The 19th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems – FedCSIS 2024, www.fedcsis.org, was held at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Belgrade, from September 8 to 11, 2024.
FedCSIS is a prominent international scientific conference with high visibility in Europe and worldwide, organized under the IEEE association. The main organizers of this edition of the conference are the Polish Information Processing Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne, https://portal.pti.org.pl/) and the Faculty of Organizational Sciences.
The FedCSIS conference gathered a large number of participants from around the world. The Faculty of Organizational Sciences had the unique opportunity to host this conference in 2024. The main goal of the FedCSIS conference was to bring together scientists and professionals in the fields of computer science, information systems, intelligent systems, and related areas to present their latest achievements and ensure the transfer of knowledge to a broader community of scientists and experts in these fields.
During the conference, eminent professors, scientists, researchers, PhD and master’s students, as well as experts from the industry, presented their latest research results and case studies on the application of these results in practice. In addition to the scientific part, the conference included activities such as panel discussions, various case study presentations, practical solutions, a team competition in solving a given case study using machine learning and artificial intelligence methods, as well as a social networking program. Through all these activities, the conference significantly contributed to the overall development of the fields of computer science, information systems, and intelligent systems. The FedCSIS 2024 conference was also supported by the IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section.
A total of 119 accepted papers were presented at the conference. The conference was attended by 155 registered participants, the majority of whom were international participants from a wide range of countries, including the United States, Brazil, and China.
As part of the main conference program, a panel discussion titled “Bridging Academia and Industry: Preparing for the Digital Economy and AI Transformation” was held on Sunday, September 8. The moderator of the panel discussion was Professor Dražen Drašković, PhD, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, and the participants were distinguished representatives from academia and industry: Professor Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, PhD, CEO of MetaCase and Co-Founder of DSM Forum, Finland; Zorana Branković, COO and Executive Board Member of Banca Intesa; Milan Bukorović, Chief Technology Officer at Nelt Group; Slobodan Marković, Technical Advisor for Digital Governance at UNDP, Serbia; and Professor Dušan Barać, PhD, Vice Dean for Digital Development at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences. The panel discussion was supported by Banca Intesa.
The keynote speakers at FedCSIS were distinguished scientists:
- Professor Ulrich Frank, PhD, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, lecture title: “Multi-Level Language Architectures: Fostering Reuse, Integration and User Empowerment by Allowing for Additional Abstraction”,
- Professor Gitta Kutyniok, PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, lecture title: “Reliable AI: Successes, Challenges, and Limitations”,
- Professor Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, PhD, MetaCase, Finland, lecture title: “Languages for non-developers: what, how, where?”,
- Professor Jelena Jovanović, PhD, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia, lecture title: “Learning analytics: Challenges and opportunities opened by AI”,
- Professor Jozo Dujmović, PhD, San Francisco State University, USA, lecture title: “Graded Logic and Professional Decision Making,’ within the section Topical Area 1: ‘Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (AAIA)”, and
- Professor Stefan Schauer, PhD, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, lecture title: “How Critical Infrastructures Can Tackle Future Pandemics: A Multi-Domain Approach to Enhancing CI Resilience,” within the section Thematic Track: “Resilience in Critical Infrastructures and Systems (RCIS).”
The conference program included the competition ‘FedCSIS 2024 Data Science Challenge: Predicting Stock Trends.’ The competition was supported by Yettel Bank. A record number of 77 teams registered for the competition, surpassing all previous editions of FedCSIS.
The most outstanding results of the competition were presented in the form of papers during the Machine Learning Competition (MLC) section. Four awards were given to the best teams:
1st place: Team NxGTR, author: Carlos Huertas, paper title: “Gradient Boosting Trees and Large Language Models for Tabular Data Few-Shot Learning,”
2nd place: Team hieuvq, author: Quang Hieu, paper title: “FedCSIS 2024 Data Science Challenge: Predicting Stock Trends by a Multi-Dimensional Approach,”
3rd place: Team StockTrends, author: Chang Lin, paper title: “Key Financial Indicators Analysis and Stock Trend Forecasting Based on a Wrapper Feature Selection Method,” and
Special Award: Team O.W.C.A., authors: Marcin Traczkowski and Eyad Kanout, paper title: „Forecasting Stock Trends with Feedforward Neural Networks.“
Among all the presented papers at FedCSIS 2024, four were distinguished and awarded:
- Best Paper Award, authors: Rytis Maskeliūnas and Robertas Damaševičius, Lithuania, title: „d’Alembert Convolution for Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Forest Ecosystems“,
- Young Researcher Award, authors: Alexander Kameier, Florian Burger, Daniel Lubert, and Katinka Wolter, Germany, title: „HPC Operation with Time-Dependent Cluster-Wide Power Capping“,
- Industry Cooperation Award, authors: Guillaume Hutzler, Hanna Claudel, Witold Claudel, Franck Pomereau, and Artur Rataj, France, title: “An Autonomous Vehicle in a Connected Environment: Case Study of Cyber-Resilience”, and
- International Cooperation Award, authors: Alexander Fischer, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari, Germany, Finland, title: “Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering with Modeling Support”.
All papers were presented within several main and thematic areas of FedCSIS. The main areas of the conference are:
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (AAIA),
- Computer Science & Systems (CSS),
- Network Systems and Applications (NSA),
- Information Technology for Business and Society (ITBS) i
- Software, System, and Service Engineering (S3E).
Thematic areas of the Conference are:
- Advances in Programming Languages (APL),
- AI in Agriculture (AgriAI),
- AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI‑HuSo),
- Application of Disruptive Technologies for Society 5.0 (ADTS),
- Challenges for Natural Language Processing (CNLPS),
- Complex Networks – Theory and Application (CN‑TA),
- Computational Optimization (CO),
- Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA),
- Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (DSH),
- Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems and Software Agents (ICPS‑SA),
- Information Systems Management (ISM),
- Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT‑ECAW),
- Knowledge Acquisition and Management (KAM),
- Model Driven Approaches in System Development (MDASD),
- Meta Environment for Citizens, Business and Entertainment (MECBE),
- Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP),
- Recent Advances in Information Technology – Doctoral Symposium (DS‑RAIT),
- Resilience in Critical Infrastructures and Systems (RCIS),
- Rough Sets: Theory and Applications (RSTA),
- Self Learning and Self Adaptive Systems (SL-SAS), and
- Scalable Computing (SC).
A notable place in the conference program was occupied by the Industrial Track section, in which our renowned companies presented their latest achievements and case studies in the field of software industry. Within this section, the following companies were presented: Banca Intesa, Nelt, ONLYOFFICE Ascensio Systems, Yettel Bank, Telekom Srbija – MTS and MVP Workshop.
