Department of Management
Friday Night Seminar Club
The conference is organized by the Department of Management at the UNWE and by Bulgarian Academic Simulation And Gaming Association (BASAGA). It is also technically co-sponsored by IEEE Young Profesionals Bulgaria, Data Science Society, Financial Engineering Solutions, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Business Excellence Center at UNWE and Eudaimonia Production Ltd.
The conference it is meant to be vanguard bound, free choice based, without parallel sessions, heavily discussion oriented, improvised, low cost.
SPECIAL EVENT for this year's conference is a doctoral seminar, organized in partnership with Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", which will be held on on 21.September 2016 (the day before the official start of the conference)
A significant cange of plans:
In the preliminary programe we have included SPECIAL EVENT II: a debate on the ideas, presented in the book "Postcapitalism" by Paul Mason. Unfortunatelu this event has to be postponed for October in Sofia within Friday Night Seminar.
It is expected, without being obligatory, that every participant prepares expressive presentations on vanguard topics in the wide area of management. If you are unable to participate personally, these are the alternative options: 1) send a poster(PPT, DOC or PDF format), which would be appraised and discussed by the participants at the conference; 2) send a video-poster (short video, showing the main points of your presentation), for which you would also receive a feedback; 3) participate via video-conference (the most preferable option), should you chose to use it the technical details would be arranged additionally.
The proceedings of the conference will be published as articles in a volume of the electronic journal “VANGUARD SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS IN MANAGEMENT” (ISSN 1314-0582) on a compact disk and on the specially designed website http://vsim-journal.info. The authors are expected to submit full texts of the papers shortly after the conference (around 15 November). Papers presented and discussed at the conference are accepted for publishing, presuming that the authors would reflect all questions, comments and ideas from the conference discussion. Papers not presented at the conference and ones which failed to reflect the feedback, follow the procedure of blind peer review before publishing. The requirements and instructions for submitting the papers for publishing/review in the automated online system are available at http://vsim-journal.info.
We are expecting your applications at http://bit.ly/vsim-conf no later than 10 September 2016 and it should contain at least the following information: title of the paper, key words, authors, contact information. Participants who would need an invitation to obtain visa for EU should additionally contact us (no later than 30. July 2016). The participation fee is €25. Deadline for payment is 08. September 2016 at the bank account of the conference, (please click on the box to the right→).
Conference fee per attendant
€30
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Note: Representatives of UNWE and BASAGA and all students are exempt from paying fee. Participation for all PhD students in the doctoral seminar is free of charge.
Prof. Eng. PhD Angel Marchev - chairman
Prof. PhD Radoslav Tzonchev
Prof. PhD Mileti Mladenov
Prof. PhD Septemvrina Kostova
Prof. PhD Tamara Teplova
Prof. Eng. PhD Boyan Lomev
Prof. PhD Mariyan Milev
Prof. PhD Kaloyan Haralampiev
Prof. PhD Stanimir Kabaivanov
Prof. PhD Gurjeet Dhesi
Prof. PhD Ling Xiao
Prof. PhD Teodor Sedlarski
Prof. Eng. PhD Nadya Mironova
Prof. PhD Margarita Harizanova
Prof. PhD Matilda Alexandrova
Prof. PhD Violeta Kasarova
Prof. Eng. ScD Maya Lambovska
Prof. PhD Mariana Kuzmanova
Prof. PhD Tzvetana Stoyanova
Prof. PhD Kiril Georgiev
Prof. PhD Boryana Bogdanova
Prof. PhD Kamen Petrov
Opening – Boyan Lomev
Empirical approach in scientific research - Angel Marchev, Jr.
Open-source software for association, classification and segmentation of data - Kaloyan Haralampiev
Choosing software environment for analysis and forecasting of time series data: Excel(VBA), gretl, R, Matlab - Boryana Bogdanova
The participants should bring a laptop, with the following freeware software installed:
Orange Data Mining (http://orange.biolab.si/download/)
KNIME Analytics Platform (+ all free extensions for Windows) (https://www.knime.org/downloads/overview)
Gretl: Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/)
Please fill-in the feedback form: https://goo.gl/forms/tcMeSbaUFvOf7YLs1
The teaching materials araavailable here...
