VIPSI - 2007 Conferences

Florence, Italy
August 23 - 26

Lake Bled, Slovenia

October 8 11

Venice, Italy
October 11 14

Portofino, Italy
October 14 - 17

General Chairman: Sao Tomai, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Opening Keynote Speakers: VIPSI 2007 FLORENCE Gerald Onions, SUN Microsystems, Toulouse, France VIPSI 2007 SLOVENIA Michael Flynn, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Larry H. Reeker, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA VIPSI 2007 VENICE Michael Flynn, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA VIPSI 2007 PORTOFINO Violetta Trifomova, Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia Welcome Addresses: Veljko Milutinovic, Fellow of the IEEE University of Belgrade, Serbia Organisers: IPSI Belgrade, Serbia (www.internetconferences.net) University in Ljubljana, Slovenia (www.uni-lj.si)

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Message from the Chairman The field of e-government, e-business, e-education, and e-science in general is fast growing, and up to now it has been noticed that there is a large body of unpublished knowledge that needs an appropriate forum for its presentation. This was the main rationale behind the idea to organize the VIPSI international conference series. All VIPSI conferences are organized in accordance with the latest recommendations of the worlds major research sponsoring agencies related to Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary research. A sign of appreciation goes also to all the people who worked hard for making this conference a success.

Conference Manager: Marko Stankovi

Technical support: Nenad Korolija, Miroslav Radakovic, Aleksandar Stanic, Darko Jovic, Zoran Babovic, Aleksa Prijic, Pedja Minic, and Djordje Popovic. Design support: Mirjana Stojadinovic and Marko Stankovi

Review support: Shuichi Ichikawa, Ana Justel, Raymond D. Horton, Ram Jakhu, Victor C Xiong, Richard Yalch, John Sutherland, Judith Engelbrecht, FlorenceMargai, Allen W. Heinemann, Nancy A. Baker, Joan C. Rogers, Arnold Schecter, Irina Cech, Trent Rosenbloom, Du-Babcock Bertha, Akhilesh Bajaj, A. Goldberg, Ismat Bhuiya, Richard Sylla, Rolland LeBrasseurr, Massimiliano De Santis, Jindrich Kaluza, Biren Shah, Vaclav Snasel, Paul E. McKenney, Barbara Starfield, Kent Beck, Tony Bates, Charles Perrings, Aat Barendregt, Stephen Brewster, Chris Johnson , Steve Boot- Butterfield, Leila T., Chun Mark, Andrea Goldstein, Hulya Ulku, Jane Dimmitt Champion, Mary Dunn, Dennis Peters, Asghar Bokhari, Qing Xie, Tomas Brandejsky, Bernhard Westfechtel, Jaap de Wilde, Kyle Grayson, Gunhild H., Jack A. Goldstone, Walker Stuart , Albert F. Puttlitz, Dennis R. Olsen, Chin C. Lee , Mary Grant, Dan Dewey, Jerry Grossman, Tamas Vicsek, Michael L. Littman, John Tsitsiklis, Christine Fernandez, Sebastiano Porretta, Michael Kaib, Martin Luerssen, David Powers, George Bekey, Doina Caragea.

Welcome to the VIPSI - 2007 conferences! We hope you will all enjoy the events as much as we have enjoyed in contributing to its preparation.

Veljko Milutinovic, Program Chairman

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About the Reviewing Process:

1. Each paper is sent to 3 internal reviewers (researchers paid by the conference to do quick and good quality performance estimation, closely controlled by the conference management). 2. Additionally, all papers are sent to external reviewers as follows: a. VIPSI review: Each paper is sent for review to four past VIPSI attendees. b. Peer review: Each paper is sent for review to four authors of other papers submitted for the same conference. c. Google review: Each paper is sent for review to four authors of the papers referenced in the paper under review, and to four people whose area of research is similar to the subject matter of the paper submitted for the VIPSI conference (email addresses or these 8 authors are found via Google). 3. It is also expected that each author consults his/her colleagues locally, and asks them to help improve the paper. 4. Finally, each paper (before being published onto the conference CD) is inspected by the Conference Chair, Professor Veljko Milutinovic, Fellow of the IEEE. Our treatment of each submitted paper is based on minimum four external reviews.

Supported by the CASIO Science Promotion Fondation

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VIP Forum Abstracts

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The ES Could Probably Know More: But Man Would Not Make Better Business Decisions Zoltan Baracskai1, Viktor Dorfler2, Jolan Velencei3 1Doctus, Budapest, Hungary 2Strathclyde University, Management Science Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom 3Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Management and Corporate Economics Department, Budapest, Hungary We know for a long time that expert system (ES) must not know in a different way than how man knows. We would not expect men to adapt their thinking processes to the machine, would we? Evolution would not let peoples' minds adopt criteria weighting or fuzzy logic. This is why we developed our Doctus knowledge-based expert system based on symbolic logic that is the most understandable artificial knowledge representation to the decision taker. However, this is all history now...

The Description of Biological Growth Using B-splines Hermite Interpolation Donatella Giuliani Department of Mathematics, University of Milan, Italy The fibrous structure of a biological body is very often well recognizable and remains to testify the essential aspects of growth. The biological growth occurs on surface or along an edge, named growth surface or growth curve respectively (Skalak R., 1982, 1996). The aim of this work is the analysis of a biological bi-dimensional structure in order to study the shape in development through the identification of the discontinuity points of the tangent vector of the growth curve, from now on named principal growth points. The study of the growth curve is realized by polynomial piecewise interpolation. The polynomial piecewise interpolation is not restricted to interpolation of data points, including derivative data at the principal growth points. This leads to the B-splines Hermite interpolation scheme. The growing form results strongly characterized by the tangent vectors at the principal growth points, whereas variations of data points may produce local changes of shape.

