LUNEDI' 12 MAGGIO, alle ore 15:00,
presso l'Aula Multimediale del DIMI, si svolgera' un seminario del prof. Veljko Milutinovic, IEEE Fellow, a lungo docente della Purdue University (USA), ed ora all'Universita' di Belgrado (http://kondor.etf.bg.ac.yu/~vm/short.html).

Il seminario e' organizzato in due parti di cui si fornisce abstract nel seguito.

Talk: "The IPSI RESEARCH METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO E-BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE"

This presentation defines the major bottlenecks in the research related to the infrastructure for e-business on the Internet (hardware, software, system, and communications), and follows in two parts, stressing methodological issues. In part one, for each one of the major 4 bottlenecks, an overview is given about ongoing research at Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley. In part two, for the same 4 bottlenecks, an overview is given about the recent (past 5 years) and ongoing research done at the University of Belgrade (led by Prof. Milutinovic), for industry in the US, and for selected universities in EU.
Results of this research include prototypes for a number of commercial products and about 40 papers published recently in IEEE journals.

Tutorial: "CONCEPT MODELING FOR KNOWLEDGE SEARCH"

People use concepts every day to express their thoughts. Concepts are used in human communication because they carry unique meaning (for example: a house, a dog, a car, etc). Still, for every person, concept derivation is unique. Consequently, there is no unique definition of the term concept, and there is no commonly accepted understanding of what a concept is. This presentation is a survey of ongoing research efforts in concept modeling. It sheds the light on the essence of numerous existing approaches, and presents all of them in a uniform manner.