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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

 

Heureka Research Ltd.

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:

- Statistical database hosting

- Software development

- ASP activities (online analyses, online data collection, online surveys, online report generator)

- Market and social analyses

- Data collections

The company offers the following free services and supports:

- Education

- 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.

 
Contribution to CARiMan:

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

-         the strategy building of CARiMan

-         Project Manager, Scientific Manager, Workpakage Manager activities

-         contribution to significant parts from B1…B10

-         Proposal for new JPA / WP (If our approach is welcome in this aspect then we’ll elaborate a JPA / WP)

 

Short description of the organisation

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”.

 

CV of the partners 

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.

 

Publications

Only the relevant and English publications are listed:

 - Vag, Andras (2000): Global Consumer Research via the Internet. Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions, NET EFFECTS 3, Dublin

- Vag, Andras (2003): The tools of artificial intelligence in the socio-economic research methodology, Matrafured, Conference paper

- Vag, Andras (2003):  The short history and the possible future of world modeling, Society and Economy (in press)

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