The History and Philosophy of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Amy R. Hudson1, ahudson5@umd.edu, Larry H. Reeker, larry.reeker@nist.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA 1 and University of Maryland College Park About thirty-six years ago, a paper authored by B. Chandrasekaran and the second author of this paper was delivered at a workshop on Possibilities and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and organized by the IE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It was called Artificial Intelligence - A case for Agnosticism. It contained a dialogue between the Agnostic, who argues for a middleground between two other characters: (1) a True Believer who argues that truly thinking machines are just around the corner, and (2) an Infidel who goes out of his way to find some argument that says a really intelligent system would never work. Agnosticism was a reasonable stance in those days and was the way most (of the few) computer scientists working in the field thought.

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Finding Out More About a Little Known Children's Science Textbook Author: A Case Study of Mary Amelia Swift, Illustrating the Power and Pitfalls of the Internet Dr Bill Palmer Independent scholar, Australia Mary Amelia Swift has left two slim volumes that introduced American children in the early 19th Century to the study of science. Her dates of birth and death are uncertain and different sources contradict each other concerning a number of details of her life. Nonetheless using the power of the internet and some rare texts, much information about her life can be collated for the first time. Two textbooks are distinctly religious in tone and were widely used in America over a period of fifty years. They were also used in translations in the Burmese Christian missions but even more surprisingly evidence can be found that these books were used in Japan during Japan's 19th Century efforts to westernise its education system.

A Recognition Based Style for Miyzawa-Kenji Virtual Model Hamido Fujita, Jun Hakura, Masaki Kurematu, issam@soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate, Japan This paper contributes in presenting an outline of Virtual Miyazawa Kenji (MK) systems to realize the cognitive interaction between human user and Kenji Virtual system which realizes, factorizes and conceptualizes the virtual reasoning of famous Japanese story writer namely Miyazawa Kenji. Here we are outlining the system parts and explain the main concept on its building. We have also presented an outline of Kenji Style definition that reflect the cognitive behavior of Kenji interaction with human user based on Kenji scripts analysis. The analysis is been experimentally and analytically studies. Keywords: Miyzawa Kenji, cognitive reasoning, Ekman emotional model, psychological reasoning, intelligent human interaction.

Tiiwi.com, Real Estate for a Better World Jean-Baptiste Dumont, MSc, MRes, Paris Area, France, jeanbaptiste.dumont@gmail.com Tiiwi is a vertical search engine project specializing in the field of real estate. Tiiwi is based on very innovative technologies and will thus revolutionize the search for housing on the Internet, by offering high quality research with a high degree of added value for the Net surfer. Tiiwi will help larger cities rationalize housing and develop public transport. The Tiiwi project was made laureate at the competition for innovative entrepreneurship, organized in 2007 by the French Higher Education Ministry and the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche: the French equivalent of the American National Science Foundation.

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Automated Parking System for a Truck and Trailer D. Novak, D. Dovan, R. Grebenek and S. Oblak, Slovenia Automated parking systems are becoming increasingly important in the control community. The automotive industry is promoting efficient systems to assist drivers with reverse and parallel parking, with a fully automated parking system as the ultimate goal. The problem is even more challenging for trucks with trailers due to the interaction between the truck and the trailer. When reversing, the truck and trailer can be modeled as a nonholonomic nonlinear system with state and input saturations. If the angle between the truck and the trailer reaches a certain threshold, the so-called jackknife phenomenon occurs and the angle continues to increase regardless of the turning angle of the truck. Even experienced truck drivers try to avoid turning the truck while reversing it. In our project, we tried to make truck reverse and parallel parking easier for drivers by designing an automated control system capable of parking the truck and trailer by itself. Such systems already exist for cars, but not for trucks.

Values Education Acquired, Not Learnt: A Foundation for Sustainability Masoud Aliakbar Golkar, Golkar@eetd.kntu.ac.ir K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Seyed-Khandan, P. O. Box 16315-1355, Tehran, Iran The paper emphasizes that integrating values education is crucial for the sustainability agenda. It is anticipated that the acquisition of moral values by students will help produce eco-citizens who will be culturally involved in the practice of sustainability. The main message of this paper is: "Values are acquired, not learnt" and the role of the educator is to help develop/implant values, related to the social, economic and environmental facets of sustainability, in the hearts of students. The paper outlines a model of the teaching-learning processes, which complies with this concept. It is imperative that students first understand why a certain value should be acquired before actually learning about its meaning. Values have to be integrated and taught in a manner which enables students to intrinsically acquire them. The mere knowledge of values cannot ensure that people endorse them in their actions, which is fundamental in achieving sustainability.

University-Industry: Partnership for Improving the Quality of Life in Romania Dan Nicula, University of Brasov, Romania Romania joined EU on January 2007. Are the universities and research activities synchronized with EU? A success story of a partnership between Transylvania University of Brasov and a private company is presented as a model for pre-EU working model. Has this model any future? What are the options of recent graduated in electronics and computer engineering? How can a university get an immediate benefit from private companies working on cutting edge technologies? How can we fill the gap between the university and the industry? How can a public university compete with multinational company for hiring the best skills?

