Keynote Speech - Igor Lučić

      
   State Secretary, Central State Administrative
   Office for e-Croatia
   (Plenary Session)


   Towards the Information Society
 

Keynote Speech - Elya Joffe
K.T.M. Project Engineering, Izrael
(Plenary Session)

Understanding the "EMC": From "Garbage of Electronics" to Global  Intersystem Compatibility

Biography: Mr. Joffe holds the position of V.P. of Engineering in K.T.M. Project Engineering since 1987 and works as Senior EMC engineering Specialist and consultant. Elya holds a B.ScEE in Electrical Engineering from the Ben Gurion University in Israel. Elya is a Registered Professional Engineer (Israel) and an iNARTE certified EMC and ESDC Engineer. Elya is also a member of the Board of Directors of iNARTE. Elya has over 25 years of experience in EMC/E3, particularly in aerospace and is also well known globally for his EMC training activities. He has authored and co-authored over 30 papers in EMC and is the chief author of the book "The Grounds for Grounding", due 2009. Mr. Joffe is Senior Member of IEEE and has been serving as member and VP in several positions on the BoD of the IEEE EMC Society since 2000. He currently serves as President of the IEEE EMC Society (2008-2009). He is a Chartered Member of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES) and a member of its BoD. He is also a Past Chairman of the Israel IEEE EMC Chapter. Elya. also served as a “Distinguished Lecturer” of the EMC Society (1999/2000). Elya received numerous awards from the IEEE and EMC Society, particularly the EMC Society “Laurence G. Cumming Award for Outstanding Service” (2002), the "Honorary Life Member Award" (2004), the "Technical; Achievement Award" (2004), the "Symposium Chair Award" (2004) and the IEEE “Third Millennium Medal” (2000). Elya is also the recipient of the very prestigious "2006 IEEE RAB Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award" "For outstanding contribution to enhancement of the transnational character of IEEE through promotion of conferences, membership and chapter development on a regional and global basis".

Algirdas Pakštas
London Metropolitan University, Faculty of Computing
(Saturday: 12:30 - 13:00, ADRIATIC)

Biography: Prof. Algirdas Pakštas received his M.Sc. in Radiophysics and Electronics in 1980 from the Irkutsk State University, Ph.D. in Systems Programming in 1987 from the Institute of Control Sciences. Currently he is with the London Metropolitan University, Faculty of Computing where he is doing research the area of Communications Software Engineering and is teaching courses “Network Management and Security”, “Datacommunications” and “Computer Network Analysis and Simulation”. He is active in the following IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees: TC on Communications Software and TC on Multimedia Communications. He has published 3 research monographs (2 authored and 1  edited) and more than 140 other publications. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the ‘IEEE Communications Magazine”, “Cybernetics and Systems Analysis”, “Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences” and “CompSIS”.

Problems and Realities of the Internet Governance and Regulations

ABSTRACT: Talk is considering a problem of “Internet Governance (or not?)”. It looks at the development of the Internet, its architecture,
elements of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is discussing governance
itself and players involved into it including various international
bodies and technical societies (IEEE Communications Society, Internet Society, ACM). Problems related to governance are presented. At the end a few observations are presented.
 

Antun Carić
Croatian Telecommunication Agency
(Friday: 15:00-15:30, BRAČ I)

Biography: Antun Carić: Received his B.S., M.S., and Ph. from the University of Zagreb. He is an profesor at the university of Zagreb in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently he is senior adviser in Croatian Telecommunications Agency. His fields of interest include research and development, software design, network signalling and control, open systems, and new network services and applications.
 

"LIBERALIZATION OF CROATIAN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION MARKET"

ABSTRACT: The paper presents the status of the electronic communication market liberalization process in the Republic of Croatia. The structure and the size of fixed and mobile market including broadband and digital television have been analyzed. Special attention was paid to the innovation and investment in the electronic communication market in Croatia as well as to the regulation framework which should support the stable market growth.

Gottfried W. R. Luderer
Arizona State University, USA
(Saturday: 14:30-15:00)

Biography: Dr. Gottfried W. R. Luderer was appointed Professor, ISS Chair of Telecommunication, at Arizona State University in the Fall of 1990. His current research program in networking includes work in the areas of control of ISDN/Broadband ISDN networks, mobile communication networks, and multimedia communication, which ranges from call processing for intelligent network services to network management. Research emphasis is on advanced software technologies for development of telecommunication networks, as used in switches, for signaling and in network management, with a focus on object and component technology and formal definition techniques. From 1965 to 1989, Dr. Luderer was with AT&T Bell Labs, at last directing research on next generation switch architectures, based on fast packet switching technology on the hardware side and object-oriented design technology on the software side, resulting in some of the earliest demonstration networks for multimedia communication. Dr. Luderer holds Diplomingenieur (M.S) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He holds two patents. While at Bell Labs, he taught at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and at Princeton University. He is member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer and Communication Societies.

