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The Institute of Computer Science is the largest institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with excellent results and international awards. The most cited journal paper at University of Maribor belongs to the Institute of Computer Science and as such it is an important contribution to place University of Maribor among the world's most successful universities. Whole TV show (in Slovene) is available at http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/po-sloveniji/174460677

Eight student received bronze award. At the same time students Aljaž Jeromel and Kristjan Žagar achieved the best results at the University of Maribor.

Congratulations to all participants!

In the competition of winning student papers from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the expert committee ranked her article titled Feature selection for classification using the particle swarm optimization among the top five. All five finalists will compete for the first three places with the oral presentation of their papers during the EUROCON 2017 conference held this year in July in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Lucija Brezočnik is a teaching assistant at the Institute of Informatics at FERI and doctoral student of Computer Science and Informatics under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Vili Podgorelec. Her main research area is swarm intelligence.

ROSUS 2017 conference program is available at http://rosus.feri.um.si/rosus2017/agenda.php

There is no registration fee for students, but students need to register by sending an e-mail to rosus.feri@um.si .

You are cordially invited.
ROSUS 2017 Organizing Committee

University of Maribor is among 600 best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017 and the best among universities in Slovenia (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/locations/SI/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/scores). University of Maribor ranking is 501-600, while University of Ljubljana ranking is 601-800. Values of performance indicators for both universities are similar, except for citations. This is the reason why University of Maribor is ranked higher than University of Ljubljana. The article »Self-Adapting Control Parameters in Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study on Numerical Benchmark Problems« is the most cited journal paper at University of Maribor. As such its contribution to University of Maribor ranking is important. Citations of this paper at various digital libraries currently are:

• Web of Science 1044
• Scopus 1391
• Google Scholar 1778

The authors: Janez Brest, Sašo Greiner, Borko Bošković, Marjan Mernik and Viljem Žumer, employees of Institute of Computer Science, published this article in the journal »IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation«, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 646-657, 2006. JCR IF (2006): 3.77, EX - computer science, theory & methods ; 2/75. The article is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4016057/

Student Volunteers are integral part of the success of a conference. We are in the process of recruiting a team of reliable and enthusiastic students who help us host and manage a successful, productive and enjoyable conference. A wide range of responsibilities will be assigned to volunteers, such as:

· Support at the Registration desks
· Badge checks for technical sessions, workshops, demos, reception and dinner
· Support at the Help desks
· Help with setting up and maintaining demos, poster and other arrangements
· Audio and video support
· Helping hand for organizing committee
In general, no special skills are required except for one or two positions, where we are looking for individuals with good photography, blogging, and A/V skills.

For their time and unmeasurable efforts, student volunteers will receive a full student registration. This includes free access to the entire conference, including technical sessions, demo and poster sessions, reception and conference diner.

Student volunteers are responsible for their traveling and lodging expenses during the conference days.

Applicants must be Master or PhD students during the 2016-2017 academic year. The individuals must have a positive attitude and have good communication skills in English.

Volunteers are required to show up 5-10 minutes before their allotted service times and be available to help out for unforeseen surprises, which are difficult to predict. We expect every volunteerto commit to a total of about 15 volunteer hours of work at the conference (over 5 days).

Responsibilities and time allotment during the conference will be sent to the volunteers a few weeks before the start of the conference, and volunteers must plan to attend the information meeting on April 7th 2014 morning before the start of the conference.

Application Process:

Applicants must be PhD or MSc students during the 2016-2017 academic year. Candidates should send a short CV (one page), a motivation letter, a proof of valid student status (ID card, document signed by advisor or dean of department) at the following address: contact@eurographics2017.fr

The deadline for applications is February 20, 2017.

We will send out notifications until February 28, 2017.

• AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, artistic and educational work for top successes and achivements

prof. dr. Marjan Heričko

• AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, artistic and educational work of outstanding successes and achivements

prof. dr. Janez Brest

• AWARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR for the professional services of exceptional successes and achivements

Jurček Voh

• Rector's award for academic achievements of students of the University of Maribor in their enrollment generations

Marko Kompara

Congratulations to all!

National competition on computer thinking Beaver 2016, co-organized by the Institute of Computer Science, was held on 14. 1. 2017. From 29 thousand primary and secondary school students 218 were selected to compete. During the event two lectures were given to attendees: Future Computing Architectures: Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing (Assoc. prof. dr. Aleš Holobar) and Visual programming with AppInventor (Assist. prof. dr. Tomaž Kosar).

On the 13th of December 2016 Borzen Slovenian electricity market operator has successfully completed the second competition for students for the best research paper in the field of utilization of wind and / or biomass for the production of electricity in Slovenia. There were about 60 applicants from 20 different faculties, but first place was won by Jernej Knežič from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor.

Congratulations!

Awards for outstanding academic work in the field of electro energetics and industrial automation are awarded since 1970. Since 2009 the awards are granted under the sponsorship of the Slovenian Electric Power Engineers Association CIGRE-CIRED and in cooperation with both Slovenian electro technical faculties - Faculty for Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (UL FE) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (UM FERI), University of Maribor. One of the faculties is holding the event every alternate year and this year, we had the privilege to organize it.

Including year 2016 there have been granted 288 awards - of which 162 winners from Ljubljana's Faculty for Electrical Engineering, 61 from our faculty (FERI Maribor) and 65 from other universities. They were awarded 54 PhDs, 90 scientific theses and 144 dissertations. Most of the winners are now prominent researchers, university professors and experts of international standing in the European and international professional associations.

The main speakers of this year's event were Rector of the University of Maribor prof. dr. Igor Tičar, Dean of UM FERI prof. dr. Borut Žalik, Vice Dean for financial affairs and quality UL FE assoc. prof. dr. David Nedeljković and Chairman of the awards, dr. Zvonko Toroš.

From 9 received applications the commission selected 4 winners:

- award for the doctoral thesis: dr. Klemen Stopar from UM FERI
- award for scientific thesis: mag. Borut Prašnikar from UL FE
- two awards for Master's dissertations: Gregor Černe for UL FE and Andrej Mohar form UM FERI

Highlights from ceremony can be found in the gallery: https://feri.um.si/fotogalerija/podelitev-bedjanicevih-nagrad/

She was born on 7th of December 1985 in Ptuj. During her studies at FERI she has gained practical experience as a moderator on different events and worked on a commercial radio station. In 2007 she became a part of Radio Maribor's show called "Mladi mladim" (Youth to Youth) and also a collaborator of Radio Slovenia International. She was also co-leader of musical radio show called "V dobri družbi" (In good comany).

Congratulations!