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ICT Education and Requirements for ICT Graduates in the Czech Republic, His Competitiveness and Feedback to the Research from Respondents Ota Novotn, novotnyo@vse.cz, Milo Maryka, maryskam@vse.cz Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague Department of Information Technology, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic Demand and supply of ICT specialists cannot be forecasted mechanically each country and region has its own features and specific character. This paper provides an analysis of the situation in the Czech Republic. It focuses on universities effectiveness in the ICT education and on the skills required on the Czech Republic IT market. While the core ICT skill set includes basic elements of software engineering and networking, new areas of skills are constantly emerging, redefining the portfolio of skills that ICT practitioners need. During quantitative analysis we have found that at about 58 percent of new university graduated employees in the ICT sector in the Czech Republic did not pass through a formal ICT education. Keywords: ICT professions, ICT knowledge, demand and supply of ICT specialists, Roles in ICT, Knowledge profiles

Performance and Programmability of the Applications Which Use Transactional Memory Dipl. Ing. Nikola Vuji, nikola.vujic@gmail.com Prof. Dr. Veljko Milutinovi, vm@etf.bg.ac.yu Department of Computer Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia The purpose of the transactional memory (TM) is to simplify parallel programming and to increase performances of the parallel programs. At the beginning of the research, transactional memory had difficult application programming interface which required the use of libraries. It was very difficult for programming and was hard for maintain. Recent researches have been focused on how to integrate TM into high-level environments for parallel programming. The most significant integration proposes OpenTM application programming interface (API) for parallel programming with transactions. This work will be focused on that API. In order to make good TM system it is necessary to have test applications which are complex enough to give the reliable characteristics of the tested TM system. The aim of this work is to propose the set of applications and benchmark programs which will be complex enough for testing almost every implementation of a transactional memory system. In order to do that as good as possible, before writing new applications we will analyze current applications which use OpenTM API and this work will be focused on that analysis. Keywords: OpenTM, TM, STM, HTM

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A Survey of Split Data Caches Miroslav Gasic Department of Computer Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia In the last decades the speed gap between the memory and processors has been steadily increasing. Because of this, a lot of effort was invested in hiding memory latency. One of the ways to reduce memory latency is usage of cache memories. Today cache is usually organized as a multiple level hierarchy. The first-level hierarchy is split into two independent organizations one for storing instructions and another for storing data. In the conventional cache, first level data cache uses only a single cache to store data. However, this is not optimal because data exhibit different types of locality. In this paper we will concentrate on the work done by researchers to design split data cache, which will improve performance/complexity ratio of data cache. We will make a chronological survey of the most noticeable designs, which made the greatest influence in this area. We hope that in this way reader will get the whole picture of the problem and the work done, by others, to solve it. Firstly will be given criteria by which designs can be classified. After that, short description of every chosen design will be made. New ideas and differences compared to previous designs will be specially emphasized, in this way at least partially it can be seen how did researchers think and what are the key points of the problem in there opinion. Starting point, of our chronology, will be victim cache purposed in 1990. We will continue with the dual scheme, the first design exploiting temporal and spatial locality, and others following them Results of performance made by researchers will also be represented, so it can be seen what concrete results each design makes.

CeMDARS (Central - Medical-Diagnostic and Analysis Research - System) Thomas Schtze, Mangement- IT- and Subsidy Consultant, Detmold, Germany CeMDARS steht fr eine kostenbewusste und nutzenorientierte, d.h. fr eine sogenannte nachhaltige Gesundheitswirtschaft in Deutschland und der EU. Das wurde nicht nur vom BMGS (Ministerium fr das Gesundheitswesen in -D-) Berlin, sondern auch vom eHealth / IT-Medizin Society Direktorate-General, der EU bereits begrt und befrwortet. Der eigentliche Kernnutzen, die Kernfunktionen und die effektiven Zielsetzungen von CeMDARS sind, die: Kostenreduktion, Kostenplanung, Budgetierung, Therapiesicherheit und damit verbundene Qualittssicherung, sowie Abwehr von Regressansprchen und eine rechnergesttzte Erstellung von medizinischen / pharmakologischen Studien aus diesem Grund wurde eine Unentbehrlichkeit vom BMGS Berlin, bescheinigt. Das Ganze ist natrlich bereichs- (medizinische Bereiche) und Lnderbergreifend sowie mit einer zertifizierten Klassifizierung und zugelassenen Pseudonymisierung versehen. Das geschieht im wesentlichen durch ein absolut logisches Zusammenfhren aller relevanten Daten eines Patienten, welche mittels einer zertifizierten Klassi-fizierung auf ein handelbares Ma reduziert werden, um die gewnschten bzw. politisch und wirtschaftlich geforderten Ergebnisse generieren zu knnen.

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Web2.0 and You Michael Levin, Cambridge Web Design Inc, Orlando, FL, USA Community, metadata, ranking and websites that grow over time are attributes of Web2.0. What else? Come to Slovenia in October and learn about this phenomenon, this paradigm shift. Michael Levin will tell you all about Web2.0 and show you some code snippets in Java and other languages. We'll talk about mashups, semantics, custom RSS feeds based on smart filters, tags and tag clouds, and a glimpse into the future. We'll check out a fantastically popular Web2.0 website and do a feature walkthrough so you'll be clear about the Web2.0 features. You'll walk away with some facts and a few ideas that might inspire you to write your own Web2.0 website.

No More Hops: Towards a Linearly Scalable Application Infrastructure Owen Taylor, Sr Director for Worldwide Technical Communications, GigaSpaces Technologies, USA Tier-based architectures are essentially database-based and this causes scalability issues both directly and indirectly. Due to the heavy reliance on the database as the sole reliable storage mechanism, traditional architectures include mapping effort (ORM) as well as network hops to and from the DB which both cause increased latency. Additionally, traditional systems often utilize messaging as a stop-gap measure to defer processing that could be best performed immediately. As the demand on the number and size of requests supported by the application grows, the pain caused by these two design decisions grows. We will discuss an alternate architecture utilizing Transparent Partitioning and Colocation. This allows the creation of a "processing unit", a single process that addresses reliability, messaging, and processing without involving network hops within the critical transaction of the application. Examples will show how this pattern can be leveraged to increase throughput and reduce latency for Java, .NET and even Excel applications.

Jython Development Jim Baker, consultant, Bivio Software, Boulder, Colorado Jython is an implementation of Python that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Because they are perceived to be provide significant increases in productivity, dynamic languages like Python have recently seen significant interest. Ruby on Rails is one example of this phenomenon; another are the numerous testimonials by thought leaders like Peter Norvig (Google), Martin Fowler, and Bruce Eckel. Since 2004, OOPSLA has sponsored a dynamic languages workshop as part of its conference, demonstrating that the research community is actively interested in dynamic languages as well.

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Going Out of Bounds: Building RIAs for the Web and the Desktop James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe, USA Web 2.0 is more than a social networking phenomenon. It's a paradigm shift in application development that's removing previous constraints and exposing new paths to meet user expectations for richer and more engaging digital experiences on devices and platforms of all types. A number of technologies such as Ajax, Ruby on Rails and Flex are emerging as the favorites in the developer's toolbox, taking the Web to these new levels of user engagement. But where to next? Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that break out from the traditional page-based Web paradigm and that currently run in the Web browser will soon run on the desktop, both on and offline, with the ability to access local data and use Web services to present an integrated and unique user experience. This session will use informative demos and live coding to teach best practices and techniques. You will learn how to leverage your existing Web development skills with Flex, Ajax, Ruby on Rails or JavaScript to build and deploy applications that bridge the Web and Desktop. You will learn how tools like Adobe AIR and the Open Source Flex SDK simplify how your applications are created, deployed, and experienced.

Domain Specific Reference Models for Event Patterns for Faster Developing of Business Activity Monitoring Applications Rainer v. Ammon1, rainer.ammon@citt-online.com, Christian Silberbauer1, christian.silberbauer@citt-online.de, Christian Wolff2, christian.wolff@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de, 1Centrum fr Informations-Technologie Transfer GmbH, D-93051 Regensburg, Germany 2Media Computing, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany Business Process Management (BPM) and real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) are newly discussed as the preconditions for a so-called predictive business and the competitiveness of enterprises in the future. Complex event processing (CEP) is an emerging technology that shall be the basis in order to achieve actionable, situational knowledge from distributed message-based systems, databases and applications in real-time or near real-time. Detecting event patterns in an event cloud or in one or more event streams is a basic idea of the CEP technology. If low level events without any semantics occur in specific combinations, a complex event on a higher business level can be derived of them as well as of historical events stored in databases. First attempts of setting up CEP applications have shown that the potential adopters have major problems to define the needed event patterns. This is a reason why future CEP applications will delay to be set up. Therefore the availability of domain specific reference models for event patterns is needed. In the project DoReMoPat, a catalogue of reference models for selected domains like automotive, finance, logistics, telco are developed and implemented as customizable prototypes. A meta model is defined for faster developing reference models for other domains. Reference models for event patterns can dramatically reduce time and costs as well as improve the quality of BPM/BAM projects.

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The Heart and Its Powers of Ten: Towards a Unified Multiscale Biological Model on Anyscale Machines Joanna Leng1, Lee Margetts1, Sanjay Kharche2, Henggui Zhang2 1Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK 2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK The goal of the authors is to contribute to research in heart modeling in a way that is sustainable. This is a review paper in which the authors stand back and consider how this goal can be best achieved and identifies and categorizes the challenges that researchers in this field face. Similar issues exist not only in other areas of biological simulation but in many computational science communities where there is a strong element of cross-disciplinary study within the discipline particularly between the computational and experimental or observational communities. The Heart like all biological systems has many levels of detail. This complexity is the root cause of difficulty in the efficient development and execution of meaningful simulations. In considering such problems it is important to have a sense of scale. The intelligent use of scale allows models of biological systems to be adapted to the computational resources and tailored to answer the important scientific research questions. Biological modeling requires significant compute resources. Judging from the current level of progress made in Heart simulation, the authors believe that Petascale computing (or indeed any large scale computing) will bring significant advances in the science only once the significant challenges in building simulation environments have been met.

Was there "Women's Republic of Letters"? Violetta Trofimova, Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia This is a revised version of my paper at the previous Bled conference Were There Nets Before the Net? The Republic of Letters and womens participation in it. I analyze the network of women intellectuals gathered around Dutch scholar Anna Maria van Schurman. I pay special attention to the dynamic of this structure which existed around the middle of the XVIIth century, transgressing religious and political borders. I also analyze personal relationships between Schurman and her correspondents, especially her life-long friendship with Descartes disciple and correspondent Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia. Women's Writing, Salon Culture and Women's Networks in Seventeenth-century Paris Violetta Trofimova, Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia The idea of a network is mostly a twentieth-century phenomenon, but network-like structures appeared in different spheres long before that. A good example of a network-like structure, which, most probably, did not contemplate itself as a network, was the so-called Republic of Letters a community of the European intellectuals, which transgressed social, political and religious borders and stimulated a lot the scientific revolution in the XVIthXVIIth centuries. This paper seeks to analyze the role of the most important human centers of this network and to expose the process of accumulating intellectuals among these centers. The latter ones are Maren Mercenne from France, Samuel Hartlib and Jan Amos Comenius, originally from the Eastern Europe, but living in England and Holland respectively.

