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Full professor in Artificial intelligence, Computer Games, Database theory, Data analytics, Declarative programming and Multiagent systems.
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September 2010 - present
September 2006 - March 2010
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- Database theory
Education
April 2008 - February 2010
Field of study
- autopoiesis, semantic wiki, programming language, frame logic, probability annotation, amalgamation, social network analysis, social tagging
November 2005 - January 2008
September 2000 - October 2005
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The complex analytical method (cro. kompleksna analitička metoda -KAM), a method for organizational design is put into a new perspective of designing multi-agent communities. The KAM method uses a numerical algorithm to deal with or-ganizational exertion and provides a decision criteria for optimizing the overall organization of a business system....
The field of multi agen systems' (MAS) organizational design deals with providing methods for building organizational architecture of MAS organizations. Herein, an active graph grammar (AGG) formalism, inspired by current research in graph and active database theory is intro-duced and applied to modeling MAS organizational structure. By defining or...
Since there are many ways in which one could establish a multiagent knowledge-based system, some of the most popular ways should be evaluated and presented in an end-user-friendly form. One such assumption is based on the phenomenon of implicit culture, where agents interact with each other. Such a system has been developed, but has some room for i...
In this paper we present the TaOPis semantic wiki system based on F-logic that we implemented. The system uses the Flora-2 reasoning engine and supports the dynamic creation of queries in restricted Flora-2 syntax. We show how we were able to apply a simple tagging system in order to support the creation of an object oriented ontology. In the end w...
![Figure 1: Original External Classifier GAN architecture [Haque, 2021]](publication/366644050/figure/fig1/AS:11431281110012016@1672247209122/Original-External-Classifier-GAN-architecture-Haque-2021_Q320.jpg)
Numerous advanced methods have been applied throughout the years for the use in Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Among these are various Deep Learning models, which have shown great success for attack classification. Nevertheless, false positive rate and detection rate of these systems remains a concern. This is mostly because of the low...
Cognitive agents are artificial intelligence systems that are able to communicate in a way that is as much as possible acceptable to humans. Technologies like natural language processing (NLP), text to speech (TTS), speech to text (STT) and motion capture (MoCap) are usually applied to provide such an interface. In this work-in-progess paper we pre...
This paper proposes an open ontology for self-sustainable human settlements in an effort to set the common language for modelling self-sustainable systems and address the issues regarding heterogeneity of physical devices, protocols, software components, data and message formats and other relevant factors, which proved to be unavoidable in implemen...
An intelligent virtual environment simulates a physical world inhabited by autonomous intelligent entities. Multi-agent systems have been usually employed to design systems of this kind. One of the key aspects in the design of intelligent virtual environments is the use of appropriate ontologies which offer a richer and more expressive representati...
Ontologies in the field of information sciences represent the basic building blocks in formal semantic infrastructure construction, which are needed for the development of various semantics-aware applications. At the beginning of any ontology development, it is important to create a dictionary of concepts which will make-up the ontology. The method...
This chapter provides an overview of modeling techniques for large-scale systems in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment with a special accent on smart self-sustainable cities. The authors present a framework for modeling Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (LSMASs) including a graphical modeling language, and a tool, that aim to facilitate develop...
The paper summarizes a number of recent application domains (ADs) for large-scale multiagent systems (LSMASs) including the Industry 4.0, cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITSs), smart grids, smart cities, virtual & augmented reality (VAR) and electronic sports (eSports). These ADs intentionally overlap to show some of the basic building...
An overview of the Large-Scale Multi-Agent Modelling of Massively Multi-Player On-Line Role-Playing Games (ModelMMORPG) project financed by the Croatian Science Foundation is provided. ModelMMORPG aimed on studying Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) using a combined computer science Multiagent System (MAS) and a social scien...
Massively multi-player on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs) present a large-scale, digital environment that fosters organizational behaviour of players in which multi-agent systems (MASs) can be used for various purposes including but not limited to automated testing, bot detection or analysis of social player behaviour and human – artificial agent...
