Department of Mathematics and Informatics Novi Sad

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Department of Mathematicsand InformaticsNovi Sad

• by Zoran Budimac

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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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Novi Sad within Europe
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A closer look

• Serbia and Montenegro
• Vojvodina
• Novi Sad

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Economy

• Agricultural
• area

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Economy

• Vojvodina is
• economically
• the most
• developed
• part of the country

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Vojvodina today-1

• Autonomous province of Serbia
• 75 of Serbs
• Six official languages
• Serbian
• Croatian
• Hungarian
• Slovakian
• Romanian
• Ruthenian

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Vojvodina today - 2

• Continental climate
• The size comparable to the size of the
  Netherlands
• Around 2 mil. of inhabitants
• 20 different nations
• More than five (?) religions
• The highest peak is 641m (near Vrac).

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Vojvodina today - 3

• Belongs to the Union of European regions.
• Elected as the European region for 2006.
• The flag and the coats of arms

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Vojvodina the history - 1

• 50.000 b.c. first prehistoric settlements
• 8th century b.c. Iliric tribes
• 1st 6th cent. Roman empire (Sirmium was one
  of 4 capitols of the empire)
• 6th cent. - Slavic tribes, 9th cent. - Hungaric
  tribes
• From 995. Vojvodina belongs to Hungarian kingdom
  (classical feudalistic organization), then to
  Turkish, Austrian, and Austria-Hungarian empire
  until 1918.
• 1396. first intrusion of Turks
• 15th cent. first movements of Serbs escaping
  from the Turkish occupation (two more movements -
  until 18th cent. several tens of thounsands of
  Serbian refugees)
• 1526. the fall of Hungarian kingdom Turkish
  rule
• 1699. the end of Turkish rule for a significant
  part of Vojvodina (after many battles between
  Turks and Austrians, supported by local citizens)

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Vojvodina the history - 2

• 1718. the rest of Vojvodina freed from Turkish
  rule (aalso after many battles and temporary
  peace agreements)
• Germans and Hungarians move to Vojvodina
  immediately after it
• Middle of 18th cent. Slovaks, Ruthenians,
  Romanians, came to Vojvodina
• 1748. Novi Sad (Neusatz, Ujvidek, Neoplanta)
  became a free royal city of the Austria.
• Many other cities followed after that.
• From 1778. (during the next 40 years) a rise of
  Serbian cultural institutions started (in
  Austria) religion, schools, arts, theatre,
  publishing, )
• 1780 the building of Petrovaradin fortress
  finished the biggest fortress in Austrian
  empire.
• 1848. the rise of Hungary against Austria, the
  rise of Serbs, Croats, against Hungary. The
  first notion of Serbian Vojvodina with a claim
  for significant autonomous rights in
  Austria-Hungary.
• 1849. Novi Sad almost destroyed after
  bombardment from Petrovaradin fortress.

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Vojvodina the history - 3

• 1918 (after the world war I) the assembly of
  Vojvodinian Serbs decides to join Serbia. Since
  then Vojvodina shared destiny of Serbia (and
  belonged to SFRJ, SRJ, SCG,...).
• 1919. - movements of Serbs from Croatia and
  Bosnia.
• 1929. autonomous Danube region proclaimed in
  the Kingdom of Yugoslavia the seat was in Novi
  Sad.
• 1941. 1945. Vojvodina divided between
  Croatia, Hungary, and Germany.
• In 1945. all Germans expelled. Replaced with
  Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia.
• After the World war II, Vojvodina remained inside
  Serbia as an autonomous province.
• From 1991 1996 (during civil wars inside
  Yugoslavia), 300.000 people left Vojvodina and
  were replaced by more than 300.000 refugees from
  Croatia and Bosnia.

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Novi Sad

• The capitol of Vojvodina
• The second largest (?) city of Serbia
• 300,000 thousand of inhabitants
• 300 years old (1748. proclaimed as the free royal
  city of Austria)
• Much younger than Petrovaradin (and the fortress)
  and founded as the supporting city to the
  military installations in the fortress

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Novi Sad - highlights

• Fruka gora mountain (539m)
• National park, 15 monasteries (out of original
  35, built between 15th and 18th century), lake,
  spa, the biggest linden-tree forest in the
  Europe.
• Danube
• Petrovardin fortress
• Exit music festival
• Held at the Petrovaradin fortress, the bigest in
  South-Eastern Europe, 120,000 visitors for four
  days...

