Technologies for Information Management
ICT Call 5 Information and Networking Event - Intelligent Information Management
11-12 May 2009, Jean Monnet Conference Centre, Luxembourg

This Information and Networking Event addressed the research community preparing project proposals for ICT Call 5, objective 4.3: Intelligent Information Management.

The Programme description, the detailed Agenda for download, the List of Participants, Speaker lineup and practical information can be found on the Event Page:

Speaker lineup and Presentations Day 1

First Plenary Session: Scientific Challenges of Intelligent Information Management 

Detailed information on the research challenges of objective 4.3 Intelligent Information Management was given, followed by Question & Answers. The session provided participants with information on the current work programme and on practical issues related to preparing proposals.

Chair:Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit 'Technologies for Information Management'.

The European Commission Presentation was made by Stefano Bertolo, Scientific Project Officer, Technologies for Infomation Management:

Second Plenary Session: Main addressed technology challenges

Chair:Stefano Bertolo, Scientific Project Officer, Technologies for Information Management. 

 

Invited Speaker:

Dr PAUL MILLER, consultant and analyst, ZDNet
Paul Miller is a consultant and analyst, specifically concerned with helping clients realise opportunities offered by convergence between recent developments in Cloud Computing and the emerging Semantic - or Data - Web.
Previously, Paul was Technology Evangelist at UK semantic technology company, Talis. Prior to joining Talis' Senior Management Team in 2005 he held the post of Director at the Common Information Environment, a consortium of UK public sector organisations including the BBC, the British Library, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the National Health Service (NHS).

Paul has served in a variety of advisory and monitoring capacities, including the Executive Committees of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI). Paul sits on Programme Committees for major industry events, and is a member of the Conference Board for the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.

Paul writes for ZDNet on the Semantic Web and for Cloud Avenue on Cloud Computing, records regular podcasts with thought leaders in the technology space, convenes the monthly Semantic Web Gang round-table podcast, and routinely presents and chairs panels at industry events. Paul holds a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.

• One Information Space, Billion of Sensors (5MB)
  
  

Phil Butcher, Head of IT, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Mr Butcher has been in IT for more than twenty five years. Before joining the Sanger Institute he worked in the commercial arena supporting systems and IT infrastructures for R&D and software development. He has seen the introduction of the PC, worked through the VAX era and into 64-bit High Performance Computing.

Phil joined the Sanger Institute in 1993 at the very beginning of large scale sequencing and was responsible for developing the IT infrastructure to support Sanger’s efforts in the Human Genome Project. Over this period their IT operation has grown dramatically from a few servers to many thousands of cores with Petabytes of storage.

The Sanger Institute has become one of the world’s leading genome research organisations and today faces daunting new challenges with the advent of new generation sequencing.

• On the Foothills of Data Mountains - A view of New Generation Sequencing (683KB)
  
  

Breakout Parallel Session with focus on Personal Sphere
Chair and Introduction:Stefano Bertolo, Scientific Project Officer, Technologies for Information Management:  

• Information management in everyday life (4MB)

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Dr Matthias Wagner, Senior Manager of the Smart and Secure Services Research Group, DOCOMO Euro-Labs
Dr Matthias Wagner is a Senior Manager of the Smart and Secure Services Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, the European research laboratories of the leading Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO. His research unit is concerned with service provisioning and contextual intelligence in the next generation of mobile systems. The group has created a distinct vision of the future mobile Internet with the Semantic Web as a key enabler, which is materialized in scientific publications as well as innovative research and pre-sale prototypes. Matthias Wagner held different positions within NTT DOCOMO R&D and acted in coordinating roles in pan-European and international research activities. While in the past ten years his work was tightly connected to the area of telecommunications, his professional roots are in the computer science domains of AI and database systems.

• IYOUIT - Share life blog play (3MB)

 

Speaker lineup and Presentations Day 2

Plenary Session: What makes a successful proposal in SO43

Best practise of Research and Technology Development projects in the area of Intelligent Information Management

Chair:Werner Janusch, Scientific Project Officer, Technologies for Information Management.

Invited Speakers:

Dr Ansgar Bernardi, head of the knowledge management research department, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Dr Ansgar Bernardi is deputy head of the knowledge management research department within the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI GmbH. As a senior research scientist at DFKI GmbH, he has worked on the representation of technical knowledge, AI support in production processes, and on decision support for comprehensive product design. He has conducted numerous projects on technical diagnosis, learning organizations, knowledge management, distributed organizational memories, and their application in industrial settings. He completed a PhD thesis on the application of knowledge management to the maintenance of complex machines. His current personal research interests focus on the development of freely configurable process-oriented knowledge management services in a web-based environment. He was coordinator of the Integrated Project 027705 NEPOMUK which concluded successfully in December 2008.

• The NEOPMUK Project presentation (2MB) and the NEPOMUK Project Synopsis
  

Prof. Piek Vossen, Professor Computational Lexicology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Piek Vossen (1960) studied Dutch and General Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. In 1995, he received his PhD (cum laude) in Linguistics on Computational Lexicology and Lexicography. He has been involved in the following (EU-)projects: Links, Acquilex-I and II, Sift, EuroWordNet I and II, Meaning, Euroterm, Balkanet and Pidgin. He is involved in further standardisation initiatives, such as the Ansi committee for ontology standardisation, the EAGLES/ILSE project and FLaReNet. He is also Founder and President of the Global WordNet Association Since March 2008 Vossen is the project coordinator of the 7th EU Framework Project "Knowledge Yielding Ontologies for Transition-based Organization" "KYOTO" (area Digital Libraries). Vossen is also one of the members of FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network), another 7th EU Framework Project.

• The KYOTO Project presentation (1MB) and the KYOTO Project Synopsis
  

Ms Bianca Falcidieno, Research Director, National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, Gnova
Bianca Falcidieno is a Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, responsible for the Genova Branch of the CNR National Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology (CNR IMATI-GE) and the President of the Research Area for the CNR in Genova.

She has been leading and coordinating research at international level in advanced and interdisciplinary fields (such as computational mathematics, computer graphics, multidimensional media and knowledge technologies), strongly interacting with outstanding industrial and social application fields: from industrial design to geographic information systems, from manufacturing to semantic web.

She is presently taking part in more than ten European and Italian research projects and she has been the coordinator of the FP6 Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE, aiming at representing and processing knowledge related to multi-dimensional media. Since 2008, she is the coordinator of the FP7 Coordination Action FOCUS K3D, whose main aim is to promote the adoption of best practices for the use of semantics in 3D content modelling and processing.

She is the author of more than 200 scientific refereed papers and books. She is currently editor-in-chief of the International Journal Shape Modelling and Chair of the IEEE Conference SMI’09 (Shape Modeling International) which will be held in Beijing, China, next June.

For the 80th CNR anniversary, Bianca Falcidieno was included in the 12 top-level researcher women in the CNR history. 

• The FOCUS K3D project presentation (1MB) and the FOCUSK3D Project Synopsis

 

Prof. Dr Max Mühlhäuser, full professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr Max Mühlhäuser is a full professor of computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Karlsruhe and founded a research center for Digital Equipment (DEC). Since 1989, Professor Mühlhäuser has worked as either professor or visiting professor at universities in Germany, Austria, France, Canada, and the US. He has published over 250 articles, co-authored and edited books on computer aided authoring/learning, and distributed/multimedia software engineering.

Professor Mühlhäuser heads the Telecooperation Division and Departmental Computing Center within the Informatics Department as well as the campus wide center of research excellence in eLearning and the ‘secure services’ division of CASED, a new research center for IT security; he leads or participates in lighthouse projects of the EU (Smart Products – scientific coordination), DFG– the German research funding agency (Research Group in Peer-to-Peer Networks, head of the Graduate School in E-Learning), the federal ministries of research (lighthouse project on Public Security) and of economy (Theseus-Texo project on the Internet of Services), and others – with more than 35 staff altogether.

His core research interest is development support for next-generation Internet applications, mainly in the areas of: ubiquitous, ambient, and mobile computing and commerce; eLearning; multimodal interaction, distributed multimedia and continuous media; hypermedia and Semantic Web; cooperation; and pervasive security. The enabling technologies applied comprise distributed objectoriented programming, event-based and peer2peer infrastructures, hypertext, and audio/video processing.

• The SMARTPRODUCTS project presentation (2MB) and the SMARTPRODUCTS Project Synopsis

 

Matchmaking Session - Presentations (12 May 2009)

In the afternoon on the second day the 'Matchmaking' Session offered the participants the opportunity to present their organisation and find the ideal partner for that winning proposal.

Interested participants were given a 3-minute slot to present their main area of work. This was intended to be a partner-finding opportunity, where people stated what skills they can offer, or what they are looking for. 

The Matchmaking Session was popular and already overbooked well in advance of the day, and the short but concise presentations were well-received.

Chair:Leonhard Maqua, Scientific Project Officer, Technologies for Information Management.  