A work-in-progress agent-based framework for automated testing of an open-source massively multi-player on-line role playing game (MMORPG) called The Mana World is presented. The implemented system, in its current state, allows for model-driven development of tests using a graphical user interface (GUI), implementation of automated artificial playe...
Massively On-Line Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) costitute an ideal test-bed scenario for the development and testing of large-scale agent organizations. In this paper the possibility of us- ing a recent agent-based framework called Smart Self-Sustainable Human Settlements (SSSHS) in agent based organizations is analyzed. We provide a conceptual fram...
Large-scale multi-agent systems (LSMAS) development methods are becoming a necessity in a world of ever growing numbers of computer agents incorporated in various devices and services used by people in all areas of life. Organization in such large-scale systems, becomes therefore a very relevant concept in research on LSMAS, as the mentioned agents...
A social network analysis is conducted in an instance in the Mana World, an open source massively on-line role playing game (MMORPG), during a controlled experiment in which data from 181 player characters was gathered during a period of 2 months. The presented results are part of the first phase of the Model MMORPG (Large-Scale Multi-Agent Modelin...
A newly developed agent-based framework for modeling, simulation, and evaluation of resource management in self-sustainable human settlements is presented, along with the ability of the framework to prolong the self-sustainability of the observed human settlement system in the simulation environment. In this study the focus is on the analysis of a...
Computing is increasingly ubiquitous, with everyday items including smartphones, cars, clothes and household appliances gaining increasingly sophisticated computing and communication capacities. With the development of the Internet of Things, it is just a matter of time before devices have to collaborate and compete with each other, in order to pro...
In the last decade advances of computer technologies have lead towards a technological reality where the line between information consumers and information producers is blurred. This technological omnipresence allows for unprecedented data creation capabilities. Based on various data sources, it seems humans have fully embraced data-generating acti...
An agent-based framework for modelling and simulation of resource management in self-sustainable human settlements is presented and tested on a realistic scenario including energy production with photovoltaic panels. The results of the simulation showed that the framework was able to prolong the self-sustainability of the observed settlement with r...
An instance of a massively on-line role playing game called The Mana World is analyzed for its social networks. The gathered data is the result of the first phase of the ModelMMORPG project in which players played a specially designed quest during a controlled experiment. Observations based on the monitored virtual community behaviour and individua...
![Figure 2.2: Possible pathway systems adapted from [20, pp. 116-117]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/283225453/figure/fig1/AS:669032281813006@1536521134510/Possible-pathway-systems-adapted-from-20-pp-116-117_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 2.6: Example pathway network construction in a city environment [20]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/283225453/figure/fig4/AS:669032302772225@1536521139626/Example-pathway-network-construction-in-a-city-environment-20_Q320.jpg)
UAVTraffic (cro. Višeagentno upravljanje prometom autonomnih bespilotnih letjelica - Multi-agent based Traffic Control of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) was financed by the University of Zagreb from August 2014 until December 2014. The technology of unmanned aerial vehicles has matured for various civil usage scenarios and is already being te...
The social web or web 2.0 has become the biggest and most accessible repository of data about human (social) behavior in history. Due to a knowledge gap between big data analytics and established social science methodology, this enormous source of information, has yet to be exploited for new and interesting studies in various social and humanities...
Massively Multi-Player On-Line Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) give us the opportunity to study two important aspects of computing: (1) large-scale virtual social interaction of people (players) and (2) the design, development and coordination of large-scale distributed artificial inteligence (AI). A common denominator for both aspects are the methods...
Content personalization reflects the ability of content classification into (predefined) thematic units or information domains. Content nodes in a single thematic unit are related to a greater or lesser extent. An existing connection between two available content nodes assumes that the user will be interested in both resources (but not necessarily...
During the past half century, the political attitude of the Eastern European people toward the state, government and society changed dramatically. So did their value systems. Inglehart's materialist vs. post-materialist comparative analysis gives a measure of this value change, but not enough as to fully characterize the phenomena underlining the d...
