Jožef Stefan Institute
The Jožef Stefan Institute, founded in 1949, is the leading Slovenian institution for pure and applied research in natural sciences and technology. At present, it employs about 800 people, of which nearly 450 comprise research staff. In view of its activities and status, the Jožef Stefan Institute plays the role of a national institute, complementing the role of the universities and bridging the gap between science and applications. It also enjoys international recognition, having participated in dozens of FP6 and FP7 projects.
The Department of Intelligent Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute has 24 members and conducts research in the fields of search and optimization by means of evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining, decision support, agent and Web technologies and natural language processing. The department took part in seven FP6 projects, one FP7 project, and several other international projects.
With regards to MIRABEL, the Department of Intelligent Systems has rich experience in employing stochastic optimization methods in real-world applications and energy efficiency in particular, which will certainly create benefits for our project here.
JSI's Contributions
JSI, together with the collaborating partners, primarily works on specifying, implementing and evaluating the scheduling framework needed to balance the energy supply and demand and to maximize the utilization of energy from renewable energy sources. In addition, JSI is involved in the overall architecture and process model analysis, specification of data models and forecasting procedure to ensure compatibility with the scheduling environment, integration of the environment into a testing prototype, its validation on trial cases, and dissemination of the project results in the scientific community.
Key personnel
JSI's MIRABEL team is led by Bogdan Filipič, who received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1993, and is now a senior researcher at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana. His research interests include evolutionary computation, intelligent data analysis and knowledge-based systems. He is also active in promoting these techniques in practical problem solving in engineering and manufacturing. He has participated in several applied projects dealing with the optimization of production processes, such as continuous casting of steel and car production. His experience in international collaboration includes bilateral projects with several countries, and EU projects funded under COST action and Sixth Framework Programme. Bogdan Filipič serves as a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals and a programme committee member for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) and Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC).