| Description: Faculty of Management Science
and Informatics
The University of Zilina is mainly technology-oriented higher educational institution. It
provides basic educational programmes in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
Civil Engineering, Management Science and Informatics, Economics and Operations in
Transport and Communications.
Beside these basic educational tasks the University pays large attention to research and
applications of research results in development in Transport and Telecommunications.
It participates in many international and EU activities. One of the most important ones is
the participation in the EU Support of the Centres of Excellence project within the V. FP,
where Centre for the Transport Research is one of the two Centres chosen for support in
Slovakia.
The orientation towards Transport and Telecommunications is why there is urgent need to
involve Geographic Information Systems in education, specifically in branches of study
dealing with infrastructure planning, construction and maintenance and engineering,
networks and their environmental impact.
The Faculty of Management Science has tradition in research and application of modelling
and optimisation of processes on transportation and communication networks, while the use
of GIS constitutes a fairly new approach to provide basic data and geographic connections
for these models. The Faculty has also experience in use of information technologies,
databases, computer networks, and multimedia systems.
The Faculty is involved in research and application of its results in the fields of the
models of transportation networks and methods for optimisation of network design, location
of service centres, allocation of consumers to centres, scheduling and routing algorithms
on networks, editing and data input for definition of transportation networks. On the
other hand we are interested to learn more about possibilities of application of the
Geographic Information and GIS.
The Faculty actively participates in many national and international projects in the
framework of
- National grant agency,
- EU TEMPUS PHARE projects,
- EU INCO-COPERNICUS projects,
- EU SOCRATES projects,
- EU LEONARDO projects.
The projects with the highest
relevance to the present proposal and to the use of Geographic Information and its
applications were:
- Study of the GIS application for the use in
telecommunications – (for the national Telecom operator),
- Regional Information System study,
- EU INCO-COPERNICUS project WELL-GIS,
- EU INCO-COPERNICUS project PANEL-GI.
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| Contact: e-mail: fabi@frdsa.fri.utc.sk
Reference Person: Ing. Peter Fabian
URL: Zilina University: http://www.utc.sk; Nature-GIS project: http://tempus1.fri.utc.sk/nature-gis
tel: +421 41 5134224, 5651015
fax: +421 41 5651015
Address: FRI-ZU, Vel'ký Diel, 010 26 Zilina
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