Topics

• Public Administration
• Teleworking
• Electronic Commerce
• Education
• Research Collaboration

Preliminary conference program

Location: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

• 10:00-12:00 Opening of the conference

• 15:00-19:00 Forum "The Global Information Society" with participation of professionals and public figures
  • 15:15-16:30 Keynote address "Society and the Information society" by Prof. Tibor Vamos (Hungary)
  • 17:00-18:00 Discussion
  • 18:15-19:00 Welcome event

Invited Talks
Location: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

• 9:00-10:15 T. Vamos (Hungary) "Society and Information society".
• 10:45-12:00 N. Spyratos (France) "Concepts and issues in data warehousing".
• 12:15-13:00 Workshop with demonstrations "Legal Information Systems with Artificial Intelligence Components" - V. Hristovich, President of "APIS"
• 15:00-18:30 Workshop "The Fight against Crime in the Information Society", jointly with the National Police Academy.

Invited Talks
Location: National Sports Academy

• 9:00-10:00 P. Boursier (France) "Geographic information access on the Web"
• 10:00-11:00 F. Van Aeken (France) "On the Integration of Multi-Agent System Technology in the Information Society".
• 11:30-12:30 A. Radenski (Bulgaria\USA) "Parallel Probabilistic Computations on a Cluster of Workstations"

• Parallel session A

  15:00-18:30 Workshop "Sport in the Global Information Society", jointly with the National Sports Academy.

  Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics

• Parallel session B

  14:00-16:00 Workshop "Computer-Based Concept Mapping in Problem Solving Design" - P. Commers and Sv. Stoyanov (Netherlands).

  16:30-18:30 Regular papers.

  Teresa Lopes (Portugal) - "Virtual Reality in Education and Training"

  B. Rodriguez, M.J. Verdu, M. A. Perez, M. A. Navazo, R. Lopez, R. Mompo, J. Garcia (Spain) - "Internet for School: educational Web for Children Living in Rural Areas in Castillia y Leon Spanish Region"

  B. Rodriguez, M. A. Perez, M.J. Verdu, M. A. Navazo, R. Lopez, R. Mompo, J. Garcia (Spain) - "Distance Learning for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises on a CD-ROM"

  Florin Lazo, Monica Dascalu, Eduard Franti (Romania) - "The Role of Management Information Systems in Information Society"

  Lora Aroyo, Italo De Diana (Netherlands) - "Agent-Based Intelligent Management for Group Information Resources"

  B. Parker Lindner (USA) - "High School to College on the World Wide Web through Online Instruction at the Virtual College"

  Reneta Barneva, Guido M. Cortelazzo (Italy) - "Authoring Tools for EPOS Project"

Location: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

• 9:00-12:30 Short papers.

  J. Peneva, M. Jeleva "Modeling of Multimedia Data"

  R. Doneva, E. Somova, G. Totkov (Bulgaria) "Test Paradigms" (in Bulgarian)

  T. Teodosiev "An Application of the Process Approach in Modelling" (in Bulgarian)

  R. Hristova "What Background in Informatics Do Teachers Need Today" (in Bulgarian)

  R. Stoyanov (Bulgaria) "Multi-Agent Search Service for Internet Including SQL Access to DB Tables"

• 15:00-18:30 Workshop "The Young Researchers in the Global Information Society".

• 9:00-17:00 Excursion.

Joint event