National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
At UDG, we have started a new Master program for Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty for information systems and technologies. There is six students enrolled and they have just started with new courses. We are excited to start the first semester with the following courses: History of ideas, Research methodology, Advanced programming, Engineering Mathematics, Digital Transformation, Data Science.
Researchers from the UDG / NCC Monteengro will be presenting the paper titled “Human Activity Detection Using Deep Learning and Bracelet with Bluetooth Transmitter”, authored by S. Cakic, S. Sandi, D. Nedic, S. Krco and T. Popovic, at the upcoming IEEE TELFOR 2021 conference. The conference will be taking place on 23-24 November 2022. The paper presents the use of AI/ML algorithms to implement human activity detection based on data collected from wearable IoT device and the research is done through collaboration with DNET Labs, an innovation technology company from Novi Sad, Serbia. More info on the conference is available at the following link.
ABSTRACT – The use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning is finding its purpose in various fields nowadays. This paper describes a study in which Internet of
Things and deep learning are used to implement human activity detection based on data collected from bracelet equipped with Bluetooth transmitter. The main focus of the study was development of a prediction model using deep learning that would help elderly people and their caretakers. Time series data about elderly people activity was collected from bracelet using a Bluetooth gateway and IoT platform, and later annotated based on the activity logs they kept in a form of diary. A neural network is trained to classify data into two groups (binary classification problem) corresponding to activity of the person wearing the
bracelet. Initial study shows promising results of the presented approach for the use in human activity detection for elderly.
EuroCC NCC Montenegro – We are excited to announce that UDG become new BDVA i-spaces member! In the previous period there was 25 applicants, 17 newly granted labels, 7 renewed labels and new 8 countries included.
BDVA/DAIRO grants a label for European Data Innovation Spaces and Hubs to help drive forward Big Data adoption and AI based innovation across all domains within European industry. Every year, existing hubs can obtain a label as a “BDVA/DAIRO i-Space”, after an evaluation process based on a comprehensive criterion catalogue. Read more at the following link.
Mr. Milutin Pavicevic just defended his Master thesis titled: “Investigation of neural network efficiency in prediction electricity prices in the day-ahead market”. The work focused on the use of artificial intelligence and exploration of various prediction models based on neural networks in order to improve prediction of electricity prices.
ABSTRACT – The power of neural networks in approximating continuous functions has led to more widespread use of this type of artificial intelligence in the field of time-series forecasting. This work examines the efficiency oftime-series prediction models when given the dataset of hourly values connected to day-ahead market of electrical energy. It presents the processing and windowing of the data to fit the prediction models, describes the specifics of the day-ahead market of electrical energy and more closely describes the way each of the used neural network models works.
The work looks at created neural network models with dense layers, convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (LSTM), and measures their performance. Testing results show their accuracy when predicting based on the dataset of hourly values of day-ahead electricity on the HUPX market, coupled with the hourly weather data, as well as the related dataset of the hourly values of electricity consumption in Montenegro.
H2020 AIMHiGH – FoodHub Centre of Excellence and Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies at the University of Donja Gorica organized a workshop on Digitalization in Agriculture and Food Supply Chain. This was an online event managed through Moodle LMS platform during Octobar 7-15, 2021. There was over 50 attendees, mainly students and faculty members, but also some representatives from the industry. The organization of the event was done in the context of DIPOL project sponsored by the Ministry of Science of Montenegro. UDG and DNET were responsible for the realization of the event. H2020 AIMHiGH project done as an experiment within the FF4EuroHPC project was presented by Mr. Stevan Cakic.
HPC NCC Montenegro presented the EuroCC project at the 4th Western Balkan (WB6) Digital Summit event. EuroCC was presented withing the Inspiring Cases presentations.
The 4th Western Balkan (WB6) Digital Summit was organized in hybrid platform, 11-13 October 2021 in Podgorica, Montenegro. The third day is an occasion of organizing high level meeting, gathering the WB6 prime ministers on the common path of digital transformation and integration process. Building on the experience of the high-level regional dialogue on digital transformation, the Western Balkan Digital Summit 2021 will be held in the framework of the Berlin Process and the Common Regional Market Action Plan for the Western Balkans adopted in Sofia in November 2020.
This Summit will bring together high-level representatives of the Governments from the Western Balkan economies, the European Commission (EC), the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), business community and relevant stakeholders. The WB6 Digital Summit 2021 aims at showcasing good practices in the Western Balkans, highlighting the achievements and outcomes of the Digital Agenda, and exploring possibilities of building partnerships with the private sector, in the context of the digital transformation process.
The Summit promotes the Western Balkans digital perspective in the context of EU integration, while drawing the Path Ahead in the Digital Agenda, in order to prioritize the key objectives for the region. The Digital Summit will cover 4 main platforms: Network & Services Connectivity, Trust and Security, Digital Skills and Digital Economy.
More information about the event can be found here.
NCC Montenegro participated in the project review event, October 12-14, 2021. Project Management Team gave presentations on the overall progress and status of WPs, while each NCC gave presentation on its own status. Montenegrin team presented activities and first year achievements, as well as the plans for the second year.