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Fruka gora - 1
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Fruka gora - 2
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The Danube
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Fortress
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The city
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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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University of Novi Sad

• Founded in 1960.
• One of five universities in Serbia
• The most open to university reforms
• 13 faculties in 4 cities
• 9 In Novi Sad, 7 in University campus
• Informatics
• Faculty of Economy (Subotica)
• Polytechnic Faculty (Zrenjanin)
• Faculty of Technical Sciences (Novi Sad)
• Faculty of Science (Novi Sad)

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University pictures-1
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University pictures-2
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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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We within the University

• University of Novi Sad
• Faculty of Science
• Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics
• http//www.im.ns.ac.yu

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Short history

• Founded in 1954 within the Faculty of Philosophy
• Faculty of Science founded in 1969
• Institute of Mathematics 1976
• Four other institutes Biology, Physics,
  Chemistry, Geography
• Department of Mathematics and Informatics
  changed the name in 2002

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Curricula

• BSc Mathematics (teach, busi, appl, ind) and
  Informatics (ordinary, teachers, business) ---
  8 semesters, approx. 30 exams
• MSc --- 4? semesters, 6 exams
• PhD --- ? semesters, no exams

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Students Input
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Students Output
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Enrolled students (informatics)

• B.Sc. 120 each year
• Exception 70 in 2004
• M.Sc. 10 each year

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Internal structure

• Algebra and Discrete Mathematics (3 chairs)
• Computer Science and Numerical Mathematics (3
  chairs)
• Analysis, Probability and Geometry (3 chairs)

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Computer Scienceand Num. Math.
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Informatics

• Chair of Computer Sciencehttp//perun.im.ns.ac.yu
  
• Chair of Information Systems
• Chair of Numerical Mathematics
• Chair of Theoretical Computer Science

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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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Chair of Computer Science

• Members
• Prof. Dr. Djura Paunic
• Prof. Dr. Mirjana Ivanovic
• Prof. Dr. Zoran Budimac
• Ljubomir Jerinic, M.Sc.
• Dragoslav Peovic, M.Sc.
• Nataa Ibrajter, M.Sc.
• Vladimir Kurbalija
• Saa Toic
• Milo Radovanovic
• Ivan Pribela
• Zoran Putnik, M.Sc.

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Chair of Computer Science

• Courses
• Introduction to Programming
• Data Structures and Algorithms (I and II)
• Programming Languages
• Operating Systems (I and II)
• Compiler Construction (I and II)
• Software Engineering
• Also
• Introduction to Informatics
• Software practice (Internet tools, Visual
  programming)

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Projects (Chair)

• Research
• Development of (intelligent) techniques based on
  software agents for application in information
  retrieval and workflow, 2002-2004, Ministry of
  Science, Republic of Serbia. 
• web services, multi-agent systems, , 2004 - ,
  Academy of sciences of Poland and Serbia
• Educational
• Joint Course on Software Engineering and
  Distributed Reverse Engineering, Stability
  Pact/DAAD, 2001-2005 OOP using Java.
• Developing Course for Educational Software,
  2004, WUS Austria
• Developing Course for Didactics of Informatics,
  2004, WUS Austria
• Oberon0 as a case study in course on Operating
  systems, 2001-2002, Univ. of Linz, WUS Austria

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Projects with industry (Chair)

• Individual initiative
• Complete business solution for an international
  company
• Web design and smaller e-commerce applications
• (intelligent) information retrieval (museums,
  archives,)
• Classical business applications

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Tempus projects (Dept.)

• Joint M.Sc. Curriculum in SE
• Teaching Business Information Systems
• Graduate studies in industrial mathematics
• Library management system
• Introducing quality assurance systems (short term
  project)

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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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Curricula overview I
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Curricula overview II

• Over 90 of courses are one-semester
• Most exams practical (during the year) and oral
• Several elective courses
• Student projects (two to three)

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Curricula overview III
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Business informatics, I year
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Business informatics, III year
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Compatibility

• Software Engineering course is the same with
  the corresponding course at Humboldt University
  Berlin (Stability pact project) started this
  year.
• Operating systems II designed with Univ. of
  Linz in 2001.
• Teaching methods and Educational Software
  designed with the support of WUS Austria in 2003.
  
• Programming languages joint teaching
  materials with 5 universities in Germany and
  south eastern Europe (project started in 2004
  Stability pact).
• Compiler construction planned joint teaching
  materials with Univ. of Linz (and Univ. of
  Oxford) (to start in 2004)

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Software Engineering

• Information systems
• OOA and OOD
• Software Engineering
• Management of software projects

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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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Zoran Budimac

• Born in 1960
• Professor since 2004
• Head of the Chair, Laboratory
• Over 100 papers on functional programming, ,
  distributed computing and (mobile) agents
• Courses
• Operating systems (I and II)
• Software engineering
• Introduction to Informatics (geography)
• Software Practice (Visual programming, Internet
  tools)

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Agenda

• Vojvodina and Novi Sad
• University
• Department
• Chair of Computer Science
• Curriculum in Informatics
• Zoran Budimac
• State with respect to Bologna declaration

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Bologna declaration

• Signed in 2003.
• University regulation (still) did not follow.
• Therefore, individual effort.

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Problems in reforms

• University regulations
• 4 years study,
• minimal number of lecture hours per week (26),
• Explicitly state courses that must be completed
  before advancing to the next year of study.
• Enrollment lasts until October 31 lectures
  start from October 1
• Many examination periods (at least five per year)
  

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Problems

• Faculty regulations
• The ways of taking exams is too strict
• Schedule
• Not enough rooms
• Not enough laboratories
• Subjective fears
• What if nobody takes my course
• What if all take my course

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Graduate studies

• Usually without lectures
• Specialized toward the thesis from the beginning,
  supervised
• Taken only by (future) academics