10 July 2003

09:00

Introduction and Welcome

      Gordon Pace

09:05

Overview of the Day's Programme

      Mike Rosner

 

 

 

Natural Language Understanding

      Moderator: Chris Staff

09:10

Finite State Models of Linguistic Phenomena in Maltese

      Mike Rosner

09:30

Open-domain Surface-Based Question Answering System

      Aaron Galea

09:50

Maltese Speech Recognition over Mobile Telephony

      Sinclair Calleja

10:10

Text-To-Speech Technologies for Mobile Telephony Services

      Paulseph Farrugia

 

 

 

10:30

Coffee & Biscuits

 

 

 

 

System Regulation, Engineering and Verification

      Moderator: Kevin Vella

10:50

Grammatically Driven Class Derivation

      Ernest Cachia

11:10

Computer Aided Verification: How to Trust a Machine with Your Life

      Gordon Pace

11:30

A metrication and comparison framework for e-commerce systems

      Mark Micallef

 

 

 

11:50

Coffee & Biscuits

 

 

 

 

Web Services

      Moderator: Ernest Cachia

12:10

WWW2: Second Generation Web - Semantic Web

      Matthew Montebello

12:30

Semantic Web Services Composition

      Charlie Abela

12:50

Ubiquitous Web Services

      Malcolm Attard

13:10

Enhancing Distributed Systems through Web Services

      Sergio Muscat

 

 

 

13:30

Lunch at Boccacio

 


17 July 2003
09:00 Overview of the Day's Programme       Ernest Cachia

 

 

 

Adaptive and Learning Systems       Moderator: Mike Rosner
09:05 Achieving User Adaptivity in Hyperspace using HyperContext       Chris Staff
09:25

A Log Analysis based Intrusion Detection System for the creation of a Specification Based Intrusion Prevention System       Andre Muscat

09:45

Learning About The Learner: Deducing Learner Characteristics From Their Interaction with E-Learning Tools       Ingrid Talbott

 

 

 

10:05 Coffee & Biscuits  

 

 

 

AI Techniques & Algorithms       Moderator: Matthew Montebello
10:25 Thue Systems for Pattern Recognition       John Abela
10:45 General Chromosome representation for Genetic Algorithms       Kristian Guillauimier
11:05 A Risk Driven State Merging Algorithm for Learning DFAs       Sandro Spina
11:25 Support Vector Machines       Steven Busuttil

 

 

 

11:45 Coffee & Biscuits  

 

 

 

Distributed Systems       Moderator: Gordon Pace
12:05 A Summary of Research in System Software and Concurrency at the University of Malta: Multithreading       Kevin Vella
12:25 A Summary of Research in System Software and Concurrency at the University of Malta: High Performance Networking       Joseph Cordina
12:45 Implementing "The MATRIX"       Patrick Abela
13:05 Mobile Positioning for Location Dependent Services in GSM Networks       Josef Bajada

 

 

 

13:25 Closing Note       Chris Staff & Mike Rosner

 

 

 

13:35 Lunch at Boccacio