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Projects: International
Projects in which I have the role of scientific, technical or project management are marked by "**". **POSCON (Positive Online Content and Services for Children in Europe)
Objective:With
more and more children being online at a young age, concepts and ways
to accompany and support them in their first and further steps on the
internet are needed more than ever. One important keyword here is
positive content and services – websites, online content, online
environments and increasingly also apps where children can easily and
safely enjoy the internet and mobile devices. This issue has been
addressed on several levels before – on national level with initiatives
bringing forward the production and promotion of positive content, and
on European level e.g. with the EC focus group on positive content, the
European Award for Positive Online Content, and a session at the Safer
Internet Forum dedicated to the topic.
The fact that, during
research for this network and before in preparations for Safer Internet
Forum, it became obvious that whitelists, browsers for children and in
some cases even good websites dedicated to children’s needs are hardly
to be found shows that this is a necessary topic to be addressed – by
institutions who have experience in producing positive content and
services, by researchers who deal with children’s wishes and needs, by
parents who want to know where they can send their children online, and
by other stakeholder active in the area of positive content.
The aims of the projected thematic network POSCON are to:
a)
Exchange good practices, issues and challenges in provision of content
to young children, including the business model and make
recommendations to enhance production and dissemination of positive
content across Europe (including localisation). This activity will
include a discussion forum gathering producers and providers in a
dialogue on online content for children.
b) Discuss feasibility and
requirements of a safe browser for kids / collation of white lists
including suggestions on moderation and rating of websites for
children. Requirements should take into account accessibility needs of
disabled children.
c) Make proposals for the roll over of a European wide competition.
d) Provide a report with overview on the market for positive content for children in Europe.
Participants:Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland-Pfalz,(coordinator) (Germany), and several other partners.
Start: November 2012, End:December 2014
REVEAL (REVEALing hidden concepts in Social Media)
Objective:
The world of media and communication is currently experiencing enormous
disruptions: from one-way communication and word of mouth exchanges, we
have moved to bi- or multi directional communication patterns. No
longer can selected few (e.g. media organizations and controllers of
communication channels) act as gatekeepers, deciding what is
communicated to whom and what not. Individuals now have the opportunity
to access information directly from primary sources, through a channel
we label e'-word of mouth', or what we commonly call 'Social Media'.
A
key problem: it takes a lot of effort to distinguish useful information
from the 'noise' (e.g. useless or misleading information). Finding
relevant information is often tedious. This challenge has become the
focus of various research efforts. Many concentrate on the automatic
discovery of information by adapting semantic search and retrieval
technologies to the particularities of Social Media content. REVEAL,
however, aims to discover higher level concepts hidden within
information. In Social Media we do not only have bare content; we also
have interconnected sources. We have to deal with interactions between
them, and we have many indicators about the context within which
content is used, and interactions taking place. A core challenge is to
decipher interactions of individuals in permanently changing
constellations, and do so in real time.This is what we aim for!
We
will reveal much more than bare content. Further to discovering what is
being said, we will determine how trustworthy that information is. We
will predict contributor impact and how much or to what extent all this
affects reputation or influence. This allows us to automatically judge
the quality and accuracy of content, and bring us to predicting future
trends with greater accuracy. We label all this Social Media
modalities. The core of our work is to reveal hidden modalities for the
benefit of a better understanding and utilization of the Social Media
world.
Participants: Intrasoft International (Luxembourg),
Alcatel-Lucent (France), Software AG (Germany), ATC (Greece),
University of Koblenz (Germany), CERTH (Greece), iT
Innovation Centre (UK), NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece), SINTEF (Norway),
Deutsche Welle (Germany), Interdisciplinary Centre for Law&ICT
(Belgium).
Start:November 2013, End: October 2016
PREPARE
(Innovative integrative tools and platforms to be prepared for
radiological emergencies and post-accident response in Europe)
Objective:This
project aims to close gaps that have been identified in nuclear and
radiological preparedness following the first evaluation of the
Fukushima disaster. It addresses the call Fission-2010-3.3.1: Update of
emergency management and rehabilitation strategies and expertise in
Europe.
The consortium intends to review existing operational
procedures in dealing with long lasting releases, address the cross
border problematic in monitoring and safety of goods and will further
develop still missing functionalities in decision support system
ranging from improved source term estimation and dispersion modelling
to the inclusion of hydrological pathways for European water bodies.
As
the management of the Fukushima event in Europe was far from being
optimal, we propose to develop means on a scientific and operational
basis to improve information collection, information exchange and the
evaluation for such types of accidents. This will be achieved through a
collaboration of industry, research and governmental organisations in
Europe taking into account the networking activities carried out under
the NERIS-TP project.
The project will be implemented by the
Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) in cooperation
with the Environmental Research Laboratory (EREL) and the Research
Reactor Laboratory (RRL) from the Institute of Nuclear Technology and
Radiation Protection (INTRP)
Participants:Karlsruher Institut fuer
Technologie (coordinator) (Germany), NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece), and
several other partners.
Start: February 2013, End: January 2016
**C2LEARN (Creative Emotional Reasoning Computational Tools Fostering Co-Creativity in Learning Processes)
Objective:The
C2Learn project aims to introduce an innovative digital gaming and
social networking environment incorporating diverse tools, the use of
which can foster co-creativity in learning processes in the context of
both formal and informal educational settings.
In developing this
project, we are innovating methodologically by introducing two new
non-linear thinking processes, as fundamental heuristic devices in
assisting the user to generate new types of candidate solutions. These
innovations are based on most recent results of cognitive science
research, which have marked a breakthrough in our understanding of the
roots of reasoning and its relation to emotion and representation:
Diagrammatic Reasoning and Emotional Reasoning. We shall also implement
these non-linear thinking methodologies in game environments,
especially for school age users, in order to enhance the motivational
component and to enrich the manner and opportunities of engagement with
these activities. In so doing, we shall be guided by an acclaimed
educational theory on how to use digital gaming and social networking
technology to promote creative thinking in children and the young.
The
C2Learn environment will be an open-world “sandbox’’ (non-linear)
virtual space enabling learners to freely explore ideas, concepts, and
the ‘shared’ knowledge available on the semantic web and the virtual
communities in which they participate. In this open-world sandbox,
creativity is contextually defined as open-ended, and has no pre-sets
or barriers. So too will be the virtual game environment housing
nonrestrictive opportunities for learners to engage in creative
problem-finding and creative problem solving. These new computational
tools – rather than setting a series of preset problems and challenges
based on players’ previous actions in the virtual game environment –
will afford and generate potential playful experiences surrounding
creative problem solving and non-linear thinking tasks.NCSR-D will be
the Technical Manager of the project, and will also lead the core
technical WP3 “C2Learn Computational Tools”.
Participants: :
Ellinogermaniki Agogi (coordinator) (Greece), The University of
Edinburgh (UK), The Open University (UK), NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece),
Universita ta Malta (Malta), Serious Games Interactive (Denmark),
Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (Germany)
Start: November 2012, End: October 2015
**SEMAGROW (Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures)
Objective:
As the trend to open up data and provide them freely on the Internet
intensifies, the opportunities to create added value by combining and
cross-indexing heterogeneous data at a large scale increase. To seize
these opportunities we need infrastructure that is not only efficient,
real-time responsive and scalable but is also flexible and robust
enough to welcome data in any schema and form and to transparently
relegate and translate queries from a unifying end-point to the
multitude of data services that make up the open data cloud.
Transparent
relegation and translation relies on detailed and accurate data
summaries and other data source annotations, and with increased data
volumes and heterogeneity managing these annotations, it becomes by
itself a challenging data problem. SemaGrow will (a) develop scalable
and robust semantic storage and indexing algorithms that can take
advantage of resource naming conventions and other natural groupings of
URIs to compress data source annotations about extremely large
datasets; (b) develop query decomposition, source selection, and
distributed querying methods that take advantage of such algorithms to
implement a scalable and robust infrastructure for data service
federation; and (c) rigorously test its components and overall
architecture over real, complex, interconnected datasets comprising
data and document collections, sensor data, and GIS data.
SemaGrow
will be rigorously tested on the large-scale and complex agricultural
data service ecosystem, comprising more than 20 currently operating
data services providing today Gigatriples of RDF data, projected to
double before SemaGrow ends and to reach Teratriples by 2020. Being
able to query across these datasets is a real and present need in order
to, for example, apply financial models to predict crop yield using a
combination of historical crop yield data, precipitation forecast
models and historical data, live data streams of precipitation sensors,
and relevant scientific documentation.
Besides satisfying its
current use cases, SemaGrow envisages to develop the scalable,
efficient, and robust data services needed to take full advantage of
the data-intensive and inter-disciplinary Science of 2020 and to
re-shape the way that data analysis techniques are applied to the
heterogeneous data cloud.
NSCR-D will serve as the Scientific &
Technical Manager and lead two core WPs that will research novel
intelligent information management algorithms/methods.
Participants:Universidad
de Alcala (coordinator), NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece), Universita degli
Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy), Semantic Web Company GmbH
(Austria), Institut za Fiziku (Serbia), Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig
Onderzoek (The Netherlands), Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (Italy), Agrow-Know Technologies (Greece)
Start: November 2012, End: October 2015
** NOMAD (Policy Formulation and Validation through non moderated crowdsourcing)
Objective: The ability to leverage the vast amount of user-generated
content for supporting governments in their political decisions
requires new ICT tools that will be able to analyze and classify the
opinions expressed on the informal Web, or stimulate responses, as well
as to put data from sources as diverse as blogs, online opinion polls
and government reports to an effective use. To this end, NOMAD aims to
introduce these different new dimensions into the experience of policy
making by providing decision-makers with fully automated solutions for
content search, selection, acquisition, categorisation and
visualisation that work in a collaborative form in the policy-making
arena. NCSR has the technical management of the project.
Participants: University of the Aegean (EL), Google (IE), Athens
Technology Centre (EL), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Critical Publics (UK),
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (DE), QWENTES (BE),
Austrian Parliamentary Administration (AT), Jubilee Scotland (UK).
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies (Seventh Framework), European Union.
Start: January 2012, End: Dec 2014. USEFIL (Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living)
Objective: The number of elderly citizens in EU as well as the total
number of seniors living alone is growing leading to increased demands
placed on society’s care and medical services. Although ICT
technologies can increase safety, independence and quality of life of
elderly people while staying at home the adoption rates of such
advancements show that these are still undesired by the majority of the
population. USEFIL project intends to cope with this gap proposing
advanced but affordable in-home unobtrusive monitoring and web
communication solutions. More specifically USEFIL intends to use low
cost "off-the-shelf" technology to develop immediate applicable
services that will assist the elderly in maintaining their independence
and their daily activities. NCSR has the project management.
Participants: NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), VTT (FI), Universität Bremen
(DE), University of Warwick (UK), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
(EL), Fraunhofer - HHI (DE), Philips Consumer Lifestyle (NL), MACCABI
Healthcare (IL).
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies (Seventh Framework), European Union.
Start: October 2011, End: September 2014. ** CPS (A Novel Human Centric System to Improve Motor/Cognitive Assessment and Enable Adaptive Rehabilitation)
Objective: This project will research new methods and tools in
motor/cognitive assessment for small children (5-8 years old) with
Cerebral Palsy (CP). It will develop a multimodal adaptive game system
called CPLAY that integrates multiple views of cyber and physical
components, and provides an assessment mechanism of rehabilitation
progression through game activity monitoring as well rehabilitation.
