Problems encountered:
The conferences and workshops we listed in the original proposal were already organized and run by the time we received the signed contract.
The Conferences had suffered from the effects of 11. September, as many participants had cancelled their business travels. By 2004 we could witness a positive change, and conferencing with personal attendance (not via video-conferencing) might again be booming.
There were many conferences and workshops, seminars that MTA SZTAKI had organized from the beginning of the CoE project. The full list is constantly updated on the web (www.conferences.hu; www.sztaki.hu ), and here we refer to the main events only, that had been managed through the CoE and the Thematic workpackages involved.
In 2004, MTA SZTAKI was again in the top for arranging and hosting World-class conferences:
The CIRP 2004 (Production Engineers World Forum) had its main event in Budapest, being hosted by us, while
The conference series of IEEE:
Started by IEEE 8th International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications (22-24 July) , (WP 7+8)
IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, with the
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems altogether involved 580 participants
WP5 managed workshop delivered a good bases for launching several high-level research projects. The Grammar Systems Week was hosted by our CoE . in July 5-9
WP6 prepared a conference for early October ( was successfully managed with good feedback). (#8)
Young PhD. Yearly Conference was again prepared (Run in September (#8).
The DAPSYS 2004 large international conference on distributed and parallel systems was prepared to be organized in September 19-22. Budapest, in conjunction with the 11th EuroPVM/MPI conference (September 19-22, also #8)
We had been running an exposition, in Eisenstadt, Austria in “Best Practice in e-commerce and job Role Qualification “ 28-29 April.
For our thematic workpackages, such as WP3,- WP12, the details of achievements are shown at the MTA SZTAKI introduction, appended to this report.
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