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TUCS Newsletter 28.3.2013

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TUCS activities

  1. TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series
  2. TUCS Highlight: Information Technology in the Finnish Matriculation Examination
  3. TUCS Publication in Nature Methods
  4. TUCS GP doctoral defence
  5. Publication Forum lists updated in the TUCS Publication Database

New courses

  1. New TUCS short course: Multicriteria Decision Modeling in Problem Solving (2013 Spring)
  2. New TUCS short course: Project Management Theories and Tools (2013 Spring)
  3. New course: Experimentation in Software Engineering (2013 Spring)
  4. New course: Real Options and Managerial Flexibility (2013 Spring)
  5. New course: Research Seminar on Structured Derivations (2013 Spring)
  6. TISRA Spring seminars
  7. New Inforte courses
  8. Courses on transferable skills at University of Turku

Announcements

  1. Conference announcement: iFM 2013, Turku, June 10-14, 2013
  2. Open jobs at University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University
  3. Mikhail Barash, Best poster award
  4. ERC  Newsletter
  5. EIT ICT Labs Helsinki Newsflash March 2013
  6. TUCS GP travel reports
  7. New TUCS Technical Report LaTeX templates

Latest publications at TUCS

TUCS activities

TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series

Christos Papadimitriou, who will give a TUCS Distinguished Lecture on June 10, 2013 has been recently interviewed in the series "People of ACM". Here is a copy of the discussion:

"Christos Papadimitriou is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at University of California, Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley in 1996, he taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and University of California, San Diego. He serves on the Campus Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for New Media.

Papadimitriou received the 2002 Knuth Prize from ACM SIGACT and the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing for longstanding and seminal contributions to the foundations of computer science. In 2012 he and Elias Koutsoupias received the Gödel Prize for their joint work on the price of anarchy, a concept in game theory that measures how the efficiency of a system degrades due to selfish behavior of its agents. Papadimitriou is a Fellow of ACM and the National Academy of Engineering, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He co-authored a paper, "Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal," with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, while Gates was studying at Harvard.

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- You teach Computer Science and you write novels. What is the connection?

- There is a secret link between programming and storytelling. One day we'll read that neuroscientists discovered the two engage the same part of the brain. Writing a novel, especially near the end, when dozens of balls are hovering in the air and each must fall at exactly the right place, is close to what happens in coding-and in crafting an involved mathematical proof.

There are more connections: Teaching Computer Science is more effective and fun if it is intermingled with stories. I often stop in class to tell a story that animates the algorithm-like Theseus and the Minotaur for depth-first search-or about the discoverer of the algorithm or idea. How can you teach undecidability without recounting the tumultuous life and tragic death of Alan Turing? Or teach introduction to programming without mentioning Lady Ada?

Another connection is personal: My stories are often about computation. My first novel was Turing. My second, Logicomix, is a graphic novel about the crisis in mathematics in the early 20th century, which brought about the birth of the computer.

- You mentioned twice Alan Turing, whose centennial we celebrated last year. How has he influenced you?

- Turing has been the shining light of my career (see "Alan and I," CACM September 2012). Studying Electrical Engineering in Greece, I stumbled upon the Turing machine, and it transformed me intellectually. Turing's research legacy, automata theory, was my first topic in grad school at Princeton-where, as it turns out, I lived for two years in a dorm room rumored to be Turing's old quarters. The exacting rigor of his thought, his eerie talent for asking the right question, his amazing breadth of interest from hardware to biology, were major inspirations. Without my Turing fascination I would have never written stories, which would have left me missing a dimension.

- You collaborated with Bill Gates in the 1970s. What impression did he make on you?

- When I was an assistant professor at Harvard, Bill was a junior. My girlfriend back then said that I had told her: "There's this undergrad at school who is the smartest person I've ever met."

