Added Value and Impact
of
Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
Dusan Kocur
E-mail: [email protected]
Technical University Košice
Letná 9, Košice, Slovak Republic
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Outline
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“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”: The first contact, motivation and
start of my active participation in COST actions
A review of my personal active participations in COST actions
Common COST events and activities
Benefits, added value and impact of the active participation in COST
actions. Examples.
Conclusions: Summary of positive impacts COST actions for R&D and
recommendations for COST actions considering R&D in Slovakia
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
• “The first contact” + inspiration: ICT COST Action 249
Continuous Speech Recognition over the Telephone (1994-2000)
• Presentation (February 29, 1996): Kocur, D.: Fast Tracking RLS
Adaptive Algorithms of Nonlinear Volterra Digital Filters. COST
249 meeting in Košice, February 29-March 1, 1996.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
• “The first contact” + inspiration: ICT COST Action 249
Continuous Speech Recognition over the Telephone (1994-2000)
• Presentation (February 29, 1996): Kocur, D.: Fast Tracking RLS
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Adaptive Algorithms of Nonlinear Volterra Digital Filters. COST
249 meeting in Košice, February 29-March 1, 1996.
Impact: Active participation in the COST Actions from 1999
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action 262: Spread Spectrum Systems and
1998-2002
Techniques in Wireless and Wired Communications D. Kocur
• R&D of TUKE research:
• Nonlinear Volterra receivers for direct sequences spread
spectrum communication
• Chaos as a spreading sequence for direct sequences spread
spectrum communication
• Steganography based on signal spread spectrum usage
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action 289: Spectrum and Power Efficient
Broadband Communications
• R&D of TUKE research:
2003-2007
D. Kocur
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• Multiple Carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA)
• Multiple user detectors (MUD)
• Piece-wise linear multi-channel complex microstatistic filters
• Nonlinear complex microstatistic MUD for MC-CDMA
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action IC0803: RF/Microwave Communication 2008-2012
Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies
D. Kocur
• R&D of TUKE research:
• Nonlinear receivers for MIMO-OFDM communication systems
• Nonlinear iterative receivers for SC-FDMA communication
systems
• Short-range tracking of moving targets by handheld UWB radars
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action IC1303: Algorithms, Architectures and 2013-2017
Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments
D. Kocur
• R&D of TUKE research:
• Real-time operating wireless UWB sensor network for human
beings detection, localization and tracking
• Assumed applications: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action TU1208: Civil Engineering Applications 2013-2017
of Ground Penetrating Radar
D. Kocur
• R&D of TUKE research:
• Human being localization based on detection of their vital signs
(respiratory motion, heart beating)
• Assumed solutions: UWB sensor applications for emergency
event solutions
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Personal COST Curriculum Vitae”:
The First Contact and Start of Active Participation
COST Action IC1301: Wireless Power Transmission
for Sustainable Electronics
• R&D of TUKE research:
2013-2017
P. Galajda
• ASIC design for RF part of UWB sensor (LNA, I-Q kits,
impedance spectroscopy, ASIC for wireless power transmission
to be applied for UWB systems, etc.)
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Common COST Events and Activities: A Review
• General meetings (GM) of the COST actions
• Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. within GM)
• Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM)
• Joint publications (books, special issues of journals)
• Short term scientific missions (STSM)
• Educational activities (e.g. summer schools, training school)
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
General meetings (GM) of the COST actions
(two times per year)
Comments:
A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates
and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM
Activity:
Bilateral and multilateral meetings with GM participants during its formal
and informal parts of GM
Momentary
impact:
Creation of very important and useful personal contacts for a shorttime co-operation.
Long-time
impact:
Partnerships for future joint projects; publications; student, researcher
and teacher mobilities (e.g. Erasmus program, STSM, etc.), i.e. creation
of bases for long-time international co-operation.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
General meetings (GM) of the COST actions
(two times per year)
Impact
example 1:
Joint project 1 (COST Action 262, COST Action 289):
Wireless Sensor Network for Water Quality Monitoring
Program: Hungary-Slovakia Cross-border Co-operation,
Project state: in progress (2013-2015)
Impact
example 2:
Joint project 2 (COST Action 262, COST Action 289):
Europe-Wide Emergency Network (EENet)
Program: Marie Sklodovska -Curie Action, Innovative Training Networks,
H2020)
Project state: submitted, in evaluation (submission: 2015)
Impact
example 3:
Ph.D. candidates’ mobilities: TU Hamburg-Harburg (Hamburg,
Germany), Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona, Spain), etc.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM)
Comments:
A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates
and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM
Activity 1:
Leading European scientists and researchers give usually presentations
on the newest advances focused on topics concerning the COST action
profile.
There are many invited key-speeches given by the experts outside of
COST action
Momentary
Impact:
Knowledge concerning state-of the art and the newest trends in the
selected fields of science and technologies.
Long-time
impact:
Knowledge and technology transfer. Implementation of the newest
knowledge within our own research, estimation of the research trends.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM)
Impact
example:
COST Action 289:
COST topic: OFDM modulations: basic principles, problems, challenges
for R&D, pros and cons, applications, etc.
Today: OFDM is fundamental and leading technology for wireless
communications and broadcasting (4G LTE, DVB-T, WiFi, WiMAX, etc.)
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
Workshops and technical presentations (e.g. at GM)
Comments:
A lot of leading European scientists and researchers, Ph.D. candidates
and early stage researchers (ERS) participate in GM
Activity 2:
Presentations of Ph.D. candidates and ERS (including from our own
institutions)
Momentary
Impact:
Practical experiences with presentation of the research results at a
serious international floor.
Long-time
impact:
Stimulating discussion results in new ideas for the followed up
research and development.
Impact
example:
COST Action 289, COST Action IC0803:
Nonlinear iterating receivers of SC-FDMA communication systems for
nonlinear fading channels (a part of Ph.D. theses).
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM)
Comments:
During GM, a hosting institution provides usually its laboratory-seeing.
Activity:
Excellent laboratory-seeing as a part of GM. Introduction of hosting
institution in the field of research, development, technology transfer ,
structure and education as well.
Momentary
impact:
Inspiring information of the best practice kind to be used in our own
institution.
Long-time
impact:
Improvement of our own institution based on knowledge transfer.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Event:
Excellent laboratory-seeing (e.g. within GM)
Impact
example:
All COST Actions:
We have had possibilities to visit of many laboratories of European
universities. We are trying to transfer the gathered knowledge into TUKE
(e.g. building of Laboratory of Sensor and Wireless Communication
Technologies, Center of Information and Communication
Technologies for Knowledge Systems, etc.).
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Joint publications
Comments:
COST actions are evaluated according to a number of joint publications.
Activity 1:
Special issues of journals focused on “COST topics”
Activity 2:
Joint papers in high-rated papers and conferences.
Activity 3:
Joint book.
Momentary
impact:
Publications in high-rated prestigious publication media.
Long-time
impact:
Citations. A future co-operation with the publication co-authors.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Joint publications
Impact
example 1:
COST 289:
Krajňák, J.- Deumal, M. - Pavelka, P.- Kocur, D.- Pijoan, J. L. - Galajda,
P.: Multi-user detection of nonlinearly distorted MC-CDMA symbols by
microstatistic filtering. Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 47, no. 1,
2008, p. 149-160.
Impact
example 2:
COST IC0803:
Kocur, D. - Fortes, J.: Short-Range Tracking of Moving Targets by
Handheld UWB Radar System. In: Microwave and Milimeter Wave
Circuits and Systems: Emerging Design, Technologies and Applications.
- Chichester : JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013, pp. 209-225.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Short Term Scientific Missions
Comments:
COST actions support by funds mutual mobilities of COST action
partners.
Activity:
Mobility at a partner COST institution. Joint research in the partner’s
laboratory.
Momentary
impact:
Knowledge, practical experiences and skills in selected field of
research and development. Availability of the equipment and software
not available at the own institution. The new research results.
Long-time
impact:
Knowledge, experiences and technology transfer. Partnership for
next joint research activities.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Short Term Scientific Missions
Impact
example:
COST Action 289, STSM-2004:
Beneficiary/Applicant: Jozef Krajňák, Technical University of Kosice,
Slovakia
Host: Prof. Arne Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Results: Experiences with IT++ software for wireless communication
system simulations. Application of IT++ for the efficient (in terms of timeconsuming) simulations and evaluations of wireless communication
system performance.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Advanced education support
Comments:
COST actions co-organize and/or supports (e.g. by funds) educational
activities for Ph.D. candidates in the fields covered by the COST action.
Activity:
For example: summer schools, training schools, seminars, etc.
Momentary
impact:
Knowledge, practical experiences and skills in selected field research
and development.
Long-time
impact:
Knowledge and technology transfer.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
COST Event and/or Activity: Impact on our R&D
Activity:
Advanced education support
Impact
example:
COST TU1208:
Training School on UWB Antennas, Technologies and Applications
co-organised with European School of Antennas and European
Association on Antennas and Propagation
April 20-24, 2015, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Conclusions: Summary of The Most Important
Impacts of Participating in COST Actions
• COST actions can open “doors” to the European research area.
• COST actions can help to identify of future challenging research
trends
• COST action represents an unique environment for creation of
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new personal contacts supporting of future mutual advantageous
co-operation
COST actions can support the transfer of knowledge,
experiences, skills and technologies.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Conclusions: Recommendations for COST Actions
Considering R&D in Slovak Republic
• Slovak Republic should provide the support of COST program in
EU.
• Slovak Republic should support a participation of Slovak
researchers and institutions in COST actions.
• Slovak Republic should provide funds (as in the past) supporting
a participation of Slovak researchers and institutions in COST
actions.
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Thank you
very much
for your attention
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia
Contact:
Prof. Dušan Kocur
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Technical University of Košice
Letná ul 9, 041 20 Košice
Slovak Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
Added Value and Impact of Participating in COST Actions:
Personal Experiences
COST Info Day, March 20, 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia