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TUCS Newsletter 19.12.2012
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TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series
The TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series is a forum for public lectures by outstanding national and international researchers in all aspects of computing, coming both from academia and industry. All lectures are free and open to the public.
The last lecture of the series during fall 2012 was given by Prof. Masakazu Ohashi from Chuo University, Japan on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 13.15. The title of the lecture was "Business and IT operations continuance in Japan after the 2011 earthquake" The lecture was hosted by: Reima Suomi from the University of Turku.
Abstract. A survey conducted local governments and enterprises in disaster-damaged and other areas in Japan concerning the Great East Japan Earthquake and business continuity, looking into how business operations were continued on the occasion of the disaster and what challenges emerged then. Given that the disaster affected business continuity in many cases, local governments and private enterprises both in the disaster-damage areas and others have grown more conscious of business continuity. Many of them have prepared and are considering preparing business continuity plans. However, BCP consciousness and effort gaps have emerged between size groups – between prefectural and municipal governments and between large enterprises and small and medium-sized ones. We must appropriately address these gaps in order to enhance the entire society’s resistance to disasters.
In order to revive societies and economies and reconstruct the livelihood in the disaster-damaged areas and revitalize the entire Japan, the government must make all-out efforts to promote restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake and far-sighted reconstruction efforts including the creation of safe, secure and future- oriented towns using sophisticated ICT technologies.
Biography. Masakazu Ohashi is a professor at Graduate School and Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan. His research activity covers the system for the next generation networking social systems and Social Design. He is a chair of International Standardization Committee of e-Tendering and Procurement, Executive Board Member of Foundation, Japan Construction of Information Center and Service Center of Port Engineering (e-Tendering and Procurement Center of Public Work) and the top executive of Time Business Form (Time Authentication). He is a vice-president of The Infosocionomics Society in Japan and a member of UN/CEFACT TBG6. He was a president of Web Services Initiative (2004-2007) and Internet Data Center Initiative (2000-2007) in Japan. He published many books and presents papers at the international conferences and journals regarding Authentication and the next generation social systems.
TUCS GP doctoral defences
On Friday, December 14th, TUCS GP student Amir-Mohammad Rahmani-Sane presented his Doctoral thesis "Exploration and Design of Power-Efficient Networked Many-Core Systems" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Rahmani-Sane was Professor Professor José L. Ayala from Complutence University of Madrid, Spain. Adjunct Professor Pasi Liljeberg acted as the custos at this public defence.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Lambda, The ICT Building
On Thursday, December 13th, TUCS GP student Mikko Pelto presented his Doctoral thesis "On Identifying and Locating-Dominating Codes in the Infinite King Grid" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Pelto was Professor Olivier Hudry from CNRS & Télécom ParisTech, France. Professor Iiro Honkala acted as the custos at this public defence.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Cal1, Calonia, Turku
On Wednesday, December 12th, TUCS GP student Ville Rantala presented his Doctoral thesis "On Dynamic Monitoring Methods for Networks-on-Chip" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc.(Tech.) Rantala was Professor Timo D. Hämäläinen from Tampere University of Technology. Associate Professor Juha Plosila acted as the custos at this public defence.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Lambda, The ICT Building
On Monday, December 10th, TUCS GP student Fredrik Degerlund presented his Doctoral thesis "Scheduling of Guarded Command Based Models" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Degerlund was Professor Einar Broch Johnsen from University of Oslo, Norway. Adjunct Professor Marina Waldén acted as the custos at this public defence.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Gamma, The ICT Building
On Monday, November 26th, TUCS GP student Mats Neovius presented his Doctoral thesis "Trustworthy Context Dependency in Ubiquitous Systems" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Neovius was Associate Professor Christian Damsgaard Jensen from Technical University of Denmark. Adjunct Professor Luigia Petre acted as the custos at this public defence.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Gamma, The ICT Building
TUCS has moved
The TUCS staff new offices in the ICT Building are now:
Director/Lilius B4053
Vicedirector/Petre B5053
Office/Irmeli, A3028
TUCS GP/Outi, A4029
Project Coordinator/Ilona, A4030
Technical Planner/Tomi, A4064
New courses
Courses on transferable skills at University of Turku
Continuous seminars & courses
First Article Language Checking Service
Time: 1.3.-31.12.2012- nb! summer break 15.6.-15.8.2012
Target group: PhD students at the University of Turku working on their first article for publication (in English)
Organizers: The University of Turku Language Centre and UTUGS
http://www.utu.fi/tutkimus/tutkijakoulu/LanguageChecking.html
Tieteen popularisointi – näin kerron tutkimuksestani (1 op)
Tohtorikoulutettava kirjoittaa väitöskirjatutkimuksestaan lyhyen (max. 4500 merkkiä) ja yleistajuisen jutun, luetuttaa tekstin ensin ohjaajallaan ja jatkaa tekstin työstämistä Suomen Akatemian tiedottajan Risto Alatarvaan kanssa. Valmis juttu julkaistaan Suomen Akatemian Tietysti.fi-sivustolla.
Järjestäjä: UTUGS ja Suomen Akatemia
Lisätietoja: Eeva Sievi (eeva.sievi-at-utu.fi, 040-1612970) ja Risto Alatarvas (risto.alatarvas-at-aka.fi, 040-828 0648)
"Suomen kielen klinikka" for international students and staff
Target group: all non-Finnish speakers at the university who already are at the level of being able to express themselves in written and oral Finnish (=B to C-level)
Further information: Markku Nikulin (marnik-at-utu.fi)
Organizer: suomen kielen oppiaine
http://www.utu.fi/tutkimus/tutkijakoulu/SuomenKielenKlinikka.pdf
Announcements
Open jobs at University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University
University of Turku: http://www.utu.fi/ajankohtaista/avoimet/
Åbo Akademi University: https://www.abo.fi/personal/rekrytering
Nokia awards
The following Ph.D. students from the Department of Information Technologies at Åbo Akademi University were awarded Nokia Scholarship at Nokia Foundation Award Ceremony 2012:
- Ashraf Adnan: “Cost-Efficient Resource Allocation for Multi-tier Web Applications in a Cloud Environment”
- Stefan Grönroos: “Efficient Algorithms for Reconfigurable Software-Based Multimedia Delivery Platforms”
- Annika Holmbom: “Customer Segmentation with Data Mining Methods from vast amount of data to actual knowledge”
- Fareed Jokhio: “Video transcoding with parallel and distributed computation”
- Maryam Kamali: “Formal Methods for the Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks”
- Shahrokh Nikou; “Opening the black-box if IT artifacts: looking into mobile service characteristics and individual perception”
- Inna Pereverzeva: “Formal Development of Resilient Autonomic Distributed Systems”
- Peter Sarlin. “Financial Stability Surveillance with Computational Intelligence”
EIT ICT Labs Master School
Apply now for the EIT ICT Labs Master School!
Two year programme in two universities in two different European countries. Geographical mobility with guaranteed double degrees. Internship programme with leading business partners. No tuition fees for European students, scholarship opportunity.
ICT Showroom
The next ICT Showroom event will be on 7.3.2013! Start preparing your project...
Registration will be open from some time in December to some time in January.
Euroweb second application call open
EUROWEB, European Research and Educational Collaboration with Western Balkans, is a scholarship programme for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions, financed by the European Commission. The Erasmus Mundus EUROWEB scholarship offers a unique opportunity for full-financed academic mobility for individuals from the EU and Western Balkans partner countries. The project is part of the large-scale, EU-funded programme Erasmus Mundus Action 2.
The EUROWEB Scholarship Programme is open to selected nationals in EU countries and Western Balkans who want to study or work at one of the partner institutions (see Applicant information). The overall objective of EUROWEB project is to create a partnership in research and education that will strengthen the ties between EU and Western Balkans.
The Consortium includes 17 Higher Education Institutions: 9 in Europe and 8 in Western Balkans. Scholarships are available for mobility from the Western Balkan countries to EU partners and vice versa.
European Partners:
- Mälardalen University, Sweden (Coordinating Institution)
- Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
- Åbo Akademi University, Finland
- Universität Paderborn, Germany
- Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania
- Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
- University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Western Balkan Partners:
- University of Elbasan "Aleksander Xhuvani", Albania
- University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje, FYROM
- University Mediterranean Podgorica, Montenegro
- University of Niŝ, Serbia
- University of Belgrade, Serbia
The details about partners, and the offer from the partner institutions to EUROWEB applicants, are available under Partner Institutions: http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/euroweb/index.php?choice=partners
The second application call for all mobility types is now open!
The application deadline is February 1, 2013.
More information on the programme can be found here: http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/euroweb/index.php
Apply here: http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/euroweb/index.php?choice=application
Latest publications at TUCS
Edited special issues of journals (2):
- Jarkko Kari, Ion Petre (Eds.), Special Issue on Unconventional Computing. Natural Computing 11(4), 2012.
- Ion Petre, Corrado Priami, Erik de Vink (Eds.), Special Issue on Computational Models for Cell Processes.Transactions on Computational Systems Biology Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7625, 2012.
Articles in journals (5):
- Eyal Eshet, Human-Centered Design in Mobile Application Development: Emerging Methods.International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction 4(4), 1–21, 2012.
- Tapio Pahikkala, Sebastian Okser, Antti Airola, Tapio Salakoski, Tero Aittokallio, Wrapper-based selection of genetic features in genome-wide association studies through fast matrix operations.Algorithms for Molecular Biology 7, 1–11, 2012.
- Arto Salomaa, Functions and Sequences Generated by Reaction Systems. Theoretical Computer Science 466, 87–96, 2012.
- Aleksandra Karimaa, Mobile Access in Video Surveillance. International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications 1(1), 267–272, 2011.
