Keynote speakers
dr. Joseph Buhagiar
University of Malta, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
Keynote Title: "S-phase for biomedical applications: An Interdisciplinary approach"
Bio: Dr. Joseph Buhagiar from University of Malta, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering is a well known specialist in biomedical materials. He received a PhD degree in Plasma Surface Engineering and Characterization of Biomedical Stainless Steels, at the University of Birmingham (UK).
Dr. Joseph Buhagiar has an intense research activity. He published in Surface and Coatings Technology, Surface Engineering, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Corrosion Science, Wear, etc. He is reviewer for Journal of Surface Engineering, Surface and Coatings Technology, Acta Biomaterialia, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Journal of Materials Science and is on the Editorial board of the Journal of Surface Engineering.
The 21th (France), 22th (Sweden) and 23th (India) editions of International Conference "Surface Modification Technologies" were chaired by dr. Buhagiar.
Dr. Buhagiar represents Malta on the Coal and Steel Committee.
dr. habil. László Kovács
University of Miskolc, Department of Information Technology
Keynote Title: "Efficient correlation-based clustering of large vectors"
Bio: Dr. habil László Kovács from University of Miskolc, Department of Information Technology is a well known specialist in knowledge modeling and data mining. He obtained a PhD degree in technical sciences from University of Miskolc, (HU).
Main teaching areas cover Database Systems, Database Administration, OLAP and Data Mining, XML-data management, Ontology Management.
The research interest of Dr. Kovács involves the following areas: soft computing, heuristic optimizations, ontology modeling in database systems, statistical grammar induction.
He participated in several mobility programs on the field of software engineering and database management at DEC Munich, University of Helsinki, University of Lisboa, University of Karlsruhe, University of Dortmund, University of Klagenfurt, University of Erlangen.
Dr Kovács has about 110 publications with 36 references. He is the Head of the Department and the leader of the research group on ontology-based grammar induction at University of Miskolc.
