7^th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

6-10 July 2011, Sofia/Dobriniste, Bulgaria

Chairmen’s Email: Rumen Stainov (Germany), Lou Chitkushev (USA), Ivan Landjev (Bulgaria)

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, July 6^th, Sofia, Teleconference Sessions to Boston and Fulda

14:30 REGISTRATION

15:00 OPENING

by Prof. Lyudmil Georgiev, Rector of New Bulgarian University (NBU) and representatives of the Academic Council of NBU (Bulgaria), University of Fulda (Germany) and Boston University (USA)

15:15 (remote) Experimental Implementation of the Peer Port Concept, Andrej Stieben (D), Rumen Stainov (D)

15:45 The MacWilliams’ Identities, Ivan Landjev (BG)

16:15 (remote) Applications of Cumulative Subgoal Fulfillment to Linear Programming, Eric Braude (USA)

16:45 COFFEE BREAK

17:00 IRT Calibration of Test Items Using MATLAB, Dimitar Atanasov (BG)

17:30 Teaching a Quality Software Development Curriculum to Master Degree Students in IT Project Management, Valentina Ivanova (BG)

18:00 SOCIAL EVENT: Concert: Valery Gradinarski and Jordanka Christova

Thursday, July 7^th, Sofia, Teleconference Sessions to Boston and Fulda

9:00 SIGHTSEEING

13:00 LUNCH, Restaurant Artes, NBU

15:00 Facilitating Quality Assurance Through a Source Code Metrics Framework, Nikolay Grozev (BG), Neli Maneva (BG), Delyan Lilov (BG)

15:30 Object-Oriented Approach for Developing Interactive 3D Graphics System in Education, Kalinka Kaloyanova (BG), Andrey Antonov (BG)

16:00 Finite Automata as Discrete Dynamic Systems, Yuri Velinov (BG)

16:30 Soft skills Training for Software People, Neli Maneva (BG), Nevena Nikolova (BG)

17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:30 Integrated Learning in Marketing Research and Analysis: Courses Delivered in Face-to-Face, Online, and Blended Format, Vladimir Zlatev (USA)

18:00 The Course Data Mining, Taught in New Bulgarian University, Martin Ivanov (BG), Vanya Sheneva (BG)

18:30 A Digital Repository at University Department Level, Filip Andonov (BG), Juliana Peneva (BG), Nikolay Dokev (BG)

19:00 Frontend and Backend Code Reuse in Web Applications, Velislav Nikolov (student, BG)

19:30 Request Chaining in Web Services, Stoyan Krastev (student, BG)

Friday, July 8^th, Dobrinishte (Hotel Makedonska Krachma)

8:00 TRIP TO DOBRINISHTE OVER RILA MONASTRY (by cars)

13:30 LUNCH IN DOBRINISHTE

14:30 End-to-End Queue Dimensioning in IP Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic, Rossitza Goleva (BG), Vasil Kadrev (BG)

15:00 Adaption and Improvement of an Industry-Developed IP Telephony Curriculum, Christian Pape (D), Christoph Seifert (D)

15:30 Dimensions of Course Design and Delivery and Their Effect on Student Satisfaction/Perception in Online Learning, Tanya Zlateva (USA), Svetlana Willett (USA), Suresh Kalathur (USA), Robert Schudy (USA), Leo Burstein (USA), Lou Chitkushev (USA), Masatake Saito (USA), Elizabeth M Haines (USA)

16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 A Framework for Software Project Cost Estimation, Vijay Kanabar (USA)

17:00 Digital Library and Search Engine of Bulgarian Folklore Songs, Kiril Kirov(BG), Nikolay Kirov (BG)

17:30 The METASPEED Project – A progress Report, Juliana Peneva (BG), Stanislav Ivanov (BG), Philip Andonov (BG), Nikolay Dokev (BG)

18:00 Document Line Segmentation Based on Wavelet Transform, Lasko Laskov (BG)

19:00 SOCIAL EVENT

Saturday, July 9^th, Dobrinishte (Hotel Makedonska Krachma)

9:00 Information Analyses of Industrial Critical Information Infrastructure, Dimitrina Polimirova (BG), Eugene Nickolov (BG)

9:30 Teaching Implementational Aspects of Distributed Data Management in a Practical Way, Christian Pape (D), Peter Peinl (D)

10:00 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 Integrating Informatics into Graduate Finance Programs, Irena Vodenska (USA), Lou Chitkushev (USA), Tanya Zlateva (USA)

11:00 BIEM Solution for Cracked Finite Piezoelectric Solids Using Mathematica, Marin Marinov (BG), Tsviatko Rangelov (BG)

11:30 Some Algorithmic Problems for Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Development, Galina Atanasova (BG)

12:00 Methods of Prevention, Protection and Recovery of Cloud Computing Environment, Eugene Nickolov (BG), Dimitrina Polimirova (BG)

12:30 Best Practices in Training Informatics Competition Participants, Plamenka Hristova (BG)

13:00 University-Business Cooperation on IT Sphere, Petya Asenova (BG)

13:30 LUNCH

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

15:00 SIGHTSEEING

Sunday, July 10^th, Dobrinishte

9:00 FIELD TRIP SEMINAR NEAR HUT BEZBOG

17:00 RETURNING TO SOFIA (by cars)