The goal of the ARCOMEM project is to develop methods and tools for transforming digital archives into community memories. This will be done by taking events, entities and topics as seeds, leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for the content appraisal and selection, and by encapsulating this functionality into an adaptive decision support tool for the archivist.
ASEV (Automatische Situationseinschätzung für ereignisgesteuerte Videoüberwachung) is a joint research/industry project aiming at automated video stream analysis for detection of safety-critical events on airports ramps. It combines novel image pattern recognition algorithms with knowledge-based reasoning techniques to achieve an intelligent situation analysis. The project results will be used to assist surveillance operators in detecting and assessing possibly dangerous situations.
BibSonomy is a Web 2.0 platform which allows users to store, organize, and share bibliographic data. Users can describe their content using freely chosen keywords – so-called tags. A tag recommender can support the users in this task. Within this project, we have worked on a framework for both offline and online evaluation of tag recommenders in BibSonomy.
The aim of the BRICKS project is to design, develop and maintain an open user and service-oriented infrastructure to share knowledge and resources in the cultural domain. Typical usage scenarios are integrated queries among several knowledge resources. In order to fulfill these requirements of scalability, availability, interoperability and low-cost, the BRICKS architecture is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm.
The CROKODIL project aims at systematically supporting self-directed, resource-based learning as well as at integrating it with both collaborative learning within communities and instructional design. To this end, a novel Web 2.0-platform and novel didactic concepts will be developed that will be field tested in scenarios of professional education and training. The main focus of L3S is on community-based learning. Novel ’social’ information services will be studied and implemented which exploit phenomena such as ’collective intelligence’ and successful information propagation across social networks. CROKODIL is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Social Fund of the European Union (ESF).
Multimedia search is a highly competitive research field where software increasingly needs to emulate the human capacity of recognizing the meaning of objects and events - a skill honed over millions of years of evolution.
To meet this challenge, CUBRIK proposes a quantum-leap in the openness of multimedia search platforms as the key factor for innovation in next-generation multimedia search applications.
The project concept is based on a cube metaphor, where progress proceeds along three principal axes in a 3-dimensional model, 1) the technology platform, 2) the humen platform, and 3) the business platform.
Further information is available on the project website at http://www.cubrikproject.eu/
After the World Wide Web another Internet revolution is emerging: Grid Computing. While the Web offers easy access to mostly static information, the grid adds another fundamental layer to the Internet, by enabling direct access to computers, storage, scientific instruments and experiments, sensors, applications, data, and middleware services. Based on widely accepted standards, resources communicate with each other and deliver results as services back to the user.
The ever-growing flood of information on one hand makes an effective and individual approach for the information retrieval process for a user hardly possible. On the other hand for specialized information centers and libraries a qualified subject-specific indexing of various publications is more difficult and complex. For this reason, the DeLiVermath project (http://www.l3s.de/delivermath/) will investigate automated processes for content indexing based on appropriate taxonomies and contextual information.
The third e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Program (e-IRGSP3) provides a comprehensive framework to support the e-Infrastructure reflection Group (e-IRG). e-IRG is an inter-governmental policy organisation with delegates of the Member, Accession and Associated States of the European Union, and the European Commision. e-IRGSP3 enables the e-IRG to work efficiently by preparating documents, support during the compilition of publications of the e-IRG and the dissimination of results.
The goal of EGI-InSPIRE is to provide European scientists and their international partners with a sustainable, reliable e-Infrastructure that can support their needs for large-scale data analysis. EGI-InSPIRE will coordinate the transition from a project-based system (the EGEE series) to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure. EGI- InSPIRE will collect user requirements and provide support for the current and potential new user communities, for example the ESFRI projects.
Vast amounts of geospatial data have been gathered in the last decades. With the advent of commodity applications such as Google Earth, usage of geospatial data has become ubiquitous. However, most raw data must be processed before it can be put into a meaningful context. In the
GDI-Grid project, computationally demanding tasks such disaster and noise dispersion simulation will be deployed on existing Grid resources to dramatically decreased computation times.
Local security systems, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, virus scanners etc. are in common use in most of today’s networks. These local systems do not scale well into large and highly distributed environments such as the D-Grid. The goal of the GIDS project is the development and operation of a Grid Intrusion Detection System, which connects local security systems, to ease security management and increase the visibility of distributed attacks.
Life is a constellation of events which, one after the other, pace our everyday activities and index our memories. They are the lens through which we see and memorize our own personal experiences, or they allow us to share personal experiences as part of a more social phenomenon that we could call “collective events”. GLOCAL aims at creating a platform that permits to use events as the primary means for organizing and indexing media.
Year 2006 research results developed within iSearch have set high standards for the next year, the fourth of this German funded project. We managed to refine several significant ideas and presented them in the context of top research conferences in the area of information and internet technologies, including new and highly important Web site level spam detection technique. We look forward to facing new and innovative challenges in the year 2007, further improving the quality and user experiences in searching Web and other large collections.
Borrowing from nature, IT-Ecosystems are based on the balance between individuals (autonomy) and sets of rules (control). The NTH focused Research School for IT-Ecosystems, a cooperation of the universities Braunschweig, Clausthal, and Hannover/L3S, addresses related research areas like emergence of system functions, engineering approaches, adaptive infrastructures, control of semantic diversity, context-dependent and personalized information services, and enhanced human-environment-machine interaction.
The central piece for healthcare and public health is information. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain an increasing wealth of medical information has the potential to significantly advance medical research, personalized healthcare, as well as health policies formulation, providing society with additional benefits within a global health perspective, with applications ranging from disease prevention and genetics to surveillance and epidemiologic studies. Healthcare Organizations and the pharmaceutical industry in Europe both share a common goal, to deliver the best possible personalized treatments and innovative medicines to improve patient outcomes. The industry believes that technological advances and broad implementation of EHRs in Europe can achieve this goal and accelerate clinical research.
The LivingKnowledge project will develop innovative technology for bias-aware, diversity-aware and evolution-aware information management and access. The resulting search technology is expected to provide the user with a high-level overview on the variety of opinions on a topic with the option for stepwise refinement and for learning about the underlying diversity and the temporal dimension.
Public health officials are faced with new challenges for outbreak alert and response due to the continuous emergence of infectious diseases and their contributing factors such as demographic change, or globalization. Only the early detection of disease activity, followed by a rapid response, can reduce the impact of epidemics. It is the goal of the M-Eco project to complement traditional systems with additional approaches for the early detection of emerging threats.
The "Wege in die Forschung II" program of Leibniz University Hannover offers two years of initial funding for young researchers, aiming to establish a new area of research. The "Access Control for Distributed Medical Resarch Information Systems" project addresses problems with the usability of access control visualisation and interaction with the user. Especially non-technical users struggle to configure sufficient protection for their digital assets. Technical aspects of this problem were evaluated and an initial prototype was created in order to test the planned infrastructure.
Educational resources are becoming widely available across the Web, while the landscape of used standards is still fragmented, hindering Web-scale interoperability. The mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) is funded under the European Commissions eContentPlus programme and aims to implement and critically evaluate novel standards in the field of the technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Key challenges are the adaptation of semantic technologies, linked data principles and service-orientation to allow re-use and integration of TEL resources across the Web.
OpenScout aims at accelerating the use, improvement and distribution of open content in the field of management education and training with a focus on SMEs and continuous training by providing skill-based search of content to large communities for learning – either in professional user communities (via integration with learning management systems) or to open web 2.0 communities (via integration to social network platforms).
The SLA4D-Grid Project is designing and realising a Service Level Agreement layer for the Germany’s national Grid infrastructure D-Grid. The Service Level Agreement layer offers individual users, whole D-Grid communities, and the providers of D-Grid resources service usage under given guarantees, quality-of-service requirements and pre-defined business conditions. For this purpose, service level requests and the corresponding offers are linked by binding Service Level Agreements. By means of the SLA layer and with the assistance of other D-Grid services, such as monitoring and accounting, SLAs can be automatically created, negotiated and their observance monitored, so that the D-Grid can be used by academic and industrial users in an economically efficient manner, in accordance with their respective business models.
STELLAR represents the effort of the leading institutions and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify our diverse community.
This Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work we have started by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, which is required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. The European TEL agenda has been set for the last 4 years by the Kaleidoscope network – with a huge strength in pedagogy and scientific excellence, and the Prolearn network – with a complimentary strength in technical and professional excellence. Integrating this excellence and moving on to the higher strategic formation of policy based in leading research is the key challenge for the next stage.
STELLAR will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels.
STELLAR’s instruments will act upon the backbone of an interlocking set of 3 Grand Research Challenge actions, themed as Connecting People, Orchestration and Context.
The goal of SYNC3 is to create a framework for structuring, rendering more accessible and enabling collaborative creation of the extensive user-provided content that is located in personal blogs and refers to running news issues.
TERENCE is a new 3-years European project starting in October 2010 which aims at offering innovative usability and evaluation guidelines, and delivering an intelligent adaptive learning system that can be used to custom-tailor such interventions in an adaptive fashion to (hearing and deaf) poor comprehenders.
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