His researches ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Computer Science earning the mark of exceptional impact. More information about his research work is available at https://lpm.feri.um.si/en/members/mernik/.
On the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list are only three researchers from Slovenia, all from University of Maribor. Besides prof. dr. Marjan Mernik the highly cited researchers are also prof. dr. Željko Knez and prof. dr. Mojca Škerget, both from Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. To learn more about 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list visit https://clarivate.com/hcr/ or check YouTube video to take an inside look at the data and analysis behind Highly Cited Researchers and hear from the Highly Cited Researchers themselves on what it means to be highly cited and the impact it can have on them and their institution.
The Institute for Computer Science presented himself with other UM FERI institutes on the "Feel the Future" fair, which was held from 19. till 21. October 2017 at Celje. The name itself imply, that it is about technologies that will be part of our lives in the future. We had much to show as an organization that main research is done on those important areas that are going to influence our lives. There were various audiences: potential future students, our graduates, and different companies that were searching for a research partner.
University programming marathon (UPM, http://tekmovanja.acm.si/upm) is a Slovenian competition for students in their knowledge of programming, data structures and algorithms. The university champions for 2017 have been determined in the final round, which was held at FAMNIT, Koper. Members of the team all study Computer Science and Information Technologies. This years champions are Izak Glasenčnik, Nejc Maček, Robi Novak. As this years university champions they are eligible to participate in CERC 2017 (http://cerc.hsin.hr/), which will be held from the 17th to the 19th of November. Countries participating in CERC are Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
The best teams from CERC will be participating in the world finals in Beijing, China, from the 15th to 20th of April 2018.
Previous week we finished with activities with common name Code week. This year events were organized during two weeks period, because of a fifth anniversary of Code week. Main goal of the event is bringing computers and computer programming closer to the broader audience. At the same time demonstrate advantages of using and adapting computational power. Computers are entering in every aspect of our life. The question is if we know hot to fully use this fast growing technology.
Previous two weeks Institute of Computer Science organize seventeen events. Events were spread in region of eastern Slovenia, from Slovenj Gradec too Murska Sobota. Events covered multiple topics and were altered for broader audience. Events were placed in primary and high schools.
Institute of Computer Science participated in the European Researchers' Night 2017, which took place on 29 September 2017 at the same time in more than 250 EU cities.
In the "research site" of Europark Maribor, Institute of Computer Science participated with projects: Computer intelligence and sports, A modern virtual reality, Computer Graphics. There was a lot of interest.
Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way. Code Week is going to be held from October 7 - 22, 2017.
Institute of Computer Science prepared several workshops about programming:
A study by the research group 07896-010 (System Software Laboratory) has been published in a distinguished journal "Proceedings of the IEEE" with the Impact Factor JCR IF (2016): 9.237. This paper has currently the highest impact factor at the Institute of Computer Science (https://cs.feri.um.si/en/research-activities/publications/).
D. FARINA, A. HOLOBAR. Characterization of human motor units from surface EMG decomposition. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016, 104(2): 353-373, JCR IF (2016): 9.237 Motor units are the smallest functional units of our movements. The study of their activation provides a window into the mechanisms of motor control of humans. The classic methods for motor unit investigations date to several decades ago. They are based on invasive recordings with selective needle electrodes. Conversely, the non-invasive (surface) EMG has been commonly processed as an interference signal with the information extraction limited to its global characteristics that are only crudely associated to the underlying motor unit activities. In the last decade, we proposed the methods for reliable extraction of individual motor unit activities from the interference surface EMG signal. In this review, we describe these methods and their applications in human-machine interfaces. This study has been published in a distinguished IEEE Proceedings journal with the JCR impact factor of 9.237.
