Slovak University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering Bratislava, Slovakia Pavol Návrat, Mária Bieliková {navrat, bielik} Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 2 Main research areas methods of software development methods of digital systems description and design methods of distributed and parallel program systems design fault tolerant computer system architectures intelligent parallel knowledge based systems

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 3 Education Full range of courses in Informatics –Informatics (Bc), with specialisation tracks –Software Engineering –Computer Engineering –Telecommunications –Informatics (MSc/Ing), with specialisation tracks –Software Engineering –Computer Engineering –Telecommunications –Informatics (PhD)

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 4 Recent international collaboration TEMPUS (educational) projects: –EPICS (Sheffield, Palma, Warsaw, Budapest, Bratislava) –Neumann Network (Bordeaux, Sheffield, Budapest, Bratislava) COPERNICUS (research) projects: –Large parallel databases (Versailles, Sheffield, Sofia, Budapest, Bratislava)

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 5 Methods of software development versioning and configuration management software design patterns –techniques for modelling of design patterns automatic program understanding –recognition of functional programs using plans

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 6 Versioning and configuration management main concerns: –identification, selection and efficient storing of versions –modelling of a system from the configuration management point of view –a method of building of a configuration context of –software systems –hypertext documents

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 7 Versioning and configuration management - system model OR node AND node family  family version  version version  family variant  family OR edge AND edge selections

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 8 Versioning and configuration management - selected publications A knowledge based method for building a software system configuration. Knowledge Based Systems 9:1 (1996), Knowledge controlled version selection in software configuration management. Software  Concepts and Tools, 17 (1996), Identification of versions in databases of software components. In Proc. of Advances in Databases and Inf. Systems ADBIS'97, R. Manthey and V. Wolfengagen (Eds.), pp An approach to automated building of software system configurations. Int. Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (to appear). Modelling Versioned Hypertext Documents. In System Configuration Management, ECOOP’98 SCM-8 Symposium, Brussels, Springer-Verlag, LNCS pp

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 9 EMG - (some) themes of research to define a model of data and information used in the project based on that model, we propose: –to research methods of supporting the evolution of data by version management methodology

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 10 EMG - other possible relevant research topics presentation of data and information in a natural language –a method of synthesising simple sentences in Slovak language as a database interface collaboration within a community of experts who use information presented on a web –collaborative filtering that provides recommendations of web data to be accessed finding patterns and similarities within findings data –clustering and classifying data

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 11 Morphological Analysis basis for syntax and semantics different language types - different morphology needs SLOVAKENGLISH robímI work robíšyou work robíhe works robímewe work robíteyou work robiathey work

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava 12 Morphological Analysis problem of creation and update of morphological dictionaries solution: knowledge-based system that learns from real texts