Biography

Born 1947. B.Sc. 1970. M.Sc. 1973. Ph.D. 1975. Full Professor since 1986. Director of the Institute of Mathematics 1979-1980.

He is a full member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Vojvodina, and its president from 2008, and a corresponding member of European Academy of Sciences (EAS, Brussels). He is a member from the outside of the Public Organ of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, since 2000. He is honorary professor of Obuda University since 2005. He obtained in 2003 the October prize of the city Novi Sad for his scientific work (slika1, slika 2). He is a member of Accreditation Commission for High Education of Serbia since 2006, he was  president of  Council for Natural Sciences and member of the Senat of the University Novi Sad from 2007 thill 2010.

He has taught courses in Partial Differential Equations, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Decision Theory, Fuzzy Systems, Optimization Methods, Ordinary Differential Equations, Measure Theory. He was in 1986 and 1988 a Visiting Researcher at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 at the University Johannes Kepler in Linz, Austria, where he was a Visiting Professor in 1997, 2003, 2006 (giving PhD courses); in 1994 at the University in Potenza;  in 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001 (giving Ph.D. courses) at the University Federico II in Naples, Italy; Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in  1999; University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, in 1999, 2003,University Pantheon-Sorbonne,Paris,France in 2008 (Ph.D. courses).

Research

His mathematical interests are in measure theory (non-additive measures), aggregation operators, decision making, fuzzy systems, functional analysis, theory of generalized functions, partial differential equations. He is the author of 350 scientific papers, 9 monographs and 15 textbooks. He has more than 2000 citations. He was the Editor of proceedings of many international conferences, and he is the main organizer of the traditional international conferences on computational intelligence SISY (slika 3)since 2003. He is a collaborator for the Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (Springer). He has supervised 10 M.A., 9 Ph.D. theses and has given 40 invited lectures and organized several scientific seminars. Currently he is the Chairman of Nonadditive Set Functions Group, editor in the journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and member of the Editorial Board of the journals Novi Sad J. of Mathematics, Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Archive of Oncology, The Journal of Nonlinear Science and Applications (TJNSA), Panoeconomicus, Applied Conputational Intelligence and Soft Computing , and YUJOR, a reviewer for Zentralblatt für Math. and Math. Reviews, a referee for 30 international and 4 Serbian journals, a member of OMG, AMS, EUSFLAT.

Curriculum Vitae

Oktobarska nagrada Novog Sada za 2003 (slika1, slika 2)

Books

Analiza 1 za informatičare, E. Pap, Đ. Takači, A. Takači

Analiza 2, E. Pap, I. Štajner-Papuga

Updated on January 9, 2012.