The SQAMIA 2023 Workshop will be the 10th workshop in the series of workshops on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications. It is taking place in Bratislava, Slovakia from 10th to 13th September 2023.
With deep sadness we inform you that our dear colleague prof. Zoran Budimac passed away at the end of August. He was initiator and together with other several colleagues he was a founder of SQAMIA workshop series. Unfortunately, he would not be with us at this anniversary 10th edition of SQAMIA.
He had not so serious surgery intervention in the mid of June. However, after several weeks, partially as a consequence of bad post-operational physicians’ procedures, serious form of sepsis appeared and almost two months after that unfortunately he passed away.
We will try to continue with SQAMIA WSs in the future dedicated to the memory of Prof. Zoran Budimac.
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IN MEMORY – 1960 - 2023
Zoran Budimac was born in 1960 in Serbia. The academic rank title of full professor had got from University of Novi Sad in 2004. He worked at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
During his long academic career, he had significant and essential impact and influence on study programs, innovations and scientific work for informatics part of Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences.
He has published more than 300 research papers in areas of Agent technologies, Software engineering, Learning technologies, 16 books, one international monograph and presented his work on more than 180 international conferences. Also, he was principal investigator of numerous big national and international projects.
During his career he was member of different important Faculty and University bodies. For a long period, he served as the Head of several Computer Laboratories and the Head of Chair of computer science, a member of University council for Informatics and member of Management committee of an international journal. In the last ten years his scientific interests were in various aspects of software quality.
He was an adored and outstanding teacher, excellent scientists but also exceptional person with specific sense of humor.
Just one opinion among numerous similar, from his colleagues and students: Professor Budimac was a great and exceptional professor, a man with a open mind and “big heart”, with a unique sense of humor, and an intellectual “par excellence”. It was an honor for me to know him, to gain professional knowledge and life experiences from him. There was and always will be only one Budimac.
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