OTS is one of the leading independent IT conferences in Slovenia, aimed at connecting IT experts and researchers as well as developers. The focus of the OTS 2012 conference was on user-oriented development, mobile solutions, cloud computing, service-oriented architectures, advanced development approaches, strategies and processes and service reliability, interoperability, dependability. Nearly 200 participants attended at the OTS 2013 Conference.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 69935361As a part of the inter-disciplinary @Life project group with experts from different domains (kinesiology, psychology, medicine, informatics), the members of the research program are actively involved in the conceptual and architectural design, evaluation and prototype development of the IT solution using the latest technological advances in IT and informatics. The project successfully joins research community with the partners from industry. The @Life project is aimed at developing innovative concepts for stress management, well-being and healthy way of living, including state-of-the art IT support for assessment of the current state of the individual, as well as guidance towards specific personal goals. The solution combines smart phone solutions with the web enabled back-end system as well as cloud. The end user monitors progress while practicing different physical and psychical exercises until the desired state is reached. Research challenges include the use of innovative project management approaches in heterogeneous environments as well as on multidisciplinary research and development projects, efficient presentation and visualization of medical information in mobile and web-based solutions, adaptation of development approaches to the mobile development needs and services. First pilot solutions are already available online (www.a-life.si).
F.11 Development of a new service
In accordance with the guidelines of the Bologna process our group has in the year 2012 carried out a complete renewal of the university, higher professional and master’s degree program of curriculum Informatics and technologies of communication, based on the analysis of the implementation of the programs within the past 6 years. In this way we optimized the compliance of the program with the requirements and guidelines from the economic environment and IT profession and initiated the re-accreditation procedure. The curriculum Informatics and technologies of communication is implemented at the first and second Bologna level at the University of Maribor. The number of all students enrolled in these programs is currently approximately 500. Actions in this area have directly affected G.01 Development of higher education, as well as at least G.2.6 Boosting the competitive ability, and G.2.10 Rise of the educational level of employees.
D.10 Educational activities
CESCIT (Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics and Control) is an international conference, organized by the organization IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), every 3 years. In 2015, the conference will be organized at our faculty. As a part of the conference, a series of invited lectures was organized, considering different aspects of the use and implementation of artificial neural networks (ANN) for embedded systems. This paper presents a new methodology of building the large-scale artificial neural networks using programmable logic circuits (Field-programmable gate arrays - FPGA). Programmable logic devices are composed of a large number of programmable circuits that enable a number of ANN nodes to be executed in parallel.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 16240406Software engineering : lecture at Management Center Innsbruck in the winter semester (30 hours of lecturing), January 2012.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 15784214