That semester, Gates was fascinated with a math problem called pancake sorting: How can you sort a list of numbers, say 3-4-2-1-5, by flipping prefixes of the list? You can flip the first two numbers to get 4-3-2-1-5, and the first four to finish it off: 1-2-3-4-5. Just two flips. But for a list of n numbers, nobody knew how to do it with fewer than 2n flips. Bill came to me with an idea for doing it with only 1.67n flips. We proved his algorithm correct, and we proved a lower bound-it cannot be done faster than 1.06n flips. We held the record in pancake sorting for decades. It was a silly problem back then, but it became important, because human chromosomes mutate this way.

Two years later, I called to tell him our paper had been accepted to a fine math journal. He sounded eminently disinterested. He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid. What a waste."

- What advice would you give to budding technologists considering a career in computing?

- I chose computing forty years ago, and it is one of the few choices I would repeat in a millisecond. These years were invaluable, singular, fascinating. I would trade them for nothing-save the next 40 years. Actually I don't have to trade, I plan to be there.

Computation has transformed itself radically a dozen times. It's like celestial mechanics, the chaos created by the strong interactions among three bodies: Science - industry - market. When I started computers were rooms, compilers a mystery, and Unix a strange new idea. The design of databases and chips became towering problems of the day. Parallelism came and went-and then came back. Robots, ditto. At first there were no networks, and then they were shaped as rings. AI was the world's most fascinating problem, then a problem nearly solved, then an embarrassment, and then promising, then not, until it thrived under another name. You must be ready to jump to a new raft-with both feet-a couple of times every decade. You must be constantly on the watch for the new huge thing. And be prepared to miss it, as I did with personal computers and Microsoft.

Computer Science was an adolescent, insecure field looking inward, trying to overcome its existential problems, to build a reputation, introverted by necessity, geeky by character. Then "the Internet" happened. Computation became the default platform of the universe. Today Computer Science is at the center of scientific discourse. Computation is worldly, it's about society, markets, people, brains, behaviors, perception, emotions. Computer Science is looking outwards now. I advise my undergrad students to take as many courses as they can: Economics, biology, sociology, humanities, linguistics, psychology.

All this makes computation the perfect subject for women. Clichés die hard, and entering freshmen are proverbially conformist when choosing majors, but I predict that computation will have a male majority for another twenty years at most, and then things will flip."

TUCS Highlight: Information Technology in the Finnish Matriculation Examination

Mikko-Jussi Laakso and his team at the Learning and Reasoning Lab reintroduces ViLLE as a tool for taking the Finnish Matriculation Examinations of the future with the aid of information technology.

http://tucs.fi/news/article/ville.php

TUCS Publication in Nature Methods

TUCS GP Student Jari Björne and his supervisor, Professor Tapio Salakoski have a publication "A Large-Scale Evaluation of Computational Protein Function Prediction" published in the Nature methods journal. This three point publication is the first one in the TUCS Publication Database that has been accepted in this revered journal.

http://tucs.fi/publications/view/?pub_id=jP13a

TUCS GP doctoral defence

On Friday, March 15th, TUCS GP student Tommi Lehtinen presented his Doctoral thesis "Numbers and Languages" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Lehtinen was Docent Juha Kortelainen from University of Oulu. Docent Alexander Okhotin acted as the custos at this public defence.

Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Cal4, Calonia

Publication Forum lists updated in the TUCS Publication Database

The Publication Forum lists were updated at the end of last year. The TUCS Publication Database was recently updated with the new lists. The capitalization of the forum titles should now also be improved from last year on our system. Furthermore, the system is now more exact, giving only journal and series options to the fields for journal or serie names, and only publisher options for publisher name fields.

There may still be abbreviations that are not all capitalized. For example “IEEE” is correct everywhere, but some less common abbreviations may have escaped. Also some titles may be found as duplicates, as they are duplicates in the original Publication Forum lists of altogether over 24.000 items. These are typically cases such as “IEEE International Conference on This and That” being also on the lists as “IEEE Conference on This and That”, or “Conference on This and That”.

New courses

New TUCS short course: Multicriteria Decision Modeling in Problem Solving (2013 Spring)

Organisation: ÅAU / Dept. of Information Technologies

Credit Points: 5

Schedule: Period IV

Lecturer: Professor Mario Fedrizzi, from the University of Trento in Italy.

Prof. Fedrizzi is Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento in Italy. He is also a Docent in Information Systems at Åbo Akademi. His numerous research interests include group decision analysis, decision spport systems, fuzzy decision analysis, and consensus modeling in group decision modelling under uncertainty. He has also been active in consulting and has served on the boards of several investment banks and IT companies.

Responsible Person: Tomas Eklund

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to make students familiar with the basic models that can be used when addressing decision making problems taking care of the complex circumstances under which choosing an alternative is more an art of balancing multiple attributes or criteria than a mechanical search for a mathematical maximum or minimum.

Starting from a variety of real-world examples we will show how to elicit the set of feasible and competing alternatives, how to settle the measurement scales of preferences and how to search for the best alternative.

Content: TOPSIS and ELECTRE

Multicriteria decision making under conditions of total uncertainty: maximin, maximax and minimax of regret. TOPSIS: normalized ratings, weighting, positive-ideal and negative-ideal solutions, separation measures, similarities, rank preference order. ELECTRE: outranking relationships, preferred alternatives, normalization and weighting, concordance and discordance sets and indexes, dominance relationships.

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

How to reduce complex decisions to a series of pair-wise comparisons starting from a hierarchical representation of the criteria. How to manage tangible and intangible goals through the weighting of the criteria. The mapping of the pair-wise comparisons and its formal representation. On the consistency of pair-wise comparisons. From partial scoring of the criteria to total scoring of alternatives..

Teaching methods: Classroom lectures

Assessment: 50% home assessments, 50% final exam

Reading list: Material provided during the lectures

Schedule: (in Aud Catbert, B3058, ICT Building)

  1. Week 14: Wednesday 3.4, 13-16; Thursday 4.4, 13-16; Friday 5.4, 9-12
  2. Week 15: Wednesday 10.4, 13-16; Thursday 11.4, 13-16 Friday 12.4, 9-12
  3. Week 19: Wednesday 8.5, 9-12, 13-16; Friday 10.5, 9-12
  4. Week 20: Wednesday 15.5, 13-16; Thursday 16.5, 13-16; Friday 17.5, 9-12

http://tucs.fi/education/courses/details/MulticriteriaDecisionModelingInProblemSolving.php

New TUCS short course: Project Management Theories and Tools (2013 Spring)

Organisation: ÅAU / Dept. of Information Technologies

Credit Points: 5

Schedule: Period IV

Lecturer: Professor Andrea Molinari, from the University of Trento in Italy.

Prof. Molinari is a Contract Professor for different courses at the Faculty of Engineering and at the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, and at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Bozen. His professional activities are oriented towards consultancy on Enterprise Project Management Systems, and internet-related advanced applications inside Information Systems. Currently he is co/author of about 200 scientific publications in international journals and conferences.

Responsible Person: Tomas Eklund

Preliminary enrollments and enquiries can be sent to [email protected]

Course Description: The course provides an overview of project management concepts, theories and techniques, discussing the importance of project definition and presenting fundamental planning and scheduling techniques useful for project managers, such as work breakdown structures (WBS), critical path method (CPM), and Gantt charts. The students will be introduced to the importance of risk assessment within project management, examining important monitoring and control tools and techniques such as earned value analysis and milestone trend charts. Finally, the course will present some Enterprise Project Management (EPM) software tools that help project managers to improve their management activities, specifically in complex, distributed contexts.

The course will have a practical approach, using lab sessions and project management software to explain the theoretical concepts. This “Hands on” approach on PM tools is finalized to stimulate further readings and close examinations of topics.

