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Technical University of KosiceTechnical University of Kosice

Activities at TUK Activities at TUK related to ICT researchrelated to ICT research

Tomas SabolTomas.Sabol@tuke.sk

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (FEE&I)

BERG Faculty (Mining, Ecology, Control, Geotechnology)

Faculty of Economics (FE)

Faculties involved in ICT researchFaculties involved in ICT research

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eBusiness, Digital business ecosystems eGovernment, eDemocracy eLearning Knowledge management, knowledge technologies,

Ontology-based knowledge modelling Web technologies, Semantic web Data and Text Mining AI techniques, Neural networks Mathematical modelling and simulation of production

systems (application of fractal mathematics etc.), Business process modelling

Computer networks monitoring and traffic optimisation, new form of multimedia based communication

Main research areas in ICTMain research areas in ICT

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Multi-agent technologies Tools and methodologies of analysis and design of

software systems, CASE and Meta-CASE systems Computer graphics and virtual reality Theory of programming, programming paradigms

programming languages Parallel architectures for specialized high

performance computer systems e-Logistics Telecommunication Engineering, IVR systems Information society development, Socio-economic

evaluation of ICT applications, good practice identification and processing,

Main research areas in ICT (2)Main research areas in ICT (2)

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“Interoperability Initiative for a European e-Health Area (I2-Health)”, eTEN Project No. 517476, 2005-2007, Project budget: 0.36 mil. EUR

“Web Technologies Supporting Direct Participation in Democratic Processes (Webocracy)“, IST-1999-20364, 2000-2003, Budget: 1.9 mil. EUR (TUK – Project Coordinator)

„Providing Innovative Service Models and Assessment (PRISMA)“, IST-1999-29088, 2000-2003, 2 mil. EUR

“Best eEurope Practices (BEEP)”, IST-2000-26224, 2001-2003, 2.5 mil. EUR

“Web in Support of Knowledge Management in Company (KnowWeb)”, Esprit Project 29065, FP4, 1998-2000, 0.4 mil. EUR

EU R&D ProjectsEU R&D Projects

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“Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning (ENRICH)”, Esprit Project 29015, FP4, 1998-2000, 0.9 mil. EUR

“GOAL: Geographic Information On-Line Analysis (GIS - Data Warehouse Integration)”, INCO Copernicus project 977091, 1998-2001

“Image processing of Remotely Sensed Image”, US-SK project, 1994-1997, 60k USD

“European Symposiums on Computational Intelligence”, FP5, Maria Currie High Level Conference, 2000-2002, 28k EUR

Academic Internet television Network Showcases the best of good practise, 016020 ATVN-EU-GP, 2005-2006, SSA Project

Previous R&D Projects (2)Previous R&D Projects (2)

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Remote packet capturing as a basis for Internet quality of services measurements (SK-German cooperation)

COST Projects Projects of the National Programme of R&D (e.g.

Smart Speech Communication Interface; Mobile multimodal communications systems and services; ICT networks and service convergency in communication infrastructure),

Maria Currie Individual Fellowship (research stays at Siemens PSE, Vienna, 2002-2003)

National R&D projects (VEGA), Total grant to TUK: ca. 10 million SKK/year

… … R&D Projects (3)R&D Projects (3)

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IST-1999-20364 “Increasing Participation of Citizens in Democratic Processes”

Effort: 348 person-months, 8 partners (UK, FIN, D, SK), coordinated by TU Kosice

Budget: 1.8 mil. EUR, EC: 1.5 mil. EUR Outcome: Web-based eGovernment portal (backed

up by knowledge model): Web publishing, discussion fora, polling, concept based retrieval, user profiling, alerting, security, role management, …

Pilot applications: UK, SK Recognition:

eGov “Project of the Month”, Nov 2003, EC Good practice – interview of the EC Commissioner

(Liikannen) to eFocus ITAPA 2004 Conference Distinction Awards (1st price)

Sample R&D Project: Sample R&D Project: ““Webocracy”Webocracy”

“Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies (Access-eGov)”, Contract No. 27020, 2006-2008, Budget: 2.227 mil. EUR (TUK – Project Coordinator)

“Small Enterprises Accessing the Electronic Market of the Enlarged Europe by a Smart Service Infrastructure (SEAMLESS)”, Contract No. 26476, 2006-2008, Budget: 1.8 mil. EUR