The social web has become a major repository of social and behavioral data that is of exceptional interest to the social science and humanities research community. Computer science has only recently developed various technologies and techniques that allow for harvesting, organizing and analyzing such data and provide knowledge and insights into the...
Self-sustainability is a property of a system; a system is considered to be self-sustainable if it can sustain itself without external support in an observed period of time. If this property is mapped to a human settlement in context of resources (water, energy, food, etc.), it would describe a human settlement which is independent of external reso...
Massively multi-player on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs) are relatively new phenomena in the gaming industry in which a potentially large number of players play simultaneously. An interesting problem in such games is to develop artificial players (bots) that are able to play such games and interact with other players. In this paper we provide an...
Computing in the Internet of Things is increasingly pervasive, with everyday items including clothes, smart-phones, cars and various household appliances gaining sophisticated communication and computing capacities. It seems to be just a matter of time before devices have to collaborate and compete mutually as well as with their users, in order to...
During the past half century, the political attitude of the Eastern European people toward the state, government and society changed dramatically. So did their value systems. Inglehart's materialist vs. post-materialist comparative analysis gives a measure of this value change, but not enough as to fully characterize the phenomena underlining the d...
Smart buildings are one of the major application areas of technologies bound to embedded systems and the Internet of things. Such systems have to be adaptable and flexible in order to provide better services to its residents. Modelling such systems is an open research question. Herein, the question is approached using an organizational modelling me...
Competence fields are conceptualised as an alternative to the median-voter approach to the relationship between political leaders and constituencies. The notion of competence fields assumes that prospective political leaders need be regarded as competent in order to convince constituencies of their leadership abilities. It is argued that competence...
An initial conceptualization of organizational design techniques for large-scale multi-agent systems (LSMAS) based on the paradigm of organizational architecture is introduced. Seven perspectives (organizational structure, processes, culture, strategy, individual agents, organizational agents and inter-organizational context) are analyzed and defin...
The theory of autopoiesis, which is less known to both organizational design and organizational engineering (ODE) practice, is a theory of complex, non-linear, autonomous, and especially living systems that found its way from biology through the social sciences to organization theory and information systems (Schatten and Baca, 2010). Autopoiesis, a...
An object-oriented model of semantic social networks is proposed and formally analyzed. Methods for project, role, and team management based on the semantic model are defined and implemented in
$\mathfrak{n}\mathfrak{i}\mathbf{K}\mathfrak{l}\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{s}$
, a semantic wiki language based on frame logic developed by the author. The new...
This paper presents a cooperative intelligent transport systems, which represents a platform for future semantic services. We expect they will bring significant social and economic benefits, due to the greater efficiency of the transport system and increase security. Ontologies represent dictionaries of relevant concepts from traffic domains organi...
The paper reviews applications of data mining in academic papers dealing with tourism industry, both from demand and supply side.. Web of science, SCOPUS, and in particular key tourism journals published in 1995 – 2013 period have been searched with the usage of appropriate keywords. Literature searches revealed 88 papers that present applications...
Background: Organizational architecture is a holistic approach to design of humane organizations and studies an organization from five perspectives: structure, culture, procsses, strategy and individuals. In this paper the concept of organizational architecture is firstly formalized using the fractal principle and then applied to multi-agent system...
This article analyses the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) as a social application using a number of different approaches. By analysing and visualizing the conceptual network the core of keywords is determined for each scientific field: biomedical sciences, biotechnology, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and technical sciences...
In a multiagent system (MAS), agents can have different opinions about a given problem. In order to solve the problem collectively they have to reach consensus about the ontology of the problem. A solution to probabilistic reasoning in such an environment by using a social network of trust is given. It is shown that frame logic can be annotated and...
We present regular path expressions (RPE) a language for querying data graphs and its context free grammar implementation in Prolog. A proof of concept parser and query tool is implemented and various usage examples are analyzed for semistructured data formats like XML and JSON.
A deductive system for database normalization is implemented by using a Flora-2 reasoning engine. The system allows for checking a relational schema up to Boyce- Codd normal form (BCNF) and functional independent normal form (FINF). Examples of system usage are presented and discussed.
![Figure 3. Ratio 1 on human face [6]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/216024125/figure/fig1/AS:306000604221446@1449967637741/Ratio-1-on-human-face-6_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 4. Ratio 2 on human face [6]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/216024125/figure/fig2/AS:306000604221447@1449967637850/Ratio-2-on-human-face-6_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 5. Ratio 3 on human face [6]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/216024125/figure/fig3/AS:306000604221448@1449967637996/Ratio-3-on-human-face-6_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 6. Ratio 4 on human face [6]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/216024125/figure/fig4/AS:306000608415744@1449967638093/Ratio-4-on-human-face-6_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 7. Ratio 5 on human face [6]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/216024125/figure/fig5/AS:306000608415745@1449967638224/Ratio-5-on-human-face-6_Q320.jpg)
The aging process affects the structure and appearance of people in different ways. One of such is the change in craniofacial morphology (CM) of individuals. The subject of a person's CM and age estimation is by itself insufficiently researched. Especially on the analysis of children's CM at different ages, because it hasn't been considered thoroug...
In this paper a mapping of Core Components specification based e-business standards to an ontology is presented and a framework for ontology alignment based on F-logic is proposed. The well accepted Web Ontology Language (OWL) is used for ontology development. In order to preserve the existing hierarchy of the standards, an emphasis is put on the m...
A deductive system for database normalization is implemented by using a Flora-2 reasoning engine. The system allows for checking a relational schema up to Boyce- Codd normal form (BCNF) and functional independent normal form (FINF). Examples of system usage are presented and discussed.
![Figure 1. The amoeba organization of Kyocera Corporation [9].](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/227655602/figure/fig1/AS:302239324360711@1449070878429/The-amoeba-organization-of-Kyocera-Corporation-9_Q320.jpg)
Biomimetics, the art and science of imitating nature and life for technological solutions is discussed from a modern organization theory perspective. The main hypothesis of this article is that there are common laws in nature that are applicable to living, social and likewise organizational systems. To take advantage of these laws, the study of nat...
In the contemporary world of global business and continuously growing competition, organizations tend to use mergers and acquisitions to enforce their position on the market. The future organization’s design is a critical success factor in such undertakings. The field of social network analysis can enhance our uderstanding of these processes as it...
![Figure 1. The amoeba organization of Kyocera Corporation [9].](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/215901152/figure/fig1/AS:305724396720137@1449901784534/The-amoeba-organization-of-Kyocera-Corporation-9_Q320.jpg)
Biomimetics, the art and science of imitating nature and life for technological solutions is discussed from a modern organization theory perspective. The main hypothesis of this article is that there are common laws in nature that are applicable to living, social and likewise organizational systems. To take advantage of these laws, the study of nat...
The analysis of mixing patterns in a social (or organizational) network, yields the laws of how nodes in a network connect with each other. We hypothesize that organizational networks with compatible mixing patterns will be integrated more successfully. We design a simulation experiment of organizational integration and show how mixing patterns and...
Scientific publishing almost hasn't changed for the last few centuries. Conferences and Journals are the only two ways to publish scientific information. On the other hand publishing technology has advanced from ordinary typography and it is ironic that scientific institutions, which should be the primers in using advanced technologies, still use t...
Two network analyses and one keyword cloud analysis of the CECIIS 2005 - 2010 Proceedings bibliography are presented and discussed. First the social network of CECIIS authors is visualized using the k-core decomposition algorithm and properly analyzed. Afterwards a keyword cloud based conceptual analysis of keywords grouped by conference year is pr...
This chapter presents a semantic network formalism based on frame logic. Advanced techniques including HiLog extensions, transaction logic and dynamic module creation are applied to the problem of preferential routing and rerouteing. The deductive program is implemented in the FLORA-2 reasoning engine, which allows for scalable query execution. In...
Social Network Mixing Patterns In Mergers & Acquisitions - A Simulation Experiment
In the contemporary world of global business and continuously growing competition, organizations tend to use mergers and acquisitions to enforce their position on the market. The future organization's design is a critical success factor in such undertakings. The fiel...
