Ramo Sendelj
Ramo Šendelj is a research chair for cyber security at University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro, currently working as a Professor at Humanistic studies.
A computer scientist by training and skills, Ramo considers himself a learning and information scientist developing computational methods that can shape rapid changes in cyber environment and advance both, methodological and technological protection of information and knowledge in digital word, and enhance prevention, protection and reaction of cyber treaths and attacks.
Funded by granting agencies at national and EU level, Ramo is a recipient of several research and commercial grants.
He is a member of H2020 Programme Committee for “Research infrastructure”; Bologna Expert for Higher Education Reform and he is FP7 expert for Ethics reviewing, Research & Innovation. At national level, he is a member of Council “Montenegrin Research and Education Network”, Member of the Steering committee of HERIC Project (Higher Education and Research for Innovation and Competitiveness), Member of ICT team for Montenegrin Think Tank Project, and National expert for accreditation of high education institution in Montenegro.
Committed to the development of national educational and research community, Ramo had a pleasure to serve as a Dean of Faculty of information technology for 7 years (period 2006-2013), in the same time serving as a Vice Rector for Finance and development at Mediterranean University for 2 years (period 2009-2011), which brought necessary experience in governing with financial issues over the university budget focusing on two major activities, education and research.
Currently serving as a co-chair of the Master study program in cyber security at University of Donja Gorica, Ramo is a (co-)author of numerous research papers and books and a frequent keynote speaker.
Phone: +38267226333
Address: Univerzitet Donja Gorica
Donja Gorica
81000 Podgorica
Montenegro
A computer scientist by training and skills, Ramo considers himself a learning and information scientist developing computational methods that can shape rapid changes in cyber environment and advance both, methodological and technological protection of information and knowledge in digital word, and enhance prevention, protection and reaction of cyber treaths and attacks.
Funded by granting agencies at national and EU level, Ramo is a recipient of several research and commercial grants.
He is a member of H2020 Programme Committee for “Research infrastructure”; Bologna Expert for Higher Education Reform and he is FP7 expert for Ethics reviewing, Research & Innovation. At national level, he is a member of Council “Montenegrin Research and Education Network”, Member of the Steering committee of HERIC Project (Higher Education and Research for Innovation and Competitiveness), Member of ICT team for Montenegrin Think Tank Project, and National expert for accreditation of high education institution in Montenegro.
Committed to the development of national educational and research community, Ramo had a pleasure to serve as a Dean of Faculty of information technology for 7 years (period 2006-2013), in the same time serving as a Vice Rector for Finance and development at Mediterranean University for 2 years (period 2009-2011), which brought necessary experience in governing with financial issues over the university budget focusing on two major activities, education and research.
Currently serving as a co-chair of the Master study program in cyber security at University of Donja Gorica, Ramo is a (co-)author of numerous research papers and books and a frequent keynote speaker.
Phone: +38267226333
Address: Univerzitet Donja Gorica
Donja Gorica
81000 Podgorica
Montenegro
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Recently, Montenegro (ME) has recognized the importance of modern cyber security society development, by taking the following steps:
(i) Government has adopted strategic documents in 2012 (Strategy for development of Information Society in ME 2012-2016), with goals and tasks of establishing quality level of cyber security;
(ii) National ME Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is established in 2012, and
(iii) CERT already took actions of assistance to government agencies for both, reducing the risks of computer security incidents and responding to such incidents when they occur.
Finally, the issues of cyber-security vulnerabilities, national security, public safety, and critical infrastructure were discussed on Explanatory session between EU and ME (2012) during the Screening chapter 10 – “Information society”. In this report, EU highlighted the necessity of initiating activities focused on cyber-security awareness, education, trainings, and professional development, all coordinated and systematically organized at national level.
Motivated by recent trends in cyber security education and as well as growing challenges of fighting against cyber treats and attacks at global level, ME universities in cooperation with relevant ministries and other institutions at national level, initiated national project titled ‘Enhancement of cyber educational system of ME’, which is accepted for funding by last TEMPUS call (544088-1-2013-1-SI-JPHES). The project is aimed on enhancing the overall ME cyber-security educational system and accelerating the availability of educational and training resources designed to improve the overall cyber security society in ME.