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Networks of Intellectuals and the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth-Century Europe Violetta Trofimova, Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia

New Paradigm of Circularity in IEEE 802.11 Based MANETs to Improve Bandwidth Utilization S. J. Prasanna, Hughes Systique Corporation MANET is characterized by highly changing network topologies and connectivities. Due to such highly dynamic scenarios, the conventional IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol has various shortcomings with regard to MANETs. The RTS/CTS access scheme, designed to reduce the number of collisions in an IEEE 802.11 network, is known to exhibit problems due to Deaf nodes, the imbalance between the interference range and the communication range of the nodes, and scenarios in which nodes are unnecessarily silenced, thus preventing parallel transmissions to take place. We present an approach for enhancing the performance of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol by introducing a new paradigm of Circularity for selectively discarding, delaying or extending the circularity satisfied RTS, CTS or DIFS to allow certain parallel transmissions to proceed and obviate some ACK/DATA collisions which is one of the major issue due to the formation of Deaf nodes to enable MANETs. We implemented the circularity approach in ns-2 simulator. Through a series of experiments, we show that the circularity approach provides a significant improvement in the throughput and contributes to a reduction of the number of collisions in most scenarios. Keywords: MANETs, MAC layer, Deaf/Masked nodes, Throughput, RTS/CTS

The Internet and the Quality of Life Rolf Martens, Malm, Sweden Since humans very much are "herd animals", a fact on which the entire civilization depends, that possibility of people's getting into contact with each other internationally which the Internet provides already today has large consequences for that which you can call their quality of life. This inevitably and ironically is the case above all concerning such contacts which those who began organizing the Internet in the first place have good reasons to dislike. It offers a new possibility for the very many to unite against the very few. And this improves the quality of life for the former very much, even if they may not always realize this consciously. Actually, of course not for all of those "very many" does the Internet provide a possibility of improving their quality of life, I must add at once. In many countries in the world today, obviously, there are millions of people who live under such conditions that their main or even only concerns for improving their quality of life, or even for staying alive, is to find sufficient food, shelter and clean water for this, and/or to avoid dire consequences for themselves of a war of aggression to which they are being subjected.

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Device for Obtaining a Predetermined Substantially Constant Force in Particular for Muscular Training Vojin Plavsic, Vitamedic Sweden HB, Sweden, plavsic@bredband.net The rubricated device produces predetermined substantially constant mechanical force, from nearly zero to a determined max value. The aim of our invention is to eliminate the large inertia forces appearing when lifting weights, at high accelerations and to totally change the way of physical exercise by elastic resistance. During our research and development we made it possible to make elastic resistance constant, but not only that we can now also adjust the resistance in a very simple way. With normal weight training its impossible to get this effect because of gravitation effects.

Multicriteria Choice and Outranking Methods Aggregation in a Software Agent for Ranking Land Parcels Zbigniew Piotrowski Institute of Information Systems, Szczecin University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland Premises for an intelligent software agent to search and rank land parcels according to specified criteria. Criteria are given by the Decision Maker (presumably a group of managers from a company). A pool of land parcels is provided by local authorities. The decision model will take into consideration crisp values as well as linguistic data both for preferences and attributes. Due to various types of attributes which are used to describe both the DMs preferences and land attributes, a combination of multi-criteria choice and outranking methods will be used. A sensitivity analysis will be done for each considered land parcel to provide local authorities with feedback information about improvements needed to advance in the ranking. Keywords: decision support, multi-criteria decision aid, software agents

Learning Game for Moodle CMS Miroslav Minovi, tavljanin Velimir Belgrade University, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Jove Ilica 154, Belgrade, Serbia In this paper we present learning platform based on computer game. Learning games combine two industries: education and entertainment, which is often called edutainment. The game is realized as a strategic game (Risiko like game), implemented as module for Moodle CMS, utilizing Java Applet technology. Moodle is an open-source course management system (CMS), which is widely used among universities as eLearning platform. Java Applet enables development of rich-client applications which are executed in web browser environment. During the game, players got questions from specified Moodle quiz, and all answers are stored back into Moodle system. Students can later verify their score and answers, and examine the test that they actually worked out during the game. This system support synchronous as well as asynchronous interaction between players. Keywords: educative game, eLearning, Moodle CMS

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The Next Frontier - Peer Commerce Dragan Kopunovic "Like content was king in the 1990s, in the days of Web 2.0, community is the kingdom."
Wired Magazine, Commentary by Regina Lynn

The last few years are marked by unprecedented success of social networks. Most of them gather networks of millions of peer participants and focus on exchange of messages, files, videos, music, etc. Current untapped potential of these networks lies in their ability to conduct business for the benefit of peers. What would it take to be able to use social networks not just to announce a new small business venture, new business interest, or newfound business opportunity, but to actually close the business by being able to sell, deliver, and manage a product or service over such networks? What would it take to achieve "peer commerce"?

On-the-job e-Training in the Context of the Preservation and Exploitation of Cultural Heritage Jos Carlos Teixeira1 , teixeira@mat.uc.pt, Teresa Ferreira2, teresamgferreira@gmail.com 1Instituto de Telecomunicaes, Coimbra, Dep. Matemtica, Largo de D. Dinis, Coimbra, Portugal 2 Instituto de Telecomunicaes, Coimbra, Escola Sec. Jos Loureiro Botas, Vieira de Leiria, Portugal MediaPrimer, Tecnologias e Sistemas Multimdia, Lda., Coimbra, Portugal The professionals in cultural memory institutions archives, museums, archaeology sites, need new competencies in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to work in the acquisition, organization, management and digital exploitation of cultural heritage contents. Multimedia and Web technologies require continuous update and acquisition of new knowledge and skills, especially for memory institutions professionals. The main goal of this paper is the discussion of this problematic, complemented by the presentation of the approach and the results of a European Project (JASON).

A Study of Operating Lease Efficiency Sang-Bum Park, Korea Aerospace University, Korea We use BCC and CCR model of DEA to measure efficiency of samples in using operating lease. We test whether such efficiency of samples impacts their operating profit significantly or not. We find operating profits of efficient and inefficient samples are significantly different according to Mann Whitney U test. We also find for the efficient samples that the ratio of lease rent to operating expenses (LROE) is higher than the interest to operating expenses ratio (IEOE) and the average tax rate of efficient samples is also lower compare to that of inefficient samples. Thus, the results are consistent with those of Graham, Lemmon and Schallheim (1998). Keywords: Operating Lease, Inputs and Outputs, Data Envelopment Analysis, BCC efficiency, CCR efficiency and Scale efficiency, IEOE and LROE.

