Miklós BIRÓ

Résumé

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September 2021

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PERSONAL

Place and date of birth: Budapest, June 15, 1954.
Marital status: married, two children.
E-mail: mbiromt@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/miklosbiro

LANGUAGE SKILLS

- Mother tongue: Hungarian.
- English: fluent
- French: fluent

DIPLOMAS. DEGREES

2012 Full Professor (Főiskolai tanár in Hungarian, Ordentlicher Hochschulprofessor in German) appointed by the prime minister of Hungary: http://www.magyarkozlony.hu/pdf/11666#page=4.

2009 Doctor Habilitatus (Corvinus University of Budapest certificate no.: Dr. Habil.-2/2009 – in Latin).

1999 Master of Science in Management degree from Purdue University, USA.

1995 Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA). Degree jointly awarded by Krannert Graduate School of Management at PURDUE University, USA, and International Management Center at ESC ROUEN (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de ROUEN), France.

1995 Newly established Ph.D. degree (Mathematics) awarded by Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest.

1983 Doctorate in Mathematics (Operations Research), Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary.
Thesis: The Binary Knapsack Problem. New results improving the performance of algorithms. Extensive computational experiments.

1977 Diploma in Mathematics, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary.
Thesis: The Size Reduction of Large Knapsack Problems.

PUBLICATIONS

- My Citations (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BFK2jQAAAAJ&hl=en) maintained by Google Scholar.

- ORCID (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8627-1159) maintained by ORCID.

- Publons (https://publons.com/researcher/2490639/miklos-biro) maintained by the Web of Science Group.

- ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miklos_Biro2) maintained by ResearchGate.

- Selected List of Publications with List of Citations maintained and controlled at the repository of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

- Member of the organization or programme committees, chair, and marketing chair of international scientific and professional conferences.
  (e.g. EuroSPI, ADBIS, Software Quality Days SWQD, KKIO, ABZ, Euromicro SEAA, SOFSEM, CEE-SET)

- Co-editor of scientific journal special issues.
  (e.g. Springer Software Quality Journal, Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, IET Software)

- Member of the Hungarian Doctoral Council

- Member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

- Co-moderator of the “Assessor Workshop – Tools and Best Practices Used for Traceability” at the EuroAsiaSPI’2015 Conference, 2015.

- Initiator of the membership and representative of Dennis Gabor College in Informatics Europe, the association of computer science departments and research laboratories in Europe and neighbouring areas, 2011.

- Editorial Board of the International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP), since 2011.

- Editorial Board of the e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal, since 2010.

- Member of The SPICE User Group coordinating the activities related to the International Standard ISO/IEC 15504 for (Software) Process Assessment, since 2007.

- Founding member of iNTCCM - international Certification of Configuration Management association, 2006.

- Organising Committee of the joint Software Technolgy Forum of the IEEE Computer Society and the John von Neumann Computer Society chaired by László Bélády, 2006-2010.

- Coordinator of the IFIP TC-2 Manfred Paul Award, 2006-2019.

- Hungarian member of Technical Committee 2 (TC-2) Software: Theory and practice of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) , 2001-2019.

- Member of the Board of Trustees of the European Software Institute (ESI), 2001-2002.

- European Organisation for Quality, Hungarian National Chapter, 1997-2002.

- Editorial Board of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process journal published by Jonh Wiley & Sons (incorporating the former Software Manintenance and Evolution and Software Process Improvement and Practice journals), since 1996.

- Joint Healthcare Software Certification Body of the Hungarian Health Informatics Society and the John von Neumann Computer Society, since 1995-1999.

- Board member of International Software Consulting Network (ISCN), since 1995.

- Hungarian Quality Society, 1994-2010.

- Marketing Chair, Programme Committee member, Local Chair of the European System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation (EuroSPI) initiative and series of conferences, since 1993.

- International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support Systems, 1992-2010.

- EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems, since 1992.

- Hungarian Operations Research Society, founding member since 1991.

- John von Neumann Computer Society, since 1989. Founding president of the Software Quality Management Division, 1996-2019.

AWARDS

2020 Certificate for the Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 of the Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.

2018 IEEE Software Certificate of Appreciation for the contribution as Guest Editor of the January/February 2018 theme issue on "Software Safety and Security Risk Mitigation in Cyber Physical Systems" of IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2013 Outstanding Associate Editor Award of the e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal.

2011 Outstanding Service Award (OSA) of IFIP the International Federation for Information Processing.

2010 John von Neumann award for outstanding achievements in the field of computing and in the dissemination of computer science.

2001 Kalmár award of the John von Neumann Computer Society.

2001 Award of the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1998 Award of the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1996 Award of the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1991 Scientific Literature Award of the Hungarian Association for Transportation Science.

1982 Junior Award of the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2010 Certified EU Project Manager Trainer, European Certification and Qualification Association (ECQA)

2003 IST-Mentor training on in depth needs and opportunities in the IST (Information Society Technologies) programme of the European Union for R&D project consultancy, INNOVA (Italian consultancy specializing in IST), Hungarian IST National Contact Point (Ministry of Education, Research and Development Division).

2001 SPICE 2.0 (ISO/IEC 15504) official Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination Assessor Training, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, Germany.

2001 SEI Introduction to the Capability Maturity Model – Integrated, Continuous Representation, v1.02, official Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA certificate.

2001 Practical issues of the introduction of the ISO 9001:2000 standard, certificate issued by the Hungarian Chapter of the European Organization for Quality (EOQ).

2000 Introduction to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), official Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA accredited Training course delivered by the European Software Institute (ESI).

2000 Executive MBA course on Creating Successful E-Business Strategies. Krannert Graduate School of Management at PURDUE University

1999 Executive MBA courses on Management Information Systems and International Finance. Krannert Graduate School of Management at PURDUE University.

1998 Seminar on Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, Benchmarking, and Customer Loyalty. Certificate awarded by the Juran Institute.

1997 Bootstrap Release 3.0 (SPICE-ISO/IEC 15504 compliant) Training Course for Assessors. Certificate awarded by the Bootstrap Institute.

1997 Professional Training Seminar on Implementing ISO 9000 for IT Professionals. Certificate awarded by the British Frost & Sullivan firm.

1996 Internal Quality System Auditor Training Certificate given by TÜV Rheinland Hungaria VRF.

1993 Bootstrap Assessor, Certificate of the Bootstrap Institute European Economic Interest Group whose mission is the continous development of the Bootstrap software process quality assessment and improvement methodology.

1993 Course on Software Quality: Methods and Systems (ISO 9000). Certificate awarded by the British Kaposi Associates Partnership.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2016-2017 Johannes Kepler University
- Senior Researcher

2012-present Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH)
- Key Researcher (2012-2017)
- Scientific Head of the Process and Quality Engineering Research Focus (2013-2015)
- Honorary Member (2018-)

2010-2011 Dennis Gabor College, the pioneering European private higher-education and vocational training institution in the field of informatics.
- Associate Professor.
- Project Director.

2002-2010 Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration renamed to
Corvinus University of Budapest in 2004.
- Associate Professor (2002-) with habilitation (2009-).
- Dissertation Supervisor of the Doctoral School in Business Informatics.
- Responsible for the design and delivery of the mandatory Software Engineering course of the Doctoral School in Business Informatics.
- Responsible for the design and delivery of Software Engineering courses in the B.Sc. Programme in Business Informatics.
- Leading thesis development seminars.
- Initiating and managing the Hungarian participation in European projects (see under Project and Management Experience)
including the Fortius Leonardo da Vinci project which was awarded the Quality Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Social Politics and Sports in 2008.

1997-1998 Technical University of Budapest
- Participation in the design and delivery of a Ph.D. course on Software Engineering and Multimedia.

1996-present Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
- Founding member of the Doctoral School in Informatics.
- Participation in the design and delivery of a Ph.D. course on Software Quality and Testing.
- Design and delivery of a Ph.D. course on Software Quality Management.

1995 Technical University of Budapest
- Design and delivery of a lecture on Operations Research Models for Banking Decision Support in the framework of the postgraduate program in Bank Informatics.

1993-1998 Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
- Design and delivery of a course on Software Quality Management.

1991-2017 IT Information Technology Consulting Ltd.
- Managing director.

1987-2001 Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
- Head of the Hungarian Software Engineering Institute (HUSEI) (2000-2001).
- Head of the Information Society Liaison Office for the EU 5th Framework Programme in Hungary (1999-2001)
- Head of Quality Management. (1997-2001)
- Research associate and project manager.

1987-1994 Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
- Part-time teaching at the Department of Operations Research. Design and delivery of courses in Integer Programming and Operations Research Models.