![Fig. 1. Overview of different business standards [7]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/220792671/figure/fig1/AS:305601956597761@1449872592927/Overview-of-different-business-standards-7_Q320.jpg)
A mapping of Core Components specification based e-business standards to an ontology is presented. The Web Ontology Language
(OWL) is used for ontology development. In order to preserve the existing hierarchy of the standards, an emphasis is put on
the mapping of Core Components elements to specific constructs in OWL. The main purpose of developin...
Autopoietic theory, a theory of complex, non-linear, autonomous and especially living systems, found its way from biology, through the social sciences to organization theory and information systems. It enjoys major attention from scientific audiences in lots of different disciplines. Still, there hasn't been enough effort to establish a common foun...
![Figure 2.1: Important concepts in wiki systems [70]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200647850/figure/fig1/AS:669424717668355@1536614698223/mportant-concepts-in-wiki-systems-70_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 4.1: Concepts as filters in our perception [58]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200647850/figure/fig2/AS:669424717680644@1536614698308/Concepts-as-filters-in-our-perception-58_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 4.2: The concept triad [58]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200647850/figure/fig3/AS:669424717668357@1536614698342/The-concept-triad-58_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 4.3: Generalization and specialization [58]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200647850/figure/fig4/AS:669424717688855@1536614698396/Generalization-and-specialization-58_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 4.4: Dynamic classification [58]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200647850/figure/fig5/AS:669424717672458@1536614698467/Dynamic-classification-58_Q320.jpg)
Recent research has shown a correlation between personality disorders (PDs) and the position of a person in a social network. Following this research we conducted a social network analysis on one of the greatest Croatian cyber-political blogging sites to identify individuals with possible PDs. These individuals' blogs were then analyzed in order to...
Social semantic Web or Web 3.0 application gained major attention from academia and industry in recent times. Such applications try to take advantage of user supplied meta data, using ideas from the semantic Web initiative, in order to provide better services. An open problem is the formalization of such meta data, due to its complex and often inco...
A different approach to visualizing formalized knowledge on social semantic web applications is proposed and implemented in to the TaOPis system. A knowledge visualizer is build on top of the semantic wiki subsystem, using OWL based ontologies which are generated from user supplied meta-data. The application displays visual connections between clas...
With all the efforts put into IT system security, the issue remains of what the level of such security is and how sure we are that our IT system is secure. The paper starts with the assumption that users are one of the most important components of IT system security, and an aware and trained user takes much more care about security in his daily act...
Autopoietic theory, a theory of complex, non- linear, autonomous and especially living systems, found its way from biology, through the social sciences to organization theory and information systems. It enjoys major attention from scientific audience in lots of different disciplines. Still there hasn't been enough effort to establish a common found...
The strong development of information and communication technology (ICT) as well as the fact that there are currently over 800 million on-line users worldwide, bring us to the position of rethinking carefully about where all this data is going. Sending and receiving secure data is a well known concept. But what about data in the "open space" where...
Social systems are autopoietic (self-creating) systems which produce all their internal processes by them selves. When autopoietic systems interact with environmental (possibly allopoietic) systems the process of structural coupling takes place and there are possibilities that language will emerge. We analyze different public interfaces like wiki s...
A foundation for closing the gap between biometrics in the narrower and the broader perspective is presented trough a conceptualization of biometric systems in both perspectives. A clear distinction between verification, identification and classification systems is made as well as shown that there are additional classes of biometric systems. In the...
![Figure 2: The semantic web stack [1]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200439763/figure/fig2/AS:305738527330314@1449905153713/The-semantic-web-stack-1_Q320.jpg)
The semantic social web or web 3.0 is the movement of integrating popular social web (web 2.0) applications with ideas from the semantic web. Techniques like semantic wiki systems, social tagging of weblogs and other web 2.0 applications as well as FOAF (Friend of a Friend) specifications are some of the results of this movement. Since metainformat...