Discussion topic: Longevity, transhumanism
Introduction - Angel Marchev 1.0
Uploading & immortality - Tanyu Kolev
Randomness Uncertainty and Ergodicity in Nature and Society: Towards a Sustainable Society Ethics in a Non-ergodic World - George Chobanov
Vanguard transport technologies - Svetlozar Manasiev
Transhumanist bill of rights - Zoltan Istvan (poster)
Nevada Transhumannist Party - Gennady Stolyarov (poster)
Discussion topic: Public Policies
Alternatives to the global economic order - George Chankov
Green economy - a sustainable development perspective - Neli Nikolova
Dependencies in the economy or economy of dependancies - Isidor Karadimov
Management of Economic Security - Pavel Stoynov
Model clustering of objects after multi-dimentional scalling - Stanimir Andonov
Discussion topic: Public Policies
Local differentiation factors for lack of ethnic identity in the census in Bulgaria in 2011 - Dimitar Blagoev Kaloyan Haralampiev
Problems using information from surveys at the regional level - Atanas Atanasov, Antoaneta Grechenlieva
Developments of the companies in the ICT sector in Bulgaria, according to statistics on the demographics of businesses - Atanas Atanasov, Antoaneta Grechenlieva
Dynamics of the construction sector and selected factors in the business environment for the period 2000-2015 year - Venelin Boshnakov
Spatial Planning - a mechanism in the management of territorial development - Gena Velkovska
Specifics in management and protectionism of agricultural land in Bulgaria - Valeri Velkovski, Gena Velkovska
Prerequisites for the design of a model for management of industrial zones - legal framework - Antoaneta Ivanova-bares
Opportunities for implementing Scrum management for infrastructure projects with European funding - Miglena Angelova
Comparative analysis of the management of European information networks in Bulgaria, Latvia and Hungary - Miglena Angelova
Geo-economics in light of the new economic geography - Kamen Petrov (poster)
Features of the career development of the employees of municipal administrations in Bulgaria - Hristo Georgiev (poster)
Strategic Decisions on Industrialization: Case of Galat Steel Work - Ramona Dumitriu, Razvan Stefanescu (poster)
Discussion topic: Current topics in business management
Introduction
Exploring the nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy” for the business world - Kiril Dimitrov
System for managing changes in the realization of projects - Matilda Alexandrova
Building and strengthening the employer brand using social networks - Tatiana Kicheva
Factors in achieving company success in Bulgaria - Daniel Dimitrov
Dynamics of outsourcing in subcontracting abroad from the position of suppliers - Hristina Stoyanova
Systematic approach in the management of public organizations - Nikoleta Efremova
Evaluating the effects of mediation and moderation using SPSS Amos- Jelio Vladimirov
Visagismile - Software for Digital Smile Design - Boyan Yankov, Georgi Iliev, Iva Misheva, Dimitar Filchev, Galip Gurel, Braulio Paolucci, Adriano Shayder
Vintage fashion - Septemvrina Kostova
The business model Canvas - an integrated tool to enhance organizational performance - Tsvetana Stoyanova (poster)
Communication culture of the manager - Nadia Mironova (poster)
Administrative and legal competence of the manager - Philip Stoyanov (poster)
Factors and measures of successful entrepreneurship - Ilia Kereziev (poster)
Lean approach for starting a new business - Ilia Kereziev (poster)
Managing relationships with customers and introducing technological innovations - Desislava Petrovska (poster)
Problems of intercultural communication environment - Emilia Duneva-Stoyanova (poster)
Specifics of the charging of value added tax in the process of pricing in tourism - Borislav Atanasov (poster)
Balanced Scorecard as a method of selecting a project in project portfolio - Antoaneta Angelova (poster)
Corporate culture as a factor in employee motivation and job satisfaction - Stoyan Koev (poster)
Discussion topic: Active methods in teaching
Using qualitative methods for developing programs for electronic courses - Daniel Penchev
On the games and life - Petia Parvanova
Active methods in teaching "Marketing research" - Ina Stanoeva
Modelling the prerequisites for the expression of enterpreunership - Todor Sarakchiev Petko Ruskov
A New Mindset for University Business Collaboration - Edge Strategy - Petko Ruskov
Tactics and strategy in writing a dissertation - II part - Bancho Banov
Restructuring the learning content using open tools and open data - Milena Krumova
19:00 Predictive modeling in simulation games and experiments - Mihail Motzev
Discussion topic: Financial engineering solutions
Finance, Ethics, Results - Yvan Kojouharov
Intuitionistic fuzzy approach for testing the accuracy of different models to find the value at risk (VaR). - Nicholas Netov, Diana Tisheva
