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FP6 Projects
The projects funded under the Sixth Framework Programme
In the context of the Commission's Framework Programme 6 - our unit funds 62 research projects (full list), clustered in seven themes.
Semantic foundations
- formal and theoretical work (models and languages, rules …);
- knowledge representation, reasoning, learning, induction …;
- protocols and layers of Semantic Web respectively Semantic Web Services;
- semantic Web R&D proper, integration of heterogeneous data sources, mashups (both corporate and open web).
Quick links to Project Synopses:
ALVIS, ASPIC, DIP, KNOWLEDGEWEB, LUISA, MediaCampaign, MESH, METOKIS, MUSING, NEON, OPENKNOWLEDGE, REWERSE, SALERO, S-TEN, SUPER, SWING, TAO, TOWL, TRENDS, TRIPCOM
Go to the Website of the project via the project logo.
ALVIS
Superpeer Semantic Search Engine
ALVIS conducts research in the design, use and interoperability of topic-specific search engines with the goal of developing an open source prototype of a distributed, semantic-based search engine.
Read more in the ALVIS Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
Superpeer Semantic Search Engine
ALVIS conducts research in the design, use and interoperability of topic-specific search engines with the goal of developing an open source prototype of a distributed, semantic-based search engine.
Read more in the ALVIS Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
ASPIC
Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components
ASPIC is developing a theoretical framework to support the creation and deployment of advanced knowledge technologies called argumentation systems. Formal argumentation models have been developed for inference, decision-making, learning and multi-agent dialogue and the remaining work on the project is concerned with translating the models into standard software components, and demonstrating their use in significant applications in eBusiness, eHealth and other domains. Read more in the ASPIC Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2007.
Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components
ASPIC is developing a theoretical framework to support the creation and deployment of advanced knowledge technologies called argumentation systems. Formal argumentation models have been developed for inference, decision-making, learning and multi-agent dialogue and the remaining work on the project is concerned with translating the models into standard software components, and demonstrating their use in significant applications in eBusiness, eHealth and other domains. Read more in the ASPIC Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2007.
DIP
The major mission of DIP is to furhter develop Semantic Web and Web services and especially to enable their combination
DIP's objective is to develop and extend Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to produce a new technology infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (SWS) - an environment in which different web services can discover and cooperate with each other automatically. DIP's long term mission is to deliver the enormous potential benefits of Semantic Web Services to e-Work and e-Commerce.
Read more in the DIP Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
The major mission of DIP is to furhter develop Semantic Web and Web services and especially to enable their combination
DIP's objective is to develop and extend Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to produce a new technology infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (SWS) - an environment in which different web services can discover and cooperate with each other automatically. DIP's long term mission is to deliver the enormous potential benefits of Semantic Web Services to e-Work and e-Commerce.
Read more in the DIP Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
KB20
KnowledgeBoard 2.0 - The European Knowledge and Capabilities Management Working Space
KnowledgeBoard is a Specific Support Action whose goal is to activate and facilitate this European KM community and further develop it by including the different schools of thought in KM and all the European and global regions less represented today and to turn the existing KnowledgeBoard into a model and reference for virtual networks offering customised services, collaboration space, and a supporting infrastructure to European research projects and industrial players.
Read more in the KB20 Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
KnowledgeBoard 2.0 - The European Knowledge and Capabilities Management Working Space
KnowledgeBoard is a Specific Support Action whose goal is to activate and facilitate this European KM community and further develop it by including the different schools of thought in KM and all the European and global regions less represented today and to turn the existing KnowledgeBoard into a model and reference for virtual networks offering customised services, collaboration space, and a supporting infrastructure to European research projects and industrial players.
Read more in the KB20 Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2006.
LUISA
Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture
LUISA addressed the development of a reference semantic architecture for the major challenges in the search, interchange and delivery of learning objects in a service-oriented context. This entailed the technical description of the solution in terms of current SWS technology, and also the provision of the ontologies, facilities and components required to extend and enhance existing learning technology systems with the advanced capabilities provided by computational semantics.
Read more in the LUISA Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 August 2008.
Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture
LUISA addressed the development of a reference semantic architecture for the major challenges in the search, interchange and delivery of learning objects in a service-oriented context. This entailed the technical description of the solution in terms of current SWS technology, and also the provision of the ontologies, facilities and components required to extend and enhance existing learning technology systems with the advanced capabilities provided by computational semantics.
Read more in the LUISA Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 August 2008.
MEDIACAMPAIGN
Discovering, inter-relating and navigating cross-media campaign knowledge
MediaCampaign's scope is on discovering, inter-relating and navigating cross-media campaign knowledge. A media campaign is a collection of advertisements semantically belonging together, across different countries and different media. The project's main goal is to automate to a large degree the detection and tracking of media campaigns on television, Internet and in the press.
