Selected national research projects:

Digital telecommunication systems, Ministry of Science and Technology, 

Multimedia communications, Ministry of Science and Technology, 

Communications and mapping in parallel computers, Ministry of Science and Technology, 

Digital Radio-Relay Systems 2/8/34, Ministry of Science and Technology, Iskra Transmission, 

Software design and development for switching exchange SI2000/V5, Iskratel doo. 

Coordination of large 5fp project on "Data Mining and Decision Support for Business Competitiveness: A European Virtual Enterprise" (http://soleunet.ijs.si/) (12 partners, 7 countries) 

Project for European commission DGResearch on analysis of 5fp IST project database (http://pi.ijs.si/) 

Participating in 5fp project (http://www.cinq-project.org/) - Two projects with Microsoft Research Cambridge on Text-Mining and Text-Visualization of very large textual databases  

NSF project with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh on design analysis of economic strategies (http://www.cmu.edu/comlabgames/)  

Organization of IJCAI'2003 Text-Mining & Link-Analysis Workshop  

COORDINATING RESEARCHERS:

Roman Trobec received Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana in 1988. He has been the assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana form 1990-95. Currently, he is teaching High Performance Scientific Computing at the University of Salzburg, Department of the Scientific Computing. He is the deputy head of the Department of Digital Communications and Networks and the member of the board of directors at the Institute Jozef Stefan. He is a program or editorial board member of several international conferences and Journals. On the application area, he works on the design and development of digital data transmission, biomedical systems, and parallel computer simulations in medicine and chemistry. His research interests covers parallel computing, signal processing, biomedical research, parallel computer simulation and communication systems. He published in the last five years more than 20 papers in international technical journals and 30 contributions on international conferences.

Matjaz Gams holds PhD in Computer Science. He is senior researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute and associate professor at the University of Ljubljana. He is author of around 250 publications, among them a book about weak intelligence. His research interests include intelligent systems, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence, intelligent interfaces and cognitive science. He holds several national positions, e.g. for introduction of computers in Slovenia or for information society in Slovenia. He is/was co-founder of several societies, e.g. Engineering academy od Slovenia, cognitive, AI society, ACM Slovenia. He parcipitated in a number of national, international, research and application projects, which resultet in a couple of major innovative applications.

RESEARCH GROUP:

Viktor Avbelj received BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana. Since 1980 he has been at Jožef Stefan Institute working in the fields of digital transmission systems, medical instrumentation and signal processing. His present research interest is the analysis of multichannel and high resolution ECG.

Gorazd Kandus received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana in 1971, 1974 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the head of the Department of Digital Communications and Computer Networks at Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of  Maribor. In 1978/79 he spent one year at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Worchester, MA. as Fulbright Fellow. In 1993, 1995 and 1999 he spent 7 months as visiting scientist at the University of Karlsruhe and at DLR, Germany. His main research interests involve design and simulation of telecommunications systems and introducing of new services.

Tomaz Javornik received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1987, 1990 and 1993 respectively. He joined Jozef Stefan Institute in 1987, where he currently works as a researcher in the Department of Digital Communications and Networks. In 1991/92 he spent 6 months at the University of Westminster, School of Electronic System Engineering, London, UK  (Tempus scholarship, DSP Perspectives). He is involved in the study of digital radio-relay systems, modulation techniques, coding, adaptive signal processing and digital mobile communication systems.

Borut Gersak received his BS, MS and Ph.D. at Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, School of Medicine. Since 1986 he has been with the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center, where he is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery. His research interests extend beyond pure cardio-surgery to interdisciplinary approaches in surgery, biomedical engineering and computer simulations of procedures used in cardiovascular surgery.

Bogdan Filipič received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana in 1993. He is currently a research associate at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and an assistant professor of computer science. His research interests include evolutionary computation, intelligent data analysis and knowledge-based systems. He has participated in a number of international research projects and applied projects for Slovenian industrial partners (Acroni, Revoz). He is a (co)author of 14 papers in scientific journals and over 60 papers in conference proceedings.