Multiscale Approach for Prediction of Financial Returns in Times of Turmoil - Boryana Bogdanova, Teodora Pavalova, Borislava Vrigazova
The Greek Debt Crisis through the lens of Time Series and Multiscale Analysis - Teodora Pavlova, Borislava Vrigazova, Boryana Bogdanova
Wavelet-based Prediction of Stock Market Returns during 2007-2008 Financial Crisis - Borislava Vrigazova, Boryana Bogdanova, Teodora Pavlova
Mellin Transform for Digital Options - Dessislava Koleva, Mariyan Milev
GPU accelerated option valuation - Stanimir Kabaivanov, Veneta Markovska, Mariyan Milev
Approaches to structuring a portfolio of securities - Georgi Hristov, Bojan Lomev
Modern systems for risk management in non-financial companies - Krasimir Kostenarov
Investment intermediation in Bulgaria and the trading at BSE Sofia - Bojidar Nedev
Evaluation of the Market Risk with Copulas - Maria Zlateva, Boyan Lomev (poster)
Making banking supervision in the single supervisory mechanism of the European Union - Aglika Kaneva (poster)
Extended model for analyzing the profitability of productive capital - Rositsa Ivanova (poster)
Profile of Bulgarian investors in government securities - Lyudmil Anachkov (poster)
The Impact of the Great Lent and of the Nativity Fast on the Bucharest Stock Exchange - Razvan Stefanescu, Ramona Dumitriu (постер)
Discussion topic: Data science
Introduction
9:00 Recognizing degenerative aging as a treatable condition: Methodology and Policy - Ilya Stambler
9:30 Settleretika-2016: What will replace hand writing? Cyber telepathy! - Jan Korchmaryuk (poster)
MSSP over ANN over GA - Angel Marchev 1.0, Angel Marchev 2.0
Automated Scorecard Development - Alexander Efremov
Innovative processes for increasing of usability of the open data - Reni Borisova
Modern methods of management of financial flows in higher education - Martina Arabadzhieva
Flexible calibration of econometric models with artificial neural networks - Veneta Markovska, Stanimir Kabaivanov
About the instruments in the instruments self-organizing system - Vasil Marinov
Algebraic approaches to the study of self-organizing systems - Vasil Marinov
Food chain as a tool for economic modeling in the sense of general systems theory - Peter Mitev (poster)
All events of the conference will be held at the
UNWE Study & Relaxation Center in Ravda, approx.
30 km. north of Burgas at the Black Sea Coast.
The best travel option is to fly to Burgas International
Airport. On your request you will receive more details on
transportation from Sofia and/or Burgas to Ravda.
For your convenience here is the contact information of some nearby
hotels (also click on the links), and of course every attendant
finds best suitable accommodation for him/herself.
Family Hotel Excelsior phone: +359 88 641 6689
Hotel Bijou phone: +359 554 66651
Family Hotel Iceberg phone: +359 88 650 5570
Hotel Panorama phone: +359 88 615 3233
Family Hotel Blian phone: +359 88 930 7003
Hotel Daniel House phone: +359 89 993 2132
UNWE Study & Relaxation Center
2 Kraybrezhna Street,
Ravda, Bulgaria
The ultimate topical directions of the conference will be précised based on the proposed presentations. We are open to any suggestion. So far, the following could be indicated (click to expand):
• Business education for post- and trans-humanism
• Emerging ethical, legal, sociological, technological issues
• Disruptive technologies and entrepreneurship
• Valuation of startups
• Crowsdourcing
• New educational reality
• The teacher: from systematization authority to motivational facilitator
• Docendo discimus: learning by teaching
• The emerging non-paper textbook
• E-communications with the trainees
• E-education applied in business
• Gaming layer over the World
• Applications of game dynamics
• Transforming of work environment to gaming reality
• Gamification
• Virtual gaming worlds
• The business of game development
• Fuzzy approaches
• Chaos theory and fractals
• Multi-stage selection
• Evolutional algorithms
• Neural Networks
• FES third annual meeting
• Models of investors
• Evaluating investment securities
• Numerical methods for investment problems
• Implementation of efficient investment solutions
• Active and passive adaptivity
• Decisions under risk and uncertainty
• Automated decision making
• Holonization and virtual organizations
• Self-perfecting organizations
• Business applications of cybernetic theory
• Methods for business analysis: a new reading
• Leadership and emotional intelligence
• Vanguard ideas in project and process management
from VSIM:15 conference
If you have any questions (regarding the travel, accommodation,
visa, etc.) You could contact us. Any additional ideas for the
conference are welcome. We are expecting your suggestions and
applications.
Phone: +359888444062
E-mail: avangard_conf@yahoo.com
Angel Marchev
Angel Marchev, Jr.
