In a hybrid (i.e. online and offline) attendance mode at the project meeting in Ohrid, Macedonia, the ARTICONF team gave a final push to have a unified and integrated ARTICONF toolset for DApp developers. The consortium led by project coordinator Prof. Prodan also outlined a detailed action plan for the remaining six months with regards to exploitation and dissemination of ARTICONF’s latest results and developed technologies.

 

Vignesh V Menon

Vignesh V Menon and Hadi Amirpour gave a talk on ‘Video Complexity Analyzer for Streaming Applications’ at the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting on December 14, 2021. Our research activities on video complexity analysis were presented in the talk.

The link to the presentation can be found here (pdf).

Prof. Radu Prodan

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.

Prof. Radu Prodan

Prof. Radu Prodan held a keynote speech about the ARTICONF project at the 3rd International Conference on Applications of AI & Machine Learning (ICAML 2021).

The ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator paper from ATHENA CD laboratory has won the 2nd Best Paper Award in the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN).

More information about the paper can be found in the blog post.

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.

 

 

On November 23rd, 2021, Felix Schniz successfully defended his thesis on “What is a Videogame Experience? A Peripatetic Acknowledgement of Inner Sentiments in Virtual Worlds” under the supervision of Assoc.-Prof. Mag. Dr. René Reinhold Schallegger. The defense was chaired by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Werner Delanoy and the examiners were Assoc. Dr. Nick Webber (Birmingham City University) and Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Wilfried Elmenreich (University of Klagenfurt). Congratulations to Dr. Schniz for this great achievement!

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.