home	AMANOVA – Advanced Materials, Intelligent Systems and Sensors, is a small spin-off company established by collaborators of Laboratory for Synergetics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Laboratory for Mineral Binders and Mortars - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Institute of Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry – Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria. A common goal of AMANOVA activity is a development of an information processing system capable of automatic measurement, modeling, prediction and control of complex processes or material properties that cannot be well described by analytical approach. Particular research activities are devoted to development of statistical methods for adaptive modeling and forecasting of time series and fields generated by nonlinear and chaotic dynamic phenomena. Applications are oriented to characterization of industrial and transport processes, development and examination of advanced materials used in road networks, optimal control of manufacturing and transport processes, etc. The research is supported by development of sensors and intelligent instrumentation for acquisition of data in testing, production and exploitation of advanced materials. Special attention is paid to the development of artificial neural networks (ANN) and self-organized adaptive methods by which signals from multiple sensor arrays can be mapped to process characteristics, or vice versa. In relation to optimization of ANN performance a new algorithm of self-organized learning has been developed based upon the principle of maximum preservation of information. ANNs have already been successfully applied for characterization of unstable and non-linear phenomena in degrading materials, exploration and prediction of chaotic dynamic properties of manufacturing processes, modeling of seismic capacity of structures in civil engineering, forecasting of stochastic time series in economy and medicine, etc. Members of AMANOVA have developed collaboration with many foreign universities and institutions. In EU COST they have participated to the actions on “Technology driven physics”, “Physics of risk” and “Winter Service Strategies for Increased European Road Safety”.
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