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Technological developments have taken the humankind many steps away in terms of improving standards of the daily life and making everything simpler to do. Nowadays, we can make many things by just surfing over the Web and using our personal information to buy something or complete some tasks even we are in a travel or walking to somewhere. But it is clear that more influence of the digital world has caused vulnerabilities, which threat our private information to be stolen by black hat hackers while it is processed or stored within the digital world. That has caused the field of cyber security to appear and make developments for making the digital world safer for us. But is everything ok since there are many kinds of security software and hardware components trying to protect us from attacks? Because there is the sensitive human factor in the center of all systems, the answer for that question is a big NO… Since the human factor has been known as a vital factor and it is important to educate people for having a desired level of awareness for cyber security, there is currently a great effort by educational institutions to prevent people from the latest tricks by black hat hackers. A remarkable project in this manner is from Turkey and it is called as “A Cyber Security Adventure” (In Turkish: “BSGM: Bir Siber Güvenlik Macerası”).
Suspected characters in the project scenario
As written and managed by Assistant Prof. Dr. Utku Kose (from Dept. of Computer Engineering, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta / Turkey), A Cyber Security Adventure is an educational project supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). The project has been supported by TUBITAK under the project group of 4004, which means that the projects supported under that ID should include educational activities for people in the heart of the nature. Considering that scope, Dr. Utku Kose has used some remarkable technologies like virtual – augmented reality and artificial intelligence to provide interactive, story based educational activities for high school students at the city of Isparta, Turkey.
Egirdir County of Isparta and the ‘Island’, where the nature camp was held
With the project grant around of 15.000 Euro, A Cyber Security Adventure was built over two stages as follows:
Face-to-Face Training: That stage is five-day training for students in computer labs of Suleyman Demirel University (Dept. of Computer Engineering). The aim is to teach essentials of cyber security and make the students ready for the Nature Camp taking place in Egirdir county of Isparta, Turkey. Egirdir County is full of nature with the Egirdir Lake and with an old district called as Island where the Nature Camp is realized.
Nature Camp: That stage is nine-day accommodated camp and it is the exact adventure where students group in different teams and try to solve an interactive scenario by using their mobile devices, notebooks, computers…etc. by keeping in touch with the nature.
Two educational stages of the project were done between 27th August and 9th September 2018 and a total of 40 students from 10 local high schools in Isparta took place to experience the adventure. All teams were supervised by guides, who are academicians and some MSc. and PhD. students from the university and all the technological infrastructure was controlled by the remaining project staff. The adventure was briefly based on finding the black hat hacker among five suspicious shown to the students. At that point, all students have transformed into some kind of detective and ethical hackers (white hat hackers) to search for clues by searching for objects with augmented reality over QR codes, collecting special items and solving puzzles over mobile applications and using all gathered information to gain some points. According to gathered points, a special combinatorial optimization based artificial intelligence systems dynamically directs each team to newly determined sub-scenarios and puzzles of the main story. According to the dynamically created scenario flows, it was always not too clear for all teams if they were near to the end or not, but in time more efforts brought advantages and everything was easier to be solved at the end of the Nature Camp. Activities were supported with also special sports events, dramas, special quiz shows and many different activities allowing to gain knowledge and points.
Project writer and manager Dr. Utku Kose
As indicated by project manager Dr. Utku Kose, some important points of the A Cyber Security Adventure are as follows:
It is interesting that the exact story was all in my mind as written by me and because of that, even other project staff did not know anything about the flow. So, not only students but also their guides were motivated to take the control, defeat other teams and search always for the happy end.
Combination of the Egirdir nature (green areas, the lake, old buildings with narrow old roads) and technological components of virtual – augmented reality or artificial intelligence made everything enjoyable for everybody. It was great for the students to interact with the real world but find some virtual objects and again use those objects to talk with some real people for taking clues, and the ability of artificial intelligence system for directing teams for better combinations of solution nodes allowed everything to complete in optimum time and entertainment level.
Activities done in especially Nature Camp have enabled students to learn more about searching for information, analyzing situations and designing alternative solutions for different problems. They were motivated to also work individually and in groups, take responsibilities, and also directing team members to do some tasks.
In time, the project created its own eco system, which means that some teams built fake objects for trolling other teams. Some teams tried to cooperate and sometimes the level of competition and ambition was improved great so that there were short, simple fights or discussions among people. But at the end, everything was great for everybody and all of us have learned many things from that adventure.