Topics:

  1. Project management introduction
  2. PM standards: PMBok overview
  3. work breakdown structures (WBS)
  4. critical path method (CPM), and Gantt charts
  5. Scheduling
  6. Time and cost management
  7. risk assessment within PM
  8. monitoring and control tools and techniques (ex. earned value analysis)
  9. Closing a project
  10. Change and project management
  11. Controlling distributed projects
  12. PM, social interaction and PM 2.0
  13. Software tools for managing projects (EPM)

Schedule: (in Aud Dilbert, B3029, ICT Building)

  1. Week 17: Tuesday 23.4, 9–12; Wednesday 24.4, 9–12, 13–16; Thursday 25.4, 9–12, 13–16
  2. Week 18: Monday 29.4, 9–12

http://tucs.fi/education/courses/details/projectManagementTheoriesAndTools.php

New course: Experimentation in Software Engineering (2013 Spring)

Organisation: ÅAU / Dept. of Information Technologies

Credit Points: 5

Schedule: Period IV

Responsible Person: Marta Olszewska

Course code: 453400

Web page: https://moodle2.vasa.abo.fi/course/view.php?id=1601

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to provide the necessary background to perform sound and meaningful experiments in Software Engineering in two areas:

  1. Evaluating and selecting development methods and tools
  2. Evaluating and selecting product and service features.

Content: The course provides an introduction to empirical methods in Software Engineering with the objective to learn how to evaluate Software Engineering methods, development tools, as well as product and service features against each other.

Evaluation of new and existing methods and tools is very important when considering the constant and rapid changes in the Software Engineering field and the high cost of adoption of new solutions in the industry. Evaluation of product and service features help us to decide what feature a software system should have.

The course covers the following topics

  1. Empirical strategies: Surveys, Case Studies, Experiments – how to choose a proper one?
  2. Case studies – how to structure and execute?
  3. Experimental Process – how to perform an experiment?
  4. Surveys – how to make them?
  5. Validity issues in performing experimental research – how to make a sound research?
  6. How to visualise data?

The theory provided by the course is supported by practical examples.

Teaching methods: The course meetings provide a combination of regular lectures with interactive tasks that require active student participation (analyzing data, going together through some examples, etc.).

In order to pass this course, the participants have to successfully accomplish all home assignments (at least 50% of the maximum amount of points of each of them), which are to be given during the course. Moreover, each participant has to pass a final examination with at least 50% of the maximum amount of points. Students can get additional points for the lecture tasks (up to 10% of the final grade).

Lectures

  1. Mondays 13-15 in room Cobol, ICT Building
  2. Wednesdays 10-12 in room Algol, ICT Building

The course starts on March 18th (week 12), at 13, in room Cobol. Course duration: March 18th – April 30th No lectures on 1st April.

Study materials:

  1. Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Björn Regnell, Anders Wesslén, Experimentation in Software Engineering, Springer 2012
  2. Selected articles available in the Moodle2 course page

http://tucs.fi/education/courses/details/ExperimentationInSoftwareEngineering.php

New course: Real Options and Managerial Flexibility (2013 Spring)

Organisation: ÅAU / Dept. of Information Technologies

Credit Points: 3

Schedule: Period IV

Lecturers: Prof Mikael Collan (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Dr Markku Heikkilä (ÅA), Dr József Mezei (ÅA), MSc Xiaolu Wang (ÅA)

Responsible Person: Markku Heikkilä

Registration: Registration in ÅA:s Minplan system or by e-mail to Markku Heikkilä: [email protected]

Course Description: Course aims at giving the students a wide understanding of how real and intangible assets are managed and valuated in the complex business environments of capital budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development and in the management of R&D and IPR. The course is an intensive course with lectures, seminar work and a course assignment.

Target Audience: This is an advanced course in Information systems suitable for masters and doctoral students in Information systems, Finance, Economics, Production economics, Computer science, Computer engineering etc. at both Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku.

Prerequisites: ÅA course Investeringsplanering / Investment planning (457103.0 ) or corresponding knowledge of finance and mathematics is required.

Teaching methods: There will be 2 days with lectures (6h/day), group meetings for specific real option problems with supervising teacher, the course work written in groups of three and a seminar day where each group presents their work and acts as opponents to another group.

To pass the course the group should submit a project report (70% of the course grade), present their course assignment in the seminar (20%) and act as opponent to another group (10%).

Due to work in groups the maximum number of participants is 30.

Lectures:

  1. Tuesday April 9th (6h): 9.00–12.30, Aud Catbert, ICT Building, 3rd floor; 13.00–15.00, room to be announced later
  2. Tuesday April 16th (6h): 9.00–12.30, Aud Catbert, ICT Building, 3rd floor; 13.00–15.00, room to be announced later

Group Work:

  1. Meetings in week 17

Seminar:

  1. Tuesday April 30th (4h): 9.00–13.00, Aud Catbert, ICT Building, 3rd floor

http://tucs.fi/education/courses/details/RealOptionsAndManagerialFlexibility.php

New course: Research Seminar on Structured Derivations (2013 Spring)

Lecturer: Ralph-Johan Back ([email protected])

Course assistant: Stefan Asikainen ([email protected])

Course description:  Structured derivations was proposed in the late 90s as a systematic way of presenting mathematical proofs and argumentations. It has been tried in mathematics education in junior high school, high school, and university introduction courses, as well as in practical research papers. Presently the method is being developed in a large EU project, and  piloted in a number of high schools in Finland, Sweden and Estonia, with very promising results.

The seminar presents and discusses different aspects of structured derivations, such as mathematical and logical foundations of the method, experiences from using the method in education, use of the method in text books, computer support for structured derivations, structured derivations in program construction, use of the method in sciences,  etc.

The course gives 5 ECTS credits (requires seminar presentation)

Target audience: The course is suitable for M.Sc and Ph.D. students, as well as for researchers in the general area of Mathematics and Computer Science education and in Logic.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of logic, as well as an interest in mathematics education

Time and place: Lectures are on Mondays 10 - 12, in lecture room Cobol (ICT building, 3rd floor). Lectures start on April 8.

Registration: No prior registration required.

TISRA Spring seminars

TUCS Research Programme TISRA is organizing Post Grad seminars throughout the Spring.

See more information on TISRA Research Unit page:

http://tucs.fi/research/research-programmes/tisra/

New Inforte courses

Helsinki 18.-19.3.2013

DESIGNING USER STUDIES IN INFORMATICS

Speaker:

Associate Professor Gondy Leroy, Claremont Graduate University

Organizer:

Professor Matti Rossi, Aalto University

Registrations and more information:

http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/designingUSERstudies

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Helsinki 3.-4.4.2013

BIG DATA AND SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES

Speaker:

Professor Sudha Ram, University of Arizona

Organizer:

Professor Matti Rossi, Aalto University

Registrations and more information:

http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/bigdata_sna

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Oulu 10.-11.4.2013

AN INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

Speaker:

Professor Ayse Basar Bener, Ryerson University

Organizer:

Adjunct Professor Burak Turhan, University of Oulu

Registrations and more information:

http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/data_science

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Jyväskylä 23.-24.4.2013

ADVANCED WIRELESS NETWORKS

Speaker:

Associate Professor Dr. Peter Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Organizer:

Professor Tapani Ristaniemi, University of Jyväskylä

Registrations and more information:

http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/awn

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Tampere 6.-7.6.2013

SECURITY OF E-SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS

Speaker:

Professor Dr. Mohammad S. Obaidat, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monmouth University

Organizer:

Tampere University of Technology

Registrations and more information:

http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/sec_esystem

Courses on transferable skills at University of Turku

http://www.utu.fi/fi/Tutkimus/tutkijakoulu/courses/Sivut/home.aspx

Announcements

Conference announcement: iFM 2013, Turku, June 10-14, 2013

Applying formal methods may involve the modeling of different aspects of a system that are expressed through different paradigms. Correspondingly, different analysis techniques will be used to examine differently modeled system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modeling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice.

The plenary talks at iFM 2013 will be given by

  1. Jean-Raymond Abrial, Marseille, France
  2. Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna, Italy
  3. Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France
  4. Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

The conference is organized at Department of IT, Åbo Akademi University and it will take place in the ICT Building. The PC is chaired by Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo) and Luigia Petre (Åbo Akademi University).

Link: http://www.it.abo.fi/iFM2013/

Open jobs at University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University

  1. University of Turku: http://www.utu.fi/fi/Yliopisto/yliopisto-tyonantajana/avoimet-tehtavat/Sivut/home.aspx
  2. Åbo Akademi University: https://www.abo.fi/personal/rekrytering

Mikhail Barash, Best poster award

Mikhail Barash, a TUCS PhD student at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, has received the "Best poster award" at the SOFSEM 2013 conference for his article on "Recursive descent parsing for grammars with contexts".

ERC newsletter

http://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/content/pages/newsletter_march_2013.pdf

EIT ICT Labs Helsinki Newsflash March 2013

http://workspaces.ictlabs.eu/PROMISE/PUBLIC/NEWSLETTER/eNewsReader.aspx?id=67

TUCS GP travel reports

TUCS GP travel report: INFOTECH intensive course on “Open Source and Mobile Phones” by Jose Teixeira

Full name of the event: INFOTECH intensive course on "Open Source and Mobile Phones: Perspectives on Open Innovation and Generativity"

Place and date: Finland, Oulu, February 28, 2013

Type of event:INFOTECH graduate school intensive course

The scientific profile of the event: A doctoral students level course for celebrating research on open-source. Course provided by researchers experienced in investigating the open-source phenomena. A good list of literature was provided, students were expected to familiarize themselves with reading material on the subject matter for discussing during the lectures and workshops. An concluding essay is to be reported. Course will account for 4 ECTS credits on mandatory major subject studies.

Opinion on the best paper and its topic: The presentation of Bergquist on its own journal paper: “Rolandsson, B., Bergquist, M., & Ljungberg, J. (2011). Open source in the firm: Opening up professional practices of software development. Research Policy, 40(4), 576-587.”

Number of participants: Circa 15 participants

Key contacts established:

  1. Henrik Hedberg, University of Oulu
  2. Magnus Bergquist, University of Gothenburg

Kay contacts re-established:

  1. Salman Mian, University of Oulu
  2. Netta Iivari, University of Oulu
  3. Zeeshan Asghar, University of Oulu

TUCS GP travel report: Grounded theory by Tingting Lin

Full name of the event: INFORTE seminar of Grounded Theory

Place and date: Finland, Helsinki, February 12-13, 2013

Type of event: Seminar

The scientific profile of the event: In the seminar, Grounded Theory Method has been introduced by Professor Cathy Urquhart (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) and Dr. Riitta Hekkala (Post Doc Researcher at Aalto University). Both of the speakers are very experienced researchers using GTM. Especially, Prof. Urquhart has delivered very vivid lecturers and tutorials; and Dr. Hekkala has shared her research and publication experiences in her doctoral dissertation and her post-doc works. The seminar is indeed very useful for beginners of GTM, but not for an in-depth discussion on the subject.

Opinion on the best paper and its topic: For me the best part is Prof. Urquhart’s presentation of “What is and isn’t GTM”, which has responded to many of my doubts in the subject.

Number of participants: 21

Touristic impressions: Not too much to say about Helsinki, I guess. But the accommodation we found from Airbnb is recommendable. It is a good alternative to expensive hotels near Aalto University, if you can share the two-room with another colleague.

New TUCS Technical Report LaTeX templates

Bogdan Iancu has provided us with improved LaTeX templates for TUCS Technical Reports. The templates are available on the “Publishing in the TUCS Publication Series” page and the “Document Templates” page.

http://tucs.fi/publications/publishing-series/

http://tucs.fi/education/information-students/document-templates/

Latest publications at TUCS

Edited books (2):

  1. Carlsson Christer (Ed.), On the Relevance of Fuzzy Sets in Analytics, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 298, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
  2. Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Marian Gheorghe, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa, Vaszil,György (Eds.), Membrane Computing, CMC 2012, Budapest, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7762, Springer Publishing Company, 2013.