Semantic wiki systems have gained major attention of the academic community in the past few years. The idea of integrating the semantic web with fast and lightweight content management systems seems to be good direction towards web 3.0 or the social semantic web. Herein we analyze how to take advantage of such systems through dynamic querying facil...
The paper presents a method for the evaluation of biometric systems based on an open ontology of selected segments of biometrics. The ontology was developed in F-logic using the FLORA-2 system. Descriptive parameters of biometric characteristics as well as organizational contingency parameters are taken into consideration and a metric for grading a...
U ovom radu razmatra se mogućnost implementacije pramac/krma organizacijske strukture i upravljanja znanjem uz pomoć suvremenoga koncepta poduzeća 2.0. Opisano je kako metode i tehnologije koje se koriste prilikom uspostave poduzeća 2.0 mogu poslužiti za uspješnu komunikaciju i razmjenu znanja između različitih razina u pramac/krma organizaciji te...
The possibility of implementing a front/back organizational structure with knowledge management through a Enterprise 2.0 is discussed and analyzed. We show how to apply Enterprise 2.0 methods and technologies for successful communication and knowledge sharing between different levels in a front/back environment as well as a customent relationship m...
Biometric technologies rely on specific biometric characteristics that are used for recognition. The particular characteristic for a given situation can be described through a serious of descriptive parameters including ease of collecting, permanence, measurably, acceptability, deceptiveness, universality, uniqueness, sample cost, system cost, data...
In this paper we will present an evaluation of open source offi�ce suites for the use in public administration of the Republic of Croatia from a security oriented view. Security is an important factor in this evaluation since there is no guarantee from a software developer company that can provide the necessary backdrop for a huge organization like...
In this paper we show how team work between participants can be facilitated through the use of principles from autopoietic theory and modern WEB2.0 technologies like social networks, forums, semantic wiki systems, podcasting as well as social tagging in order to provide a suitable environment for knowledge management. We argue that leadership is an...
![Figure 1. Biometric system [18]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/4359659/figure/fig1/AS:670002646614047@1536752487914/Biometric-system-18_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 2. Membership functions of the linguistic variable Age [3]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/4359659/figure/fig2/AS:670002646614048@1536752487926/Membership-functions-of-the-linguistic-variable-Age-3_Q320.jpg)
This paper presents the idea how to use fuzzy active rules within biometric systems. We have already shown how the concept of complex events presented in the active database theory could be used in order to build a biometric system. We especially explored the paradigm of active rules and complex events and experimental results were encouraging. Fuz...
In this paper we shall introduce a taxonomy of biometric methods continuing thereby our previous research on selected segments of biometrics. We show how our previously developed systematization and categorization of biometric methods, characteristics and models can be extended by building upon an open ontology of biometrics. The developed taxonomy...
In this paper, we show an implemented information system capable of supporting knowledge management in Nonaka’s hypertext organization. Appropriate supportive mechanisms for the four knowledge-sharing processes (socialization, externalization, internalization, combination) were defined through a modified semantic wiki system. We suggest an informat...
![Figure 1. Structural coupling [12] (reproduced with friendly permission...](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/23984948/figure/fig1/AS:310132035604482@1450952647466/Structural-coupling-12-reproduced-with-friendly-permission-of-T-Quick_Q320.jpg)
Autopoietic theory which represents a framework for describing complex non-linear and especially living systems is described in a context of biometric characteristics. It is argued that any living system by performing an internal process of reproducing its structural components yields physical biometric characteristics. Likewise any living system w...
In this paper, we show an implemented information system capable of supporting knowledge management in Noaka’s hypertext organization. Appropriate supportive mechanisms for the four knowledge-sharing processes (socialization, externalization, inernalization, combination) were defined through a modified semantic wiki system. We suggest an informatio...
Abstract. In this paper we present an object-relational database for biometric
systems and results conducted during implementation. Using a systematization of biometric methods, models and characteristics we developed a UML (Unified Modeling Language) model and
ODL (Object Definition Language) specification of the database which can be used for uni...
