Mladen Varga
Current position: |
Professor |
Department: |
Informatics |
Faculty: |
Graduate School of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb |
Contact address: |
Trg. J. F. Kennedy 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia |
Phone: |
+385–1-238-3279 |
Email: |
mladen.varga@efzg.hr |
WWW: |
EDUCATION
1987 |
PhD, Computer Science, University of Zagreb |
1976 |
MS, Computer Science, University of Zagreb |
1971 |
BS, Electronics, University of Zagreb |
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1991 - |
Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
1989 – 1991 |
Institute for Informatics, Zagreb, Croatia |
1971 – 1989 |
University Computing Centre, Zagreb, Croatia |
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / SERVICE / OTHER ACTIVITIES
Editorial boards:
1995 - |
Journal of Organization and Information Systems, Faculty of Organization and Management, Varaždin, Croatia |
1992 – 1993 |
Journal for Computing and Information Technology (Croatian chapter) |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Information Technology in Business at undergraduate level,
Databases at undergraduate level,
Data Warehouses at undergraduate level,
Information Systems Development Methods at undergraduate level
Data Management at graduate level,
Software Engineering at graduate level
LECTURING AND RESEARCH VISIT
Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Lectures on Semistructured Data
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Primary field:
databases, data warehouses, data modelling, data management, information retrieval
Secondary field:
information systems development, software engineering
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Books
Čerić, V., Varga, M. (eds.) Information Technology in Business, Zagreb, Element, 2004. - published in Croatian
Čerić, V., Varga, M., Birolla H. (eds.) Business Computing, Zagreb, Znak, 1998 - published in Croatian
Varga, M. Data Bases; Conceptual, Logical and Phisical Data, Zagreb, DRIP, 1994 - published in Croatian
Strahonja, V., Pavlić, M., Varga, M. Information Systems Development, Zajednica informatičke djelatnosti Hrvatske and Ina-Info, 1992 - published in Croatian
Refereed Journal Articles and Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings (in English)
Varga, M., Stiffler, C., Lužar-Stiffler, V. “Evaluating IT Knowledge Requirements for Business Professionals”, Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2004, 407-412, Cavtat, Croatia, June 7-10, 2004
Varga, M. “Motivation Issues in the Framework for Information Systems Architecture”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, 255-261, Varaždin, 2003
Varga, M. “Zachmann Framework in Teaching Information Systems”, Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2003, 161-166, Cavtat, Croatia, June 16-19, 2003. (https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/112466.ITI2003.pdf, Hrv. znanstv. bibl. https://bib.irb.hr rad br. 112466) (zn. projekt 067016)
Varga, M. “A Procedure of Conversion of Relational into Multidimensional Database Schema”, Journal for Computing and Information Technology (CIT), Vol. 10, No. 2, 69-84, June 2002
Varga, M. “Conceptual Modelling Styles” Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2002, 69-76, Cavtat, Croatia, June 24-27, 2002.
Varga, M. “Conceptual Modelling Styles”, Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2002, 69-76, Cavtat, Croatia, June 24-27, 2002 (https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/102115.091.pdf, Hrv. znanstv. bibl. https://bib.irb.hr rad br. 102115)
Varga, M. “A Procedure of Conversion of Relational into Multidimensional Database Schema”, Journal for Computing and Information Technology (CIT), Vol. 10, No. 2, 69-84, June 2002 (https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/100678.CIT2002-C259.pdf, Hrv. znanstv. bibl. https://bib.irb.hr rad br. 100678)
Varga, M. “On the Differences of Relational and Dimensional Data Model”, Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, 245-251, Varaždin, 2001
Varga, M. “On the Differences of Relational and Dimensional Data Model”, Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, 245-251, Varaždin, 2001 (https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/102195.t09r02.pdf, Hrv. znanstv. bibl. https://bib.irb.hr rad br. 102195) (zn. projekt 067003)
Varga, M. “Conversion of Relational into Multidimensional Database Schema”, Proc. of the 21th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, Pula, 331-338, 1999 (zn. projekt 067003)
Osmanagić Bedenik, N., Varga, M. “Integration of Data Warehousing into Controlling”, Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 353-358, Pula, 1998. (zn. projekt 067003)
Varga, M. “Role of Conceptual Model”, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 71-76, Pula, 1994
Varga, M. “Finding optimal cover for a set of functional dependencies”, Proc. of The 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Computerized Retrieval, 16 pages, Beijing, 1987