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Short Bio

Steffen Lohmann is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS as well as associated member of the Smart Data Analytics group of the University of Bonn. His main research areas include Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Engineering, Interactive Systems and Information Visualization. At Fraunhofer IAIS, he is heading the business unit on Enterprise Information Integration concerned with research and development in areas such as Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Semantic Interoperability, and Smart Data Integration. Steffen holds BSc and MSc degrees in Applied Communication and Media Science and a PhD in Computer Science. He is co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, co-founder of a number of software and research projects and initiatives, has served in different functions for major international conferences and journals, and co-organized several activities in the above topic areas.

Keynote Abstract

Knowledge graphs represent information in a highly structured and semantically enriched form that allows for advanced querying, reasoning, and information integration. They enable a more intelligent and meaningful analysis of information by focusing on how things are related and by supporting knowledge discovery. Combined with visual interfaces, users are equipped with powerful means to interactively explore information and gain new knowledge from it. This talk will shed light on the power and potential of knowledge graphs in educational contexts. It will reflect on how knowledge graphs can be derived from educational material and effectively support learners in reasoning, sensemaking, and understanding.

ABSTRACT. In this paper, a new method for predicting the solar radiation potential in Libya was developed. It is constructed on the basis of the combined use of RBF and non-iterative paradigm of the artificial neural networks construction - the Successive Geometric Transformations Model. This method has the advantages of both approaches - the high prediction accuracy from RBF characteristics and fast non-iterative learning provided by the Successive Geometric Transformations Model. A series of practical experiments were con-ducted. The training model contained 950 vectors of the monthly solar radiation, which recorded in 25 Libya's cities from 2010 to 2015. Comparison of the proposed method with existing ones is presented. The proposed method showed the best prediction results (MAPE, RMSE) compared to SVM, Linear Regression, the linear Neural-like structure of the Successive Geometric Transformation Model (SGTM), and the RBF based on the NLS SGTM.

ABSTRACT. The problem of estimating the level of production potential for different time periods is investigated. It is proposed to apply an integrated approach to the analysis of the regional indicators complex that characterize the level of production potential. At the first stage, the normalization of indicators is carried out taking into account their economic content. The next stage is the calculation of integral indicators in three different approaches. At the last stage, the clustering of the regions by the level of production potential is carried out using Kohonen neural network. Application the Kohonen map with the database clustering simultaneously allows to project multidimensional data into two-dimensional space and analyze the resulting cluster system. The choice of the clusters number is based on the cluster indicator calculation, in contrast to the traditional statistical approach, based on the Störges formula using. It allows to improve the clustering results by selecting the optimal number of partition groups. The convenient form of visualization of the clustering results enables to localize the features and make appropriate adjustments to the rating list, based on expert judgements.

ABSTRACT. This paper reports on the refinement of the THD algorithm, developed in the OntoElect framework. This baseline THD algorithm used exact string matches for key term comparison. It has been refined by introducing an appropriate linguistic metric for measuring the (dis)similarity of compared key terms taken in as character strings. To choose the most appropriate metric, several existing metrics have been cross-evaluated on the developed test set of multi-word terms in English. The rationale for creating this test set is also presented. Further, the refined algorithm for measuring terminological difference has been cross-evaluated with the baseline THD algorithm. For this cross-evaluation, the bags of terms extracted from the TIME collection of scientific papers were used. The experiment revealed that using the refined algorithm yielded better and quicker terminological saturation, compared to the baseline.

ABSTRACT. This study marks an important contribution to the education section in Lao PDR concerning teacher’s ICT proficiency, which aims to reflect the out-come of student teachers in each of the teacher training programs. The study is focused on how teachers perceived basic ICT application knowledge and skills. A survey was completed by 200 teachers who teach in primary and secondary schools from eight districts of Salavan province. The results show that both pri-mary and secondary school teachers perception of basic ICT applications is dif-ferent, Also that male teachers’ proficiency in using ICT is higher than female teachers. In addition, how Teacher Education Institutions organize and encourage student teachers to be accomplished in promoting teaching and learning with ICT is discussed.

ABSTRACT. The article describes the tendency of informatization of school education in Ukraine during the time of independence. Based on the analysis of legislative and strategic documents defining the development of Ukrainian education, the movement is open starting from the idea of introducing information resources into education in the early 90's of the twentieth century. To complex informatization with the purpose of formation of information space, ICT-competent young generation at the present stage. In the conditions of the European choice of Ukraine and the Europeanisation of Ukrainian education, the urgency of the study of the experience of European countries and the EU on the development of ICT-oriented education have been proved. The strategic documents of the EU in the field of education that emphasize the importance of ICT in the information society are analyzed, and the priority of the ICT component in educational strategies has been proved. The conclusion is made about the prospect of European experience for Ukraine and, at the same time, attention is drawn to the aspects that require further development at the strategic level.

ABSTRACT. The authors propose innovative approaches to the improvement of information technologies, methods and tools, which implement the formation of electronic library funds with specialized information products, integrating various types of information to provide information needs of people with disabilities. It is offered the new approaches to the formation of information resources and electronic libraries for this category of people promoting the processes of inclusive education. The processes of content preparation for providing convenient information and technological interaction of the blind with the information resources are analyzed, as well as the choice of the DAISY format (Digital Ac-cessible Information System) for the creation of information products (audio books) with the use of flexible navigation mechanisms is substantiated. Moreo-ver, it is proposed the classification of documents, which allows you to choose the levels of their structuring for effective transformation into DAISY format. The developed technology by authors is introduced that allows you to convert mathematical formulas of different complexity into a form that can be pronounced effectively by a synthesizer of the Ukrainian language. The developed software and algorithmic means of sounding mathematical for-mulas in Ukrainian have given an opportunity to dub the Ukrainian technical texts with the help of a language synthesizer, fill DAISY books with technical content and convert the mathematical formulas into a text description. To convert the mathematical formulas presented in various versions of the MathML (presentation and semantic) records into an Ukrainian text, a special system of rules has been developed, which consists of rules for writing mathematical symbols, operators, general and refined expressions.

ABSTRACT. This paper describes the current state, the process, and the attitudes of coopera-tion between Kherson National Technical University (KNTU) and GI companies in the frame of Erasmus+ project “University-Enterprises Cooperation in Game Industry in Ukraine” (GameHub). The work on the project in KNTU is reported in the paper. It covers monitoring of the competence profiles needed on the GI market, creating necessary infrastructure and developing the relevant curricula, study programs, education resources, and organization of the feedback loop with GI enterprises. One of the priorities is to equip students with soft competencies needed for GI such as creativity and academic integrity. The paper also presents the actual cooperation results, which could be helpful for Ukrainian higher education sector to respond to current and future education needs because mutually beneficial and sustainable university-enterprises cooperation can achieve a better match between competence profile of university graduates and those required by GI.

ABSTRACT. The article deals with the analysis of information and communications technologies (ICT) role in the interaction of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and industry in the context of Industry 4.0 industrial system formation, as well as the implementation of the world experience in ICT-innovations applications in technology transfer and production processes. The study is based on the idea, that within Industry 4.0 HEIs are becoming the centers of technological clusters and networks and therefore education in such zones should be focused on achieving of real project results, conducting practical research in conditions of access to huge volumes of information, especially experiment data and tacit knowledge exchange. So it is proposed to consider ICT role within the HEIs place in Industry 4.0 innovation system, which requires new skills. Authors have considered the main Industry 4.0 trends within the education foresight methodology. Based on research results the main directions of ICT-innovations application in technology transfer system were formulated. The main issues and cases of ICT application in HEIs for technology transfer management thought the information-technology support of client-oriented approach to educational programs formation and the creation of smart environment of HEIs were considered. ICT role in educational engineering within the framework of HEIs strategy development at different levels as a mechanism for overcoming the contradictions between the prospective professional competences and the requirements from industry was considered. The given recommendations can be used within the technology transfer and innovation education technologies implementation projects to improve the interaction between HEIs and business.

ABSTRACT. SlideWiki's goal is to revolutionise how educational material is authored, shared, and reused. By enabling authors and students to create and share slide decks as HTML in an open platform, communities around the world can benefit from materials created by world-leading educators on a wide range of topics. SlideWiki is an open source project, funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project involves 17 partners who are developing, testing and trialling SlideWiki.

In this tutorial we give a description of the platform and its main functionalities combined with a hands-on session. We will demonstrate how to use SlideWiki as an educational professional, industry professional, or as a user contributing to open educational material. We will detail how existing educational material can be imported in SlideWiki, how it can be edited and re-used in a collaborative setting, and how it can be exported to various formats and learning management systems. Participants will get familiar with the version management, translation, annotation, searching, editing, and presentation features in SlideWiki by using these in practice in an interactive way.

We illustrate above with real-world examples from our experience in using and developing SlideWiki. Presentation of features will be followed by hands-on activities in which the participants exercise the use of the concepts explained.

The tutorial aims to have participants be able to do the following:

• Use SlideWiki to import educational material, collaboratively create educational material, and export educational material to various formats
• Use the presentation features of SlideWiki, including the more advanced interactive presentation room
• Use other advanced SlideWiki features, including group edit rights, forking decks, questions and exams, and applying templates and themes.

