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Call for Papers

• Final Call for Papers ICCCC2014:

5^th International Conference on Computers Communications and Control, ICCCC 2014

Hotel President, Băile Felix, Oradea, România, May 7-9, 2014

Organized by Agora University of Oradea,

under the aegis of Romanian Academy: - Information Science and Technology Section

Previous editions:

• Pictures from ICCCC 2012
• Pictures from ICCCC 2010
• Pictures from ICCCC 2008
• Pictures from ICCCC 2006

Paper submission: EasyChair

Description

Founded by I. Dziţac, F.G. Filip and M.-J. Manolescu, International Conference on Computers Communications & Control has been organized every even year (ICCCC 2006, ICCCC 2008, ICCCC 2010 and ICCC 2010)

by Agora University of Oradea

under the aegis of Romanian Academy: - Information Science and Technology Section

and IEEE Romania Section

The 5^th International Conference on Computers Communications & Control, ICCCC 2014, provides a forum for international scientists in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array of topics in computer networking and control. We extend a warm invitation to all interested in the related topics to submit papers and to participate in a hopefully successful event.

Selected papers presented at ICCCC 2014 will be published in INT J COMPUT COMMUN, ISSN 1841-9836 (ISI WoS/WoK).

Scope and Topics

The International Conference on Computers Communications and Control (ICCCC) has been founded in 2006 by I. Dziţac, F.G. Filip and M.-J. Manolescu and organized every even year by Agora University of Oradea, under the aegis of the Information Science and Technology Section of Romanian Academy and IEEE - Romania Section.

The goal of this conference is to bring together international researchers, scientists in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array of topics in computer networking and control.

The Program Committee is soliciting paper describing original, previously unpublished, completed research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas related to computer networking and control. In particular, but not limited, the following topics are expected to be addressed by authors:

Regular Sessions

• Computational intelligence methods (with particular emphasis on fuzzy logic-based methods, ANN, evolutionary computing, collective/swarm intelligence)(Organizer: Ioan Dzitac)

Special Sessions

• Special Session 1. Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Management and their dynamics. New proposals and directions (Organizer: Angel Ortiz)
• Special Session 2. Network Optimization and Security (Organizer: Yezyd Donoso)
• Special Session 3: Data Mining and Intelligent Knowledge Management(Organizer: Gang Kou)

We extend a warm invitation to all interested in the related topics to submit papers and to participate in a hopefully successful event.

Selected papers presented at ICCCC 2014 will be published in INT J COMPUT COMMUN, ISSN 1841-9836 (ISI WoS/WoK).

Paper submission via EasyChair

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2013 (Extended Deadline: 31 December, 2013)

• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 15, 2014

• Final Submission and Conference Fee Transfer: March 15, 2014

Chairs and Committees

Honorary Chair:

Yong SHI

Executive Deputy Director, CAS Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science

Associate Dean, School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

yshi@ucas.ac.cn

General Chair:

Ioan DZITAC,

Rector of Agora University of Oradea,

Romania, rector@univagora.ro

Program Committee Chair:

Florin Gheorghe FILIP,

President of "Information Science and Technology" Section of Romanian Academy,

Romania, ffilip@acad.ro

Organizing Committee Chair:

Misu-Jan MANOLESCU,

President of Agora University of Oradea,

Romania, mmj@univagora.ro

Program Committee

• Razvan ANDONIE, Central Washington University, USA
• Valentina BALAS, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Boldur E. BARBAT, Sibiu, Romania
• Ioan BUCIU, University of Oradea, Romania
• Petre DINI, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
• Hector BENITEZ-PEREZ, IMAS, UNAM, Mexico
• Pierre BORNE, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
• Hariton COSTIN, University of Medicine and Pharmacy –Iasi, Romania
• Dan CRISTEA, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
• Paul Dan CRISTEA, Romanian Academy, Romania
• Bogdan CRIVAT, Predixion Software, USA
• Antonio DI NOLA, University of Salerno, Italy
• Radu DOBRESCU, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
• Ioan DUMITRACHE, Romanian Academy, Romania
• Ioan DZITAC, Agora University, Romania
• Ömer EĞECİOĞLU, University of Santa Barbara, USA
• Florin Gheorghe FILIP, Romanian Academy, Romania
• Janos FODOR, Óbuda University, Hungary
• Constantin GAINDRIC, Moldova, Academy of Republic of Moldova
• Marian GHEORGHE, University of Sheffield, UK
• Kaoru HIROTA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Gang KOU, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
• Ioana MOISIL, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania
• Viorel NEGRU, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
• Radu NICOLESCU, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Ştefan NIŢCHI, Babes – Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Shimon Y. NOF, Purdue University, USA
• Stephan OLARIU, Old Dominion University, USA
• Horea OROS, University of Oradea, Romania
• Gheorghe PĂUN, Romanian Academy –IMAR, Romania
• Andrei PĂUN, INCDI Bucharest, Romania
• Bazil PÂRV, Babes – Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Mario de J. PEREZ-JIMENEZ, University of Seville, Spain
• Dana PETCU, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
• Imre J. RUDAS, Óbuda University, Hungary
• Yong SHI, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
• Bogdana STANOJEVIC, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian ASA, Serbia
• Milan STANOJEVIC, University of Belgrad, Serbia
• Gheorghe ŞTEFĂNESCU, University of Bucharest, Romania
• Athanasios D. STYLIADIS, Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece
• Ioan Alexandru ŞUCAN, WillowGarage, USA
• Gheorghe TECUCI, George Mason University, USA
• Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU, Technical Univ. Gh. Asachi Iasi, Romania
• Dan TUFIŞ, Romanian Academy – Institute of Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu”, Romania
• Sofia VISA, College of Wooster, USA

Organizing Committee

• Dan BENTA, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Casian BUTACI, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Felisa CORDOVA, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile
• Yezyd DONOSO, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Simona DZITAC, University of Oradea, Romania
• Gang KOU, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance, China
• Adriana MANOLESCU, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Razvan MEZEI, Lander University, USA
• Angel ORTIZ, Politecnica Valencia, Spain
• Roberto RICCIO, Agora University of Oradea, Romania

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yong SHI
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• Executive Deputy Director, CAS Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science

• Associate Dean, School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

E-mail: yshi@ucas.ac.cn

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Prof. Fuad Aleskerov

National Reasearch University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

• Department of Mathematics | Subdepartment of Higher Mathematics: Subdepartment Head, Professor
• School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science: Academic Supervisor
• Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics: Chief Research Fellow
• International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis: Laboratory Head

E-mail: alesk@hse.ru

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Pascale Zarate

University of Toulouse 1, France

• IRIT- Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

E-mail: Pascale.Zarate@irit.fr

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Prof. Ioan Dumitrache

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

• Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy

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Florin Gheorghe FILIP,

• Full Member of Romanian of the Romanian Academy,

• President of "Information Science and Technology" Section of Romanian Academy

E-mail: ffilip@acad.ro

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Special Sessions

Special Session 1:

Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Management and their dynamics. New proposals and directions

Organizer: Angel Ortiz, University Politécnica Valencia, Spain

Address: Eng. Angel Ortiz, Ph.D., Professor

Centro de Investigación de Gestión e Ingeniería de la Producción

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Camino de Vera s/n, Edificio 8B - Acceso L Nivel 2

(Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación)

46022 Valencia – España

Tel.:+34963879680

E-mail: aortiz@cigip.upv.es

Short Bio Sketch: Angel Ortiz is a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is an industrial engineer and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from UPV. He are developing research and enterprises activities in Supply Chain Management, Business Process Management and Information Technologies. He has authored more than 20 papers in journals as Computers in Industry, IJCIM, IJPE, Omega and others. He has participated also in several European Projects of V-CHAIN Project (Virtual Enterprise for Supply Chain Management-GRD1-2000-25881) and University leader of ECOSELL (Extended Collaborative Selling Chain- GRD1-2001-40692), UEML (Unified Enterprise Modelling Language- IST - 2001 - 34229, a Thematic Network) and V-CHAIN ASIA-IT (ASI/B7-301/97/0126-49). Prof. Angel Ortiz has developed projects about SCM, BPM, IT and Enterprise Engineering in several enterprises from different sectors (automotive, tiles, furniture, beverages, food, packaging, textile, etc.). I am a member of the IFAC TC5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking” and IFIP TC5 WG 5.12 “Architectures for Enterprise Integration”. He has participated in several Masters in Spain and courses in others countries like France, Mexico and Sweden.

Session Scope

The goal of this workshop is to deal with new proposals in the decision support system (DSS) field related with the integration of the decision-making process concerning Supply Chain Management (SCM) with special focus on demand management and operations planning in a dynamic and distributed environment.

DSS is a computer-based information system, which assists manager in their decision-making process. New requirements needs new DSS proposals to include improvements on the data management, decision models, interaction among systems and people in global decision process.

Special focus will be made over complex decisions where:

1) the DSS proposes different solutions using different decision models or

2) the DSS include a sequential decision process where sub-DSS outputs are inputs for other sub-DSS

Session Topics

Decision Support System is a multidisciplinary research area that can be applied in several sectors.

This special session will be focused to new proposals in the DSS field dealing with:

T.1.1. The main components in DSS

• Data: Models, Aggregation/Disaggregation, ETL , Data-Driven DSS
• Decision Models: Mathematical Programming, Solvers, Rules, Expert Systems
• Processes: Decision sequence, Interaction steps
• User Interfaces: Interface design, Novel interaction techniques, usability

T.1.2. Complex decisions solved using different models and sequential DSS where DSS outputs are inputs for other DSS

T.1.3. Application in Supply Chain Management using a period-driven or an event-driven approach

T.1.4. DSS Experiences in the industry

T.1.5. DSS in Education

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Special Session 2

Network Optimization and Security

Organizer: Yezyd Donoso, University de los Andes, Colombia

Address: Eng. Yezid Donoso, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Head of the Information Security Postgraduate and Master Program

Systems and Computing Engineering Department

Universidad de los Andes

Cra. 1 Este No. 19A-40

Phone 57-1-3394949 Ext 1723

Bogotá, Colombia, South America

E-mail: ydonoso@uniandes.edu.co

Short Bio-Sketch:

Eng. Yezid Donoso, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in the Computing and System Engineering Department in Bogota, Colombia, South America. He is a consultant in computer network and optimization. He holds a degree in System and Computer Engineering, a M.Sc. degree in System and Computer Engineering, a D.E.A. in Information Technology and a Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Information Technology from Girona University, Girona, Spain. IEEE Senior Member. Distinguished Professor, given by Universidad del Norte, Colombia, October 2004. National Award of Operations research given by the Colombian Society of Operations Research, 2004. He is co-author of the book Multi-Objective Optimization in Computer Networks Using Metaheuristics (2007) and Network Design for IP Convergence.

Session Scope

The convergence in communication networks and computing has led the exponential growth of new applications and information systems. Nowadays, users and applications generate and request more data demanding efficient and secure management. New algorithms are needed to manage the network resource allocation improving the network performance, response against failures, congestion and attacks; and to avoid loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability in the network.

Session Topics

T.2.1. Network Optimization

• Advanced Network Architecture
• Computational complexity and data structures
• Distributed Algorithms for control and management in Communication Systems
• Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks
• Mobility, Handoff, and Location Management
• Network Algorithm analysis
• Network Structure, Routing and Resource Management
• Networks Survivability against Failures, Congestion and Attacks
• Network Planning
• Quality of Service / Quality of Experience Optimization
• Software Define Network
• Scheduling and Network Optimization
• Self-Organizing Networks
• Reliable Networks
• Special Topics in Network Optimization

T.2.2. Security

• Intrusion
• Detection and Prevention Systems
• Network Authentication and Key Management
• Network Reliability
• Privacy and Anonymity
• Secure Networking
• Secure Network Protocols
• Security for Cloud Networking
• Security for Internet Applications
• Security for Wireless Sensor networks
• Security for Smart Grids
• Security for Vehicular Networks
• Security for Critical Infrastructures
• Special Topics in Security

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Special Session 3:

Data Mining and Intelligent Knowledge Management

Organizer: Gang Kou, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China

Address:

Gang Kou, Ph.D., Professor,

Dean of School of Business Administration,

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics,

Chengdu, 611130, China

Short Bio Sketch:

Dr. Gang Kou is a Professor and Executive Dean of school of business administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, managing editor of International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (SCI-indexed) and editor-in-chief of Springer book series on Quantitative Management. Previously, he was a professor of School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and a research scientist in Thomson Co., R&D. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the College of Information Science & Technology, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha; got his Master degree in Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha; and B.S. degree in Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has participated in various data mining projects, including data mining for software engineering, network intrusion detection, health insurance fraud detection and credit card portfolio analysis. He has published more than eighty papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Gang Kou has been Keynote speaker/workshop chair in several international conferences. He co-chaired Data Mining contest on The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2007 and he is the Program Committee Co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2009) and NCM 2009: 5th International Joint Conference on INC, ICM and IDC. He is also co-editor of special issues of several journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Supercomputing and Information Sciences.

Co- Organizer and Co- Chair: Prof. Yi Peng, PhD

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Professor, School of Management and Economics

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Chengdu 610054, China

Brief Bio Sketch: Dr. Yi Peng is a Professor of School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Previously, she worked as Senior Analyst for West Co., USA. Dr. Peng received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from the College of Information Science & Technology, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha and got her Master degree in Dept of Info. Science & Quality Assurance, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha and B.S. degree in Department of Management Information Systems, Sichuan University, China. Dr. Peng's research interests cover Knowledge Discover in Database and data mining, multi-criteria decision making, data mining methods and modeling, knowledge discovery in real-life applications. She published more than sixty papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She is the Workshop Chair of the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2009), guest editor of Annals of Operations Research's special issue on Multiple Criteria Decision Making on Operations Research.

Session Scope :

Data mining (DM) and knowledge management (KM) are two important research areas, but with different emphasis. Research and practice in these two areas have been largely conducted in parallel. Although both data mining and knowledge management have been active areas in research and practice, there is still a lack of idea exchange between these two camps. The first goal of this workshop is to bridge this gap. It has been well-known that data mining algorithms can discover hidden patterns from large-scale databases. However, the results of data mining may not be regarded as “knowledge”. To elicit explicit knowledge from the hidden patterns of data mining, which is useful to the end-users, the theory of human knowledge management should be adopted. Such a "special" knowledge, different from traditional knowledge since it can be stored, transformed, disseminated and expanded, is called intelligent knowledge. The second goal of this workshop is to discuss the research issues beyond data mining, foundation of intelligent knowledge management, and the process of identifying intelligent knowledge.

Session Topics

The workshop welcomes both high-quality academic (theoretical or empirical) and practical papers in the broad ranges of data mining and intelligent knowledge management related topics including, but not limited to the following:

• Data mining interpretation
• Data mining and knowledge transfer
• Data analysis and knowledge management
• Data mining and risk management
• Data warehousing in knowledge management
• Evaluations of hidden patterns
• Optimization based data mining for knowledge management
• Practical issues of data mining
• Integration of data mining and knowledge management
• Intelligent knowledge algorithms
• Man-machine interaction in data mining
• Intelligent knowledge management

Publications

The maximum number of pages of one initial submitted paper is 6.

In the account of one conference tax, one author can publish in conference proceedings maximum two accepted papers.

Note. All accepted papers, after strict peer-reviewing process, will be included in the Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control, which will be published as a supplementary issue of International Journal on Computers, Communications & Control

and will be submitted for indexing, as "ISI proceedings papers" to ISI Web of Science/Thomson Reuters, Scopus and other international databases.

After presentation at conference, extended version (up to 16 pages, without additional tax) of some selected high-quality papers will be published in a special issues of International Journal on Computers, Communications & Control (ISSN: 1841-9836, INT J COMPUT COMMUN, IF = 0.441) and will be indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded as "ISI articles".

International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC), ISSN 1841-9844,

Founded in 2006 by I. Dzitac, F.G. Filip and M.J. Manolescu.

This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE):

IJCCC is covered/indexed/abstracted in:

Science Citation Index Expanded (since vol.1(S), 2006)

2009-2011 Journal Citation Reports®Notices/ Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2010-2013):

Impact Factor(IF)/3 years in JCR2009 = 0.373; JCR2010 = 0.650; JCR2011 = 0.438; JCR2012 = 0.441. Article Influence Score (AIS) in JCR2012 = 0.093.

Author Guidelines

1. Length of the manuscript and number of accepted papers

The maximum number of pages of one initial submitted paper is 6.

In the account of one conference tax, one author can publish in conference proceedings maximum two accepted papers.

Note. All accepted papers, after strict peer-reviewing process, will be included in the Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control, which will be published as a supplementary issue of International Journal on Computers, Communications & Control (ISSN 1841-9836, INT J COMPUT COMMUN, IF=0.441)

and will be submitted for indexing, as "ISI proceedings papers" to ISI Web of Science/Thomson Reuters, Scopus and other international databases.

After presentation at conference, extended version (up to 16 pages, without additional tax) of some selected high-quality papers will be published in a special issues of International Journal on Computers, Communications & Control (INT J COMPUT COMMUN, IF = 0.441) and will be indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded as "ISI articles".

2. Duplicate submission and plagiarism

The submissions to ICCCC 2014 must represent original material.
Papers are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted to, nor published in, another conference or journal.
Concurrent submission is viewed as a serious breach of ethics and, if detected, will result in immediate rejection of the submission.

The author(s) warrants that the submitted paper is based on their original work. It is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission to quote material that has been previously published in any form.

3. Initial submission (manuscript for review)

The manuscript can be write direct in LaTex by the IJCCC template

OR

in MS Word format (for evaluation only) with the following specifications: paper A4, font TNR 12p, single column. The manuscripts edited in two columns will be REJECTED.

The manuscript must be uploaded online in PDF format only via EasyChair.

4. Final submission (for accepted paper for publication):

The papers must be prepared using a LaTeX typesetting system. In the template.tex file you will find instructions that will help you prepare the source file. Please, read carefully those instructions. (We are using MiKTeX 2.9). Any graphics or pictures must be saved in Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) format (a utility for converting jpeg images to PostScript Level 2 or 3 files (without uncompressing the images) is Jpeg2Ps which is freely available here.

5. Copyright Notice

The undersigned Author(s) of the above mentioned Paper here by transfer any and all copyright-rights in and to The Paper to The Publisher.

The Author(s) warrants that The Paper is based on their original work and that the undersigned has the power and authority to make and execute this assignment. It is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission to quote material that has been previously published in any form.

The Publisher recognizes the retained rights noted below and grants to the above authors and employers for whom the work performed royalty-free permission to reuse their materials below. Authors may reuse all or portions of the above Paper in other works, excepting the publication of the paper in the same form. Authors may reproduce or authorize others to reproduce the above Paper for the Author's personal use or for internal company use, provided that the source and The Publisher copyright notice are mentioned, that the copies are not used in any way that implies The Publisher endorsement of a product or service of an employer, and that the copies are not offered for sale as such. Authors are permitted to grant third party requests for reprinting, republishing or other types of reuse. The Authors may make limited distribution of all or portions of the above Paper prior to publication if they inform The Publisher of the nature and extent of such limited distribution prior there to. Authors retain all proprietary rights in any process, procedure, or article of manufacture described in The Paper. This agreement becomes null and void if and only if the above paper is not accepted and published by The Publisher, or is withdrawn by the author(s) before acceptance by the Publisher.

6. Presenter's Information

The time allocated to oral presentation will be following:

• Regular paper (parallel/special session, paper up to 6 pages): 20 minutes which include the time for discussion (usually 5 minutes).
• Invited paper (special session, paper up to 16 pages): 40 minutes which include the time for discussion (usually 10 minutes).
• Invited paper (plenary session, paper up to 16 pages): 60 minutes which include the time for discussion (usually 15 minutes).

PowerPoint (PPT or PPS) or Acrobat PDF slides (saved on CD, DVD, Memory Flash) for presentation on a data projector are recommended for your talk at ICCCC 2014.

Logistics, Technical tools and Supports:

• A Laptop;
• A Microphone;
• A Laser Printer;
• A Digital Copier;
• A Colour Scanner;
• A Video Projector;
• A Flipchart.

Conference Fees

Variant 1. Basic variant: conference fee is 600 € (without accommodation) that includes:

• access to the conference program and publications;

• conference materials and coffee breaks;

• reception banquets and daily meals (lunch and dinner on May 7-9);

• excursion (May 9, Mountain Resort).

Variant 2. Full variant: conference fee is 800 € that includes:

• accommodation at four stars Hotel in Baile Felix on May 6/7, 7/8, 8/9, 9/10: ;

• access to the conference program and publications in ISI journals;

• conference materials and coffee breaks;

• reception banquets and daily meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner on May 7-9);

• excursion (May 9, Mountain Resort);
• indoor pool / outdoor pool with thermal water;
• sauna and jacuzzi;
• fitness;
• sport facilities (football, tennis);
• guarded indoor parking;
• Internet - Wireless.

There is no discount for the participants that cannot participate to the full program of the conference.

We can accept request for discount (10%) from PhD students.

Discount for accompanying person is 50%.

General Program