A paper by two University of Malta researchers has been awarded the prestigious Best Poster Paper at the IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2007 – The International Conference on Computer as a tool.

The research paper entitled An Evaluation of Neural Network Architecture Performance in Wireless Geo-Location was authored by Ing. Julian K. Buhagiar and Dr Ing. Carl James Debono. The conference was held between 9 and 12 September in Warsaw, Poland.

Over 400 papers were presented during the technical sessions by participants from 50 countries. The paper was motivated by the requirements of wireless geo-location applications which need robust algorithms that are capable of locating and/or tracking wireless users requesting the service. Specifically it deals with a comparative study between standard neural network architectures in order to determine the best performer in wireless user location estimation applications. The conclusion reached is that self-organising architectures perform better than their supervised counterparts.

Ing. Julian K, Buhagiar is currently reading a Ph.D. degree at the University of Malta. He currently works with a London-based firm as a consultant for wireless network vendors, operators and the telecoms industry in general.

Dr Ing. Carl James Debono is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Comm-

unications and Computer Engineering at the University of Malta.