CPLAY’s reasoning algorithms process complex interactions among
unstructured data, software and device resources in ways that adapt to
user needs and deliver personalized healthcare in a feedback-loop
process. NCSR participates as subcontractor to the University of Texas
at Arlington, and is involved in event recognition and domain modeling.
Participants: University of Texas at Arlington (US), University of
North Texas Health Science Centre (US), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL).
Programme: NSF - USA.
Start:September 2010, End: September 2013.
SYNC3 (Synergetic Content Creation and Communication).
Objective: SYNC3 will provide an intelligent framework for making more
accessible the vast quantity of user comments on news issues. The
project will structure the part of blogsphere that refers to running
news stories, rendering it accessible, manageable and re-usable. The
immediate target of SYNC3 is the news industry and social networks, but
domains like commerce, tourism, e-science and business intelligence are
likely to benefit from the resulting technology.
Participants: Athens Technology Centre (EL), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL),
L3S Research Institute (DE), University of Edinburgh (UK), Xerox
Research Centre Europe (FR), European Journalism Centre (NL), i-sieve
technologies ltd. (EL), RIA Novosti (RU), Google (UK).
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies (Seventh Framework), European Union.
Start: April 2009, End: March 2012.
PRONTO (Event Recognition for Intelligent Resource Management).
Objective: PRONTO will offer real-time, knowledge-led support for
decision-makers in sectors characterised by large volumes of
multi-source, multi-format data. The project introduces a highly
synergetic approach to intelligent resource management by combining the
research areas of information extraction from sensor data, information
extraction from audio and text, and event recognition. This approach is
applicable to a wide range of domains, where resource management is
needed, and the PRONTO technology will be tested in two such domains:
emergency rescue operations and city transport management.
Participants: Fraunhofer IAIS (DE), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), University
of Paderborn (DE), Noldus Information Technology BV (NL), Stadt
Dortmund Fire Department (DE), WSP Finland Ltd (FI). Programme:
Information and Communication Technologies (Seventh Framework),
European Union.
Start: March 2009, End: February 2012.
CASAM (Computer-Aided Semantic Analysis of Multimedia).
Objective: The CASAM project is focusing on facilitating the synergy of
human and machine intelligence to significantly speed up the task of
human-produced semantic annotation of multimedia content. The project
is developing an annotation tool that will augment machine knowledge
with human input with the target of minimizing user effort.
Participants: Intrasoft International (LU), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL),
Hamburg University of Technology (DE), University of Birmingham (UK),
Athens Technology Centre (EL), Deutsche Welle (DE), Lusa: Agencia de
Noticias de Portugal (PT), European Journalism Centre (NL)
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies (Seventh Framework), European Union.
Start: April 2008, End: March 2011.
** INDIGO (Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robots)
The goal of INDIGO was to develop technology that facilitates the
advancement of human-robot interaction. This will be achieved both by
enabling robots to perceive natural human behaviour as well as by
making them act in ways that are familiar to humans. To achieve its
goals, INDIGO exploited and advanced various enabling technologies.
Additionally, it focused on the integration of the involved
technologies in a robotic platform. NCSR was involved in the
development of the personality module, the domain modelling and the
dialogue management.
Participants: Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (GR),
University of Edinburgh (UK), Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
(DE), Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), University of
Geneva (SZ), Neobotix / GPS (DE), Acapela Group (BE), HANSON Robotics
(US), NCSR "Demokritos" (GR)
Programme: FP6-IST Cognitive Systems
Start: February 2007, End: February 2010
** QUATRO Plus (Content Labels for User Empowerment)
Objective: Traditional quality labels and trustmarks are logos that are
visible to humans but undetectable by machines. The original 2-year
QUATRO project identified a demand for and the usefulness of
interoperable, machine-readable quality labels; created a platform for
their delivery and authentication; and developed two end-user tools.
QUATRO Plus built on the work done and extended its scope
significantly, by allowing users to contribute to both the creation of
labels and the trust that other users may put in them. NCSR had the
technical management of the project.
