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From between 26th and 31st of August the following workshops will be held:

• Programming for girls,
• Create a candy scheduler,
• Let's develop our first computer game,
• My first Android game.

This year about 70 participants are coming to the Summer School of Computer Science. We look forward to bringing them a wonderful world of computing and information technology in an interesting way, acquainting them with the basics of programming and possibly their future professions.

This year's summer school of computer science was financially supported by donors: Inova d.o.o., AVL-AST d.o.o., and Comtrade d.o.o.

The SEMCCO 2019 is the seventh international conference of this series, where SEMCCO 2010 has been successfully organized at SRM University, Chennai, SEMCCO 2011 at ANITS, Visakhpatnam, SEMCCO 2012 at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, SEMCCO 2013 at SRM University, Chennai, SEMCCO 2014 at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, and SEMCCO 2015 at Hyderabad, India. The FANCCO 2019 is the fifth international conference of this series, collocated and co-organized with SEMCCO.

These conferences aim at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to report and review the latest progresses in the cutting – edge research with Swarm, Evolutionary, Memetic, Fuzzy, and Neural computing to explore new application areas and to design new bio – inspired algorithms for solving specific hard optimization problems and finally to create awareness on these domains to a wider audience to practitioners. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to submit their contributions in both theoretical and practical aspects.

Invited keynote speakers at the conference are Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Thomson Reuters Highly Cited) and Benjamin Doerr (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science; École Polytechnique; Saarland University).

Healthcare is a data-rich industry and creates vast amounts of data during routine and emergency procedures in various forms, which used to be stored mainly as paper documents. The adoption and advancement of Electronic Health Records (EHR) enables capturing this data in a structured way, meaning that it could eventually be aggregated and analysed to improve care (decision making, learning, research, …) and healthcare connected operations (administration, billing, …). This has already skyrocketed amounts of clinical data making it too big to efficiently manage for physicians, researchers and administrators. At this point there is a need for support at handling repetitive tasks on high amounts of continuous data flow, which is perfectly suited for Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI-powered simulations and analysis of structured clinical data bring forward increased efforts and breakthroughs in treatment innovation, drug discovery, personalized medicine and care optimization.

At Better by Marand we are dedicated to helping healthcare providers achieve vendor neutral and lifelong accessible clinical data for their patients through products like Better platform. Additionally, our efforts are also dedicated to find a better use of data with state-of-the-art AI solutions. This presentation will exhibit the recent activities at our R&D department that were aimed at this goal and demonstrate a use-case of clinical entity extraction from speech data.

This week we carried out 1000 reviews for over 100 SCI journals, among which: Applied Soft Computing, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, Empirical software engineering, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computations, Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Software, Practice and Experience, Renewable Energy, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering. This suggests that the members of the Institute are strongly involved in the review process itself and that we are recognized as quality reviewers in many areas of computer science.

The review no. 1000 by the Institute of Computer Science has been performed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Božidar Potočnik.

Congratulations!

H2020 Project CyberSec4Europe – Establish and operate a Cybersecurity Competence Network

In February 2019, as a part of the Horizon 2020 program, the CyberSec4Europe project was launched. The main objective of the project is to establish and operate a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network with the aim to strengthen research and deepen cooperation in the field of cyber security in the EU. Part of the project consortium with 43 partners from 22 EU Member States and associated countries is also the Laboratory of Data Technologies, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor. CyberSec4Europe has been selected as one of four projects to establish and operate a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network and to develop and implement a common cybersecurity research and innovation roadmap.

With its goal to boost the effectiveness of the Security Union, the EU wishes to ensure that it retains and develops essential capacities to secure its digital economy, infrastructures, society and democracy. The EU has recognised that cybersecurity research, competences and investments are spread across Europe with too little alignment, and that there is an urgent need to step up investment in technological advancements that could make the Digital Single Market more cybersecure and overcome the fragmentation of the EU research capacities. The projects will pilot and demonstrate the possibilities of operating and managing a network of competence centres through the use of good practices resulting from the expertise of the project partners.

Website: https://www.cybersec4europe.eu/
Twitter: @CyberSec4Europe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersec4europe/
Longer description of the project: https://ii.feri.um.si/en/2019/03/05/institute-of-informatics-acquired-h2020-project-cybersec4europe-cyber-security-for-europe/

H2020 Project CONCORDIA – Cyber Security Competence for Research and Innovation

CONCORDIA is a major H2020 consortium to interconnect Europe’s Cybersecurity capabilities. It will establish a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network and will lead the development of a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap for Europe.

A dedicated EU-wide consortium involving prominent industry, academia, SMEs and especially national cyber security centers launches the H2020 project CONCORDIA (Cyber Security Competence for Re-search and Innovation). CONCORDIA will pilot an EU Cybersecurity Competence Network to provide technological, societal and policy leadership for Europe. CONCORDIA aims to implement a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap for Europe.

CONCORDIA is a four-year multi-disciplinary research and innovation project, and will play a leadership role in boosting the effectiveness of EU’s security union. The project, started in January 2019, is coordinated by the Research Institute CODE from the Bundeswehr University Munich and involves 46 partners in total. “With CONCORDIA we are integrating cybersecurity competences to enhance Europe's digital sovereignty”, said Prof. Gabi Dreo (who received her Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Maribor), executive director of CODE. The consortium includes 23 partners from industry and other organizations, and 23 partners from academia.

CONCORDIA will help Europe strengthen its security capabilities and to secure its digital society, economy and the fundamental data society’s principles for both security and privacy. CONCORDIA adopts an inclusive approach, fostering a wide alliance spanning Europe’s research, industry and public sec-tors, and including key professionals from a variety of fields. By developing innovative, marketable solutions to protect Europe against cyber attacks, CONCORDIA will capitalize on Europe’s unique pool of skills and talents in the area of ICT and cybersecurity to also establish an European Education Ecosystem for Cybersecurity. The project will be a fundamental instrument for promoting excellent research, market innovation, skill building, and a research roadmap for cybersecurity in Europe. In this context, the vision of CONCORDIA is to create a community, building bridges and setting the foundations for strong cooperation between all stakeholders. The EU budget contribution is 16 M€ with a 7 M€ additional funding contributed by national authorities and industry.

Website: https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/
Twitter: @concordiah2020
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/concordia-h2020/
Facebook: Concordia.eu
Longer description of the project: https://ii.feri.um.si/en/2019/03/05/institute-of-informatics-acquired-h2020-project-concordia-cyber-security-competence-for-research-and-innovation/