FORA Training School (TS3)

2020, June 15th-19th, Virtual

Training School 3 (TS3) was supposed to be organized at Mälardalen University (MDH) in Västerås, Sweden, as a Summer School during the summer of 2020. However, due to the COVID19 pandemic TS3 has been organized (at the planned time, during June 2020) as a Virtual Summer School via zoom.

The program, which covered week 25, 15th to 19th of June 2020, is presented next, followed by descriptions of the courses. The materials were made available via a dedicated website. TS3 has consisted, in line with the GA, of the following modules:

• Courses
  • TC4 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • SC6 Computational Problems in Fog Computing: Optimization Techniques
  • SC7 Introduction to Deep Learning
  • Seminar Visual Science Communication
• Presentations
  • FORA TS3 Overview (Prof. Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark)
  • FORA TS3 Integration and Evaluation (Prof. Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark)
  • Business Model Canvas (IDELAB, Västerås, MDH)
  • Introduction to Deep Learning and its application (Dr. Sima Sinaei, MDH)
  • Computational Problems in Fog Computing (Prof. Stefan Schulte, TU Wien)
  • Introduction to optimization problems (Prof. Stefan Schulte, TU Wien)
  • Metaheuristics: Simulated Annealing (Prof. Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark)
  • Constraint Programming (Dr. Bahram Zarrin, Technical University of Denmark)
  • Evaluating metaheuristics (Prof. Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark)