CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Vladan Devedzic
University of Belgrade, Serbia

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Biography of the Conference Chair

Vladan Devedžic is both an active researcher and practitioner in the fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. His major long-term professional goal is a continuous effort to bring close together the ideas from the broad fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. In that sense, his current efforts and research interests are oriented towards practical engineering aspects of developing intelligent educational systems on the Web. He has written more than 260 papers (50 of them have been published in internationally recognized journals by publishers such as ACM, IEEE, Elsevier, etc.), six books on intelligent systems, and several chapters in books on intelligent systems and software engineering edited by distinguished scientists.
His recent 2 books, entitled "Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development" and "Semantic Web and Education" (Springer Verlag, Berlin/New York) are due Summer 2006.
He has also developed several practical intelligent systems and tools, and actively participates as a consultant to several ongoing projects in industry. He is an associated partner at the EU Framework 6 IST Network of Excellence project ProLearn, and a member of the ARIADNE Foundation for the European Knowledge Pool. Here is the excerpt from his publication record, showing only some of his most important and most recent publications (full list of his publications is available upon request): http://fon.fon.bg.ac.yu/~devedzic/Publications.html
Vladan Devedžic is a Professor of Computer Science with the Department of Information Systems and Technologies, FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade. He teaches several courses on intelligent systems and software engineering, and is the chair of intelligent systems tracks in the program committees of several international conferences. He was the Program Chair/Co-Chair of three international conferences, several international workshops, and has given invited talks at three international conferences. So far, he has also given 24 different tutorials on intelligent systems and software engineering at international conferences, numerous lectures and in-house seminars on different software engineering topics, and seven nationwide tutorials on current trends in software engineering.

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