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A Serious Game to Promote Road Safety E. Baldi, F. Bellotti, R. Berta, M. Pellegrino, L. Primavera, A. De Gloria {baldi.enrico, franz, berta, pellegrino, primavera}@elios.unige.it Department of Electronics and Biophysical Engineering, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy Serious Games can join their capability to engage and entertain with a potential to train users in a target application field. In this context, we have developed Road Rider, a 3D videogame aimed at promoting road safety among middle and high school students. The game looks similar to commercial videogames, but all the important game situations and reward/penalty score mechanisms are tied to road safety. This implies that users should learn about road safety seamlessly, as players learn tricks in usual videogames. The project has actively involved end-users to focus on usability issues and steer the design process according to the user needs. In this paper we present quantitative data analysis and understanding gained from an early user test, with 56 students coming from three different schools. Results show a good students game acceptance, in terms of usability, ease of use, enjoyability, playability and graphic quality.

Cross-Disciplinary Work in Visualization: Requirements for a Code of Conduct J. Leng1, W. Sharrock2 1Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom This paper argues that the 'success' of a visualization is commonly judged in terms of its adoption - if the visualization technique is taken up in the relevant research community, this is taken as indicating that the technique was a technical success in meeting the needs of the researchers. What is not usually considered in such appraisals, what goes characteristically unreported, and does not therefore become public within the visualization community is the extent to which the fate of a technique may be decided by other than purely technical factors. If an effective 'visualization contract' is to be developed as a basis for cross-disciplinary collaboration between visualization specialists and domain experts then it will need to pay more attention to the establishment of conditions that are favourable to the preparation of a technically effective visualization. The idea that the adoption of technologies depends upon more than their strictly technological qualities has been maintained by the 'Social Construction of Technology' approach which insists that social, practical and political factors affect the response to technologies. This paper will provide an initial discussion of some of the conditions which are important to technically successful collaborations and which have effects on the take-up of a visualization technique. We will include some of the professional, practical, organisational and disciplinary features of research disciplines that affect the visualizers capacity accurately to capture requirements and that subordinate the needs of the visualization project to the demands of professional etiquette, scientific credit and credibility, as well as to professional hierarchy. Thus we will consider the organisation of relations within and surrounding the visualization project, but will also look at the position of the visualization project within its professional field, how the state-of-play within the discipline may marginalise issues of visualization. Keywords: Cross-disciplinary research management

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Knowledge Structure of Chart Sequences and its Application to Learning System Susumu Yamasaki and Mariko Sasakura Department of Computer Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan To implement learning of programming language, we deal with knowledge structure of chart sequences, where the chart contains information on learning and on acquisition of more knowledge. A sequence of charts makes a performance of procedure causing situation transitions, where the system based on formation of chart sequences has characters such that: (1) The charts are media for knowledge, which may denote not only objects but also primitive procedures. (2) The situation is referred to by name, but not always by its detailed structure. (3) The organization of chart sequences may be automated. We implement a learning system which is mainly constructed to take formation of chart sequences, and which is applied to exercise practice for programming language. The standpoint of our work is different from those of adaptive learning, logic-based AI and agent technologies. Keywords: Knowledge Processing, Semantics, Language Learning (ISY)

Internet-communication as the Political Resource of the Postmodern Society: An analysis of the Present Situation and Discussion of Prospective of Developing Projects in Russia Andrey N. Yershov Rector of the Academy of Public and Municipal Administration under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia Virtualization is a new sphere of the communicational area of the modern world. The Network is a cyberspace capable of changing the political system reality. The gap existing between society and government, distrust of population towards power-owners encourage the alternative forms of the political dialogue in the network space creating feeling of freedom of individual citizen choice. Virtualized communication between government and population creates new reality, new political practices, at the same time transforming political and public institutions. In this paper, the nature and the consequences of the implementing Internet in the mode of governance are discovered by means of analysis of the application of present information technologies based on the survey of the developing projects in Russia. Keywords: Informational community, Virtualization, E-government, Digital Democracy

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Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) Attack on Cryptographic Device with Serpent Algorithm Realized in CMOS 90-nanometer Technology Milena Jovanovic, University of Montenegro, Montenegro The first part of the paper describes the characteristics of CMOS Power Consumption as they are the basis of power-analysis attacks on smart cards. As in many devices, the measurements of dynamic and static power consumption are often proportional to measuring dynamic or static current. Extensive transistor level simulations in Cadence on basic gates implemented in 90-nanometer technology show the dependence of static current on input data. The Serpent algorithm is presented and the realization of Serpent S-boxes using Karnaughs maps. In second part of the paper are presented side-channel attacks and their classification. A correlation power analysis attack is employed on the measured leakage currents of the crypto-core using Matlab for the computation of correlation coefficient of real and hypothetical results showing that leakage current can be exploited as a side-channel by an attacker to extract information about the secret key.