Articles in journals (9):

  1. Christer Carlsson, Robert Fuller, Probabilistic Versus Possibilistic Risk Assessment Models for Optimal Service Level Agreements in Grid Computing. Information Systems and E-Business Management 11(1), 13–28, 2013.
  2. Christer Carlsson, Jozsef Mezei, Matteo Brunelli, Fuzzy Ontology Used for Knowledge Mobilization . International Journal of Intelligent Systems 28(1), 52–71, 2013.
  3. Predrag Radivojac, Wyatt T. Clark, Tal Ronnen Oron, Alexandra M. Schnoes, Tobias Wittkop Wittkop, Artem Sokolov, Kiley Graim, Christopher Funk, Karin Verspoor, Asa Ben-Hur, Gaurav Pandey, Jeffrey M. Yunes, Ameet S. Talwalkar, Susanna Repo, Michael L. Souza, Damiano Piovesan, Rita Casadio, Zheng Wang, Jianlin Cheng, Hai Fang, Julian Gough, Patrik Koskinen, Petri Törönen, Jussi Nokso-Koivisto, Liisa Holm, Domenico Cozzetto, Daniel W. A. Buchan, Kevin Bryson, David T. Jones, Bhakt Limave, Harshal Inamdar, Avik Datta, Sunitha K. Manjari, Rajendra Joshi, Meghana Chitale, Daisuke Kihara, Andreas M. Lisewski, Serkan Erdin, Eric Venner, Olivier Lichtarge, Robert Rentzsch, Haixuan Yang, Alfonso E. Romero, Prajwal Bhat, Alberto Paccanaro, Tobias Hamp, Rebecca Kaßner, Stefan Seemayer, Esmeralda Vicedo, Christian Schaefer, Dominik Achten, Florian Auer, Ariane Boehm, Tatjana Braun, Maximilian Hecht, Mark Heron, Peter Hönigschmid, Thomas A. Hopf, Stefanie Kaufmann, Michael Kiening, Denis Krompass, Cedric Landerer, Yannick Mahlich, Manfred Roos, Jari Björne, Tapio Salakoski, Andrew Wong, Hagit Shatkay, Fanny Gatzmann, Ingolf Sommer, Mark N. Wass, Michael J. E. Sternberg, Nives Škunca, Fran Supek, Matko Bošnjak, Panče Panov, Sašo Džeroski, Tomislav Šmuc, Yiannis A. I. Kourmpetis, Aalt D. J. van Dijk, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Yuanpeng Zhou, Qingtian Gong, Xinran Dong, Weidong Tian, Marco Falda, Paolo Fontana, Enrico Lavezzo, Barbara Di Camillo, Stefano Toppo, Liang Lan, Nemanja Djuric, Yuhong Guo, Slobodan Vucetic Vucetic, Amos Bairoch, Michal Linial, Patricia C. Babbitt, Steven E. Brenner, Christine Orengo, Burkhard Rost, Sean D. Mooney, Iddo Friedberg, A Large-Scale Evaluation of Computational Protein Function Prediction. Nature methods 10, 221–227, 2013.
  4. Björne Jari, Ginter Filip, Salakoski Tapio, University of Turku in the BioNLP'11 Shared Task. BMC Bioinformatics 13, S4, 2012.
  5. Harry Bouwman, Christer Carlsson, Carolina López-Nicolás, Bob McKenna, Francisco Molina-Castillo, Tuure Tuunanen, Pirkko Walden, Mobile Travel Services - The Effect of Moderating Context Factors. Journal of Information Technology and Tourism 13(2), 55–73, 2012.
  6. Mikael Collan, Robert Fullér, József Mezei, Credibilistic Approach to the Fuzzy Pay-Off Method for Real Option Analysis. Journal of Applied Operational Research 4(4), 174–182, 2012.
  7. Jonna Järveläinen, Information Security and Business Continuity Management in Interorganizational IT Relationships. Information Management & Computer Security 20(5), 332 – 349, 2012.
  8. Anna Sell, Mark de Reuver, Pirkko Walden, Christer Carlsson, Context, Gender and Intended Use of Mobile Messaging, Entertainment and Social Media Services. International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering 3(1), 1–15, 2012.
  9. Sofie Van Landeghem, Jari Björne, Thomas Abeel, Bernard De Baets, Tapio Salakoski, Yves Van de Peer,Semantically linking molecular entities in literature through entity relationships. BMC bioinformatics 13, S6, 2012.