Q: What is matchmaking?
A: Speed dating for scientists:
- Dating - helps to find partners
- For scientists - ideas, not beauty
- Speed - three minutes only per person

Participants to the Matchmaking Session, and their presentations:

- Peter Dolog - Aalborg University: IWIS Intelligent Web and Information Systems (155KB)
- Gennady Andrienko: Scalable Visual Analytics at Fraunhofer IAIS (406KB)
- Nikolaj Tsenov - Cnet Group SEE Bulgaria: Development of Cognitive Data Processing Systems (47KB)
- Wolf Engelback - Fraunhofer IAO: Project Idea - Master Data Management in Project Cooperation (241KB)
- Moritz Stefaner and Till Nagel - University of Applied Sciences Potsdam - Interface Design: Presentation (998KB)
- Gregor Hackenbroich - SAP Research: Presentation (219KB)
- George Anadiotis - IMC Technologies: Presentation (61KB)
- Evgenia Adamopoulou - ICCS - Institute of Communication & Computer Systems: Presentation (182KB)
- Edward Thomas, Jeff Z. Pan, Yuting Zhao - Knowledge Technology Group, University of Aberdeen: TrOWL - Tractable reasoning for OWL 2: Presentation (239KB)
- Anita Bindhammer - ICT&S Center, Human-Computer & Usability Unit, University of Salzburg: Presentation (223KB)
- Andrea de Polo - Alinari Photo Archivi (Now Alinari 24 ORE): Personal Sphere (380KB)
- Samuel Renault -  Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor: OTS-Lib: Collaboration and Web-Intelligence to Support Development with Off-The-Shelf Software Components (192KB)
- John Tait -  Information Retrieval Facility Presentation (302KB)
- Robert Woitsch - BOC Asset Management: Next Generation Modelling (2MB)
- Riccardo Grosso - CSI-Piemonte: RIMMEL - Reusable Information ManageMEnt in the Large (904KB)
- Erel Rosenberg - Correlation Systems Ltd.: Geospatial Data Management (461KB)
- José F. Aldana-Montes - University of Malaga: Presentation (391KB)
- Paolo Nesi - Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab (DISIT Lab), University of Florence: Presentation (4MB)
- Guenter Neumann - LT-Lab - Language Technology Laboratori of DFKI, German Research Centre for AI Presentation (61KB)
- Nicola Ferro - Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova: Evaluation Infrastructures for Large Scientific Data Sets (835KB)
- Jason Tsahalis - Paragon Ltd.: Presentation (37KB)
- Boris Otto - CDQ - Corporate Data Quality, University of St. Gallen: Towards an Asset Management for Corporate Data (210KB)
- David Konopnicki - IBM Haifa Research Lab.: Presentation (129KB)
- Janez Zaletelj - Department of Telecommunication, University of Ljubljana: Presentation (642KB)
- Steffen Budweg - FIT Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology: Presentation (199KB)
- Atta Badii, Intelligent Media Systems & Services Research Centre (IMSS): Presentation (486KB)
- Ehab El-Badry - eSpace Technologies: Presentation (549KB)
- Paolo Franceschini - CRIT Research - Innovation and Technology Brokerage: Presentation (356KB)
- Xavier Vives Surroga - Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA): Presentation (94KB)
- Eusebio Carasusán - Activia Multimedia: Presentation (394KB)
- Görkem Cetin - CaptureTV - IPTV Measurement and Prediction Environment Through User Generated Data: Presentation (2MB)
- Sebastian Weber - SPACE - Semantic Process and Artifact-oriented Collaboration Environment: Presentation (893KB)
- Michal Laclavik - Primary Research Team & Capabilities, Department of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Presentation (357KB)
- Peter van Oosterom - Delft University of Technology: Two geo-information project ideas (367KB)
- Benoit Huet - Eurecom Sophia Antipolis - A Graduate School and a Research Center in Communication Systems: Presentation (1MB)
- Stéphane Dupont - Research Center in Information Technologies, University of Mons: Presentation (1MB)
- Felix Freitag - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC): Global Information Market for Intelligent Information Management (14KB)
- Inés Vidal - Telefonica I+D: Presentation (53KB)
- Przemyslaw Kazienko - Social Network Group, Wroclaw University of Technology: SocLaKE - Social Latent Knowledge Explorator (717KB)
- Anett Molnar - Mobility and Multimedia Cluster, Hungary: Presentation (712KB)
- Haluk Tekbulut - LOGO Business Solutions: Presentation (79KB)
- Arnaud Laprévoteand Stéphane Laurière - Edge-IT Mandriva Group: An Open, Simple and Innovative System for all (297KB)
- Ludovic Dubost and Fabio Mancinelli - XWiki: Presentation (404KB)