1986-1987 St.John's University, New York
- Assistant Professor. Designed and delivered courses in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Operations Research.

1985-1986 Baruch College, The City University of New York
- Substitute Assistant Professor. Taught courses in Mathematics, and Computer Science.

1983-1985 Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
- Lecturer in Mathematics, and Teaching Assistant in Computer Science.

1977-1983 Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
- Research associate.

1977-1983 Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
- Part-time teaching. Taught Operations Research.

PROJECT AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

2012-2017 Participation in and initiation of projects at Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) subsidized in the frame of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies by BMVIT, BMWFJ, State of Upper Austria and its scientific partners.

2012-2013 Participation in projects at Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) supported by the European Fund for Regional Development as well as the State of Upper Austria.

2011-2012 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the ECQA Certified Social Media Networker (SIMS) Transfer of innovation (TOI) project carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2010-2012 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the SOCIRES Social Responsibilities Training and Certification Schema project no. 510098-2010-LLP-SI-LEONARDO-LMP carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2008-2010 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the EU Cert (European Innovation and Training Campus) project no. 135691-LLP-1-2007-1-AT-KA3-KA3MP carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2008-2011 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the ELM (E-Learning Manager) project no. LLP/LdV/TOI/2008/IRL-507 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2008-2010 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the Touareg (TOUrism PlAtform for euRopean Educational Games) project no. ES/07/LLP-LdV/TOI/149018 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2006-2008 Initiation of the Hungarian participation in the Mlearning (The role of mobile learning in European education) project no. 227828-CP-1-2006-1-IE-MINERVA-MPP carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Minerva action of the Socrates programme.

2006-2008 Initiation of the Hungarian participation in the IMPACT (The impact of new technologies on distance learning students) project no. IE/06/C/F/RF-81300 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2006-2007 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the PLATO (ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme) project carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the eLearning programme.

2005-2007 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the EQN (European Quality Network) project no. A/05/B/F/NT-158.234  carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2005-2007 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the Incorporating mobile learning into mainstream education and training project no. IRL/05/B/FPP-153.100 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2004-2007 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the Fortius (Reforzando  la capacitación de estudiantes y titulados de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas en  un espacio europeo de aprendizaje permanente) project no. E/04/B/F/PP-149.157 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme which was awarded the Quality Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Social Politics and Sports on 11th December 2008.

2004 Introduction of the Technology Transfer Center of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, as well as presentation of 10 years of Software Process Improvement research and initiatives in Hungary at the first meeting of the German-Hungarian initiative for cooperation in IT education (and research) organized at the National Office of Research and Technology.

2003-2007 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the GUIDE (Government User IDentity for Europe - Creating a European standard for interoperable and secure Identity Management Architecture for eGovernment) Integrated Project no. 507498 under the IST Programme of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union co-ordinated by British Telecommunications plc (BT).

2003-2007 Co-ordination of the Certified EU Project Manager project no. HU/B/03/F/PP-170028 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2003-2006 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the mLearning (Mobile Learning: The Next Generation Of Learning) project no. IRL/03/B/F/PP-153111 carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2003-2006 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the Virtual Classrooms in Educational Provision project no. 110208-CP-1-2003-1-IE-MINERVA-M carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Minerva action of the Socrates programme.

2003-2006 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the epi (Educational Partnerships through ICT) project no. 110680-CP-1-2003-1-IE-MINERVA-M carried out with the financial support of the European Commission under the Minerva action of the Socrates programme.

2003 Organized and delivered in Hungary the training course on “Mind the Gap - How to transition from CMM to CMMI” jointly with representatives of ISCN and Satyam.

2003 Participation in the design and delivery of a training course on Project Management for the Hungarian State Tax Authority.

2003 Study for the Communications Authority of Hungary about the impact of software product and process certification on the control of information security, and suggestions to the development of a national system.

2002 Development of a software reliability certification methodology for the Communications Authority of Hungary.

2002 Participation in the project developing an Audit methodology of the billing systems of telecommunication service providers for SGS Hungaria Ltd.

2002 Assessment of software products and processes, training course for the Communications Authority of Hungary.

2001-2004 Participation in project no. NKFP 2/021/2001 on Demand driven tools and systems of the information society carried out under the Hungarian National Research and Development Programme.