Participants: MDR Partners (UK), NCSR "Demokritos" (GR), The Internet Quality Agency - IQUA (ES), ECP.NL
(NL), Family Online Safety Institute - FOSI (UK), Web Mèdica Acreditada
(ES), Milan University (IT), University of Insubria (IT), Coolwave Ltd.
(UK), Software602 (CZ).
Programme: European Union's Safer Internet Plus, eContent
Start: October 2007, End: October 2009.
BOEMIE (Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction).
Objective: BOEMIE advocated a synergistic approach that combines
multimedia extraction and ontology evolution in a bootstrapping process
involving, on the one hand, the continuous extraction of semantic
information from multimedia content in order to populate and enrich the
ontologies and, on the other hand, the deployment of these ontologies
to enhance the robustness of the extraction system. NCSR had the
project management.
Participants:NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / IMK
(DE), University of Milano (IT), Technological University of
Hamburg-Harburg (DE), CERTH-ITI (EL), Tele Atlas (NL)
Programme: Information Society Technologies (Sixth Framework), European Union.
Start: March 2006, End: February 2009.
** MedIEQ (Quality Labelling of Medical Web content using Multilingual Information Extraction).
Objective: MedIEQ delivered tools that crawl the Web to locate medical
web sites in seven different European languages (Spanish, Catalan,
German, English, Greek, Czech, and Finnish) in order to verify their
content using a set of machine readable quality criteria. NCSR had the
project management.
Participants: NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Universidad Nacional de Education
a Distancia - UNED (ES), Medical Association of Barcelona - COMB (ES),
Agency for Quality in Medicine – AQUMED (DE), University of Economics
in Prague (CZ), Helsinki University of Technology (FI), i-sieve
Technologies Ltd. (EL), Geneva University Hospitals (CH).
Programme: Public Health Programme, European Union.
Start: January 2006, End: January 2009.
SHARE (Mobile support for rescue forces, integrating multiple modes of interaction).
Objective: The SHARE project will develop a Push-To-Share advanced
mobile service that will provide critical multimodal communication
support for emergency teams during rescue operations. With the
introduction of the new service, rescue operations will benefit
enormously from sophisticated multimodal interaction and on-line,
on-site access to data services providing up-to-date operation status
information, as well as details concerning aspects of the emergency,
such as location and environment.
Participants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / IMK (DE), Telisma S.A. (FR),
Siemens AG (A), Loquendo SpA (IT), Aristotle University Thessaloniki
(EL), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Tele Atlas (NL), Fire Department Dortmund
(DE), University of Paderborn / CIK (DE).
Programme: Information Society Technologies (Sixth Framework), European Union.
Start: November 2004, End: October 2007.
** QUATRO (Quality Assurance and Content Description).
Objective: QUATRO will provide a common platform for quality labels
making it possible for the many existing labelling schemes to be
brought together through a single, coherent approach without affecting
an individual scheme’s assessment criteria or independence.
Participants: Pira International (UK), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), The
Internet Quality Agency - IQUA (ES), ECP.NL (NL), The Internet Content
Rating Association - ICRA (UK), ERCIM (EL), Web Mèdica Acreditada (ES),
Milan University (IT), Coolwave Ltd. (UK).
Programme: Information Society Technologies (Sixth Framework), European Union.
Start: November 2004, End: October 2006.
SCOFI (Filtering the Internet by the use of a Smart Card).
Objective:
Development of a filter system based on smart cards and multimedia
content filtering and testing the effectiveness and acceptability of
this system in filtering out unsuitable content for children in the
Internet. The filtering system used three main components namely
sophisticated online image recognition, existing content filter
software and a prototype for smart card authentication.
Participants: Omp GmbH (DE), VicarPTec (NL), SITF (IS), NCSR "Demokritos (EL).
Programme: Safer Internet Action Plan, European Union.