Read more in the MediaCampaign Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.
Discovering, inter-relating and navigating cross-media campaign knowledge
MediaCampaign's scope is on discovering, inter-relating and navigating cross-media campaign knowledge. A media campaign is a collection of advertisements semantically belonging together, across different countries and different media. The project's main goal is to automate to a large degree the detection and tracking of media campaigns on television, Internet and in the press.
Read more in the MediaCampaign Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.
MESH
Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services
MESH is an Integrated Project whose main objective is to extract, compare and combine content from multiple multimedia news sources, automatically create advanced personalised multimedia summaries, syndicate summaries and content based on the extracted semantic information, and provide end users with a 'multimedia mesh' news navigation system.
Read more in the MESH Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services
MESH is an Integrated Project whose main objective is to extract, compare and combine content from multiple multimedia news sources, automatically create advanced personalised multimedia summaries, syndicate summaries and content based on the extracted semantic information, and provide end users with a 'multimedia mesh' news navigation system.
Read more in the MESH Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
METOKIS
Methodology and tools infrastructure for the creation of knowledge units
METOKIS investigated the use of semantic technologies in knowledge-intensive subject fields. Results are a semantic content model called "knowledge content objects" and software to handle these objects, as well as a methodology for assessing the cost-benefit and for implementation of semantics-based applications.
Read more in the METOKIS Project Synopsis.
The project ended: 31 October 2005.
Methodology and tools infrastructure for the creation of knowledge units
METOKIS investigated the use of semantic technologies in knowledge-intensive subject fields. Results are a semantic content model called "knowledge content objects" and software to handle these objects, as well as a methodology for assessing the cost-benefit and for implementation of semantics-based applications.
Read more in the METOKIS Project Synopsis.
The project ended: 31 October 2005.
MUSING
Multi-industry, Semantic-based next generation business Intelligence
MUSING will create a spectrum of innovative, efficient solutions for Business Intelligence (BI) that is semantic-based and applicable to multiple industries of the knowledge economy. Musing will answer the need of many companies who are drowning in data whilst striving for information at the same time.
Read more in the MUSING Project Synopsis.
Multi-industry, Semantic-based next generation business Intelligence
MUSING will create a spectrum of innovative, efficient solutions for Business Intelligence (BI) that is semantic-based and applicable to multiple industries of the knowledge economy. Musing will answer the need of many companies who are drowning in data whilst striving for information at the same time.
Read more in the MUSING Project Synopsis.
NEON
Lifecycle support for networked ontologies
NeOn addresses the complete R&D cycle of the emerging new generation of semantically enriched applications, which exist and operate in an open environment of highly contextualized, evolving and networked ontologies. NeOn aims to achieve and facilitate the move from feasibility in principle to a concrete solution focusing on cost efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge acquisition for, and design, development and maintenance of large-scale, heterogeneous semantic-based applications.
Read more in the NEON Project Synopsis.
Lifecycle support for networked ontologies
NeOn addresses the complete R&D cycle of the emerging new generation of semantically enriched applications, which exist and operate in an open environment of highly contextualized, evolving and networked ontologies. NeOn aims to achieve and facilitate the move from feasibility in principle to a concrete solution focusing on cost efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge acquisition for, and design, development and maintenance of large-scale, heterogeneous semantic-based applications.
Read more in the NEON Project Synopsis.
OPENKNOWLEDGE
OpenKnowledge provides a novel form of peer to peer knowledge sharing in open environments, using interaction model routing; context maintenance; dynamic ontology matching and visualisation to avoid scaling problems found in traditional systems.
Read more in the OPENKNOWLEDGE Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2008.
OpenKnowledge provides a novel form of peer to peer knowledge sharing in open environments, using interaction model routing; context maintenance; dynamic ontology matching and visualisation to avoid scaling problems found in traditional systems.
Read more in the OPENKNOWLEDGE Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2008.
REWERSE
REasoning on the WEb with Rules and Semantics
The objective of REWERSE is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web by networking and structuring a scientific community that needs it, and by providing tangible technological bases that do not exist today for an industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.
Read more in the REWERSE Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 29 February 2008.
REasoning on the WEb with Rules and Semantics
The objective of REWERSE is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web by networking and structuring a scientific community that needs it, and by providing tangible technological bases that do not exist today for an industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.
Read more in the REWERSE Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 29 February 2008.
SALERO
Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects
Salero aims at making cross media-production for games, movies and broadcast faster, better and cheaper by combining computer graphics, language technology, semantic web technologies as well as content based search and retrieval.
Read more in the Salero Project Synopsis.
Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects
Salero aims at making cross media-production for games, movies and broadcast faster, better and cheaper by combining computer graphics, language technology, semantic web technologies as well as content based search and retrieval.
Read more in the Salero Project Synopsis.
S-TEN
Intelligent Self-describing Technical and Environmental Networks
S-TEN's objective is to exploit the "Semantic Web" for scientific and engineering applications, and to provide support for decision makers in a complex and continuously changing environment. This support is based upon the application of rules and process knowledge to measurements, human observations and design information published on the Web. Data acquisition and process control is assisted by self-describing devices, e.g. measurement sensors or intelligent subsystems, installed in the considered technical systems.
Read more in the S-TEN Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 November 2008.
Intelligent Self-describing Technical and Environmental Networks
S-TEN's objective is to exploit the "Semantic Web" for scientific and engineering applications, and to provide support for decision makers in a complex and continuously changing environment. This support is based upon the application of rules and process knowledge to measurements, human observations and design information published on the Web. Data acquisition and process control is assisted by self-describing devices, e.g. measurement sensors or intelligent subsystems, installed in the considered technical systems.
Read more in the S-TEN Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 November 2008.
SUPER
Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises
By applying semantic technologies to business processes resulting in 'Semantic Business Processes (SBP)', SUPER aims to make a quantum leap with regard to efficiency and effectiveness in modelling and managing of business processes.
Read more in the SUPER Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 March 2009.
Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises
By applying semantic technologies to business processes resulting in 'Semantic Business Processes (SBP)', SUPER aims to make a quantum leap with regard to efficiency and effectiveness in modelling and managing of business processes.
Read more in the SUPER Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 March 2009.
SWING
Semantic Web services Interoperability for Geospatial decision making
Swing aims at deploying Semantic Web Service technology in the geospatial domain and to develop an open, easy-to-use SWS framework of suitable ontologies and inference tools for annotation, discovery, composition, and invocation of geospatial web services.
Read more in the Swing Project Synopsis. See also: News in Brief.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
Semantic Web services Interoperability for Geospatial decision making
Swing aims at deploying Semantic Web Service technology in the geospatial domain and to develop an open, easy-to-use SWS framework of suitable ontologies and inference tools for annotation, discovery, composition, and invocation of geospatial web services.
Read more in the Swing Project Synopsis. See also: News in Brief.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
TAO
Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
The goal of the TAO project is to define a low-cost route to transitioning legacy systems to the open semantic Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), which will enable semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data resources and distributed applications.
Read more in the TAO Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
The goal of the TAO project is to define a low-cost route to transitioning legacy systems to the open semantic Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), which will enable semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data resources and distributed applications.
Read more in the TAO Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 28 February 2009.
TOWL
Time-determined ontology based information system for real time stock market analysis
The objective of the project is to expand the current state of the art ontology languages (OWL, RDF-S, RDF) and their support for automated reasoning by adding the time dimension to enable real time context aware information analysis. This technology will provide ontology based (semantic) information systems to venture beyond a static world and add the concepts of time and change.
Read more in the Towl Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.
Time-determined ontology based information system for real time stock market analysis
The objective of the project is to expand the current state of the art ontology languages (OWL, RDF-S, RDF) and their support for automated reasoning by adding the time dimension to enable real time context aware information analysis. This technology will provide ontology based (semantic) information systems to venture beyond a static world and add the concepts of time and change.
Read more in the Towl Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.
TRENDS
Trends Research Enabler for Design Specifications
Trends' goal is the achievement of an interactive software for the elaboration of design trend boards dedicated to product designers in B to C markets such as for the automotive and original equipment manufacturers.
Read more in the Trends Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2008.
Trends Research Enabler for Design Specifications
Trends' goal is the achievement of an interactive software for the elaboration of design trend boards dedicated to product designers in B to C markets such as for the automotive and original equipment manufacturers.
Read more in the Trends Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 31 December 2008.
TRIPCOM
Triple Space Communication
The mission of TripCom is to take a significant move towards a new era of the Internet. The project aims at realizing this vision and a new technology, with the result of the integrating Tuple Space, Semantic Web (triple), and Web service technologies.
Read more in the TripCom Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.
Triple Space Communication
The mission of TripCom is to take a significant move towards a new era of the Internet. The project aims at realizing this vision and a new technology, with the result of the integrating Tuple Space, Semantic Web (triple), and Web service technologies.
Read more in the TripCom Project Synopsis.
The project ended on 30 September 2008.