Articles in proceedings (7):

  1. Simon Holmbacka, Dag Ågren, Sébastien Lafond, Johan Lilius, QoS Manager for Energy Efficient Many-Core Operating Systems. In: Peter Kilpatrick, Peter Milligan, Rainer Stotzka (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, 318 – 322, IEEE Computer society, 2013.
  2. Simon Holmbacka, Wictor Lund, Sébastien Lafond, Johan Lilius, Task Migration for Dynamic Power and Performance Characteristics on Many-Core Distributed Operating Systems. In: Peter Kilpatrick, Peter Milligan, Rainer Stotzka (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, 310 – 317, IEEE Computer society, 2013.
  3. Christer Carlsson, Robert Fullér, József Mezei, On Mean Value and Variance of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Numbers. In: Salvatore Greco (Ed.), Advances in Computational Intelligence, Communications in Computer and Information Science 299, 19–28, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  4. Christer Carlsson, Pirkko Walden, From Mcom Visions to Mobile Value Services . In: Roger Clarke (Ed.), Proceedings of the 25th Bled eConference, 217–234, Online Proceedings, 2012.
  5. Jonna Järveläinen, “I Wouldn’t Go Back to the Old System”: A Technology Laggard Organization, Resistant Users and System Implementation. In: Gregor Lenart (Ed.), Proceedings of 25th Bled eConference eDependability: Reliable and Trustworthy eStructures, eProcesses, eOperations and eServices for the Future, June 17, 2012 – June 20, 2012; Bled, Slovenia., 394–408, Bled eCommerce Conference, 2012.
  6. Anna Sell, Pirkko Walden, Christer Carlsson, I am a Smart Phone User - Key Insights from the Finnish Market. In: Harry Bouwman, Virpi Tuunainen (Eds.), Proceedings of the ICMB 2012, 265–276, IEEE Computer Society, 2012.
  7. Pirkko Walden, Christer Carlsson, Papageorgiou Alexandros, Travel Information Search - The Presence of Social Media. In: Roy Sterritt (Ed.), Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 1–10, IEEE CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS, 2011.

Chapters in edited books (1):

  1. Christer Carlsson, Robert Fullér, József Mezei, A Quantitative View on Quasi Fuzzy Numbers. In: Enric de Trillas, Piero P. Bonissone, Luis Magdalena, Janusz Kacprzyk (Eds.), Combining Experimentation and Theory (A Hommage to Abe Mamdani), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 271, 225–236, Springer-Verlag, 2012.

Ph.D. thesis (1):

  1. Tommi J. M. Lehtinen, Numbers and Languages. TUCS Dissertations 158. University of Turku, 2013.

Technical reports (5):

  1. Diana-Elena Gratie, Bogdan Iancu, Ion Petre, ODE Analysis of Biological Systems. TUCS Technical Reports 1072, TUCS, 2013.
  2. Diana-Elena Gratie, Ion Petre, Quantitative Petri Nets Models for the Heat Shock Response. TUCS Technical Reports 1068, TUCS, 2013.
  3. Yuliya Prokhorova, Elena Troubitsyna, Linas Laibinis, Dubravka Ilic, Timo Latvala, Formalisation of an Industrial Approach to Monitoring Critical Data. TUCS Technical Reports 1070, TUCS, 2013.
  4. Seppo Pulkkinen, Incremental Low-Rank SDP Approach to Finding Graph Embeddings. TUCS Technical Reports 1069, TUCS, 2013.
  5. Frank Wickström, Getting Started with Smart-M3 Using Python. TUCS Technical Reports 1071, TUCS, 2013.