The full-paper submission deadline for 39^th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2016 has been extended. All authors who have not yet submitted their manuscripts will be able to submit up to Monday, 22 February 2016.

Professor Pierpaolo Palestri will present his invited paper, „State-of-the-Art Semi-Classical Monte Carlo Method for Carrier Transport in Nanoscale Transistors“ at MIPRO MEET conference, on Thursday, May 28, at 9.00 am, Bellavista Hall, Grand hotel Adriatic.

Centre for Informatics and Computing of Ruđer Bošković Institute, within the EU project FP7 E2LP, cooperated in a development of programmable hardware platform which can be used in a scientific research (laboratory) and education.

Tajana Šimunić Rosing is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSD. She is currently heading the effort in SmartCities as a part of DARPA and industry funded TerraSwarm center. Prior to that she led the energy efficient datacenters theme as a part of the MuSyC center. Her research interests are energy efficient computing, embedded and large scale distributed systems. Prof. Rosing was a full time researcher at HP Labs while being leading research part-time at Stanford University. She finished her PhD in 2001 at Stanford University, concurrently with finishing her Masters in Engineering Management. Her PhD topic was Dynamic Management of Power Consumption. Prior to pursuing the PhD, she worked as a Senior Design Engineer at Altera Corporation.

Within the 37th International ICT Convention MIPRO there will be held RIDE 2014 - Research and Education Infrastructure Dissemination Event in the exhibition area of the Grand hotel Adriatic from Wednesday to Thursday, May 28–29, 2014.

According to the definition of activities and orientation of MIPRO Promotional Partnership organizing the EU project meetings. Within the DC VIS Conference MIPRO Croatian Society, University of Ljubljana, University of Zagreb in cooperation with COST TD 1104 Action European network for development of electroporation-based technologies and treatments (EP4Bio2Med) organize COST meeting, which will be held on Thursday, May 29, from 9 to 11 (Hall Camelia2, Grand hotel Adriatic).

At the 37th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2014, as part of the conference DC VIS, section on Biomedical Engineering, world-renowned heart surgeon PhD Borut Geršak from Ljubljana will hold an invited lecture.

Borut Geršak's invited lecture on topic Convergent Procedure - a Hybrid Approach in Treating of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation is scheduled for Thursday, May 29 in Hall Camelia 2, Grand hotel Adriatic, Opatija, starting at 8:15 PM.

Thursday 29^th May 2014 at 9:30 am

Anil K. Jain

• Biometric Recognition: Some Challenges in Forensics

Anil Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University where he conducts research in pattern recognition, computer vision and biometrics. He has received Guggenheim fellowship, Humboldt Research award, Fulbright fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award, IEEE W. Wallace McDowell award, IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, and ICDM Research Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1991-94) and is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE.  Holder of eight patents in biometrics, he is the author of several books on biometrics and pattern recognition. He served as a member of the National Academies panels on Information Technology, Whither Biometrics and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). He was a member of the Defense Science Board.

Professor A. Jain has 107505 citations (h-index 141).

More: www.cse.msu.edu/~jain/

The 37^th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2014 is traditionally dedicated to information and communication technology, electronics, microelectronics, renewable energy sources, ecology along with a new and high technologies in general.  We are convinced that MIPRO 2014 will attract more than a thousand participants from commerce, science, education, state and local administration, government and local self-government from Croatia and abroad.

You are invited to submit your scientific, proffesional and reviewed papers for one of our conferences, what is an opportunity for you to present results of your research and proffesional work. We particularly encourage scientific interns and students attending graduate study programs to apply with their papers. The presentations may contain results of scientific research, development of new products and services including results obtained in doctoral and masters’ theses. We also welcome papers with descriptions of technical, software, hardware and other solutions as well as papers which show the use of nanotechnology, ecology and renewable energy sources. Besides, there are also expected papers of experts in the field of education and education technologies. We invite chairs of european and other projects on science, research, information, technology to present their achievements and experiences. Furthermore, we would like to point out the papers which reflect on programs as a result of european cooperation. MIPRO 2014 is a technological convention opened to all of those who seek for a technological change.

Apart from the conferences there are organized seminars of lifelong learning, round tables, panels, debates, workshops and a traditional exhibition of ICT, electronic and microelectronic products, services and technical solutions. Producers of such equipment, products and services are invited  to present themselves and their products.

We are opened to accept any suggestions and ideas which could improve and widen the scope of our conference, please contact us at mipro@mipro.hr and we'll discuss your proposals.

Welcome to the 37^th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2014 in the always beautiful town of Opatija, town of tourism, culture, science and new technologies, in May 2014.

At 20th Research Infrastructure Programme Committee Meeting of FP7, held on 15th March in Brussels Schuman Centre of the European Commission, presented a long term program of Infrastructure Research Dissemination Event RIDE at MIPRO as an annual event to share the results of experience, plans and strategic development directions.

Chairman pointed out that this is a significant event for the RI and Directorate  of DG INFSO gives full support and assistance for RIDE.

National representatives will follow the announcement to interested project developers.

At the 20th Research Infrastructure Programme Committee Meeting of FP7, held on 30th March in Brussels, Schuman Centre of the European Commission, Professor. Karolj Skala as a Croatian representative presented a long term program of Infrastructure Research Dissemination Event, RIDE, at MIPRO 2012.

Infrastructure Research Dissemination Event, RIDE, at MIPRO 2012 appears as an annual event to share the results of experience, plans and strategic development directions.

ICRI 2012 conference took place in Copenhagen under the auspices of the Danish Presidency of the European Union, in cooperation with the European Commission. At the ICRI conference, PhD. Karolj Skala presented RIDE which will also be held at the 35th MIPRO. With RIDE MIPRO becomes a distribution polygon for accomplishments of Research Infrastructure projects in Europe. RIDE proven to attract great amount of interest.

Prof. dr. Oskar Mencer, Maxeler Technologies and Imperial College London, is a guest lecturer on MIPRO 2012, Distributed Computing and Visualization Systems Conference and on the RIDE will be presented the most advanced Maximum Performance Computing - MPC system.

Prior to founding Maxeler, prof. Oskar Mencer was Member of Technical Staff at the Computing Sciences Centre at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, leading the effort in "Stream Computing". He joined Bell Labs after receiving a PhD from Stanford University. Besides driving Maximum Performance Computing (MPC) at Maxeler, Oskar is Consulting Professor in Geophysics at Stanford University and he is also affiliated with the Computing Department at Imperial College London.

At the 7th WG Meeting of the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium which was held on 22 March in Copenhagen under the chairmanship by professor Carlo Rizzuto, it was agreed that C ERIC supports RIDE and that the next meeting of the C-ERIC will held on 25th May in Opatija during the 35th MIPRO Conference and RIDE Exhibition.

MIPRO: On every MIPRO the “Ruđer Bošković” Institute presents some innovation like the 3D printer or 3D television which can be looked at without goggles. What is in preparation for the jubilee 35th MIPRO?

Skala: We felt the need of the moment to organize an exposition at MIPRO of the results of EU projects in the field of research infrastructure. So we initiated, from the “Ruđer Bošković” Institute, the RIDE program which won the support both of the EU Commission for RI and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports.

MIPRO: What does RIDE stand for and what will it bring to this year’s MIPRO?

Skala: RIDE is an acronym for the Research Infrastructure Dissemination Event and it represents a gathering point and presentation of achievements of EU projects in the area of research infrastructure. Through the FP7 and the new Horizon 2020 programs the European Community, along with a range of accompanying institutions such as eIRG, ESFRI, ERIC and others systematically builds and unifies the research infrastructure in the European research area (ERA). For a number of years we, from Croatia, have participated in various programs as consortium partners. At this moment we have five such programs under way: DARIAH – IRB, SPIRIT- IRB, ENSAR - IRB, CLARIN- FFZG, EGI INSPIRE-SRCE. This makes it imperative to undertake concrete steps to define the road map on how to structure and functionalize the common research infrastructure from Grid to research ships. As regards the Grid infrastructure, in Croatia we started on time a very successful CRO GRID project which resulted in the CRO NGI national research infrastructure, and we managed to integrate ourselves in the right way into the EGI (European Grid Infrastructure). This was a major effort through participation in EU projects by the “Ruđer Bošković” Institute, SRCE and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. But, this is only the beginning in the structuring of a new research platform and a technological foundation in Croatia. This should be worked upon very intensely, and we hope that RIDE will give a contribution in this respect. It is foreseen for RIDE to become a traditional meeting point of participants in the EU RI projects and a location of presentation of achievements, exchange of experiences and new ideas, which is basically also the mission of MIPRO!

MIPRO: How are the preparations going?

Skala: The preparations are going well. With the encompassing support of the President of the Program Committee Professor Petar Biljanović and Head of the MIPRO Office Jadranko Novak, we are advancing fast. I am just now on my way to Copenhagen and Brussels where RIDE will hold public presentations, and we hope to get a good response.

The sponsorship of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the support of the Office for RI in the European Commission mean a lot to us. Among other, they have offered to directly carry out the dissemination of RIDE.

MIPRO: Is there still time for applications?

Skala: Yes, time is not an issue. The applications are open until the beginning of May, but, as we want to have a good location for our stands, one should do the reservation, i.e. application as soon as possible.

Abstract submission deadline for Jubilee 35th International Convention MIPRO 2012 is extended until January 18, 2012.

Important dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
• Full paper submission deadline: Monday, February 06, 2012
• Final paper review deadline: Monday, March 05, 2012

Papers published in the conference proceedings and presented at the convention will be included in the IEEE Xplore database.