Articles in proceedings (12):
- Ali Hanzala Khan, Irum Rauf, Ivan Porres, Consistency of UML Class and Statechart Diagrams with State Invariants. In: Joaquim Filipe, Rui César das Neves (Eds.), First International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2013, 1, 1–11, SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). , 2013.
- Liang Guang, Ethiopia Nigussie, Juha Plosila, Jouni Isoaho, Hannu Tenhunen, Coarse and Fine-Grained Monitoring and Reconfiguration for Energy-Efficient NoCs. In: Jari Nurmi, Olli Vainio, Jussi Raasakka (Eds.), International Symposium on System-on-Chip, 1–7, IEEE, 2012.
- Jeanette Heidenberg, Max Weijola, Kirsi Mikkonen, Ivan Porres, A Model for Business Value in Large-Scale Agile and Lean Software Development. In: Dietmar Winkler, Rory V. O´Connor, Messnarz Richard (Eds.), Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, Communications in Computer and Information Science 301, 49–60, Springer, 2012.
- Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen, Qiang Chen, Axel Janstch, Lirong Zheng, Harish Kumar, Leena Varshney, Design of Sierpinski Grid Patch Antenna for Multiband Application and Sustainability Analysis in its Manufacturing Process. In: Gerhard P. Hancke (Ed.), IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 1–5, IEEE, 2012.
- Mouna Karmani, Chiraz Khedhiri, Belgacem Hamdi, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Ka Lok Man, A Self-Test and Self-Repair Approach for Analog Integrated Circuits. In: Algimantas Kajackas, Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Eds.), IEEE Baltic Conference on Future Internet Communications, 117–120, IEEE, 2012.
- Mouna Karmani, Chiraz Khedhiri, Belgacem Hamdi, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Ka Lok Man, Kaiyu Wan, Design of a Reliable XOR-XNOR Circuit for Arithmetic Logic Units. In: J.J. Park, A. Zomaya, S.-S. Yeo, S. Sahni (Eds.), IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, 7513, 521–528, Springer-LNCS, 2012.
- Moazzam Fareed Niazi, Tiberiu Seceleanu, Hannu Tenhunen, Towards Reuse-Based Development for the On-Chip Distributed SoC Architecture. In: Xiaoying Bai, Fevzi Belli, Elisa Bertino, Carl K. Chang, Atilla Elçi, Cristina Seceleanu, Haihua Xie, Mohammad Zulkernine (Eds.), IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW), 278–283, IEEE Computer Society, 2012.
- Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Fabian Gieseke, Oliver Kramer, Unsupervised Multi-Class Regularized Least-Squares Classification. In: Mohammed J. Zaki, Arno Siebes, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Bart Goethals, Geoff Webb, Xindong Wu (Eds.),The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012), 585–594, IEEE Computer Society, 2012.
- Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Ka Lok Man, Youngmin Kim, Hannu Tenhunen, Partial-LastZ: An Optimized Hybridization Technique for 3D NoC Architecture Enabling Adaptive Inter-Layer Communication. In: Kyeongsoon Cho (Ed.), International SoC Design Conference, 281–284, IEEE, 2012.
- Anton Tarasyuk, Elena Troubitsyna, Linas Laibinis, Formal Modelling and Verification of Service-Oriented Systems in Probabilistic Event-B. In: John Derrick, Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Helen Treharne (Eds.), Integrated Formal Methods - 9th International Conference, IFM 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 18-21, 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7321, 237–252, Springer, 2012.
- Thomas Canhao Xu, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Hannu Tenhunen, A High-Efficiency Low-Cost Heterogeneous 3D Network-on-Chip Design. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc), 37–42, ACM, 2012.
- Thomas Canhao Xu, Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Tapio Salakoski, Hannu Tenhunen,Implementation and Analysis of Block Dense Matrix Decomposition on Network-on-Chips. In: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 516–523, IEEE, 2012.
Ph.D. thesis (4):
- Lasse Bergroth, Kahden merkkijonon pisimmän yhteisen alijonon ongelma ja sen ratkaiseminen. TUCS Dissertations 146. University of Turku, 2012.
- Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Exploration and Design of Power-Efficient Networked Many-Core Systems. TUCS Dissertations 153. University of Turku, 2012.
- Aleksi Saarela, Word Equations and Related Topics: Independence, Decidability and Chracterizations. TUCS Dissertations 145. University of Turku, 2012.
- Thomas Canhao Xu, Hardware/Software Co-Design for Multicore Architectures. TUCS Dissertations 147. University of Turku, 2012.
Technical reports (2):
- Marko M. Mäkelä, Ville-Pekka Eronen, Napsu Karmitsa, On Nonsmooth Optimality Conditions with Generalized Convexities. TUCS Technical Reports 1056, TUCS, 2012.
- Peter Sarlin, Zhiyuan Yao, Clustering of the Self-Organizing Time Map. TUCS Technical Reports 1062, TUCS, 2012.