Results from the project are provided to the scientific literature nowadays via articles, conference papers, chapters, and even presentations made in different events. On the other hand, it is already planned to establish new versions of the project. Dr. Utku Kose and the project staff also think about moving the project to a wider, international audience. For more information, the Web site of the project can be visited here: http://sdubsgm.com/
A ceremony at the end
A team searching for clues
A morning exercise
An activity
Photo before going back to Isparta
Photo including everybody at the start of nature camp
We are all familiar with the movies in which robots take control over humans and then chaos is brought into the world just because these forms of artificial intelligence became too developed. But is this actually possible or is it just an invention of the movie directors in order to attract more audience? Researcher Utku Kose tried to depict the possible scenarios in which this could happen and he also came up with some solutions in the article Are We Safe Enough in the Future of Artificial Intelligence? A Discussion on Machine Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Safety. Starting from…
The article written by Ahmet Demir from Harahalli Vocational School, Usak University, Ușak, Turkey and Utku Kose from Computer Sciences Application and Research Center, Usak University, Ușak, Turkey is a research which takes into account the importance of optimization and of solving its problems. They propose intelligent optimization techniques based on Artificial Intelligence in order to use them for optimization problems. So that they can provide a comparative study on the employment of classical optimization solutions and Artificial Intelligence solutions, two optimization algorithms are proposed: Vortex Optimization Algorithm (VOA) and Cognitive Development Optimization Algorithm (CoDOA). Optimization is defined as choosing…
Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching provides relevant theoretical frameworks, and the latest research on social media and its challenges in the educational and political context. Our conference is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education and in civic/social/political engagement, as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science, political science, new media, information and communication sciences, and much more. Details about SMART 2015 Keynote speakers Topics of the conference Committees Deadlines and instructions for authors Fee and registration Location of SMART 2015 Participants and Schedule This year, our…
One of the biggest problems that we can encounter when scaling a picture that’s small to a big dimension is the fact that small scaled image are losing some important bits of information which cannot be recovered when scaled back. This problem though, can be fixed using multi-objective genetic algorithm. Researchers Kishor Datta Gupta and Sajib Sen are describing a genetic algorithm approach to recover lost bits while image resized to the smaller version using the original image data bit counts which are stored while the image is scaled. This method is very scalable to apply in a distributed system.…
One of the biggest problems that we can encounter when scaling a picture that’s small to a big dimension is the fact that small scaled image are losing some important bits of information which cannot be recovered when scaled back. This problem though, can be fixed using multi-objective genetic algorithm. Researchers Kishor Datta Gupta and Sajib Sen are describing a genetic algorithm approach to recover lost bits while image resized to the smaller version using the original image data bit counts which are stored while the image is scaled. This method is very scalable to apply in a distributed system. Also, the same method can be applied to recover error bits in any types of data blocks.
The article written by Ahmet Demir from Harahalli Vocational School, Usak University, Ușak, Turkey and Utku Kose from Computer Sciences Application and Research Center, Usak University, Ușak, Turkey is a research which takes into account the importance of optimization and of solving its problems. They propose intelligent optimization techniques based on Artificial Intelligence in order to use them for optimization problems. So that they can provide a comparative study on the employment of classical optimization solutions and Artificial Intelligence solutions, two optimization algorithms are proposed: Vortex Optimization Algorithm (VOA) and Cognitive Development Optimization Algorithm (CoDOA). Optimization is defined as choosing…
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The aim of this journal is to create links between researchers from apparently different scientific fields, such as Computer Science and Neurology. In fact, there are a lot of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Sciences and Neurosciences that can intersect in the study of the brain and its intelligent functions. Our journal contains (in section BRAINovations and BRAINStorming) peer review articles. These articles should be original unpublished articles of the authors. The peer review process is a blind one. The reviewers are well recognized scientists who are part of our scientific board, and independent reviewers. Some innovative young researchers…
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In order to ensure optimal teaching conditions for university students, attention should be brought to their personality traits and academic performance. In the paper Personality Questionnaires as a Basis for Improvement of University Courses in Applied Computer Science and Informatics, the authors Vladimir Ivančević, Marko Knežević, and Ivan Luković present the foundation for such an adaptation of the teaching process, supported by an analytical software solution (in its initial version).
The software solution presents two main components: a data warehouse for storing collected data and an analytical software tool (built using the Shiny framework). The data warehouse contains collected data about student academic performance and personality traits, while the analytical tool is a web application that retrieves data from the data warehouse or external CSV files matching the required structure and allows analysts to perform exploration and analysis of data concerning student performance and personality.