Project specific objectives are:
(i) increase public awareness of cyber-security risks, responsible use of the Internet, and cyber-security as a career path;
(ii) raise the competency and capability of information security professionals and practitioners through education, training, employment, and certification; and
(iii) develop the next generation of cyber-security workers by establishing Master study in Cyber security.
In this paper we present results of comprehensive analyses of current level of cyber educational system of ME with measuring indicators (e.g. organizational capacities, number of cyber security and general ICT courses, number of departments and study programs addressing some of cyber security issues, number of organized trainings and workshops, etc.) on which bases, innovative model with short-term and long-term goals are defined with respect to specificity of ME society (may be seen in small population, differences in regional development and prosperity, etc.).
Implementation of proposed model represent challenging issues for ME society in order to achieve advanced national prosperity and security in the 21st century through innovative cyber-security education, and thus, specific indicators are proposed for measuring progress level.
Accordingly, the consideration of more sophisticated preferences is essential. Human preferences are not simple, decisions about their desirable requirements can be dependent on other internal or external factors, and their modeling is a great challenge, as it is difficult to express human opinion in a way that can be easily processed by computers. In literature, many analyzes were taken in order to determine data available from learning environments and learning systems that can detect students' learning behaviors in real-world scenarios, examining students' motivation which influence students interest, persistence and performance in academics. Most of them showed different students' interests in online and traditional courses, time constraints due to work and home responsibilities are of high importance in decision making, interaction of demographic characteristics among motivation orientation, etc.
This paper proposes innovative approach for making predictions of the most preferable courses based on student's preferences and simultaneously making estimations on students’ academic performance by considering previous students’ achievements and their shown attitudes. The main contribution of proposed approach is a framework for representing and processing of different kinds of preferences of each individual student based on the well-known and widely adopted Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). This adoption is used for defining measurements needed for making quantitative models over courses process workflow and its optimal configuration.
Proposed model is developed based on promising results of using quantitative metrics for optimal configuration of families of business processes recently developed and explored in Software Product Line Engineering discipline. This innovative approach of transferring developed methods and techniques to learning environment is a result of the national project titled ‘Development of dynamically adaptive service-oriented architectures (SOA) based on non-functional requirements and historical data’ funded by Ministry of sciences, Montenegro. The project was aimed on developing methods and techniques that will enable development of SOAs based on various types of non-functional requirements and additional requirements obtained by analyzing available historical data, with further practical applications in both, learning and medical environments.
Since MNE is a small country characterized with multitude in lacks of coherent structure and institutional and governmental support for students with disabilities; high readiness and openness for providing support and full inclusion in higher education institutions (HEIs), more sophisticated model was needed in order to establish sustainable support which includes both public and private universities with no differences or privileges.
The main challenges that were needed to be addressed by reform were the following:
(i) the absence of a coherent and integrated system of financial and benefits support for students studying at HEIs,
(ii) the lack of a progressive and holistic support system – one that bridges ‘transition stages’ between school-higher education and work;
(iii) the lack of specialized administrative and academic staff trained to give proper support to SwDs;
(iv) the low level of technological infrastructure intended to facilitate the inclusion of students in HEIs;
(v) poorly-developed pedagogical support for guidance and counselling;
(vi) variability in the provision of environmental support infrastructure, such as signage, ramps and specialised accommodation facilities;
(vii) the lack of a coherent structure to support collaborative action between different stakeholder groups;
(viii) the lack of opportunities to support greater awareness of the needs of SwDs.
Having in mind currently so low number of high school SwDs representing candidate number of students at HIEs, a star model of students’ support was established, consisting of a Student Advisory Office (SAO) as a central organization with branches organised as specific Units at each HEI. In this paper we present specific regulation among each part in the model which overcomes all heterogeneity among institutions, providing unique flow of data and responsibilities with cost effective sustainable plan and organisation.
among both, researchers and practitioners; while security is one
of the major issues which reduces its growth and complications
with data privacy and data protection continue to plague the
market. Stimulated by the promising solutions of Semantic Web
(also known as Web 3.0) for addressing the problems of
management and monitoring of services shared by different
parties (with different semantics and interests), the serviceoriented
transformations over cloud-computing processes are
today a rapidly growing demand. In this paper we go one step
further and propose methodology for increasing cyber security
over cloud services by using Semantic Web technology,
hierarchical ontology and intelligent reasoning techniques