A New Decision Algorithm for Vendor Selection in Chinese Banks Chen Zhao1, Huiping Yan1, Yueting Chai2 1Purchasing Department, Data Center, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 2Automation Department, Tsinghua University, China As Chinese banking completely opened their global business from the end of 2006, the competition with international banks became more comprehensive. Due to the lack of advanced management experiences and technology support, the long-term strategic cooperative vendors and service providers are more important and critical than before for the developing Chinese banks. Therefore, an appropriate selection of this partnership plays a big role and gets more and more attentions. During past 20 years many decision approaches have been proposed. Two of them, analytic hierarchy process (hereinafter refers to AHP) and data envelopment analysis (hereinafter refers to DEA), have been successfully used in many applications individually. However, the single decision strategy is not enough for new challenges that appeared in Chinese banks recently. In this paper, a new decision algorithm combining AHP and DEA is proposed and we use a purchasing problem as an example. Our method is based on Weber and Dickson's normative criteria system, which has not been widely used in Chinese banks before. After comparing advantages and disadvantages of above two methods, a practical solution is therefore devised from a project of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (hereinafter refers to ICBC) (the largest bank in China, also one of the largest ten in the world). The final decision is a trade-off between AHP and DEA, which avoids disadvantages from each of them. The project reported in this paper demonstrates our approach. Keywords: Chinese Banking; Evaluation Criteria; Weight; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Data Envelopment Analysis

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TV is Dead Long Live the WEB (SSGRR-2000) Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Science, Engineering and Technology are as vital to our intellectual and cultural development (particularly our childrens) as they are to our training to get along in the Modern World. Some efforts to redress the problems involved in the general Public awareness and understanding of science and engineering (PAUSE) issues are being initiated via the Vega Science Trust (www.vega.org.uk), which aims to take advantage of the revolution in TV and Internet communications technology to improve matters. The best scientists and science communicators are being recorded and the programmes are being broadcast on BBC-TV and the Internet. Furthermore School/University outreach programmes are being developed and Vega is piloting ways in which members of the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) community can, as individuals and groups, make important contributions. Excerpts from SET programmes will be presented. These efforts present a perspective on SET which places the cultural factors in the foreground and focuses on the intrinsic charisma of science which is hidden from many. It is now crucial that the society in general and the scientific community in particular accept that serious problems are involved in communicating science and the Internet is set to play a major role. Electronic Business and Education (SSGRR-2001) Bob Richardson, Nobel Laureate, Cornell University, United States of America There is no longer any question that the Internet and electronic communication are the major new tools for collaborative advances in the creation of new knowledge and in future learning. There are countless examples of highly successful professional courses taught on the Internet. Similarly, international and multidisciplinary collaborations in scientific research based upon little contact other than through electronic communication dominate the scientific literature. Perhaps the most profound examples of distance collaboration in science are found in astronomy. The Hubble telescope has permitted astronomers to gather breathtaking images from the most remote observatory imaginable one in orbit around the earth. A significant challenge remains. The challenge is to devise a remote mode for nonverbal communication about difficult concepts. In the shared creation of new ideas and knowledge, facial expressions and body gestures frequently play an important role in peer interactions. As the speed and bandwidth of electronic communication increase, we have the prospect that the important elements of human contact can be imitated. Without the development of sympathetic peer or mentor relationships, distance learning will remain quite sterile. Mastering the e-Science Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate, United States of America Our generation like all its predecessors leaves many tasks hopefully no more than it inherited for the next generation to take up; but even knowing that it must be so does not remove ones sense of loss in the parting. Computer Architecture: Concepts and Systems Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Laureate, United States of America The coming of the computer has created a revolution as profound as the change from the Middle Age to the Renaissance. Many of the changes that took place around the time of the Renaissance the invention of printing the development of systematic experimental science, the invention of oil painting have analogs today, made possible by the computer.

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E-Business and E-Challenges (SSGRR-2002) Jerome Friedman, Nobel Laureate, MIT, United States of America The development of Homo sapiens has been a history of innovations, from the earliest crude tools to the modern technological society of today. The growth of science and technology has been exponential during the last century; and under the right circumstances, this rapid growth can be expected to continue. The major innovations of the future - those that will shape the society of the future - will require a strong foundation of both basic and applied research. It is ironic that quantum mechanics, one of most abstruse conceptual frameworks in physics - one that was developed to explain atomic spectra and the structure of the atom, lies at the foundation of some of our most important technological developments, because it provided the understanding of semiconductors that was essential for the invention of the transistor. Quantum mechanics thus contributed directly to the development of technologies that gave us world wide communication, computers with their applications to all phases of modern life, lasers with many diverse uses, consumer electronics, atomic clocks, and superconductors - just to mention a few. The internet and the World Wide Web, which are profoundly reshaping the way that we communicate, learn, and engage in commerce, owe their origins in a deep sense to the physicists of the past who worked to understand the atom. In modern industrial nations, quantum mechanics probably lies at the basis of a sizable fraction of the gross national product. The Next Generation of IP Flow Routing (SSGRR-2003) Lawrence G. Roberts, Father of the Internet, United States of America For the last 33 years IP routers have not changed, they still support only best effort traffic. However, the bandwidth available to people has been increasing rapidly with the advent of broadband access. The result is that many new services are now desired that require far better QoS than best effort IP can support. Also, with broadband, the problem of controlling the total usage and carrier expense has become important. Thus, it has become critical to improve both the delay performance and the control of bandwidth for IP service, much as was accomplished in ATM. Also, call rejection for high bandwidth streaming services like video is required instead of random discards if quality is to be maintained. All these problems can be solved with no change to TCP/IP by routing flows rather than packets. This requires keeping some state information for the duration of the flow, but this information can be captured on the fly as the first packet goes by. This permits an IP flow router to achieve all the capabilities of an ATM switch, but without the call setup delay and at a lower cost than a conventional IP router. Neural Networks: Concepts, Applications, and Implementations Leon Cooper, Nobel Laureate, United States of America When interest in neural networks revived some fifteen years ago, few people believed that such systems would ever be of any use. Computers worked too well; it was felt that they could be programmed to perform any desired task. Number and Organization of Primary Memory Objects in the Brain (IPSI - 2004 Montenegro) P.G. de Gennes, Nobel Laureate, College de France, France A memory area contains a large number (N ~10) of neurons, each of which is connected with ma neighbors (number of efferents: Z ~104). But the connections are poor: the probability for one connection to be efficient is p ~10-2. This is important: different memory objects must be independent. We discuss how a definite memory object can be stored on a cluster of well connected neurons, and what is the statistics of these clusters. The average number M of neurons per cluster is contained within two limits: if M is too small, the memory is not faithful. If M is too large, the storage capacity is too small. Various consequences of this picture will be presented.

