Qualitative Modeling and Internet; Some Application Aspects of Digital Holography; A Survey of Scientific and Technology Policy of the Republic of Croatia until 2010;

1. Franjo L. Jović: "Qualitative Modeling and Internet"
2. Krešimir Nenadić: "Some Application Aspects of Digital Holography"
3. Milan Ivanović: "A Survey of Scientific and Technology Policy of the Republic of Croatia until 2010"

Predavači su sa Elektrotehničkog fakulteta u Osijeku.

Predavanje organizuje IEEE Education Society Chapter of Serbia and Montenegro, u saradnji sa prof. Veljkom Milutinovićem, Fellow IEEE

Kratak sadržaj predavanja:

1. Qualitative Modeling and Internet

Qualitative or quantitative modeling. Systems as they are. Periodicity in natural systems. Minimum energy principle. Continuity. Learning in a periodic system. Intelligent agent. Web and organization of intelligent agents. The triplet: action – state – reward. Reinforcement learning: general scheme. State, action, and reward descriptors. Markov properties. Non-Markov chain. Mixed chains. Decomposition of periodic system and system disturbances. Optimal policy of the set of learning agents in periodic environment. Finite Markov decision process. Value function. Optimal policy in multidecision Markov chain. Qualitative modeling revisited. Inductive learning from qualitative relations. The nature of the state function model. Abstractions. State function and system actions based on state abstractions. Practical applications: information retrieval in distributed environment: hyrocarbon deposit, POS process optimization.

2. Some Application Aspects of Digital Holography

This talk presents some basics of digital holography processes. The aspect of digital holography application in pattern defect detection is described. Digital holography is used to amplify small discrepancies (difference) in images of the same size in pixels. This method is applied on ceramic tiles industry to alleviate pattern defect detection. Next aspect of digital holography application in coding processes is described. The information represented in form of a one-dimensional finite length field is transformed in hologram and its reconstructs are analyzed. The described methods use intensive mathematical calculations and parallel algorithms are recommended for their calculations. The basic trade-off is analyzed.

3. A Survey of Scientific and Technology Policy of The Republic of Croatia until 2010

The competitiveness of national economies becomes a major factor of societal progress, The Republic of Croatia is confident and determined in its intention to build Croatia into a science and technology-oriented country.
Key proposals for scientific and technological policy in the next period are: - Increase funding for excellent science and technology projects  (towards the implementation 3 % the GDP to 2010 years for the science and the research); - Restructure publicly-funded research institutes and R&D centers towards the directing research on the area of national priorities and economic needs; - Encourage research partnerships and strengthen support schemes for quality young researchers; - Invest in science research infrastructure and knowledge transfer institutions; - Bring in measure for the stimulation of commercialization of academic research; - Bring in measure for the promotion technological developments and innovations, and - Establish for the business sector stimulating and favourable legal frameworks.

Kratke biografije predavača:

Franjo L. Jović received the Dipl.Ing. degree in electrical engineering from University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1963 and the M.Sc. degree in nuclear electronics and Ph.D degree in technical sciences both from the same university in 1967 and 1972 respectively. He is Full Professor and Chairman of the Computer and Informatics Engineering Department of the School of Electrical Engineering, J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. He has over 90 technical publications and has been research and development engineer and manager in the automation and computer industry in Zagreb and principal investigator and co-investigator of over 30 grants and research contracts for companies, different science foundations and governmental organizations. He served several time as editorial member of Croatian journals and as organizer of national and international conferences in the computer engineering, automation, modeling and information engineering. He published two books: "Process Control Systems" and "Expert Systems in Process Control" with Chapman & Hall, London-NewYork. He was UNIDO expert. His main research interest include modeling of stochastic processes, nonlinear systems, qualitative algebra, applied informatics and distributed process technologies. Dr. Jović is member of several national and international professional organizations: IEEE, IFAC, KoREMA, CROSS, MIPRO. He organized IFAC/IEEE Conference on application of modeling, control theory, and informatics to agricultural processess, AgriControl 2007, in Osijek.

Krešimir Nenadić recieved the B.Sc. degree in electronics and automation from Faculty of Electrical Enginering at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek in 2000. From 2000 to this day he is junior assistant  at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek and junior researcher at projects: "Industrial Systems of Artificial Inteligence" and "Holographic Logical Analyzer" approved by Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. From 2005. he is instructor at Cisco Networking Academy and PhD student in computer science at the Faculty of Electrical Enginering in Osijek. His research interests are applications of digital holography in ceramic tiles manufacturing processes, information coding using digital holography and influence of laser beam treatment on sprouting of wheat grain and fungi removing. He has published several papers and conference contributions.

Milan Ivanović was born in Zagreb in 1947. He received a degree of PhD  (1991) and Msc (1982) in Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia; dissertation title - "Law of Value  and Price Policy of Electricity in Yugoslavia». He completed the postgraduate study "Sociology of culture" at the Faculty of Political Sciences - University of Belgrade (1991). Published over 200 expert and research articles from an economy and energetics in journals and proceedings of scientific conferences (20 on international) amd about thirty works from the sociology (ten abroad). Author and coauthor 20 books and coordinator of six multi-annual research projects from the area of energetics - which has financed the Ministry of Science The Republic of Croatia (1987-2006). Holds the teaching (1991-1995) at The Faculty of Electrical Engineering Osijek (Industrial sociology), Faculty of Food-Technology Osijek (Economics of food processing industry) and The Pedagogic Faculty Osijek (Introduction in computing). He was the adviser for the area of industry and the energetics in the Region Slavonija and Baranja (1979-1986). He worked in an textile and food processing industry (1972-1978). In 1997 he was guest (CEEPUS project) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is member of CIGRE and HED (Croatian Energy Society). Research interests include: price and energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.