interim of the UNESCO Office in Moscow, tasked to ensure the daily management of the Office and oversee the formulation, execution and evaluation of the programmes within the scope of the Organization's mandate in the Moscow Office. Since 2006 he is Director of the UNESCO Office in Moscow. In January 2008 he was also designed as a.i. Director of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (situated in Moscow).
Mr Badarch is the author of various articles and publications on, inter alia, the fields of higher education, engineering and science and is a member of various international associations in his area of expertise. He is also Founder and President of the consortium of Mongolian Universities and Colleges.
TITLE: "Semantic Content Extraction and Querying of Multimedia Data"
ABSTRACT:
In recent years, due to the developments in information and communication technologies, usage of videos increases rapidly and extracting semantic information and querying them for the videos become a requirement in daily life. Semantic information/content means objects, events, object-object relationships, object-event relationships, and event-event relationships existing among video parts. Manual information extraction is an inefficient, difficult and expensive method. Automatic information extraction is one of the hot research topics and it is predicted that it will be a very active research area in the near future. In this talk, semantic data extraction and efficient querying using visual, audio and textual (multi-modal) data will be presented. Development of an Intelligent and Fuzzy Object Oriented Database framework integrating the developed semantic information extraction modules with a multimedia database querying and indexing components will be discussed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Adnan Yazıcı is the chairman of Dept. of Computer Engineering, METU. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Tulane University, USA, in 1991, where he also has been a visiting professor between 1998 and 2000. His current research interests include intelligent database systems, fuzzy database modeling, indexing structures, spatio-temporal databases, multimedia and video databases, and wireless multimedia sensor networks. Prof.Dr. Adnan Yazıcı has published more than 150 international technical papers and co-authored two books, which are titled Fuzzy Database Modeling (by Springer) and Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing: a Decision Support Perspective (by Springer). He is a senior member of IEEE and has received one of the Young Investigator Awards bestowed by the Parlar Foundation, for the year 2001. Dr. Yazıcı was a Conference Co-Chair of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2007) in 2007. He was the Conference and Program Committee Chair of 18th International Symposium of Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2003), and a Program Committee co-chair of of ISCIS 2009 and ISCIS 2010. He is currently a Conference Co-Chair of 38th Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012) and Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2011) conferences. He is the director of Multimedia Database Lab. in the Computer Engineering Department.
TITLE: "Decision Analysis under Strong Uncertainty"
ABSTRACT:
The main problem with human decision making is that intuition is seldom sufficient. In many cases, making rational and well-considered decisions is quite simply too difficult. An even greater problem is that most people don’t realise this. People believe themselves to be rational but really and truly their capacity for rationality is rather limited, a situation that’s made worse by the delusion that, without any kind of help, we can make wise decisions. On the other hand, the prevailing systems are not sufficient by far and must be much better adapted to actual human decision makers. The crucial issue is how this can be done. We will discuss some aspects on this and propose processes and algorithms for better coping with human shortcomings and providing some tools for decision support systems considering a much more human centred perspective.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Love Ekenberg has a phd. in Computer and Systems Sciences as well as a phd in Mathematics from Stockholm University. He is full professor in Information Systems at The Royal Institute of Technology and full professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. He has been working with various aspects of risk and decision analysis for a number of years and is former advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre International de Déminage Humanitaire Genève, member of the Swedish advisory group to the UN ICT Task Force, WHO, World Bank and others. He has published over 150 articles on formal methods, risk, decision analysis and eGovernment.
|
Rasim M. Alguliyev
website: www.ict.az,
email: director@iit.ab.az
Professor, Director,
Institute of Information Technology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
(Azerbaijan)
|
TITLE: "Scientific - Theoretical Problems of E-Government Formation and the Solution Perspectives"
ABSTRACT:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
R. M. Alguliyev has important scientific achievements in the field of information technology and information society. He is an author of more than 300 scientific works including 26 books and 5 inventions and patents. He defended his PhD thesis on "Development of projecting methods of switching center of multimicroprocessor packets realizing adaptive routing function" on specialty "Information Processing and Controlling systems”, and defended doctoral thesis on "Models and methods for ensuring information security in computer networks". In 2007, he was elected as a correspondent member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) on Informatics. Since 2004, he has been a member of the IEEE and ACM International institutions, since 2005 a member of the International Academy of Informatization.
Besides developing synthesis methods and algorithms of switching systems of multimicroprocessor packets realizing adaptive routing function he suggested a number of conceptual approaches and methods with the purpose of investigating the characteristics of different assigned corporate information spaces formation, its realization in the network environment, content analysis, screening, ensuring security, fighting spams. He has developed architectural principles and scientific and methodological basis for synthesis of adaptive systems consisting of distributed infrastructural functional modules ensuring information security in corporative networks. In addition, he has developed scientific-theoretical principles of establishment of virtual special networks altered in an open network and models and algorithms providing selecting optimal structure of VSN’s distributed authentication system, as well as intellectual analysis of virtual computing environments and textual information.
He gained number of achievements in the direction of preparation and development of scientific and theoretical basis of Information society and e-government construction. He takes an active part in the processes of implementation of governmental policy in the field of Information Society, number of strategically important projects, as well as the process of formation and development of national Internet infrastructure, transformation and promotion of modern information technologies to our country.
R. M. Alguliyev is a member of editorial board of Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia, editor-in-chief of "Problems of Information Technologies" and "Problems of the Information Society" scientific journals, and a member of editorial board of numbers of international and national scientific journals.
Two Doctors of Science and 12 PhD students have completed their research under Prof. Alguliev`s supervision.
TITLE: "Decision Analysis under Strong Uncertainty"
ABSTRACT:
Mathematics is a central but often hidden component in much of what we do with computers. In this talk I will illustrate this with some selected examples, and discuss the important interaction between mathematics and computing, both in common and in advanced applications. I will also describe how we at Chalmers educate our software engineering students to be better prepared to combine their skills in mathematics and computing in their future career.
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.
|
Iurii Krak
email: Iurii Krak
Department of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)
|
TITLE: "Analysis and synthesis of intelligent communication information"
ABSTRACT:
There are new original information technologies: sign language synthesis and modeling based on a 3D human model (avatar); face mimics, emotions modeling and recognition; lips articulation modeling and recognition system; text to speech synthesis; automated system for event and meeting transcription etc. are proposed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Iurii Krak – Professor, Doctor of sciences (Phys&Math). Graduated from cybernetics faculty, Kyiv National University (1980).
Current position: Professor of complex systems modelling department of cybernetics faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Lecturing classes: optimal control theory, nonlinear dynamics systems modelling, virtual reality and decision-making systems, robotics, artificial intelligence.
He is also a research fellow at intelligent information technologies department of V.M.Glushkov Cybernetics Institute of NAS of Ukraine.
Scientific interests: data and image processing, robotics; computer modelling; information classification and recognition; intelligent decision-making systems.
He has obtained new results on robot control; robot motion coordination, robot trajectories planning using neuronet methods, data processing using special functional linear and nonlinear transformers; ultrasonic data processing for classification and prediction situations in decision-making systems; mathematical modelling of the physical processes; 3d virtual human creation based on spline-approximation, methods of face emotion and mimics modelling, lip reading, speech signals processing; text-to-speech synthesis; automated system for event and meeting transcription, 3D technology for sign language modelling, etc.
He has authored over 280 scientific papers including 12 monographs and textbooks.
He has coordinated and participated in numerous scientific projects at national and international levels.
|
