FERI

Dear students,

We invite you to a presentation on the Electronic Resources, Applications and Tools available at the University of Maribor. At the presentation you will find out:
- how can a library help you with your studies,
- which applications and tools are available for successful study,
- why Google is good, Google Scholar is better and UM: NIK is the best in finding information and literature,
- what are Research Guides,
- why you need to quote and how citation tools are helping you.

Presentation will be on 22.11.2017 at 11.15 in E-105 and 23.11.2017 at 15.15 in G2-GAMA.

Presented by: Miloš Petrovič, Renata Močnik, mag. and Jerneja Grašič (The University of Maribor library)

After the reception in the dean's office they will be taken to visit some UM FERI laboratories and then dr. Ogawa will hold a lecture titled University and Society: Kobe University's activities towards a brighter future for both Japan and the world.

He will present the activities of the Kobe University with an emphasis on education, research and cooperation with the economy, highlighting in particular the changes in the Japanese economy and higher education and the resulting challenges that the Japanese government is facing on the one hand, as well as the Kobe University on the other.

The visit will be conducted in cooperation with Matej Črnjavič, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs Specialist from the Embassy of Japan in Ljubljana.

AGENDA:

Dr. Kardas received his B.Sc. in computer engineering and both M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in information technologies from Ege University in 2001, 2003 and 2008 respectively. He is currently working as an associate professor at Ege University. His research interests mainly include agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven software development, and domain-specific (modeling) languages.

The visit is part of the project "Integration of visiting foreign experts and higher education lecturers into the teaching process as the pillar of quality development of the internationalization process at the University of Maribor", which is co-funded by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport."

Programme:

Members of the team all study Computer Science and Information Technologies. This years champions are Izak Glasenčnik, Nejc Maček, Robi Novak. As this years university champions they are eligible to participate in CERC 2017 (http://cerc.hsin.hr/), which will be held from the 17th to the 19th of November. Countries participating in CERC are Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The best teams from CERC will be participating in the world finals in Beijing, China, from the 15th to 20th of April 2018.

More info: http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/photography/black-white-photographer-of-the-year-2018

More info: http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/photography/urban-photographer-of-the-year-2018

The conference is part of the multi-conference Information Society IS'2017 and takes place under the auspice of the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

The conference program is available online: https://labraj.feri.um.si/stucosrec/2017/files/2017__Urnik__StuCoSReC.pdf

You are kindly invited to attend the conference.
StuCosRec'17 organizing committee

Institute of Computer Science prepared several workshops about programming:

• Making a simple computer game,
• 2D computer game,
• Blender and 3D computer games,
• Getting started in WWW,
• Programming in Python,
• Augmented Reality,
• LaTeX basics,
• Web programming basics,
• Programming by playing,
• Basics of Android programming.

More about the event at http://codeweek.eu/ .

For more information click here.

D. FARINA, A. HOLOBAR. Characterization of human motor units from surface EMG decomposition. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016, 104(2): 353-373, JCR IF (2016): 9.237

Motor units are the smallest functional units of our movements. The study of their activation provides a window into the mechanisms of motor control of humans. The classic methods for motor unit investigations date to several decades ago. They are based on invasive recordings with selective needle electrodes. Conversely, the non-invasive (surface) EMG has been commonly processed as an interference signal with the information extraction limited to its global characteristics that are only crudely associated to the underlying motor unit activities. In the last decade, we proposed the methods for reliable extraction of individual motor unit activities from the interference surface EMG signal. In this review, we describe these methods and their applications in human-machine interfaces. This study has been published in a distinguished IEEE Proceedings journal with the JCR impact factor of 9.237.

The conference is aimed at exchanging experiences and presents the latest achievements in the development of advanced information solutions using technologies related to the Smalltalk programming language. More than 100 participants from 17 countries (ranging from Argentina, Chile, the USA, and South Africa, to India, Japan and countries across Europe) will be participating in the six-day event, which is being co-organized by the European Smalltalk User Group, the Institute of Informatics, and the Maribor-based company msg life. As part of the ESUG 2017 conference, 33 expert lectures will be presented. In addition to the Smalltalk Camp and presentation of the best Smalltalk projects, the IWST workshop will introduce 20 scientific papers.

Slovenia will be hosting the ESUG conference for the second time (the first time was in Bled in 2003), which points to the visibility and outstanding results of the Slovenian Smalltalk developer community. The final act of the 25th Jubilee Conference will be the awarding of the most technologically innovative projects in the past year and the best scientific paper.

More information about the conference:
http://www.esug.org

They prepared three workshops:

- Programming for girls,
- My first Android game, and
- Little penguin.

The summer school was financially supported by donors: Dewesoft, Comtrade, and Adacta.

You can see more pictures here: https://feri.um.si/fotogalerija/poletna-sola-racunalnistva/

We will take you to the wonderful world of computer science with the following workshops:

- Programming for girls,
- My first Android game, and
- Little penguin.

More about the summer school at https://cs.feri.um.si/poletna-sola/poletna-sola-racunalnistva-2017/

The summer school was financially supported by donors: Dewesoft, Comtrade, and Adacta.

When in September your holidays are over, you'll be so fresh and full of ideas. Creativity. Have you had interesting experiences while paying for services? Have you always wondered what's behind all those big banks? How do they operate? Could you imagine a different way forward, a different future, and would like to co-create it?

Take this opportunity and join the UniCredit Hackathon CEE, where amazing individuals like you and UniCredit people will join forces to create something new. Something never seen before. Something that will make our lives easier in the world of consumers and internet.

Two days of hard core coding, business creating, innovating and general fun that can bring the best 3 teams great prizes!

PRIZES:

Monetary rewards will be transferred directly to accounts of individual team members, opened at UniCredit.

All three teams will also present their solutions from the Hackathon to the UniCredit management board on 7th September 2017.

At a later stage, members of the best three teams could also be invited to participate in the implementation phase of the solution.

Sounds like an international job opportunity? You never know!

1. PRIZE - THE WINNING TEAM: EUR 5,000
2. PRIZE - THE SECOND BEST TEAM: EUR 3,500
3. PRIZE - THE THIRD BEST TEAM: EUR 1,500

The reward will be equally split between all team members (please, consider that teams will have up to 8 members).

Apply now for the most innovative weekend of your life. It could be a gamechanger, both for you and UniCredit CEE!

APPLY AT: https://abc-accelerator.com/UniCreditHackathonCEE/

Lucija qualified for the finals as the winner of the competition organised by the IEEE Slovenia Section. The final competition took place between 6-8 July in the framework of the IEEE EUROCON 2017 International Conference held in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Her article Feature selection for classification using particle swarm optimization written under the mentorship of Prof. Dr Vili Podgorelec presents a new method for the problem of finding informative attributes in high-dimensional data, which can significantly reduce the number of attributes, thus achieving better classification results on complex data sets. With this remarkable achievement, the University of Maribor and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science rise among the most successful institutions within this prestigious competition because Lucija's victory has been already the second one for the UM-FERI. Namely, Lucija's mentor, then the student, Vili Podgorelec, won in the finals of this contest in 1999.

Congratulations!

jSO algorithm has been developed by Janez Brest, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec and Borko Bošković and it won the competition among 12 algorithms. jSO algorithm is an improved version of L-SHADE and iL-SHADE algorithms, which are the state-of-the-art algorithms in the area of single-objective optimization.

Congratulations!

Their repertoire:

• Prir. Mateja Petelin: Mamca, pošljite me po vodo
• Josquin Desperez: El Grillo
• Slavko Šuklar: Zrejlo je žito
• Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni: Laudate Dominum

Congratulations!