Bohanec Marko has obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences in 1991 from University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrotechnics and Computing Science. His research interests are in decision support, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He collaborated in 14 national and international research projects and 15 R&D projects, he obtained Borisa Kidrič award in 1990, and he authored or co-authored 24 original scientific papers. He is Assistant Professor in Informatics with about 15 years experience in lecturing and student supervision.

Dunja Mladenic holds PhD in computer science. Most of her research work is connected with the study and development of machine learning techniques and their application on real-world problems from different areas e.g., medicine, pharmacology, manufacturing, economy. Her current research focuses on using machine learning in data analysis, with particular interest in learning from text applied on the Web documents and intelligent agents. In 1996/97 she spend a year as a visiting researcher working with Prof. Dr. Tom M. Mitchell in the learning laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In 2000 and 2001 she was a visiting faculty at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She cooperated in several international projects, including one major EU project as scientific coordinator.

Marko Grobelnik is a researcher in Data Mining techniques and their applications to different problems in economy, medicine, manufacturing, and game theory. His current research focuses on Data Mining with particular interest in learning from text applied on large text data sets. He has published several papers in refereed conferences and journals. He has served in the program committee of several workshops.

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS:

Marjan Šterk

Srečo Plevel

Uroš Jovanovič

Aleksander Pivk

Andraz Bezek

Mitja Lustrek

IJS - SOME RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

[1] GERŠAK, Borut, TROBEC, Roman, KRISCH, Igor, PŠENIČNIK, Majda. Loss of endothelium-mediated vascular relaxation as a response to various clamping pressures. Eur. j. cardio-thorac. surg., 1996, 10/8, 684-689.

[2] TROBEC, Roman, GERŠAK, Borut. Direct measurement of clamping forces in cardiovascular surgery. Med. biol. eng. comput., 1997, 35/1, 17-20.

[3] TROBEC, Roman, SLIVNIK, Boštjan, GERŠAK, Borut, GABRIJELČIČ, Tone. Computer simulation and spatial modelling in heart surgery. Comput. biol. med., 1998, 28/4, 393-403.

[4] VESELKO, Matjaž, TROBEC, Roman. Intraoperative localization of retained metallic fragments in misssile wounds. J. trauma inj. infect. crit. care, 2000, 59, 1052-1058.

[5] SAMARIN, Silvia, HREN, Rok, TROBEC, Roman, AVBELJ, Viktor, GERŠAK, Borut. Spatial resolution of epicardial pace mapping using body surface potentials, Pflügers Arch, 2000, 440/5, suppl., R123-R125.

[6] TROBEC, Roman, ŠTERK, Marjan, PRAPROTNIK, Matej, JANEŽIČ, Dušanka. Implementation and evaluation of MPI-based parallel MD program. Int. j. quant. chem., 2001, 84/1, 23-31.

[7] TROBEC, Roman, GERŠAK, Borut, HREN, Rok. Body surface mapping after partial left ventriculotomy. Heart surg. forum, 2002, 5/2, 187-192.

[8] GAMS, Matjaž. Weak intelligence : through the principle and paradox of multiple knowledge, Advances in computation, Vol. 6. Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science, 2001.

[9] PIVK, Aleksander, GAMS, Matjaž. Domain-dependent information gathering agent. Expert syst. appl., 2002, vol. 23, pp. 207-218.

[10] GAMS, Matjaž. The turing machine may not be the universal machine. Minds mach. (Dordr.), 2002, vol. 12, pp. 137-142.

[11] GAMS, Matjaž, ŠEF, Tomaž. A speech module in an agent system. Int. j. eng. intell. syst. electr. eng. common., 2000, vol. 4, pp. 225-232.

[12] GAMS, Matjaž, KARBA, Neda, DROBNIČ, Matija. Integration of multiple reasoning systems for process control. Eng. appl. artif. intell., 1997, vol. 10, pp. 41-46.

[13] BOJADŽIEV, Damjan, GAMS, Matjaž. Addendum to "Sloman's view of Gödel's sentence". Artif. intell., 1998, vol. 98, pp. 363-365.