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FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATICSUNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

Challenges of Project Cooperation at University of Zagreb, FOI

NEVEN VR EKČDEAN

Prof.dr.sc.

www.FOI.unizg.hr

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB - UNIZG

The oldest and the largest university in Croatia

1669.Founded

29Faculties

3Art

academies

3University

centres

• SRCE- IT Centre• University & National Library• Student Centre

70 000Students

(all study levels)

9 000Teaching staff(all study levels)

1874.Became

State university

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FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATICS - FOI

• Medium sized faculty • Leading higher

education institution in Croatia to provide education in applied information technology and information sciences

1974.Founded

www.FOI.unizg.hr

FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Organizational development • Business process engineering, business

process modelling

• E-business• deployment of e-business standards

(UBL, CII, Core components)• security (PKI, CA, accreditation)• legislative and standards• semantic and technical interoperability• cloud computing – interoperabilty,

cost benefit analysys

• E-Government• Regulatory impact assesment• Legislative and standards

• E-Learning

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• Software modeling and development• Generative programming• Automatic programming• OO Analysis and Design• Service oriented architecture development• Database modeling and design• Web development (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Web servisi, AJAX)• Database development and administration (Oracle, PL/SQL)• UML Papyrus, Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF Plugins, metamodelling)• Android development• Windows Phone development• iOS DEvelopment• Scripting languages (Python, Shell, Tcl/Tk, JavaScript, PHP)• GUI languages (Gambas)• Declarative languages (SQL, xPath/xQuery, Prolog, Flora-2, Datalog)

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• Software Architecture• Component oriented architecture, pattern languages• Middleware• Heterogeneous systems (Multicore, GPU, FPGA)

• Database architecture design • postgresql, mysql, mssql, oracle• postgis GEO extensions• Complex relational or NoSQL database design, implementation and tuning• PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CouchDB, eXist-DB, ZODB, Datalog

• Statistical analysis and data mining• Standard statistical analysis of large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Statistica)• Data mining on large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Weka)

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• Text mining• Analysis of large collections of documents• Automatic classification, clustering• Semantic information retrieval, dimension reduction• Cross-lingual information retrieval

• Multi-agent Systems• Complex multi-agent system design, development and implementation• Automated planning, negotiation, reasoning etc.• Finite state machines agent implementation• Complex agent knowledge-base and ontology implementation• Agent-based modeling• SPADE (Smart Python Agent Development Environment), Swarm/SLAPP

(Swarm Like Agent Protocol in Python)

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• Information systems security• Security tools: nmap, ncrack, nessus,

openvas, metasploit framework, w3af, skipfish, sqlmap, wireshark, john, oclhashcat

• methodologies: OSSTMM, OWASP, ISO27000 family, NIST SP800

• security testing, security analysis and penetration testing

• cryptography systems implementation and security analysis

• Cloud Computing• configuring and developing

applications for Google App Engine, Salesforce and Microsoft Azure

• migrating data among different cloud computing providers

• application programming interfaces (APIs) based interoperability of cloud computing

• Google Web Toolkit widgets

FSEC

10

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INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH

FOI has had experience in:• EU-funded projects: FP6/7, EUREKA, IPA, TEMPUS, LLP, CARDS

• State funded projects: BICRO, HIT, NSF, MSES, ESF

• Industry funded projects

* Countries where FOI

established project cooperation

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ConsortiumDIGITRANS Partnership (large image example)

• 15 Partners from 7 countries

• 2 associated partners

Digital Transformation in the Danube Region

Solution - WiFi AP localization using GPS data from UMN

• Trillateration

Solution - WiFi AP localization using GPS data from UMN

• Error sources: Transmit power changes GPS error Manufacturer error Collinear scans - Mirroring

Solution - Route finder - concept

• How to find route between two points using data from UMS?

Simulating Vehicular Visible Light Communication:Physical Radio and MAC Modeling

• VLC = visible light communication• Used:

Internet of things Vehicular networks

• MAC – media access protocol Design?

• Existing simulators do not support: VLC Carrier sensing Back-off timing Most of them have circular estimation Interference detection

VLC transciever

• VLC Vehicle model:

vehicle

Tx

Rx

Preliminary simulations

• 3rd scenario:

MAC for VLC prototype

• Control signal (127 possible channels)

DATADATA

Control signalControl signal

A B

CD

EF

KI expert

• Thermodynamics, construction, building materials• Cooperation

Knauf Insulation d.o.o Novi Marof Technical faculty Rijeka Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

Zagreb Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning

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STUDENT SUPPORT

Startup@foi•Support for establishment of companies•Free consulting, legal assistance, accounting services, working space and networking

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http://www.tourgent.co/

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http://www.mybeeline.co

Project cooperation challenges in Croatia (1/2)

• Strict national rules Gold-plating by national agencies – EU guidelines appended by additional restrictions Even simple translations of EU guidelines often more restrictive than original texts (ie.

“gross employment costs” translated into a Croatian legal term which excludes transportation and most of additions to a basic salary)

• Undercapacity of national agencies Only few staff with adequate experience and expertise Call for proposals often amended several times and deadlines extended Responses slow and often too late (comments on a first project interim report received

after 6 months, change in project team still not approved after 3 months…)• Focus on form, not the content

Costs not accepted even if directly linked to achieving the project results (ie. travel costs not accepted for a travel which happened 2 months later then initially planned but not communicated and approved by the national agency in advance)

Project cooperation challenges in Croatia (2/2)

• Rules change during the project implementation

• Huge administrative overload illustration - project

application form of 60 pages, appended by several thousand pages of supporting documents (salaries for all team members for the last 12 months, extracts from several national registers for the institution, the statute, classification of workplaces…)

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Thank you.

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