SARIB

Partner No. 6: The Mihailo Pupin Insitute

Address:
The Mihailo Pupin Institute
Volgina 15, 11060 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 772876, 771398, 773149
Fax: +381 11 774959
http://www.imp.bg.ac.yu/

Number of participants in the SARIB project: 8
Prof. Dr. Sanja Vraneš
Dr. Mladen Stanojević
Dr. Violeta Stevanović
Valentina Janev, MSc.
Vladimir Simeunović, Dipl. Ing.
Marija Minić, dipl. mat.
Jelena Jovanović, dipl. mat.
Dejan Paunović, dipl. ing.

E-mail:
sanja@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
mladen@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
violeta@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
valentina@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
vladimir@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
marija@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
jeljov@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu
dejan@lab200.imp.bg.ac.yu

Role and Contribution

The role of the Mihailo Pupin Institute within the SARIB project will mostly consist of provision of information technology support to other partners, having extensive experience and remarkable expertise in data base and information systems development, geographic information systems, decision support systems, multicriteria analysis and assessment, web portal development etc.

It will contribute to SARIB within the following tasks:

- design of database modul on pollution sources
- collection of geo-spatial data necessary for the development of a GIS
- gathering, assessment and validation information regarding soil remediation technologies and water treatment technologies
- establishment of web site of accessible database of the above technologies, user-friendly data-entry system for simple updating of the repository, and a corresponding search-engine enabling fast and accurate information-finding (according to the rich set of criteria and/or their arbitrary combination)
- compendia on soil remediation technologies and water/wastewater treatment technologies;
- development of consistent, measurable indicators for key technical, environmental, and economic criteria that influence selection and deployment of technologies;
- selection of suitable indicators aggregation algorithm;
- documentation, evaluation of gathered information;
- development of a flexible, multi-criteria decision support system (tradeoffs among criteria on the basis of contaminant type, cost of remediation, clean-up time and other user’s specific needs)
- help in dissimination

Experience

The Mihajlo Pupin Institute (MPI), is a leading Serbian and Montenegrin R&D institution in information and communication technologies, the biggest and the oldest in the whole South Eastern Europe area.. The institute was founded in 1946 and has about 250 researchers (7 Professors, 14 PhD, 30 MSc, etc.). At the MPI the projects of critical national importance have been conducted, combining systems engineering and information technology to develop innovative solutions in the area of water supply management, electrical power system management, e-government, information systems for public administration services,, traffic control, , etc. For projects on a large scale, IMP assembles a team with the best mixture of expertise appropriate to that specific engagement.

The areas of remarkable expertise and experience are:

- system integration and networking,
- information systems for government and industry, Internet/Intranet IS
- e-collaboration, e-commerce, e-government applications
- decision support systems, expert systems, intelligent Internet applications, MCDM
- process control and supervision,
- simulators, training aids, specialized H/S systems
- signal and image processing (telecommunications, medicine, quality control)
- real-time systems (large scale and embedded)
- turn-key engineering solutions

The MPI expertise in Web-specific technologies is amplified by prior years of experience in networking and more traditional forms of database applications development. The IMP has participated in the development of Intranet/Internet applications for such clients as the Government of Serbia (internal revenue service, citizenship registration, electoral lists, etc.), Central Bank of Yugoslavia (web repository of business reliability data for 100000 legal entities in FRY), BASF (decentralized IT project planning and tracking system), etc.

The most important references related to the SARIB project subject are:

- Geographic Information System for Point Source Pollution Control (Water authority of Vojvodina Province)
- Geographic Information System for Water Supply Analysis and Planning ( Serbian Water Authority
- Management of the Water Supply System for city of Algiers in Algeria
- Management of the Irrigation System for Strezevo - Bitola, FYR Macedonia (over 20.000 ha)
- Management and control of Sullana Dam and respective irrigation system Cira-Piura in Sullana, Peru.
- Decision Support System for Technology Sustainability Assessment ( Serbian Ministry for Science, Technology and Development).

Bio-sketch of the scientific person in charge for MPI part of SARIB project

Prof. Sanja Vranes PhD, a person in charge of The Mihailo Pupin portion of SARIB project, is jointly appointed as a Scientific Director of the Mihailo Pupin Institute and as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Belgrade. From 1999. she is also engaged as an United Nations Expert for information technologies. She has been working on applying techniques from artificial intelligence and operational research to practical problems in different domains, including holistic technology assessment and foresight, environmental decision support systems, financial decision making, industrial diagnostics, intelligent web applications, web services, etc. Her research interests include intelligent agents, semantic web, decision support systems, multicriteria analysis algorithms, etc. In these areas she published over 100 scientific papers.

Recent publications

Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Violeta Stevanovic, “Investment Decision Making”, in Cornelius Leonides (Ed.) Expert Systems, Volume 4, Chapter 31, Academic Press 2002, pp. 1107-1135
Vladimir Simeunović, Jelena Jovanović, Milan Sarić, Sanja Vraneš, “A Generic Framework for Web-based Intelligent Decision Support Systems“, Proceedings of the "4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management",PAKM2002, Springer, ISBN 3-540-00314-2, Beč, Decembar 2002, pp. 525-536
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Violeta Stevanovic “Financial decision aid based on heuristics and fuzzy logic” in E. Damiani et al. (Eds.) Knowledge based Intelligent Informatiopn Engineering systems and allied technologies , Proceedings of KES2003 conference, Crema, Itally, Septembar 16-18, 2002, IOS Press, ISBN 1 58603 280 1, Netherlands, 2002, pp. 381-387
Sanja Vranes, Mounir Ghribi, Gennaro Longo, and Francesco Pizzio, “Software Toolset for Sustainable Decisionmaking”, CD-ROM Proceedings of the BAM2002, Brithish Academy of Management Annual Conference, London, September 2002
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Dusan Velasevic, “ Truth Maintenance in Blackboard Environment” in Kent, Allen, Williams, James G., Eds. Encyclopedia of Microcomputers; Marcel Dekker, Inc.: New York, 2001; Volume 26, pp. 257-287.
S. Vranes, B. Opacic, F. Pizzio, “E-Collaboration Tool for Technology Foresight Exercise”, Journal of Systems and Information Technologies, Vol. 5, No.1, 2001, pp. 9-31
Sanja Vranes, “Real-time Programming”, Handbook, University Press, Belgrade 2001
Sanja Vranes, Francesco Pizzio, “Multiparadigm Software Tool for Technology Foresight, Proceedings of the BIT2001 Conference – Constructing IS Futures, (Ed. Roy Hackney), Manchester, UK, October 30-31, 2001, ISBN 0 905304 38 1
Sanja Vranes, Francesco Pizzio, “Decision Support System for Holistic Technology Assessment”, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Rome, Italy, 6-8 September 2000, pp. 269-275
Sanja Vranes, Andrea Lodolo, Vladimir Simeunovic, Stanislav Miertus, Francesco Pizzio, “DARTS – Decision Aid for Remediation Technology Selection”, ESSC Conference, Valencia, Spain, March 2000, pp.77-89
S. Vranes, “AI languages and Processing” in John Webster (Ed.) Enciclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 1999
S. Vranes, M. Stanojevic, V. Stevanovic, “Expert Systems Techniques and Applications in Investment Decision Making”, in Expert Systems Techniques and Applications, Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1999.
S. Vranes, M. Stanojevic, “Design Knowledge Representation in Prolog/Rex”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 1999, pp.221-228
M. Stanojevic, D. Velasevic, S. Vranes, “Truth Maintenance in Blackboard Environment”, Expert Systems, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1998
Sanja Vranes,Mladen Stanojevic, Violeta Stevanovic and Mario Lucin "INVEX - Investment Advisory Expert Systems" , Expert Systems, Volume 13, Number 2, May 1996
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Vileta Stevanovic, “BEST-based Expert Diagnostic System for the Aluminum Industry”, Computers in Industry, Volume 27, Number 2, 1996
Sanja Vranes and Mladen Stanojevic, "Integrating Multiple Paradigms within the Blackboard Framework", IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering , Volume 21, Number 3, March 1995
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic,"Prolog/Rex - A Way to Extend Prolog for Better Knowledge Representation", IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 6, Number 1, February 1994
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Mario Lucin, Violeta Stevanovic and Pero Subasic, "A Blackboard Framework on top of Prolog" Expert Systems with Applications (Pergamon Press) , Volume 7, Number 1, January-March 1994, pp. 109-130
Mladen Stanojevic, Sanja Vranes, Dusan Velasevic, "Using Truth Maintenance Systems - A Tutorial", IEEE Expert, Volume 9, Number 6, December 1994
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic and Pero Subasic, "A Framework for Engineering Intelligent Control Systems", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Pergamon Press ), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 367-380., 1994
Sanja Vranes and Mladen Stanojevic, "Prolog/Rex Inference Engine" , Expert Systems, Volume 12, Number 3, August 1995
Sanja Vranes and Koorosh Khodabandehloo, "A Guest Editors' Introduction", Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Elsevier Science), Volume 12, Number 1, July 1995.
Koorosh Khodabandehloo and Sanja Vranes, " Editorial", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 41, No. 5-6, August 1996, pp. 1-4
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Mario Lu~in, Violeta Stevanovic, Pero Subasic "Blackboard Metaphor in Tactical Decisionmaking", North Holland's European Journal for Operational Research, Volume 61, Number 1-2, August 25, 1992.
Sanja Vranes, "Expert System Shell Flexibility: BEST Case Study" in Spyros Tzafestas (Ed.) Engineering Systems with Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 pp. 33-38.
Mladen Stanojevic, Sanja Vranes, " A New Prolog-like Expert System Shell", in R. Hanus, P. Kool (Eds.) Mathematical and Intelligent Models in System Simulation, J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Co., 1991., pp. 313-318
Sanja Vranes "A Heuristic Algorithm for Real-Time Application Allocation to Multimicrocomputer System", Microprocessing and Microprogramming, Vol. 25, No. 1-5, January 1989
Sanja Vranes, "Report on the European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference", Mechatronic Forum Newsletter, November 1994
Sanja Vranes and Mladen Stanojevic, “Using BEST for Intelligent Computer Aided Design”, accepted for presentation at AIENG ‘96, Applications of Atificial Intelligence in Engineering, Tampa, Florida,11-13 September 1996
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Violeta Stevanovic, “BEST-based Intelligent Control Systems”, accepted for presentation at WAC ‘96, Second World Automation Congress, Montpellier, France, May 27-30,1996
Mladen Stanojevic, Sanja Vranes and Dusan Velasevic, “Pattern-Matching in Search Problem Solving”, Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Hawai’i International Conference on System Science, Kihei, Maui, Hawai’i, January 3-6, 1996, IEEE Computer Society Press, Volume II, pp. 201- 209
Sanja Vranes and Geoffrey Newell, "The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Surgical Practice", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop: Mechatronics in Medicine and Surgery, MEDIMEC '95, Bristol, United Kingdom, 6-9 September 1995
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic, Violeta Stevanovic, "BEST-based Diagnostic System for Industrial Plants", in R.A. Adey, G. Rzesky and C. Tasso (Eds), Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Computatiopnal Mechanics Publisher, July 1995, pp. 209-219
Sanja Vranes, Mladen Stanojevic and Violeta Stevanovic, "Expert Diagnostic Systems for Industrial Plant: A Case Study in the Aluminum Industry", Proceedings of 1995 International IEEE/IAS Conference on Industrial Automation and Control: Emerging Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, 22-27 May, 1995, pp. 464-472
Sanja Vranes and Mladen Stanojevic, “Using BEST for Intelligent Computer Aided Design”, accepted for presentation at AIENG ‘96, Applications of Atificial Intelligence in Engineering, Tampa, Florida,11-13 September 1996
Graham Purnell, Sanja Vranes, Koorosh Khodabandehloo "Machine Learning in Robotic Meat Processing", Proceeding of the European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference, EURISCON'94, Malaga, Spain, August 22-26, 1994
Koorosh Khodabandehloo and Sanja Vranes, "Development of Skilled Robots", Proceedings of the European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference, EURISCON'94, Malaga, Spain, August 22-26, 1994
Mladen Stanojevic, Sanja Vranes "Solving Search Problems Using BEST", Proceedings of the European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference, EURISCON'94, Malaga, Spain, August 22-26, 1994
Sanja Vranes and Pero Subasic, "Knowledge-based Allocation Model for Distributed Processing Systems" , Proc. Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-24, 1993, pp. 456-462
Sanja Vranes, "BEST as a Real-Time Knowledge-Based Systems Development Environment", Proc. Fourth EUROMICRO Workshop on Real Time Systems, Athens, Greece, June 3-5, 1992.
Sanja Vranes and Pero Subasic, "Knowledge Base Partitioner", Fifth International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering, Sevilla, Spain, October 5-9, 1992.
Pero Subasic and Sanja Vranes, "A Framework for Distributed Intelligent Control", Proc. IMACS/SICE International Symposium on Robotics, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems '92 Kobe, Kobe, Japan, September 16-20, 1992.
Sanja Vranes and Mladen Stanojevic, "Multiparadigm Environment for Complex Systems Development", Proc. IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications, SICICA '92, Malaga, Spain, May 18-22. 1992.