This year there were 21 papers submitted by the closing date of December 1 2017.
The papers were seen by four jury members-
- Prof Anastas Mishev from Macedonia,
- Prof Christos Schizas from Cyprus
- Prof Mustapha Benjallali from Morocco
- Prof Paul Micallef from Malta who is also the SPC Coordinator
The jury members are rotated over a period of time depending on where Melecon and Eurocon are held.
The participants where from the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Malta, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Turkey.
The five finalists who will be presenting their paper at Melecon 2018 in Marrakech are.
Ahmed Abdelraouf Mohamed, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport Cairo, Egypt, with the paper , “A Multi-Objective Distributed Generation Allocation and Sizing using Swarm Intelligence Based Algorithms”
Benjamin Chiêm, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, with the paper, “Supervised classification of structural brain networks reveals gender differences”
Marko Mihajlovic and co-author Nikola Popovic, University of Niš, Serbia, with the paper, “Fooling a neural network with common adversarial noise”
Nima Taghipour Bazargani, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, with the paper, “A Novel Approach for Probabilistic Hurricane Resiliency Assessment of an Active Distribution System Using Point Estimate Method”
Yazan Qiblawey with co-authors Ruslan Abu Sneineh, Majd Ahmed Abduljabbar and Yousef Jamal Orabi, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, with the paper, “Design and Implementation of Autonomous Surface Vehicle”
List of student branches that submitted a paper to SPC2018
Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
KU Leuven, Belgium
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
University of Thessaly, Greece
Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan
University of Malta, Malta
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, Russia
University of Niš, Serbia
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
University of Maribor, Slovenia
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey