Plenary Lecture

Smart Offices and Intelligent Workplaces

Professor Peter Mikulecky
Department of Information Technologies
Faculty of Informatics and Management
University of Hradec Kralove
Rokitanskeho 62
Hradec Kralove
Czech Republic
E-mail: peter.mikulecky@uhk.cz

Abstract: Smart offices and kinds of intelligent workplaces are one of the recent results of intensive research provided in the area of ambient intelligence (or its relating areas ubiquitous computing, etc.) Ambient intelligence approaches and technologies are more and more matured to be able of creating a really smart environment that is intelligently helpful to users surrounded by such an environment. There are well known applications of this concept in various areas, like smart home environment, or smart support to elderly or handicapped people, but in this talk we wish to concentrate on their suitability as a basis for intelligent workplaces. Such an intelligent workplace should be, among its other features, also helpful in managing knowledge that can be further on usefully exploited by the users working in the workplace. These environments inevitably need to be rich of knowledge; therefore a synergy of approaches and techniques from ambient intelligence as well as from knowledge management is necessary.
In our talk we wish to bring an overview of recent activities and research in the area of smart offices and other kinds of smart workplaces, including also smart classes at various types of educational institutions. We intend to present a number of recent approaches and a couple of recent interesting results in this challenging area.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Peter Mikulecky is a professor of Managerial Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics and Management at the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, since 1993. Here he leads the Department of Information Technologies since 1994, recently he serves also as Director for Research and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the same faculty. In the period of 1990 to 1993 he was the head of Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he worked in various positions since 1973. Recently he is also a member of the Accreditation Commission of the Government of Slovak Republic (since 2004) responsible for accreditations of Slovak higher educational institutions. Research of Professor Mikulecky covers ambient intelligence, artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems and technologies, knowledge management, as well as human – computer interaction. He has published more than 150 papers in various journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He was one of the founders of a regular series of events called Ambient Intelligence Forum; he is also a member of programme committees for a number of international conferences. Professor Mikulecky is also a member of a number of scientific societies and scientific boards.