A data warehouse schema segment for scores of university students on scales of personality questionnaires
The aim of this journal is to create links between researchers from apparently different scientific fields, such as Computer Science and Neurology. In fact, there are a lot of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Sciences and Neurosciences that can intersect in the study of the brain and its intelligent functions. Our journal contains (in section BRAINovations and BRAINStorming) peer review articles. These articles should be original unpublished articles of the authors. The peer review process is a blind one. The reviewers are well recognized scientists who are part of our scientific board, and independent reviewers. Some innovative young researchers…
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\ Academia EduSoft Academia EduSoft is a brand name. It represents the unification of the academic branches of Asociatia EduSoft (NGO) and EduSoft Limited company. You can see information about the two entities at the bottom of this page. Starting with 2010, we edit and publish 3 academic journals for scholars around the world. These journals are indexed by various international indexing services, like Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics / Thomson-Reuters). EBSCO, DOAJ, Google Scholar, CiteSeerX etc. Our journals are interdisciplinary and they cover three main domains of science: BRAIN: Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ISSN: 2067-3957, E-ISSN: (1-4 issues…
We are happy to let you know about the recent indexation in Web of Science of the issue 1 (April 2017) of the 8th volume of our international journal BRAIN - Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience. The next issue will be published by mid of July 2017. https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain
Nov. 6: abstract submission and conference registration (including payment)
The final papers should be sent after the day of the conference (by December 15, 2016)
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016:
Arrival of participants
Friday, Nov. 18, 2016
09:00-09.10: Welcome Talks
09:10-09.50: Keynote speaker
Dr. Maria Perifanou (University of Macedonia, CONTA Lab, Greece, and P.A.U. Education, Spain): Opening up Education: The LangMOOC Challenge
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huseyin Bicen (Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus) – Web 2.0 Tools in Education
09:50-11.00: Paper presentations
09:450-10.00: Valentina Marinescu (University of Bucharest) – Teaching Area Studies Through Two Different Online Platforms
10:00-10.10: Daina Vasilevska (Latvia University of Agriculture), Baiba Rivza (Latvia University of Agriculture), Razvan Bogdan (PolitehnicaUniversity of Timisoara) – Distance learning Evaluation in European Universities
10.10-10:20: Mircea Popa (West University of Timisoara), Razvan Bogdan (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Marius Marcu (West University of Timisoara), Sebastian Fuicu (West University of Timisoara), Dalibor Dobrilović (West University of Timisoara) – Developing Distance Learning Environments in the Context of Cross-Border Cooperation
10.20-10.30: Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Auto-generative Learning Objects in Online Assessment of Data Structures Disciplines
10.30-10.40: Andreia-Gabriela Andrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi), Elena-Madalina Vatamanescu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Vlad-Andrei Alexandru (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Elena-Alexandra Gorgos (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest) – New Horizons for Business Research, Education and Practice: Integrating Interdisciplinary Tools and Cognitive Science Advancements
10:40-10.50: Laurentiu-Mihai Treapat (National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest), Anda Gheorghiu (National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest) – Artificial Systems and Models for Risk Covering Operations.
10.50-11.00: Costin Damasaru (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Ramona Leon (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration), Anca-Cristina Colonescu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Management Department), Andra Crăciun (University of Bucharest) – Team Management Styles within the Present Social and Economic Context
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-11.40: Laurentiu Tiru (West University of Timisoara), Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara), Laura Malita (West University of Timisoara) – Possibilities, Potential and Perils in Proffesional Development of Teachers through MOOCs
11:40-11.50: Liliana Lucaciu, Carmen Holotescu (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara) – Using MOOCs for High Impact Learning and Development Interventions
11:50-12.00: Razvan Bogdan (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Integrating MOOCs in Embedded Systems Blended Course
12:00-12.10: Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest) – Academic Research on the Online Electoral Campaigns: Breakthroughs and Boundaries
12.20-12.30: Simina Maris (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Politehnica University of Timisoara), Titus Slavici (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Politehnica University of Timisoara), Petre Nenu (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Liliana Baciu (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Artificial Intelligence as a Decision-making Tool in Planning the Research
12.30-12.40: Simina Maris (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara), Lavinia Cernescu (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Politehnica University of Timisoara), Titus Slavici (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Re-shaping Education: Role of Internet Resources in Increasing the Efficiency of Educational Process
12.40-12.50: Vlad Chiriac (West University of Timisoara), Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara) – Opening up education at WUT. Case study: integration of MOOCS in transversal disciplines
12.50-13.00:Laszlo Csiki, Andrei Gabor, Marius Popescu, Antoanela Naaji (West University “Vasile Goldis” Arad) – Real-Time Android Application for Virtual University
13.00-15.00: Lunch
15.00-15.10: Monica Ciobanu (West University “Vasile Goldis” Arad), Antoanela Naaji (West University “Vasile Goldis” Arad), Ioas Dascal (SC Antaco Romania SRL Arad), Ioan Virag (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Pseudo-holographic Displays as Teaching Tools in Mathematics
15.10-15.20: Vladimir Ivančević (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences) – Considering the Use of Personality Questionnaires to Improve University Courses in Applied Computer Science and nformatics
15.20-15.30: Versavia Ancusa (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Cursor Movement – A Valuable Indicator in Intelligent System Design
15.30-15.40: Razvan Bogdan (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Sentiment Analysis on Embedded Systems Blended Courses
15.40-15.50: Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara), Ramona Bran (West University of Timisoara), Carmen Holotescu (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara) – Languages and participation in MOOCs
15.50-16.00: Adriana Isvoran (West University of Timisoara) – Online Tools for Teaching Bioinformatics at University Level
16.00-16.10: Liliana Mata (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Dana Mihailescu (Ascendia SA Bucharest), Georgeta Panisoara (University of Bucharest), Silvia Fat (University of Bucharest), Iulia Lazar (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau) – Patient Perspective on Use of Interactive Methods for Speech Problems
16.10-16.20: Versavia Ancusa (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Olimpia Ban (University of Oradea), Marian Cornea (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – A Method to Process Romanian Language Internet Review
16.20-16.30: Liliana Mata (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Maria-Ema Faciu (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Irina Ifrim (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Gabriel Lazar (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Iulia Lazar (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau) – The Development of a Multidimensional Scale to Measure Undergraduate Students’ Ethical Judgments in Learning Environment
16.30-16.40: Mariana Cernicova (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Vasile Gherhes (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Perceptions of Romanian Students on Uses and Value of Educational Resources Shared via ICT. Case Study: Politehnica University of Timisoara
16.40-16.50: Liliana Cismariu, RD Profil Consult SRL, Timisoara – How Students Build Their Online Identities for Personal and Professional Development
16.40-17.20: Five O’Clock Tea
17.20-18.40: Round table (moderators: Carmen Holotescu, Bogdan Patrut): Academic Publishing in Romania: Present and Perspectives
20:00: Gala Dinner
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016
09.00- Paper presentations
09.00-09.10: Alexandra Zbuchea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Florina Pînzaru (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest) – Personal Branding in Higher Education. Focus on Social Media
09.10-09.20: Carmen-Elena Cirnu (National Institute of Research and Development in Informatics ICI, Bucharest), Daniel Beligan (Carol I National Defence University, Bucharest), Roxana Sava (National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics ICI Bucharest), Andrei Neagoe (National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics ICI Bucharest) – Serious Games Evaluation: From Learning Objectives to Evaluation Methods
09.20-09.30: Rareș Mocanu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Rodica Savulescu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Alin Mihalcea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Alexandra Vitelar (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Alina Mihalcea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest) – User Experience and Emotional Design in Mobile Applications and Social Media
09.30-09.40: Sergiu Octavian Stan (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies), Alexandra Zbuchea (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest) – Risk management in the e-learning projects. Challenges of the Romanian NGO’s
09.40-09.50: Monica Patrut (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Social Media in Politics: Case Study
