New Frontiers in Informatics (NEFI) Workshop in Bergen, Norway, September 11, 2012#

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Prior to the General Assembly and the Annual Meeting of Academia Europaea the Informatics Section is organizing a workshop for all members of Academia Europaea who are interested to participate. There is no extra registration fee. Academia and particularly Informatics Section encourages all interested members to participate in the workshop!

Subject of NEFI:#

Informatics grows dynamically in our times and also affects many other sciences. Academia Europaea thus has decided to organize a Workshop on new frontiers and directions of Informatics. This is very timely and will help the field itself via the proposals and ideas to be announced at the Workshop. The talks are meant to be comprehensible for members of the Informatics Section who are not specialists in the particular area of the talks.

Other Information: #

The program committee consists of (in alphabetical order) Bergstra, Jan (U. Amsterdam) and Spirakis, Paul (Chair, U. Patras and CTI). To contact the Program Committee Chair Paul Spirakis use spirakis@cti.gr. Local Organisation is handled by Marc Bezem at marc.bezem@ii.uib.no from U. Bergen.

The venue of NEFI will be Studentsenteret, Parkveien 1, Nygardshoyden, 5007 Bergen. Seminar Room D.

Program of New Frontiers in Informatics (NEFI) workshop#

• 09.00-09.15 Dr. Thierry Van Der Pyl
• 09.15-09.30 Prof. Enn Tyugu: “Emerging Threats in Cyber Space”
• 09.30-09:45 Prof. Franz Baader: “Logic meets the real world: How can logical reasoning be used to achieve higher-level situation awareness?”
• 09:45-10.00 Prof. Marc Bezem: “Elements of Mathematics” in the Digital Age
• 10.00-10.15 Prof. Jan Bergstra: “Perspectives in business informatics”
• 10.15-10.30 Prof. E. Peter Bjørstad: “Modeling multiscale Phenomenous with Massively Parallel Systems”

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

• 11.00-11.15 Prof. Mario de Jesus Perez-Jimenez: “Computational Complexity Theory in Membrane Computing”
• 11.15-11.30 Prof. Manfred Droste: “Quantitative Logics and Automata”
• 11.30-11.45 Prof. Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger: “The shadow of the Past”
• 11.45-12.00 Prof. Wolfang Reisig: “An Integrated Theory of Informatics”
• 12.00–12.15 Prof. V. John Tucker: “Computational aspects of physical experiments”
• 12.15–12.30 Prof. Ivan Bratko: “Autonomous Discovery of Abstract Notions by a Robot”

Confirmed participants so far (July, 20 2012) (in alphabetical order):#

Baader, Franz (Speaker, TU Dresden)
Bezem, Marc (Speaker and Local Organisation Chair, University Bergen)
Bergstra, Jan (Member, Program Committee, University Amsterdam)
Bjørstad, Petter E. (Speaker, Bergen center for Computational Science)
Boller, Thomas (Participant, Max Plank Institute for Extraterrestial Physics)
Bratko, Ivan (Speaker, University of Ljubljana)
Cloetingh, Sierd (Participant, VU University Amsterdam)
de Jesús Pérez Jiménez, Mario (Speaker, University Seville)
Droste, Manfred (Speaker, University Leipzig)
Fellner, Dieter (Participant, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics (IGD))
Hannisdal, Bjarte (Participant, University of Bergen)
Ioannidis, Yannis (Participant, University of Athens and ATHENA Research and Innovation Center)
Lenzerini, Mauricio (Participant, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Leopold-Wildburger, Ulrike (Speaker, University Graz, Austria)
Lugiato, Luigi (Participant, University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
Maurer, Hermann (Participant, Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Michel, Philippe (Participant, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Misund, Arve Ole (Participant, Institute of Marine Research, Norway)
Nebel, Bernhard(Participant, University Freiburg, Germany)
Reisig, Wolfgang (Speaker, Humoldt University Berlin)
Šelih, Alenka (Participant, University of Ljubljana)
Spirakis, Pavlos (Participant, Program Committee Chair, University Patras and CTI)
Tucker John V. (Speaker, Swansea University, United Kingdom)
Tyugu, Enn (Speaker, Tallinn University of Technology)
Vaagen, Jan Sigurd (Participant, University of Bergen)
Van Der Pyl, Thierry (Speaker, Director of the European Commission)
Wilhelm, Reinhard (Participant, Saarland University, Germany)

Please direct any questions you may have to the Program Committee Chair or the Local Organisation Chair Marc Bezem from Univ. Bergen. If you are planning to come, the IS Chair Hermann Maurer at hmaurer@iicm.edu is also happy to get a note from you, so he can keep updating the above list on the server.

Accommodation#

• The local organizers have suggested that participants of NEFI book in the Strand hotel (15 minutes walk to conference venue, 0 minutes to city centre http://www.scandichotels.com/en/Hotels/Countries/Norway/Bergen/Hotels/Strand)
• Price per night NOK 1090 (single), NOK 1290 (double) (approximately 140 Euro)
• Booking code: 262799 directly to hotel at strand@scandichotels.com or +47 55 59 33 00