Start: January 2002, End: January 2004
** CROSSMARC (Cross-lingual Multi-agent Retail Comparison).
Objective:
The development of technology for web information retrieval and
extraction, which can be easily customised to new domains and
languages. To achieve this objective, we implemented an open,
multi-lingual and multi-agent architecture that integrates the
CROSSMARC components into a web-based prototype system. Furthermore, we
developed an infrastructure to facilitate customisation of CROSSMARC
technologies to new domains and languages.
Participa nts: NCSR
"Demokritos (EL), Edinburgh University (UK), University of Rome Tor
Vergata (IT), Velti (EL), Informatique CDC (FR), Lingway (FR).
Programme: Human Language Technologies, Information Society Technologies (Fifth Framework), European Union.
Start: March 2001, End: September 2003
** Web-C-Mine (Web Usage Mining from proxy/cache server logs).
Objective:
Development of technology for processing large-scale usage data
collected by Internet Service Providers (ISP), in order to discover
knowledge from these data. This knowledge is used to model the ISP
users.
Participants: NCSR "Demokritos (EL), University of Cyprus (CY), Intercollege (CY).
Programme: Bilateral Co-operation: Greece - Cyprus.
Start: September 2001, End: December 2003
M-PIRO (Multilingual Personalised Information Objects)
Objective:
Development of a system, which provides personalised spoken
descriptions of museum exhibits in three languages: English, Italian
and Greek.
Participants: Edinburgh University (UK), System
Simulation Ltd (UK), NCSR "Demokritos (EL), University of Athens (EL),
Foundation of the Hellenic World (EL), Institute of Research in Science
and Technology (IT).
Programme: Human Language Technologies, Information Society Technologies (Fifth Framework), European Union.
Start: February 2000, End: January 2003
ADIET (Adaptive Information Extraction Technology)
Objective:
Development of a tool for the customization of Named-Entity Recognition
Systems in different languages, with the use of Machine Learning
methods.
Participants: Inst. NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Informatique
CDC (FR), KAPA-TEL S.A. (EL). Programme: Bilateral Co-operation: Greece
- France
Start: January 2000, End: December 2001
ANET (Adaptive Named-Entity Recognition Technology)
Objective: Development of a Named-Entity Recognition System for Greek, Italian and English, using Machine Learning methods.
Participants: Inst. NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), University of Ancona (IT), University of Rome "La Sapienza" (IT)
Programme: Bilateral Co-operation: Greece - Italy
Start: July 1999, End: September 2001
GIE (Greek Information Extraction)
Objective:
Adaptation of the Language Engineering development platform GATE to
Greek and development of a prototype system for Named-Entity
Recognition in Greek.
Participants: NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), Sheffield University (UK)
Programme: Bilateral Co-operation Greece UK
Start: March 1997, End: February 1999
ECRAN (Extraction of Content: Research at Near-Market)
Objective: Development of prototype systems for Information Extraction in three languages: French, Italian and English.
Participants: Thomson-CSF (FR), University of Ancona (IT), University
of Rome "Tor Vergata" (IT), Smart Information Services GmbH (DE), NCSR
"Demokritos" (EL), University of Friburg (CH), University of Sheffield
(UK)
Programme: Telematics, Language Engineering (Fourth Framework), European Union.
Start: November 1995, End: December 1998
GLOSSASOFT ( Methods and Guidelines for Interlinguality in Software Construction )
Objective: Development of guidelines for the internationalization of
new and existing software applications, as well as the development of
guidelines, methods and tools for the localization of internationalized
software applications. GLOSSASOFT applied these results on several case
studies, and worked to promote the adoption of its results by relevant
organizations/associations and IT companies.
Participants: Open University (UK), NCSR "Demokritos" (EL), VTT (FI), Hewlett-Packard (EL), Apple (IE), Bull (FR)
Programme: Telematics-Language Research Engineering (LRE), European Union.
Start: January 1993, End: July 1995
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