09:50-10:00: Florina Pînzaru (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Andreea Mitan (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Georgiana Cristea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest) – Generation Y`s Perspective on Effective People Management
10:00-10.10: Liliana Cismariu, RD Profil Consult SRL, Timisoara – How Students Build Their Online Identities for Personal and Professional Development
10.10-10:20: Ioana Andreea Stefan (Advanced Technology Systems), Antoniu Stefan (Advanced Technology Systems), Daniel Beligan (Carol I National University of Defence, Bucharest), Carmen-Elena Cirnu (National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics) – Bridging :Learning and Play: The Digital Game Experience
10.20-10:30: Daniela Dănciulescu, (University of Craiova), Mihaela Colhon (University of Craiova), Gheorghe Grigoras (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) – A System of Knowledge Representation for Right Linear Grammars Generation
10.30-10.40: Iulia Lazar (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Dana Diaconu (Ascendia SA Bucharest), Liliana Mata (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Maria-Cristina Sandu (University of Bucharest), Georgeta Panisoara (University of Bucharest) – External factors that influence the behavior of patient that uses Speech Therapy Software
10.40-10.50: Laura Broasca (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Versavia-Maria Ancusa (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Horia Ciocarlie (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Social Media as Medical Validator
10.50-11.00: Mirella Mioc (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Client Server Chat Application in Distance E-learning Environments
11:00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-11.40: Dragos Gheorghiu (National University of Arts, Bucharest), Livia Stefan (Institure for Computers – ITC Bucharest) – Education in Opensimulator. The Experience of the TimeMaps Project
11.40-11.50: Simona-Elena Varlan (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) – Semantic Web
11.50-12.00: Diana Andone (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara), Carmen Holotescu (Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara), Malinka Ivanova (Sofia -Technical University, Bulgaria), Antoanela Naaji (West University “Vasile Goldis” Arad), Monica Patrut (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau), Maria Perifanou (independent researcher) – Strategies for Opening up Education in European Universities
12.00-12.10: Dmytro Zubov (Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico) – A Case Study on the Spatial Cognition of Surrounding Objects by the B&VI People Using Sound Patterns and Ultrasonic Sensing
12.10-12.20: Gabriela Tăbăcaru EduSoft) – Academia EduSoft Journals: BRAIN, BRAND and LiBRI
12.20-12.30: Catalin Radu (Advanced Distributed Learning, Carol I National Defence University Bucharest, Romania) – Serious Games: Raising Awareness for Emergency Situations through Serious Games
12.30-12.40: Paula-Andreea Onofrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) – Literature and Arts – A Contemporary Approach
12.40-12.50: Iulian Furdu (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau) – Pros and Cons Gamification and Gaming in Classroom
12.50-13.00: Paula-Andreea Onofrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) – The Values of Antiquity in Contemporary Literature and Arts
13.00-13.10: Teodora Daniela Chicioreanu (Politehnica University of Bucharest), Ana-Voichita Tebeanu (Politehnica University of Bucharest) – Why and How to Use the Infographics in the Daily Activity
13:10-13.20: Delia Nadolu (West University of Timisoara), Bogdan Nadolu (West University of Timisoara) – “I am …” and Its Multiple Meanings in Virtual Social Space
13.20-13:30: Paula-Andreea Onofrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) – The Sacred in Literature and Arts
13.30-13:40: Loredana Manasia (Politehnica University of Bucharest), Teodora-Daniela Chicioreanu (Politehnica University of Bucharest) – Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Cyberspace? Challenges and Perspectives in Fostering Quality Digital Education
13.40-13.50: Diana Andone (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Radu Vasiu (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Pop Laura (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – A Critical Anlaysis of Online Management Citation Tools
13.50-14.00: Camelia Ciuclea (Politehnica Universit of Timisoara), Andrei Ternauciuc (Politehnica Universit of Timisoara), Diana Andone (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – The Influence of Social Participation on Academic Performance in a Higher Education Virtual Campus
14.00-14.10: Rafael Bogdan Leucuța (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Radu Vasiu (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Overview on the Techniques Used in Publishing Interactive Multimedia Materials
14.10-14.20: Renate Simion (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Diana Andone (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Radu Vasiu (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Camelia Ciuclea (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – The Potential Impact of Image Based WEB 2.0 Technologies in Visual Communication
14.20-14.30: Mihaela Onofrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi), Liviu Andrei Scutelnicu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi), Anca Diana Bibiri (Romanian Academy, Iasi), Mircea Hulea (Romanian Academy, Iasi) – A Speech to Text Transcription Approach Based on Romanian Corpus
14.30-14.40: Mocofan Muguras (Politehnica University of Timisoara) – Improving Students Learning Process Using their Own Mobile
14.40-14.50: Petronela-Savin (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau) – Ethnolinguistic Audio-Visual Atlas of the Cultural Food Heritage of Bacău County – Elements of Methodology
Free time
Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016
Social activities
Departure of participants
General information
SMART 2016 – Scientific Methods in Academic Research and Teaching is an international conference that brings together specialists in Social Media, Education, Informatics, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, in order to create a proper environment for debates regarding the use of new technologies and of the most creative strategies in research, higher education and other fields.The acronym SMART was also used in the previous editions of the conference (Bacau – 2013, Timisoara – 2014 and Voronet (Gura Humorului) – 2015), when it stood for “Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching”.
The previous editions of SMART focused on understanding the way in which social media can generate a positive influence on the learning process or on the academic research. Furthermore, it was highlighted the role through which web 2.0 can help in the civil/social/political engagement.Beginning with 2016, SMART also extends its areas of interest on recent research in Education, either connected to Social Media or not.
Benefiting from the experience in editing and coordinating the academic journal BRAIN – Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (indexed in Web of Science), we considered that approaching topics related to Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience or Cognitive Sciences is also useful for the conference.
Indexes and Publication
The papers of SMART 2016 will be published in international journals, indexed by Thomson Reuters (in Web of Science) and Google Scholar:
selected papers related to Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Psichology a.o. will be published in BRAIN – Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain
selected papers related to e-learning will be published in Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, http://www.je-lks.org
Topics
Social Media for Research and Professional Development
Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses
The Political Power of Social Media
Social Networks and Riots, Protests, and Revolutions
Social Media as a Tool for Advertising, Business etc.
Artificial Intelligence Tools for Education
Intelligent Systems for E-learning
Research in Neurosciences and the Future of Education
The Roles of Cognitive Science in Education
Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Education
Recent Research in Artificial Intelligence, Cogntiive Science, Neuroscience
Pre-conference MOOC
This MOOC consists of selected conference presentations as short videos that demonstrate the main outcomes of the authors’ contributions.
The scope is to enhance the discussions and exchange between the participants in the conference and all those interested in the SMART topics. If you enroll and complete the MOOC, you can gain an open badge as a record of your achievement.
The MOOC is supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2040.
Fees
Participation fee: 50 euro per participant
Publication and Web of Science indexing: 50 euro per paper
At least one author (per paper) must register at participant.
Registration
You can register until November 1, 2016
You have to fill the registration formand send it together with your abstract by e-mail to smart2016@edusoft.ro
The final papers can be sent after the day of the conference (by December 15, 2016) and the authors also benefit from the possibility of having them indexed in Web of Science.
Payment information:
For RON: you should pay your appropriate fee in RON in :
IBAN RO79RZBR0000060018249327,
Bank: Raiffeisen Bank
Address of the bank: Bacau, Romania
Account owner: Asociatia EduSoft,
Information about the company: C.I.F.: 35276590
Address of the company: 600258 Bacau, str. M. Eminescu, nr. 1, bl. A1, ap.13,
Comment: SMART 2016
SWIFT code: RZBRROBU
BIC code: RZBR
For EURO: you should pay your appropriate fee in EUR in :
IBAN RO 44 BTRL 0040 4201 P559 87XX
Bank: Banca Transilvania
Address of the bank: Bacau, Romania
Account owner: Bogdan Patrut
Address of the owner: 600065 Bacau, 9 Mai 82 / C / 13
Comment: SMART 2016
SWIFT code: BTRLRO22
BIC code: BTRL
If you want to use PayPal, please send your appropriate fee at bogdan AT edusoft DOT ro
Scientific committee
Ana Adi, Bournemouth University, UK
Bogdan Patrut, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Charlotte Holland, Dublin City University, Ireland
Carmen Holotescu, Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Romania
Diana Andone, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania
Gabriela Grosseck, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Ilona Buchem, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Ilya Levin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Jonathan Bishop, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Luciana Duranti, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Mar Camacho, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona-Catalonia, Spain
Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Mercedes Fisher, Milwaukee Area Technical College
Miikka Eriksson, University of Lapland, Finland
Narelle Lemon, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Monica Patrut, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania
Olena Goroshko, The National Technical University: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
Stefan-Trausan Matu, Bucharest “Politehnica” University & Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu”, Romanian Academy, Romania
Sandra Hofhues, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Sonia Pedro Sebastião, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal & Center for Administration and Public Policies, Portugal
Vaclav Stetka, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Valentina Marinescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
Organizing committee
Bogdan Patrut, EduSoft & Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Diana Andone, University “Politehnica” Timisoara, Romania
Carmen Holotescu, Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara, Romania
Gabriela Grosseck, West University of Timisoara, Romania
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This MOOC consists of selected conference presentations as short videos that demonstrate the main outcomes of the authors’ contributions.
The scope is to enhance the discussions and exchange between the participants in the conference and all those interested in the SMART 2016 topics. If you enroll and complete the MOOC, you can gain an open badge as a record of your achievement.
The MOOC is supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2040.
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