2001-2002 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the WG-ECUA (the European COTS ~Commercial Off-The-Shelf components User Working Group) network project no. IST-2000-26436 created under the IST Programme of the 5th Framework Programmeof the European Union co-ordinated by the European Software Institute (ESI).

2001 Initiation of the Hungarian participation in the CBSENet Component-Based Software Engineering Network of Excellence project of the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme of the European Commission.

2001 Initiation of the Best Practice in E-Commerce and Job Role Qualifications project no. HU/01/B/F/PP-136012 to be co-ordinated by MTA SZTAKI with the financial support of the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

2001 Initiation of the Hungarian participation in the TeamWork technology take-up project of the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme of the European Commission.

2001 Initiation of and contribution to a software test specification project performed by MTA SZTAKI for NOKIA Hungary.

2001 ISO 9000:2000 training course for Ericsson in Hungary.

2000-2001 Head of the Hungarian Software Engineering Institute (HUSEI) operating under the auspices of MTA SZTAKI with the mission of creating and maintaining an adaptive environment for the effective transfer of knowledge and skills to improve the software engineering capabilities of industry and academia in Hungary. Organized the first “Introduction to CMM” course in Hungary in the year 2000 and jointly delivered the first “CMMI Briefing” course in Hungary in 2001.

2000-2001 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the VICTORY process improvement vocational training project under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission.

2000-2001 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the IDEALIST-5FP information dissemination and European awareness launch project for the IST Programme of the European Commission.

1999-2001 Initiation and management of project no.ALK-00718/99 (KÖRTER~Környezetérzékeny területhasznosítási rendszer) supported by OMFB (Hungarian National Committee for Technological Development) whose objective is the development of an environmentally sensitive system for land exploitation.

1999-2001 Initiation and management of the activities of the Information Society Technologies Liaison Office for the European Union's 5th Framework Programme in Hungary.

1998-present Initiation and management of the Hungarian membership in the EuroScope network of European organizations providing software product quality evaluation service.

1998-2000 Initiation and management of the Central and Eastern European participation in the RiskDRIVER Risk Management for Software Process Improvement Leveraging Action no.27890 of the ESPRIT programme of the European Commission.

1997-1998 Management of the consulting project leading to the development of the ISO 9001 compliant quality system of the informatics department of a the Hungarian Development Bank Ltd.

1998-2000 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the IDEALIST-East information dissemination project of the European Commission.

1997-1999 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the ESSI/SCOPE software product quality related project of the European Commission.

1997-1998 Initiation and management of the consulting activities of the first Central and Eastern European ESSI (European Systems and Software Initiative) PIE (Process Improvement Experiment) PASS (Pay Roll Accounting and Settlement System) directly supported by the European Commission.

1997-1998 Management of consulting activities for deploying quality assurance for the KATOR database development project performed for Hungarian central administration by EDS Hungary.

1996-1999 Initiation and management of the Hungarian participation in the European Commission supported INCO COPERNICUS/INSPIRE (Initiative for Software Process Improvement Regions Exterieures) project.

1996-1998 Initiation and management of the participation of MTA SZTAKI in the European LEONARDO/PICO (Process Improvement Combined apprOach) vocational training project.

1996-1997 Initiation and management of a project whose objective is the licensing and use of the MicroSCOPE software product quality evaluation methodology developed by the Danish DELTA firm on the basis of the results of the ESPRIT/SCOPE project.

1996-1997 Initiation and management of a project supported by OMFB (Hungarian National Committee for Technological Development) whose objective is the development of a methodology for dynamic landscape assessment.

1996-1997 Initiation of the participation of MTA SZTAKI in the Web4Groups project running in the framework of the European Commission's Telematics Applications Programme.

1996-1997 Management of an information technology consulting project for the Hungarian Paks Nuclear Power Plant.

1996-1997 Initiation and management of the development and TÜV CERT certification of the ISO 9001 compliant quality system of the Informatics and Systems and Control Divisions of MTA SZTAKI. Head of Quality Management.

1995-1997 Participation in the development and marketing of the Hungarian Pro Patiente Health and Medicine World-Wide Web home page.

1995-2019 Foundation and management of the professional Division for Software Quality Management of the John von Neumann Computer Society.

1995-present Initiation and management of the corporate membership of MTA SZTAKI in the European Software Institute (ESI).

1995-2000 Initiation and management of the participation of MTA SZTAKI in the ESSI/VASIE (Value Added Software Information for Europe) project.

