Invited Speakers
Florin Gheorghe Filip
Romanian Academy Romania
Academician dr. Florin Gheorghe Filip is the vice-president of the Romanian Academy since 2000. He was the director of the National Institute for Informatics - ICI (1991-1997). He coordinates PhD theses at the Automation Faculty of Technical University from Bucharest where he gives lectures in Computer aided decision-making. He is the elected president of the technical committee “Large Scale Systems” of IFAC (“International Federation of Automatic Control”) and the executive president of the Forum for Information Society. His main scientific interests are: management and optimization of complex systems, decision support systems, computer assisted enterprise engineering, technology management, and models for knowledge&information society. He was the scientific coordinator of the priority project of the Romanian Academy: “Information Society – Knowledge Society". He is the author/co-author of five books, editor of nine volumes and the author/co-author of over two hundred articles published in specialty volumes and publications.
Eugene Roventa
York University, Canada
Invited Talk: Some Applications of Logic in Medicine Co-autor: Dr. Tiberiu Spircu, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Farmacy, Bucuresti, Romania
Doctor Eugen Roventa is professor at York University, Toronto, Canada from 1986 that means for 22 years. Before1986 he was researcher at Timisoara Academy Base and Ph.D. Assistant Professor at Politehnica University Timisoara. For 3 years he was Invited Professor at Oran University Algeria (1982-1985). He defended his Ph. D. theses in the domain of Applied Mathematics at Timisoara University, Romania. His scientific research fields include Artificial Intelligence (Expert Systems and Knowledge Representation), classical and fuzzy logic, knowledge imperfection representation, and standard and non-standard measures. In 1991, Professor Roventa won the Principal's award for Teaching Excellence at Glendon Faculty, York University. He also acted as the chair of Computer Science Department at Glendon for more than 10 years. In 2000 he was awarded with the Honorary Professor title at "A. Vlaicu" University of Arad (AVU) for his valuable contribution to academic teaching and scientific research and starting with 2004 he was named Honorary Professor of Oradea University. Starting with 2003 he is full Professor at Automation and Applied Computer Science at AVU where he teaches courses in English in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Prolog. Professor Roventa is author and coauthor of several books and scientific articles published in national and international journals. The most recent books include Elements de logique pour l'informatique, GREF, Toronto, and together with Prof. M. Reghis, "Classical and Fuzzy Concepts in Mathematical Logic and Applications", CRS Press, USA. In 2008 there will appear in Springer-Verlag Publishing House (together with Professor T. Spircu) the book "Management of Knowledge Imperfection in Building Intelligent Systems". Starting with 2002 Professor Roventa acts as Founding President of ACRUPO (Association of Canadian-Romanian University Professors in Ontario). In 2006 he was proposed by a group of Canadian professors as Romanian Honorary Consul in Canada regarding cultural and academic activities. In 2008, professor E. Roventa was elected Rector of 'A. Vlaicu' University of Arad (AVU).
Dines Bjørner
MAE, MRANS, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Denmark
Invited Talk:Domain Theories are to Software what Physics is to Classical Engineering
DB was Prof. of Computing Science at The Techn. Univ. of Denmark 1. Sept. 1976 - 31 March 2007. DB was with IBM R&D 1962-1976. At IBM DB worked with Gene Amdahl, John Backus, E.F.Codd (Relational Databases) and at the IBM Lab., Vienna, Austria - where DB worked in the small team first R&Ding VDM, the Vienna Development Method, the first ISO standardised formal method. DB co-founded Dansk Datamatik Center 1979-1989, led many EU R&D projects including the formal spec. of a semantics for Ada, the R&D of, and compilers for CHILL and Ada, and the RAISE, Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering. 1991-1997 DB was founding and first UN Director of the Macau-based UNU-IIST, the UN University's Intl. Inst. for SW Techn. In 2006 DB published a three volume book "Software Engineering" with Springer. DB is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, Member of Academia Europaea, Dr.h.c., etc., etc.
