On Tuesday the 25th of January 2022, Hadi Amirpour successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis under supervision of Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Christian Timmerer and Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Mathias Lux and the examiners were Emeritus Prof. Dr. Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK) and Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann Hellwagner (University of Klagenfurt).
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Hadi Amirpour on passing his Ph.D. exam!
Title: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum
Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan
Abstract: The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide information exchange and curation among different health care systems. However, the current EHR systems do not provide transparent means for diagnosis support, medical research, or can utilize the omnipresent data produced by the personal medical devices. Besides, the EHR systems are centrally orchestrated, which could potentially lead to a single point of failure. Therefore, in this article, we explore novel approaches for decentralizing machine learning over distributed ledgers to create intelligent EHR systems that can utilize information from personal medical devices for improved knowledge extraction. Consequently, we proposed and evaluated a conceptual EHR to enable anonymous predictive analysis across multiple medical institutions. The evaluation results indicate that the decentralized EHR can be deployed over the computing continuum with reduced machine learning time of up to 60% and consensus latency of below 8 seconds.
The 5th Klagenfurt Winter Game Jam took place as a hybrid event on Dec 17-19, 2021. Over 100 participants teamed up over the weekend to create altogether 26 games on the topic of “What’s in the box?”.
The games can be found and played at https://itch.io/jam/5th-winter-game-jam.
The Horizon Cloud Summit 2021 – at its second edition – aims to gather innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policymakers, and Cloud initiatives and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition.
Radu Prodan held an online presentation: “ARTICONF: A Cloud-agnostic Blockchain-as-a-Service for Social Continuum“ on December 09, 2021.
IEEE VCIP 2021
Sunday, December 5, 2021
https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/
Find further info in the blog post here.
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series – Prof. Dr. Michael Rielger from SIMULA Research, Norway. The course will take place from May 30 – June 03, 2022.
The course will give an introduction into the topic of generative adversarial networks and synthetic data. Please register at the course 623.714
Further information is available HERE.
We happily announce, the #Emmy Award Bitmovin (link) for innovation in online TV for @bitmovin arrived at University of Klagenfurt.
Alexander Lercher’s Master Thesis titled ‘Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Distributed Social Networks‘ under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan at ITEC has been awarded outstanding academic thesis and a grant of 600 Euros in the field of digitization for Master’s Category. This work received funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement 825134, “Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment (ARTICONF)”. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 at 11 a.m. in the mirror hall of the Carinthian Provincial Government.
Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “LwTE: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge” at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain.
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