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Structure and Staff

8 DEPARTAMENTS

2 LABORATORIES

2 Members of BAS

3 Full Professors

20 Associated Professors

34 Research Associates

53 Specialists

DEPARTAMENTS

Artificial Intelligence

Information Processes and Systems

Information Media

Soft Computing

Modeling and Optimization

Intelligent Systems

Pattern Recognition

Decision Support Systems

Telematics

System Engineering

LABORATORIES

Information Processing and Systems

• Design and developing of computerized information and control systems;

• Signal processing;

• Radar signal processing.

Artificial Intelligence

Methods and tools for knowledge representation and processing on the base of logical programming and its extensions;

Methods and architectures for knowledge representation and processing in chosen domains (classification problems, natural language processing, educational multimedia systems).

Decision Support System

Methods and tools for solving decision making problems under determined, risk, and undetermined conditions;

Architectures and user interfaces of interactive decision support systems.

Pattern Recognition

• Segmentation and recognition of half-tone and color images, text and graphics processing, 2-D and 3-D objects recognition and scene analysis;

• Speaker recognition;

• Neural networks and systems.

Intelligent Systems

• Integrating the Process of Optimization and Control in Complex Systems via Intelligent Procedures;

• Research of Intelligent Soft-Sensing Systems Using Neural Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Support Vector Machines;

• Network Methods in Logical and Probabilistic Intelligent Systems.

Modeling and Optimization

• Multicriteria analysis and selection models;

• Models of information interactions in complex structures;

• Static and dynamic optimization models.

Soft Computing

• Models with uncertain information;

• Analysis of uncertain systems;

• Financial and enterprise risk management.

Information Media

Information media models

Fluid information media

Laser information media

International Cooperation

INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 0138 Transferring Charade technology in Central and Eastern Europe

INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 1060 (ARCHIMED) Multimedia architectures and applications for education telematics

INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 1104 (AGILE) Automated generation of technical handbooks on East-European languages

INCO-COPERNICUS PL 97 - 7069 (EMG-NET) European scientific network for intelligent support of electro-miography research

PHARE - P 70 (1999)Multimedia project "The thracian treasures in ancient Europe“

Leonardo da Vinci ІІ project EL/2002/B/F/114025

KNOSOS (2003-2005) New Media Knowledge Village for Innovative e-Learning Solutions

Leonardo da Vinci ІІ project PP-136029 ADONIS (2002-2004) Advanced On-The-Job E-Training Solutions In E-Business For SMEs

Cooperated with

• Institute of Informatics – Russian Academy of Sciences, Sanct-Petersburg, Russia

• Institute of Information Transmission Problems – Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

• International Center of Signal Processing – Finnish Academy of Sciences, Tampere, Finland

• School of Economics – Helsinki, Finland

• Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics – University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

• Commonwealth University in Virginia, USA.

• Information Technology Research Institute – University in Brighton, UK.

• Technical University of Crete, Greece • INRIA, Grenoblе, France

Educational Courses

Teaching courses - more then 30.

• Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” • Sofia Technical University • New Bulgarian University • Plovdiv University • Burgass Free University • South-West University Blagoevgrad • College of Library Science Education and Information Technologies, Sofia

Post Graduate Education

• Informatics

•Application of the principles and methods of the cybernetics in different scientific areas (engineering, medical, biocybernetics, etc.)

Publishing in international journals

• IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics• Computers and Artificial Intelligence• European Journal of Operational Research• Journal of Operational Research Society• International Transactions of Operational Research• Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science/Artificial

Intelligence• Pattern Recognition Letters• Fuzzy Sets and Systems• Electrotechnology

IIT Publications

• Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics (ISSN 0204-9848) – ref. Math. Rev., INSPEC, etc.

• Cybernetics and Information Technologies (ISSN 1311-9702)

• Working Papers (ISSN 1310-652X)

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