Prof. dr. Marjan Mernik has an interview at the TV show TELE M and radio Maribor about the “Donald Michie - Alan Turing” Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Information Society. You can view both shows at https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/tele-m/174647852 and https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/obrazi-sosednje-ulice/174645775.

The research article "Program comprehension of domain-specific and general-purpose languages: comparison using a family of experiments" (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-011-9172-x) is still a reference article on control experiments about the use of DSL.

We finished the year 2018 with bowling at the Bowling Center Strike on December 19, 2018.

From 23 November 2018 to 30 November 2018, we carried out a visit on bilateral project BI-CN/18-20-007: "Study on Key Intelligent Control Technology and Method of Robot Assistant System for Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation", which is collaborated with the group of prof. Zhenli Lu from Changshu Institute of Technology.

The project aims to develop robotic rehabilitation training for children with cerebral palsy and elderly after stroke. Related technologies such as Domain-Specific Modeling Languages ​​(DSML), Evolutionary Computation (EC), and Mirror Neural System Mechanism (MNSM) can improve the robotic system for rehabilitation after cerebral paralysis. We also carried out visits to three rehabilitation centers at Jiangsu Province and conducted the following lectures:

Marjan Mernik, Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments,
Tomaž Kosar, Program Comprehension of Domain-Specific and General-Purpose Languages: Replication of Experiments,
Matej Črepinšek, Introduction to Evolutionary Computation with Evolutionary Algorithms Rating System framework,
Miha Ravber: Tuning Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms for the Integration and Testing Order Problem.

On the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list are only three researchers from Slovenia, all from University of Maribor. Besides prof. dr. Marjan Mernik the highly cited researchers are also prof. dr. Željko Knez and prof. dr. Mojca Škerget, both from Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. To learn more about 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list visit https://clarivate.com/hcr/ or check this video
https://youtu.be/K_rH0ksQ57M to take an inside look at the data and analysis behind Highly Cited Researchers and hear from the Highly Cited Researchers themselves on what it means to be highly cited and the impact it can have on them and their institution.

Take a look at the short TV show "AROUND SLOVENIA" http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/po-sloveniji/174508455, where the work of three highly-cited researchers for 2017 is presented: prof. dr. Marjan Mernik, Institute of computer science, UM FERI, prof. dr. Željko Knez and prof. dr. Mojca Škerget, Laboratory of separation processes and product design, UM FKKT.