ABSTRACT. The main issue that arises when considering multi-UAV formation flight in a group is that of collision probability. In this case, without human control involved, it is artificial intelligence that is responsible for flight performance in the airspace in such a way that collision is avoided. Taking into account a rapid increase in civil and military applications of UAVs, a collision avoidance algorithm is proposed based on artificial potential field method. This method makes it possible to detect a potential conflict between multiple vehicles and other static or moving obstacles found in airspace, to provide collision resolution by changing UAVs flight parameters through maintaining minimum separation distance, including cases when manned vehicles are found in the same airspace. There can be distinguished a wide range of obstacles: static non-moving objects or vehicles having different sizes or flight parameters (multi-rotor, fixed wing and single rotor UAVs), or a few UAVs of one type but with different types of hardware configuration, at the same time considering the possibility of flight performance in the same airspace with manned aircraft. Group formation keeps shape on the flight path, taking into account some ground speed restrictions and turn bank angle values according to UAV’s flight performance characteristics. The proposed method is used for multi-UAV control without any leader and provide multiple conflicts resolution, where each UAV is characterized by its protection zone.

ABSTRACT. In Ukraine, one of the most up-to-date and powerful sources of information for people with special needs is online information resources of state psychological and diagnostic facilities, called PMPK. The most popular online information resources for this category of users are the sites of PMPK and profiles-oriented pages on social networks. These resources were analyzed whether they provide complete information support of each stage of the inclusive education, as well as if their structure and presentation correspond to ergonomic needs and demands of the users with special needs. Both the sites` content presentation and accordance with the existing international ergonomic rules is insufficient. There is no systematic approach to the IT online support for inclusive education processes by means offered by and/or available to PMPK specialists. To became an institution of professional care of integrated IT support, PMPK system in Ukraine the should involve the specialists of information and communication technologies, methods and means of Big Data analysis. To create the platform of IT support of education of people with special needs at the national level, one should use of a wide range of mobile IT services of prompt and convenient online access to results of psychophysical diagnosis, personal learning trajectories, etc. with full-fledged protection and confidentiality (as an option, the blockchain technology was proposed). As the creation and management of own computing infrastructures in PMPC facilities seem to be ineffective and expensive, it is expedient to use technologies and services based on cloud computing models.

ABSTRACT. Research goals and objectives: to study ecosystem using GIS based technology to develop valid recommendations for sand extraction from water body. Object of research: ecosystem with natural resources. Subject of research: GIS Based Model of Quotas Regulation and its Impact on the Extraction of Ecosystems’ Natural Resources and Social Welfare. Research methods: optimization methods, GIS methods, differential-equations method, marginal benefit-cost analysis. Results of the research: An example of mathematical model for determining of ecological equilibrium during sand extracting in the ecosystem is developed using Google Maps. The influence of economic activity due to sand extraction on fish fauna is described. The GIS based ecological-economic model is developed on the logistic model basis for establishing regional quotas for extraction of natural resources during economic activity in the South of Ukraine. Regulatory economic mechanism of natural environment is proposed. It implies such quota for sand extraction from water body, which does not lead to deterioration of the quality of the nature environment and stimulate of social welfare’s increasing.

ABSTRACT. One of the characteristic visions of the city concept of recent years is the use of the smart city concept in the context of the modern model of urban transformation. The concept of a smart city involves modernizing the city infrastructure with fundamentally new centralized management capabilities, a new level of provided services and security. The acquisition of the status of smart city is interpreted by specialists through the prism of decomposition of the integrated concept into a number of components, namely, smart management, smart living, smart people, smart environment, smart economics, smart mobility. According to analysts, the city can be defined as smart provided that investments will focus on the training of a highly educated workforce, which serves as a main driver of the city's innovative development. As a result, a new transformational paradigm has been formed, which IBM experts call the educational continuum, which includes: life-long learning technologies, data analysis for student and institutional data and performance indicators, personalized training trajectories, the use of the acquired competences for the development of the economy and the growth of the city potential as a whole. In such conditions, the need to develop a complex innovative program and algorithmic complex that would realize the basic principles of information and technological support for the training of qualified specialists in accordance with the needs of the individual and the requirements of the labor market in the smart city becomes evident. The paper provides the description of the architecture developed by the authors and the processes of main modules of the program and algorithmic complex of information and technological support for the training of specialists in smart cities. The peculiarities of program realization are revealed as well as the system functioning and the technical characteristics of the software product.

ABSTRACT. SlideWiki's goal is to revolutionise how educational material is authored, shared, and reused. By enabling authors and students to create and share slide decks as HTML in an open platform, communities around the world can benefit from materials created by world-leading educators on a wide range of topics. SlideWiki is an open source project, funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project involves 17 partners who are developing, testing and trialling SlideWiki.