In this paper we consider implementation possibilities of an autopoietic information system for transparent, open and public political project management through a web interface as well as for further development of Internet democracy. We have developed proper documentation for such a system using the strategic planning of information systems (SPIS...
The fishnet organization is a new organizational form which, among others, emerged in scientific literature in the field of organization theory in the past 20 years. Questions to ask here include: how to develop and maintain such a dynamic and heterarchic structure, described with the metaphor of a fisher's net, in a real organization? How to find...
Python is an object-oriented scripting language known for its ability to support various programming paradigms. In Python one can write procedural, functional, object-oriented, and thanks to metaclasses even aspect-oriented code. Even if some efforts were done to support the last major programming paradigm, logic programming is still not supported...
![Figure 3. Enrolment and verification – the new approach [14]](profile/Markus-Schatten/publication/200047738/figure/fig2/AS:305770936717313@1449912880265/Enrolment-and-verification-the-new-approach-14_Q320.jpg)
Generally speaking, a user (person) can be authorized in three different ways (or their combinations): one can use something that a user knows, something that a user possesses or by measuring some physical or psychological characteristics which are immanent and unique to each person i.e. biometric characteristics. In this paper we are going to put...
In this paper we argue for the possibilities of applying the concept of autopoiesis to modern organizations information systems. Modern organizations today in a rapidly changing, turbulent and complex environment are virtual, open, heterarchic and autopoietic. The main question in this paper we try to address is how to support such organizations wi...
![Figure 1. Waymans original general biometric system [21]](profile/Miroslav-Baca/publication/200047719/figure/fig1/AS:393924989472768@1470930444154/Waymans-original-general-biometric-system-21_Q320.jpg)
In the last decade we faced a great number of publications in the field of biometrics and a lot of new biometric methods, techniques, models, metrics and characteristics were proposed. Due to this explosion of research, scientific and professional papers certain inconsistencies in terminology emerged. What some authors call a biometric method, othe...
In this work, our attention is directed towards the development of open ontology about organizational architecture emphasizing in particular the possibilities of knowledge management in an organization. For that purpose, the definition of ontology is based on concepts from organizational theory and then we carried out the preliminary research of it...
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Hello group members,
a few colleagues of mine including myself from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.foi.hr/en/index.html) are planning to apply for a NATO Science for Peace and Security SPS grant (http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/nato_funded_activities.htm) and are looking for possible partners. The partner has to be eligible for the grant (take a look at http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/who_can_apply.htm). Due to the dual nature of Croatia at the moment we are able to apply as a NATO member as well as a NATO partner country.
The main idea of the project is to investigate political social and cyber networks (web mining, social network analysis, topic analysis, computer forensics) in order to find patterns and make possible predictions of the political situation in the country with a special accent on security related issues. Our goal is to collect the necessary data from various publicly-available sources like on-line forums, blogging sites, social networks, news and media etc. in order to provide comparative analysis in all project-partner countries. We already conducted few preliminary investigations and collected some datasets using self-implemented crawlers. We would now like to implement a political tracking system which could provide the public with recent trends in politics in their country by using various advanced techniques.
We are looking for serious partners that would be interested in such a project. The perfect partner group of researchers would have the following characteristics:
- affiliated with an academic institution related to computer, information or social sciences in a NATO member or partner country (eligibility)
- is a group of open minded, confident, hardworking academics
- has experience in web mining, (social) network analysis, social media and/or semantic web, computer forensics (in form of published research)
If you are interested in becoming our partner, have any questions or doubts please do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
M.S.
Hello group members,
a few colleagues of mine including myself from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.foi.hr/en/index.html) are planning to apply for a NATO Science for Peace and Security SPS grant (http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/nato_funded_activities.htm) and are looking for possible partners. The partner has to be eligible for the grant (take a look at http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/who_can_apply.htm). Due to the dual nature of Croatia at the moment we are able to apply as a NATO member as well as a NATO partner country.