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Ammon Baker Baldi Baracskai Bellotti Berta Chai De Gloria Dorfler Dovan DuMont Ferreira Fujita Gasic Giuliani Golkar Grebenek Hakura Hudson Jovanovic Kharche Kopunovic Kurematu Leng Levin Margetts Martens Maryka Milutinovi Minovi 12 11 17 6 17 17 19 17 6 8 7 16 7 10 6 8 8 7 6 19 13 16 7 13, 17 11 13 15 9 9 14 Nicula Novak Novotn Oblak Palmer Pellegrino Piotrowski Plavsic Prasanna Primavera Reeker Sang-Bum Sasakura Schtze Sharrock Sliberbauer tavljanin Taylor Teixeira Trifomova Velencei Vuji Ward Wolff Yamasaki Yan Yershov Zhang Zhao 8 8 9 8 7 17 14 14 15 17 6 16 18 10 17 12 14 11 16 13, 14 6 9 12 12 18 19 18 13 19

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VIPSI 2007 Slovenia

General Conference Schedule:

Monday October 8, 2007 - Arrival day: 16.00 Getting together for a walk around lake Bled 18.00 Registration at headquarters hotel 20.00 Welcome Cocktail Party at headquarters hotel Tuesday October 9, 2007: 8.00-10.00 Registration at headquarters hotel 10.00-14.30 Presentations 14.30-16.00 Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) and Island tour (at your own expense) 16.00-20.00 Presentations 20.00 Getting together for Gala Dinner at Bled castle Wednesday October 10, 2007: 10.00-14.30 Presentations 14.30-16:00 Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) and Summer sledge ride (at your own expense) 16.00-20.00 Presentations 20.00 Getting together for Tea Party and Kremshnitas Thursday October 11, 2007 - Departure day: 12:00 Sightseeing: - walk around Lake Bohinj or/and sightseeing from Vogel (cable car), - possible is also trekking (lighter) in the mountains (weather permitting) Note: All get togethers are at the lobby of Hotel Kompas, Take warm clothes for Cocktail Party on Monday and Gala dinner on Tuesday.

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VIPSI - 2007 SLOVENIA

-Detailed Conference ScheduleMonday, October 8, 2007: Arrival day 16:00 - 18:00 18:00 - 20:00 20:00 - 22:00 Getting together for a walk around lake Bled Registration at headquarters hotel Welcome Cocktail Party at headquarters hotel

Tuesday, October 9, 2007: 10:00 - 10:15 10:15 - 10:45 10:45 - 11:15 11:15 - 11:45 Welcome Addresses Michael Flynn Important Issues in Computer Science and Engineering Christopher Csikszentmihalyi Advanced Research of the MEDIA Laboratory at MIT Zoltan Baracskai, Viktor Dorfler, Jolan Velencei The ES could probably know more: But man would not make better business decisions Break Amy R. Hudson , Larry H. Reeker The History and Philosophy of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Rainer v. Ammon, Christian Silberbauer, Christian Wolff Faster Developing of Business Activity Monitoring Applications Hamido Fujita A Recognition based Style for Miyzawa-Kenji Virtual model D. Novak, D. Dovan, R. Grebenek, S. Oblak Automated parking system for a truck and trailer Lunch Break Zoran Babovi e-Government in Serbia Jean-Baptiste Dumont Tiiwi.com, Real estate for a better world Zbigniew Piotrowski Multicriteria choice and outranking methods aggregation in a software agent for ranking land parcels Donatella Giuliani The description of biological growth using B-splines Hermite Interpolation J. Leng, L. Margetts, S. Kharche, H. Zhang The Heart and Its Powers of Ten: Towards a Unified Multiscale Biological Model on Anyscale Machines Ota Novotn, Milos Maryska ICT Education and Requirements for ICT Graduates in the Czech Republic, His Competitiveness and Feedback to the Research from Respondents Masoud Golkar Values education acquired, not learnt: A foundation for sustainability Thomas Schtze CeMDARS (Central - Medical-Diagnostic and Analysis Research - System)

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007: 10:00 - 10:15 10:15 - 10:45 10:45 - 11:15 11:15 - 11:45 Welcome Adresses Michael Flynn Important Issues in Computer Science and Engineering Christopher Csikszentmihalyi Advanced Research of the MEDIA Laboratory at MIT Dan Nicula University-Industry: partnership for improving the quality of life in Romania Break Michael Levin Web2.0 and You Owen Taylor No More Hops: Towards a linearly scalable application infrastructure James Ward Going Out of Bounds: Building RIAs for the Web and the Desktop Jim Baker Jython Development Lunch Break Nikola Vuji, Veljko Milutinovi Performance and programmability of the applications which use transactional memory Miroslav Gai A Survey of Split Data Caches Miroslav Minovi, tavljanin Velimir Learning Game for Moodle CMS Dragan Kopunovic The Next Frontier - Peer Commerce Violetta Trofimova Was there "Women's Republic of Letters"? Bill Palmer Finding out more about a little known children's science textbook author: A case study of Mary Amelia Swift, illustrating the power and pitfalls of the internet Rolf Martens The Internet and the Quality of Life Vojin Plavsic Device for Obtaining a Predetermined Substantially Constant Force In Particular for Muscular Training

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Thursday, October 11, 2007: Departure day 12:00 - 14:00 Sightseeing - walk around Lake Bohinj or/and sightseeing from Vogel (cable car) - possible is also trekking (lighter) in the mountains (weather permitting)

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