3. Acad. G. Bonchev St., Block 2, 1113 – Sofia, BULGARIA Phone/fax: (+359 2) 72 04 97 www.iit.bas.bg; E-mail: danbor@iit.bas.bg

4. Structure and Staff 8 DEPARTAMENTS 2 LABORATORIES 2 Members of BAS 3 Full Professors 20 Associated Professors 34 Research Associates 53 Specialists

5. DEPARTAMENTS Artificial Intelligence Information Processes and Systems Information Media Soft Computing Modeling and Optimization Intelligent Systems Pattern Recognition Decision Support Systems

6. Telematics System Engineering LABORATORIES

7. Information Processing and Systems Design and developing of computerized information and control systems; Signal processing; Radar signal processing.

8. Artificial Intelligence Methods and tools for knowledge representation and processing on the base of logical programming and its extensions; Methods and architectures for knowledge representation and processing in chosen domains (classification problems, natural language processing, educational multimedia systems).

9. Decision Support System Methods and tools for solving decision making problems under determined, risk, and undetermined conditions; Architectures and user interfaces of interactive decision support systems.

10. Pattern Recognition Segmentation and recognition of half- tone and color images, text and graphics processing, 2-D and 3-D objects recognition and scene analysis; Speaker recognition; Neural networks and systems.

11. Intelligent Systems Integrating the Process of Optimization and Control in Complex Systems via Intelligent Procedures; Research of Intelligent Soft-Sensing Systems Using Neural Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Support Vector Machines; Network Methods in Logical and Probabilistic Intelligent Systems.

12. Modeling and Optimization Multicriteria analysis and selection models ; Models of information interactions in complex structures ; Static and dynamic optimization models.

13. Soft Computing Models with uncertain information; Analysis of uncertain systems; Financial and enterprise risk management.

14. Information Media Information media models Fluid information media Laser information media

15. International Cooperation  INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 0138 Transferring Charade technology in Central and Eastern Europe  INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 1060 (ARCHIMED) Multimedia architectures and applications for education telematics  INCO-COPERNICUS PR 96 - 1104 (AGILE) Automated generation of technical handbooks on East-European languages  INCO-COPERNICUS PL 97 - 7069 (EMG-NET) European scientific network for intelligent support of electro- miography research

16.  PHARE - P 70 (1999) Multimedia project "The thracian treasures in ancient Europe“  Leonardo da Vinci ІІ project EL/2002/B/F/114025 KNOSOS (2003-2005) New Media Knowledge Village for Innovative e-Learning Solutions  Leonardo da Vinci ІІ project PP-136029 ADONIS (2002-2004) Advanced On-The-Job E-Training Solutions In E-Business For SMEs

17. Cooperated with Institute of Informatics – Russian Academy of Sciences, Sanct-Petersburg, Russia Institute of Information Transmission Problems – Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia International Center of Signal Processing – Finnish Academy of Sciences, Tampere, Finland

18. School of Economics – Helsinki, Finland Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics – University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Commonwealth University in Virginia, USA. Information Technology Research Institute – University in Brighton, UK. Technical University of Crete, Greece INRIA, Grenoblе, France

19. Educational Courses Teaching courses - more then 30. Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” Sofia Technical University New Bulgarian University Plovdiv University Burgass Free University South-West University Blagoevgrad College of Library Science Education and Information Technologies, Sofia

20. Post Graduate Education Informatics Application of the principles and methods of the cybernetics in different scientific areas (engineering, medical, biocybernetics, etc.)

21. Publishing in international journals IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics Computers and Artificial Intelligence European Journal of Operational Research Journal of Operational Research Society International Transactions of Operational Research Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence Pattern Recognition Letters Fuzzy Sets and Systems Electrotechnology

22. IIT Publications Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics (ISSN 0204-9848) – ref. Math. Rev., INSPEC, etc. Cybernetics and Information Technologies (ISSN 1311-9702) Working Papers (ISSN 1310-652X)

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