Kamisetty R. Rao
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Invited Talk:Digital video image quality and perceptual coding
K. R. Rao received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1966. Since 1966, he has been with the University of Texas at Arlington where he is currently a professor of electrical engineering. He, along with two other researchers, introduced the Discrete Cosine Transform in 1975 which has since become very popular in digital signal processing. He is the co-author of the books "Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing" (Springer-Verlag, 1975), Also recorded for the blind in Braille by the Royal National Institute for the blind. "Fast Transforms: Analyses and Applications" (Academic Press, 1982), "Discrete Cosine Transform-Algorithms, Advantages, Applications" (Academic Press, 1990). He has edited a benchmark volume, "Discrete Transforms and Their Applications" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He has coedited a benchmark volume, "Teleconferencing" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He is co-author of the books, "Techniques and standards for Image/Video/Audio Coding" (Prentice Hall) 1996 "Packet video communications over ATM networks"(Prentice Hall) 2000 and "Multimedia communication systems" (Prentice Hall) 2002. He has coedited a handbook " The transform and data compression handbook," ( CRC Press, 2001). Digital video image quality and perceptual coding, (with H.R. Wu),Taylor and Francis (2006). Introduction to multimedia communications: applications, middleware, networking, (with Z.S. Bojkovic and D.A. Milovanovic), Wiley, (2006). He has also published a book, " Discrete cosine and sine transforms", with V. Britanak and P. Yip (Elsevier 2007). Two books 1. FFT with D. Kim (publisher: Springer)and 2. Wireless Multimedia Communications (publisher: Taylor and Francis)are under final stages and are scheduled for publication during the later part of 2008.Some of his books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian and also published as Asian (paperback) editions. He has been an external examiner for graduate students from Universities in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. He was a visiting professor in several Universities -3 weeks to 7 and1/2 months- (Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Thailand). He has conducted workshops/tutorials on video/audio coding/standards worldwide. He has supervised several students at the Masters (62) and Doctoral (29) levels. He has published extensively in refereed journals and has been a consultant to industry, research institutes, law firms and academia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Cyrille Bertelle
University of Le Havre, France
Invited Talk:Emergent computing for natural and social systems
Cyrille Bertelle is professor in Computer Science in Le Havre University, France. He is director of Le Havre component
of LITIS which is the research laboratories aggregation of Computer Science, Information Technologies and Systems in
Haute-Normandie region. This research center is labelled by the French Ministery of High Education and Research (EA
4108) and include more than 150 researchers (half of them are professors and assistant professors and half of them are
PhD students). Professor Cyrille Bertelle is also co-director of Le Havre University Master of Science in Mathematics
and Computer Science. He manages the research orientation of this master (MIASC) specialized in complex systems
modelling. He contributes to many international conferences organizations. In next October, he will be the general
Chairman of the International Conference ESM'2008 helded at the University of Le Havre. During the past years, he has
managed and he will manage the organization of many international workshops: "Emergent Properties in Natural and
Artificial Complex Systems" in ECSS 2005, Paris, France, November 2005 and in ECSS 2007, Dresden, Germany,
October 2007, "Modeling, Computation and Systems" in IEEE-ICECS 2005, Gamarth, Tunisia, December 2005,
"Complex Systems and Self-organization Modelling" in ESM 2006, Toulouse, France, October 2006 and in ESM 2007,
St Julian's Malta, October 2007. He has edited 3 books in 2006 for Springer Verlag "Understanding Complex Systems"
collection, for ESM 2006 and ESM 2007 conferences proceedings. He will be the editor of two other books for Springer
Verlag before the end of 2008.
Sabin Buraga
A.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Invited Talk: Modeling knowledge in social Web applications
Sabin C. Buraga earned his doctoral degree in Information Sciences (Cum Laude) from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi (Romania) in 2004. In 2005, he obtained "Gheorghe Cartianu" Award of the Romanian Academy for outstanding scientific contributions published in 2003. Currently, he has joined the Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania. His fields of interest and experience domains include semantic Web, distributed computing, and human-computer interaction. Associate Professor Dr. Buraga served as a member of the program committees or/and organizing committees of different international scientific events. Also, he is the initiator and editor of Web series of books published by Polirom, a well-known Romanian publishing house.