The main idea of the project is to investigate political social and cyber networks (web mining, social network analysis, topic analysis, computer forensics) in order to find patterns and make possible predictions of the political situation in the country with a special accent on security related issues. Our goal is to collect the necessary data from various publicly-available sources like on-line forums, blogging sites, social networks, news and media etc. in order to provide comparative analysis in all project-partner countries. We already conducted few preliminary investigations and collected some datasets using self-implemented crawlers. We would now like to implement a political tracking system which could provide the public with recent trends in politics in their country by using various advanced techniques.
We are looking for serious partners that would be interested in such a project. The perfect partner group of researchers would have the following characteristics:
- affiliated with an academic institution related to computer, information or social sciences in a NATO member or partner country (eligibility)
- is a group of open minded, confident, hardworking academics
- has experience in web mining, (social) network analysis, social media and/or semantic web, computer forensics (in form of published research)
If you are interested in becoming our partner, have any questions or doubts please do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
M.S.
Hello group members,
a few colleagues of mine including myself from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.foi.hr/en/index.html) are planning to apply for a NATO Science for Peace and Security SPS grant (http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/nato_funded_activities.htm) and are looking for possible partners. The partner has to be eligible for the grant (take a look at http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/who_can_apply.htm). Due to the dual nature of Croatia at the moment we are able to apply as a NATO member as well as a NATO partner country.
The main idea of the project is to investigate political social and cyber networks (web mining, social network analysis, topic analysis, computer forensics) in order to find patterns and make possible predictions of the political situation in the country with a special accent on security related issues. Our goal is to collect the necessary data from various publicly-available sources like on-line forums, blogging sites, social networks, news and media etc. in order to provide comparative analysis in all project-partner countries. We already conducted few preliminary investigations and collected some datasets using self-implemented crawlers. We would now like to implement a political tracking system which could provide the public with recent trends in politics in their country by using various advanced techniques.
We are looking for serious partners that would be interested in such a project. The perfect partner group of researchers would have the following characteristics:
- affiliated with an academic institution related to computer, information or social sciences in a NATO member or partner country (eligibility)
- is a group of open minded, confident, hardworking academics
- has experience in web mining, (social) network analysis, social media and/or semantic web, computer forensics (in form of published research)
If you are interested in becoming our partner, have any questions or doubts please do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
M.S.
Hello group members,
a few colleagues of mine including myself from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.foi.hr/en/index.html) are planning to apply for a NATO Science for Peace and Security SPS grant (http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/nato_funded_activities.htm) and are looking for possible partners. The partner has to be eligible for the grant (take a look at http://www.nato.int/science/nato_funded_activities/who_can_apply.htm). Due to the dual nature of Croatia at the moment we are able to apply as a NATO member as well as a NATO partner country.
The main idea of the project is to investigate political social and cyber networks (web mining, social network analysis, topic analysis, computer forensics) in order to find patterns and make possible predictions of the political situation in the country with a special accent on security related issues. Our goal is to collect the necessary data from various publicly-available sources like on-line forums, blogging sites, social networks, news and media etc. in order to provide comparative analysis in all project-partner countries. We already conducted few preliminary investigations and collected some datasets using self-implemented crawlers. We would now like to implement a political tracking system which could provide the public with recent trends in politics in their country by using various advanced techniques.
We are looking for serious partners that would be interested in such a project. The perfect partner group of researchers would have the following characteristics:
- affiliated with an academic institution related to computer, information or social sciences in a NATO member or partner country (eligibility)
- is a group of open minded, confident, hardworking academics
- has experience in web mining, (social) network analysis, social media and/or semantic web, computer forensics (in form of published research)
If you are interested in becoming our partner, have any questions or doubts please do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
M.S.
Very interesting (open access) journal:
Hello group members,
I'm working on my PhD thesis where in one part I use eigenvector centrality (Bonacich). I'm unable to find the original paper of Bonacich (1972) as well as to find a formal definition of eigenvector centrality using graph theory. I was able to define the adjacency matrix and find some other details (PageRank algorithm, eigenvector, Perron-Frobenius theorem). Can someone point me to a right place to look, or provide a formal definition?
Best regards,
