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András
Vág
Heureka Research Ltd.
World
in Figures project
http://www.worldinfigures.org
2094
Nagykovacsi Park str 1/a.
HUNGARY
tel/fax: (36)-26-389-348
mobile: (36)-309-985-884
avag@worldinfigures.org
Heuréka
Research Ltd. is a full service marketing research and consulting SME,
established at 1989. It’s specialized at social researches, modelling, value
engineering, surveys, desk research and software development. The company’s
core project is a global, online statistical service extended with an online
data analyzer, called “World in Figures” (WiF)
(www.worldinfigures.org).
This service is capable to upgrade the current version to a multi-level “world
model”. The company declares its willingness to offer this tool for the
purposes of CARiMan project.
World
in Figures is the development process of an Internet tool for online
statistical- and survey data access and analysis. The software system has three
parts: (1) the online statistical data browser and data analyzer, extended with
some specific tools, like report generator; (2) the offline data collector and
integrator program, which can handle different file and database formats; and
(3) the a number of integrated databases, containing millions of records, all of
them are accessible online.
The
idea is based on the necessity of the integration of both online and offline
databases and put the results online. This knowledge-base can finally serve as a
background information for artificial intelligence algorithms. As a result,
research processes will be extremely fast and cost effective and last but not
least, will provide new results. The project offers different kinds of analyzing
solutions to serve the interests of researchers, data collectors and
disseminators, decision-makers, risk-managers, educators, students and media,
worldwide.
The
company offers the following services for its clients:
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Statistical database hosting
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Software development
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ASP activities (online analyses, online data collection, online surveys, online
report generator)
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Market and social analyses
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Data collections
The
company offers the following free services and supports:
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Education
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Statistical data from the WiFs portal and access to basic analyzer tools.
World
in Figures project is managed in a network basis. Contributors, developers,
researchers and managers are
typically distant-workers.
World in Figures intend to participate in providing data
for risk analysis, evaluation and prediction of social, economic, environmental
and ecological phenomena. Additionally would like to contribute to the analysis
and foresight.
Since
the Club of Rome has released its first report (The Limits to Growth) the
sensible researchers and activists pose the globally relevant question in
ultimate wording: What will happen first: the rise of humanity’s self
consciousness or the irreversible decline of environmental, ecological and
energy sources and conditions? This generally relevant question has a number of
specific derivates and elements. One of the key issues is the inertia of
society, especially decision-makers. Risk-management is an important component
of this complex problem.
The
aim of World in Figures is to (1) help in the integration of the results of CARiMan
to the society, (2) underline and transfer the needs and expectations of
societies to direct data/signal processing and analyzing projects, (3) employing
the risk-management and other algorythms to social, political and
risk-management issues, (4) showing, disseminating and analyzing the results of CARiMan
online.
World
in Figures’ intention is to participate in
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the strategy
building of CARiMan
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Project
Manager, Scientific Manager, Workpakage Manager activities
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contribution to
significant parts from B1…B10
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Proposal for
new JPA / WP (If our approach is welcome in this aspect then we’ll elaborate a
JPA / WP)
Heuréka
Research is a full service marketing research and consulting SME, established at
1989. It’s specialized at social researches, modelling, value engineering and
software development. The company’s core project is a global, online
statistical service extended with an online data analyzer, called “World in
Figures” (www.worldinfigures.org).
The project offers different kinds of solutions to serve researchers, data
collectors and disseminators, educators, decision-makers and risk-managers. The
idea is based on the necessity of the integration of both online and offline
databases and put the results online. This knowledge base can finally serve as a
background information for artificial intelligence algorithms. As a result,
research processes will be extremely fast and cost effective and last but not
least, will provide new results. This service is capable to upgrade to a new
multi-level “world model”.
Mr.
Andras Vag is an economist and postgraduated sociologist. He is the general
manager of Heureka Research Ltd. Mr. Vag’s main activity is the management of
a „World in Figures“, an online statistical data dissemination and analyzing
project. Previously he managed different kind of social, political and market
research projects within the frames of its company, as an employee of GMI
(Global Market Insite - Seattle), OKRI (National Institute of Criminology) and
as a freelancer. Mr. Vag is a lecturer of the Budapest University of Economics.
Mr.
Sándor Kuti is
a software engineer. He is the leading software developer of the World in
Figures project. Mr. Kuti is specialized in system design, C++, VB, CGIs, SQL
and Java programming. The new area of interest of Mr. Kuti is artificial
intelligence algorythms and the development of online AI tools.
Only
the relevant and English publications are listed:
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Vag, Andras (2000): Global Consumer Research via the Internet. Opportunities,
Challenges and Solutions, NET EFFECTS 3, Dublin
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Vag, Andras (2003): The tools of artificial intelligence in the socio-economic
research methodology, Matrafured, Conference paper
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Vag, Andras (2003): The short
history and the possible future of world modeling, Society and Economy (in
press)
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