In this tutorial we give a description of the platform and its main functionalities combined with a hands-on session. We will demonstrate how to use SlideWiki as an educational professional, industry professional, or as a user contributing to open educational material. We will detail how existing educational material can be imported in SlideWiki, how it can be edited and re-used in a collaborative setting, and how it can be exported to various formats and learning management systems. Participants will get familiar with the version management, translation, annotation, searching, editing, and presentation features in SlideWiki by using these in practice in an interactive way.

We illustrate above with real-world examples from our experience in using and developing SlideWiki. Presentation of features will be followed by hands-on activities in which the participants exercise the use of the concepts explained.

The tutorial aims to have participants be able to do the following:

• Use SlideWiki to import educational material, collaboratively create educational material, and export educational material to various formats
• Use the presentation features of SlideWiki, including the more advanced interactive presentation room
• Use other advanced SlideWiki features, including group edit rights, forking decks, questions and exams, and applying templates and themes.

ABSTRACT. In the article, the concept of triple learning is considered. There are provided advantages of triple learning and first results. We try to combine the blended learning with team work for the first year students of speciality “Computer sciences

ABSTRACT. The report describes the use of mind maps as a modern tool of learning and teaching. It describes possibilities of using mindmapping for teachers in classical universities or mentors and developers in IT-companies for presenting new material, developing a course or evaluating developers' understanding, as well as for developers studying a specific subject, preparing for examinations and high-quality memorization of information. The issue of increasing the effi-ciency of the educational process with the use of mindmapping is investigated. The expediency of visualization of the information for better students’ master-ing of stuff and students’ encouragement to learn with pleasure and to develop their creative abilities are substantiated. Authors designed and developed their own new software solution for easy creating and editing and sharing mind maps with an intuitive user interface and efficient abilities. The report contains de-tailed description of implementation of mind maps usage in software develop-ment during training of students in Chernivtsi National University and software engineers in IT-company SoftServe. The process of developing new one-page application for creating mind maps using the React library in the JavaScript lan-guage is being described.

ABSTRACT. The article is devoted to the development and application of computer models in a course of laboratory works in physics. The paper contains the results of pedagogical experiment which aim was to develop student’s skills to process the result of experiment.

ABSTRACT. Using of new learning and IC technologies is necessary for effective learning of modern students. That is why it can be reasonable to introduce augmented reality and content-language integrated learning in educational process. Augmented reality helps create firm links between real and virtual objects. Content and language integrated learning provides immersion in an additional language and creates challenging group and personal tasks in language and non-language subjects. Using these technologies in complex provides social and ICT mobility and creates positive conditions for developing 9 of 10 key competencies. The paper deals with the features, problems and benefits of these technologies’ implementation in second-ary schools.

ABSTRACT. The authors propose approaches that would solve a problem of providing statistical research with modern convenient tools of evaluating the information manager activity and use obtained results for further improvement. The authors developed "Portfolio of the information manager", which will include tools for mathematical and statistical analysis, oriented to those who have the skills of working with software only "at the user level" and implemented by means of MS Excel table processor in almost any of the latest versions. "Portfolio of the information manager" includes the following methods: descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, classification and cluster analysis methods, pair comparison methods, Saati method (algorithmic hierarchical procedure) and others. The main feature of presentation of mathematical support is that initially a hypothetical class of problems, which have their equivalents the real problems is considered, the justification of use of appropriate mathematical methods of their solution and the examples of their use are presented. The group of considered methods is a convenient tool for conducting statistical studies of professional activity of worker and increasing the efficiency of its management. This gives grounds for construction of various reports and creation of scientifically-based recommendations, that will help to improve the technology and quality of information ensuring of users, particularly those who conduct wide-scale scientific research.

ABSTRACT. Software design patterns are general reusable object-oriented solution. In soft-ware engineering, patterns have been proven to offer many benefits. Scientific software also becomes more object-oriented and the importance of design patterns increases. We present a set of design patterns for object-oriented scientific software. Particularly we develop computer-aided engineering software based on the Finite element method. Initially, we decompose the problem into subsystems by applying the commonality and variability analysis. A set of commonalities includes following terms: a representation scheme, a mesh, a solver, etc. A representation scheme is an interface that allows to check whether a point belong to a solid or not. A mesh is the discrete representation of the solid via a set of simple geometric shapes. Four basic design patterns for the scientific software development have been presented in this paper. There are developed UI–Model–Analysis, Representation–Mesh, Element–Mesh, and FEA Problem patterns. These design patterns separate pre-processing, the analysis solver, and post-processing of results.