1993-1996 Management of relationships between MTA SZTAKI and the Hungarian Health Insurance Administration.

1994-1995 Management of a pilot project for the introduction of electronic data interchange (EDI) applications in Hungary.

1993-present Initiation and management of activities related to the Bootstrap Institute European Economic Interest Group membership of MTA SZTAKI and to the Bootstrap software process maturity assessment methodology which is applied to Hungarian software producing units with the objective of improving their quality systems.

1993-1997 Preparation and management of the National Point of Contact activities of MTA SZTAKI for the European Space Agency Information Retrieval Service (ESA IRS).

1991-1993 Leading a team of 6-10 persons developing a distributed object management environment and its application for distributed negotiation support. (Microsoft Windows, HP LAN Manager, HP ARPA Services, HP AdvanceLink for Windows, Microsoft Excel, TCP/IP, Hewlett Packard's NewWave)

1991-1992 Participation in the EUREKA Project 334 (EuroCASE) in cooperation with the Institute for Information Systems of Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria. (ORACLE, Microsoft Excel, Pioneer Software's Q+E)

1988-1991 Leading a team of 3-5 persons developing new generation tools for the identification of decision problems and their solution methods. The first version and the fundamental concepts and tools of the WINGDSS Group Decision Support System were developed by this team, followed by further versions with new ideas and applications. (C, Microsoft Windows)

1988 Design and coding on an IBM personal computer of the MIRES module for the allocation of resources to activities in a project management system. (Turbo Pascal)

1988 Design and coding on an IBM PC of the MILPMENU user-view based model management system. (Turbo Pascal)

1987 Participation in the coding of a Management Information System for the Ikarus Vehicle Manufacturing Company. (DBASE III Plus)

1977-1982 Participation in the design and development of a production planning system for the Danubian Steel Works. (PL/I)

1977-1982 Participation in the object-oriented design and coding of an Integer Programming System. (VM/CMS, SIMULA-67)

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

- British Standards Institution (BSI)
Course for professional quality managers in Ankara (Turkey) introducing software process improvement and the SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) standard.

- National Accreditation Body (Hungary) (Nemzeti Akkreditáló Testület)
Expert evaluator.

- European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture

Evaluator of Erasmus Multilateral Project proposals.

- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) established by Royal Charter, funded through the UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Invited End of Award rapporteur.

- Panem Publishing House

Reviewer of the book Quality Management in Software Development (Minôségmenedzsment a szoftverfejlesztésben) by Balla, Katalin.

- Agency for Research Fund Management and Research Exploitation (KPI) of the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology

Evaluator of project proposals under the Ányos Jedlik Programme.

- European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture

Evaluator of project proposals in the Erasmus Mundus higher education co-operation and mobility programme.

- Ministry of Informatics and Communication of Hungary
Invited member of the evaluation committee of proposals for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems introduction into SME’s (Small and medium enterprises).

- National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology & Innovation in Ireland (Forfás)
Invited peer reviewer of Irish national and international ICT research and development proposals.

- European Commission Information Society Directorate-General
Evaluator of project proposals in the Component-based software engineering action line of the European Union’s Information Society Technologies Programme.

- IEEE Computer Society
Book reviewer.

- Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Company (ITD Hungary)
Invited member of the preparation and evaluation committee of the tender for the introductory study and strategy development of the Group Marketing Programme of Competitive Hungarian Information Technology Products and Services.

- Research and Development Division of the Hungarian Ministry of Education
Invited expert contributing to the assessment of the state of Hungarian software industry.

- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Invited expert in decision support for international meetings on environmental impact assessment, small and medium enterprise management, information systems development, and computerized tools for industrial planning.

- Hungarian National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB)
Invited expert for the appraisal of project achievements in the fields of expert systems, production control systems, decision support systems, information and communication technologies.

- Hungarian Airlines (MALÉV)
Studies and proposals for computerized flight schedule construction and aircraft maintenance scheduling support systems.

- European Systems and Software Initiative (ESSI)
Project final report reviewer.

- Etnoteam, European Observatory on Software Engineering
Invited speaker at the CQS '95 keynote session. IT Market and Software Industry in Hungary.

- International Software Consulting Network (ISCN)
Senior Consultant Membership awarded.

- Brasilian National Industrial Training Service (SENAI)
Consultant in Software Quality Management, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet Applications, and Groupware.