The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

In October 1997 we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS).

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University

The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” is briefly presented as an educational and research institution. The possible contribution of FMI to KT-DigiCULT-BG project is analyzed.

Financial Education Through Mathematics and IT Curricula: Pocket Money Management

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2013

Digitization of Old Mathematical Periodicals Published by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The digitization practice for retro-converting of the mathematical periodicals, published by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) and the followed benefits for long-term preserving and assuring open access to these materials is discussed in the article.

A Model of a Diagnostic Test for Controlling the Results of a Computer Based Education in Applied Mathematics at the University of Ruse

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015

A Didactic Model of Computer Supported Education in Higher Mathematics

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016

Education in Computer Science and the Role of the Teacher in the Environment of Open Educational Resources

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2013

The Future of the Next-Generation Internet and Possible Applications into Education and Culture Heritage

There are several initiatives such as: US Ignite, Software Defined Networking (SDN), OpenFlow, Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI), WiMAX and Internet 2 dealing with the future of the internet. The goal of the paper is to understand the goals, intricacies, and nuances of some of these techniques and show some of the possibilities of next-generation high-speed networking and their applications into education and culture heritage.

A component model of methods for evaluation of the quality in education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2013

The Application of Cloud Computing in Education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015

Improving the Quality of Education by Using a System for Development and Generation of Personalized Educational Materials

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016

Quality of Service System Approximation in IP Networks

This paper is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Bulgaria in the framework of project No 105 “Multimedia Packet Switching Networks Planning with Quality of Service and Traffic Management”.

A Semantic-Oriented Architecture of a Functional Module for Personalized and Adaptive Access to the Knowledge in a Multimedia Digital Library

This article presents the principal results of the doctoral thesis “Semantic-oriented Architecture and Models for Personalized and Adaptive Access to the Knowledge in Multimedia Digital Library” by Desislava Ivanova Paneva-Marinova (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics), successfully defended before the Specialised Academic Council for Informatics and Mathematical Modelling on 27 October, 2008.

Dense Continuity and Selections of Set-Valued Mappings

∗ The first and third author were partially supported by National Fund for Scientific Research at the Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education under grant MM-701/97.

The Doitchinov Completion of a Regular Paratopological Group

In memory of Professor D. Doitchinov ∗ This paper was written while the first author was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grants 21–30585.91 and 2000-041745.94/1 and by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Sciences under DGES grant SAB94-0120. The second author was supported under DGES grant PB95-0737. During her stay at the University of Berne the third author was supported by the first author’s grant 2000-041745.94/1 from the Swiss National Science Foundation.