{"id":44,"date":"2018-09-14T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/14\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-2-sisy2018-conference-day-1-in-subotica-serbia\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T11:36:47","slug":"my-research-tour-across-europeday-2-sisy2018-conference-day-1-in-subotica-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-2-sisy2018-conference-day-1-in-subotica-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"My Research Tour Across Europe(Day 2) &#8211; SISY2018 Conference Day 1 in Subotica, Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #555555; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">\n<div style=\"color: #555555; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday1-budapest-to-serbia-and-back-to-budapest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Budapest to Serbia and Back to Budapest Again!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-2-sisy2018-conference-day-1-in-subotica-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Day 1 of SISY2018 at the Subotica City Hall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-2-sisy2018-conference-day-1-in-subotica-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Day 2 of SISY2018 at Subotica Tech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-4-sisy2018-last-day-of-conference-in-subotica-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Day 3 of SISY2018 at Subotica Tech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-research-tour-across-europeday-5-home-at-last-back-from-serbia-to-budapest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Budapest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/my-presentation-in-sisy2018-conference-in-subotica-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Presentation on &#8216;Performance Analysis of Microsoft.Net and Java-Based Implementation of REST Web Services&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/dinner-at-the-16th-ieee-international-symposium-on-intelligent-systems-and-informatics-in-subotica-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dinner at Hotel Galleria in Subotica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><ins style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7041870931346451\" data-ad-slot=\"4209786523\"><\/ins><br \/>\nThis is the first day of the conference.<br \/>\nBut guess what, the programs starts by sometime by noon! So I have some time to make this write up for you and maybe let you know what the day&#8217;s activities would look like. And sure I have get to the venue early.<br \/>\nFirst, I need to look for a breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. The Sights and Sounds of Serbia<\/b><br \/>\nBefore now, I use to associate Serbia to the First World War. But right now, I am on ground and could not see anything that relates this beautiful city to any kind of violence as everywhere is quite peaceful. Take a look at some of the shots.<\/p>\n<p><ins style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7041870931346451\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-slot=\"8227894917\"><\/ins><b>3. At the City Hall<\/b><br \/>\nThis is the City Hall, where the first part of the program would take place. So I did the necessary registrations here<\/p>\n<p><b>4. \u00a0Registration and Opening Ceremony<\/b><br \/>\nJust a formal process of registering the attendees. We receive our badge and conference pack containing a flash drive and the booklet. Was kind of boring though but it\u2019s part of the initial procedures. I made some friends here.<br \/>\nProfessor Levente Kovacs made a speech highlighting the benefit of the conference. He mention that SISY\u00a0 is a global conference organized in different countries including Africa, Asia and the Middle East.<br \/>\nImre Rudas made some opening remarks as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Hightlights \u00a0of Plenary Session I (Prof. Philip Chen)<\/b><br \/>\n<b><\/b>Professor Philip Chen of the University of Macau spoke on the theme: Board Learning System and Its Structural Variation.<\/p>\n<div>He spoke about flat neutral network which helps to eliminate multiple layer neural network. Using so much technical jargon, he explained how the weight can be obtained for flat neutral network. I could clearly see that many of the attendees quickly became bored. He continued anyway and kept speaking and the screen was always filled with cryptic formulas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He mentioned that Moore\u2019s Pseudo-inverse or gradient descent can be used to obtain solution. Then the mentioned something on sparse-coding, but the explanation was not quite clear to me.<\/div>\n<div>He also discussed the concept of Broad Learning difference from Deep Learning as well as incremental learning where the following parameters were used.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>60000 training samples<\/li>\n<li>10000 learning samples<\/li>\n<li>Manifold Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>How to deal with noisy data &#8211; by normalization<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/broadlearning.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/broadlearning.ai&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536968305045000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF6sbzd3ktO7_eaG7onseRDdaDW6w\">http:\/\/broadlearning.ai<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The session chair, Prof. Imre Rudas then asked him: In one sentence,<\/div>\n<div><b>Deep Learning<\/b>: A neutral network that tries to map the inputs to the output using multiple hidden layers<\/div>\n<p><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><br \/>\n<b>6. Highlights of Plenary Session II (Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic)<\/b><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovicj of the Simon Fraser University, Canada spoke extensively on &#8216;You and Your Career&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">\n<div>She started by talking about her career history. She works in the Communications Laboratory at Simon Fraser, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<\/div>\n<div>She spoke about the role of education in our lives and careers. She encourages the audience to try to do their best.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This presenter has a very rich academic and research profile including:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of Technical staff in AT &amp; T Bell laboratories<\/li>\n<li>Research Scientist in Bell Communications Research<\/li>\n<li>Visiting prof. at UC Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Simon Fraser University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Did so much work in communication network including:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Modelling and analysis of computer networks<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of complex systems and network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>She has been a lecturer in nine different subjects in Communication Networks as well as Circuit and Systems<\/div>\n<div>She referenced another presentation with the title &#8216;You and Your Research&#8217; and emphasized the need for good preparation so that if the opportunity comes, then you can seize it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She emphasized the need to develop very good communication skills<\/div>\n<div>She highlighted 5 factors most influential people adopt to rise to the top according to 204 British CEOs<\/div>\n<div>Some of them are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to work with a variety of people<\/li>\n<li>Responsibility in in important tasks<\/li>\n<li>Need to achieve results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She the talked about IEEE as a non-profit Organisation governed by US laws<\/div>\n<div>IEEE as of the time of this conference has 374,778 members including 41,677 graduate students<\/div>\n<div>She encourages everyone to join professional organization including Young professional organization and Women in Engineering<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\"><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><br \/>\n<b>7. Highlights of Plenary Session III (Prof. Sonja Ristic)<\/b><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">\n<div><b>Prof Sonja Ristic<\/b> spoke on Model- Driven and Domain Specific Language Paradigms in Information System (Re)Engineering Projects<\/div>\n<div>She started by talking about herself. She is a professor in the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Science.<\/div>\n<div>She say \u2018a model is worth more than a thousand words \u2018<\/div>\n<div>She highlighted that there are different kinds of people, six categories:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem solvers<\/li>\n<li>Dreamers<\/li>\n<li>Researchers<\/li>\n<li>Innovator<\/li>\n<li>Creator<\/li>\n<li>Tester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>She talked about Software Engineering as a relatively young field. Also mentioned that software engineers are impatient an often times does not design along with users.<\/div>\n<div>She says that software is abstract while real world is concrete but the says that this statement is not completely factual<\/div>\n<div>She focused on Model-Driven Paradigm<\/div>\n<div>She the mentioned and discussed Multi-Paradigm Information System design tool<\/div>\n<div>She the summaries by highlighting Architecture Driven Modernization mentioning 9 key points:<\/div>\n<div>Model-Dirven paradigms<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>She makes a strong statement \u2018Engineers must be Responsabile\u2019<\/div>\n<div>If a builder builds a house and does not construct it properly and the house collapses and kills someone, the the builder must be put to death<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Article 229 of the code of Hermurabi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'segoe ui';\">\n<p>9. Back to Hotel Room<br \/>\nYeah! I\u2019m back to my nice hotel room looking back at the day\u2019s activities. That is me just relaxing as I already had more than enough at the banquet. So I never bothered calling the kitchen<\/p>\n<p>10. Nice Supper and a Good Night Rest!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budapest to Serbia and Back to Budapest Again! 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