"Transhumanism - a Computer Technologists View"

Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement with the objective of enhancement of human beings, i.e. augmenting human capabilities and reducing human shortcomings. Focus is on the use of science and technology to enhance mental and physical abilities and aptitudes, and to overcome negative aspects of the human condition such as aging, diseases, suffering, disability and death. The scope ranges from the individual to the whole species, e.g. it includes medicine as well as eugenics.  Its approach is transdisciplinarian  combining mainly the fields of genetics, robotics,  informatics and neuroscience (acronym GRIN). Emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) are seen to converge, and hypothetical future technologies are expected to arise, such as simulated reality, superintelligence, mind uploading and cryonics. There is an obvious  interaction with the science fiction literature. The movement also addresses a growing body of criticism discussing potential dangers and benefits. Criticism comes from man
directions: philosophy, ethics, sociology, theology. The talk will briefly outline the history and evolving definitions, then focus on areas related to engineering disciplines. As Computer scientists and technologists we will be asked to become players in these efforts. Whether we participate or not, it behooves us well to reflect about the potential consequences.

Elya Joffe
K.T.M. Project Engineering, Izrael
(Thursday: 17:30-18:00)

Biography: Mr. Joffe holds the position of V.P. of Engineering in K.T.M. Project Engineering since 1987 and works as Senior EMC engineering Specialist and consultant. Elya holds a B.ScEE in Electrical Engineering from the Ben Gurion University in Israel. Elya is a Registered Professional Engineer (Israel) and an iNARTE certified EMC and ESDC Engineer. Elya is also a member of the Board of Directors of iNARTE. Elya has over 25 years of experience in EMC/E3, particularly in aerospace and is also well known globally for his EMC training activities. He has authored and co-authored over 30 papers in EMC and is the chief author of the book "The Grounds for Grounding", due 2009. Mr. Joffe is Senior Member of IEEE and has been serving as member and VP in several positions on the BoD of the IEEE EMC Society since 2000. He currently serves as President of the IEEE EMC Society (2008-2009). He is a Chartered Member of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES) and a member of its BoD. He is also a Past Chairman of the Israel IEEE EMC Chapter. Elya. also served as a “Distinguished Lecturer” of the EMC Society (1999/2000). Elya received numerous awards from the IEEE and EMC Society, particularly the EMC Society “Laurence G. Cumming Award for Outstanding Service” (2002), the "Honorary Life Member Award" (2004), the "Technical; Achievement Award" (2004), the "Symposium Chair Award" (2004) and the IEEE “Third Millennium Medal” (2000). Elya is also the recipient of the very prestigious "2006 IEEE RAB Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award" "For outstanding contribution to enhancement of the transnational character of IEEE through promotion of conferences, membership and chapter development on a regional and global basis".

Who's Afraid of Maxwell's  Equations? A Practical Approach

Electromagnetics theory is surrounded my mystery and magic, mostly because the mathematics required for solving Maxwell’s equations are messy enough that most of us avoid them at all costs! Never mind solving them, few of us even have a clear perception of what they actually say...
EMC is even worse, often considered black magic!
This presentation is intended to demystify the very basics of electromagnetic theory - Maxwell's Equations. The presentation will provide explanations in everyday terms and without the need for mathematics the meaning and implication of Maxwell's equations for the practicing engineer. Some of the basic symbols used in mathematics, such as integration, derivatives, and bizarre vector symbols and their implication are explained . Through these simple explanations, Maxwell’s equations will then "see the light".
An example related to the flow of return currents in circuits will be used to illustrate the principles described previously.

Presentations

Wolfgang Bartsch
(Thursday: 18:00-18:45)

Wolfgang Bartsch was born on January 29th in 1939 in Schreibersdorf/Silesia and graduated at Schiller-Gymnasium Hameln in 1960. In 1968 he graduated with a Diplomingenieur degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig. His professional activities were computer development and technical usage of process computers. He worked in the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, the USA, and mostly in Germany for several corporations, among them Siemens, Philips, Landis & Gyr, and Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft (IABG). The recent 25 years until his retirement in 2003 he developed computerized test equipment to evaluate the proper function of railway vehicles and airplanes. Among the more prominent test objects were the types A330 and A340 of Airbus industries.

Computer Instrumented Systems for Large Scale Mechanical Ground Testing Of Airplanes

This talk deals with the testing of large scale mechanical equipment which is implemented with multiprocessor systems to control large numbers of actuators and collect data from very large numbers of sensors in a synchronized manner. The objective of this task is "a full scale fatigue test of a large airplane in order to find out the fatigue and damage behavior". The aim is to apply to atest specimen the typical stress factors for 2 or 3 lives of this type of equipment in a time as short as possible. Real time load streams must be simulated in much shorter times since it is very important to reduce the waiting time and to achieve cost efficiency. Slightly different mechanical test implementations are used by the test companies. For different load conditions of the test equipment the data of up to nearly 10.000 measurement points from sensors like load cells, strain gauges, displacement transducers, and thermo couples must be sampled. The large number of measurement sensors requires a lot of equipment and cable installations. Improvements will be achieved with new technologies especially by miniaturized measurement systems. Only a small number of these data is needed for online control. All the raw data are transferred after a series of simulated test flights in a standardized data exchange format, which contains header records with parameters and associated records with the measured raw data. The transfer takes place via Ethernet to local evaluation computers and via CD-ROM to all involved partners.