“Finance, Logistic & Production Integration Domain by Web-based Interaction Network (FLUID-WIN)”, Contract No. 27083, 2006-2008, 2.4 mil. EUR

“Application Bus for InteroperabiLITy In enlarged Europe SMEs (ABILITIES)”, Contract No. 27306, 2006-2007, 3.1 mil. EUR

New EU Projects starting in 2006New EU Projects starting in 2006

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"The Democracy Network (DEMO_Net)“, Network of Excellence (in eParticipation), 2006-2009, Contract No. 27219, EC: 2.664 mil. EUR

“Semantic-enabled Agile Knowledge-based e-Government (SAKE)”, Contract No. 27128, 2006-08, Budget: 2.5 mil. EUR

“Knowledge-Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab)”, Contract No 27490, Integrated project, 2006-2011, 14.2 mil. EUR

Areas: eBusiness, eGovernment, eDemocracy, Semantic web, Knowledge technologies, Business process modelling, architectures (SOA, …), etc.

Total grant to TUK (FP6/Call 4): 1.850 mil. EUR

New EU Projects in 2006 (2)New EU Projects in 2006 (2)

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Centre for Information Technologies Centre for Intelligent Technologies (www.ai-cit.sk)

Laboratories of Distributed Control Systems - Rockwell automation laboratory

Lab of Multi-media/modal Communications Laboratory of Digital Signal Processing and

Satellite Communications Lab of Computer Networks (www.cnl.tuke.sk)

Regional Cisco Networking Academy Laboratory of Automotive Electronics (embedded

systems), Volkswagen & Research teams around the Labs& Research teams around the Labs

Research Labs at TUKResearch Labs at TUK

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Member of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Committee, EC – Dr. Anton Lavrin

Member of the e-Europe Advisory Group (Expert Chamber), EC – Tomas Sabol

Reviewers/Evaluators of FP5/FP6 projects & eEurope eGov Awards, EC – Peter Sincak, Anton Lavrin, Tomas Sabol

National experts and correspondent for e-Business W@tch Initiative, EC – Tomas Sabol, Radoslav Delina

Scientific Steering Committee, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, EU, Seville – Tomas Sabol

““EU Credentials”EU Credentials”

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“Triangle of knowledge”

Research

Education Innovation

EU VisionEU Vision: : ““Putting the knowledge triangle at Putting the knowledge triangle at

workwork““What does it take to be a competitive

knowledge economy?To be better in:• Producing knowledge through research• Diffusing it through education• Applying it through innovation

How can we contribute to this?

Uni’s + Comp.’s + PA = ?Commun./Collab./Feedback needed

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Can you see a potential for mutual Can you see a potential for mutual collaboration?collaboration?

… … a shared vision …?a shared vision …?

Thank you for your Thank you for your attention!attention!

 

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Some more … Some more …

 

Established in 1995 (coop. with Slovak Telecom, elfa) Top-equipped experimental centre for research in

computer networks Research & Education within ICT - Focus on computer

networks, their design, administration and management

Internationally recognised centre for preparation of network experts (CCNA and CCNP certification).

coordination of Cisco networking academic programme in Slovakia (51 institution, 3500 students)

A contact videoconference centre (VRVS technology) Coordinates cooperation between DCI and business

sector in the area of networking technologies More at www.cnl.tuke.sk

Computer Network LaboratoryComputer Network LaboratoryResearch LabResearch Lab

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Founded on February 1, 2005 as a common IT research center of: Technical University of Košice, and Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Staff: 1 assoc. prof., 6 researchers, 3 PhD students Research area:

ICT applications supporting dev. of Information Society Grid technologies, grid computing, grid and web

services, workflows of grid and web services Knowledge technologies for information retrieval and

knowledge management, data and text mining Decision support systems, control of complex and

multi-agent systems with use of artificial intelligence techniques

Centre for Information TechnologiesCentre for Information Technologies

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Established in 1995 (in coop. with Kent State Uni, US) – an Inspiration Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Collaboration with Boston Uni, Kent Uni, USA, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Waseda University, etc.

Research & Education in the area of Computational Intelligence (4 staff, 3 PhD, 20 MSc. Students)

Projects within EU & SK, focus on “learnable engineering systems” – theory and application, mobile robotics used as a demo test-bed (AIBO Robot, Robosapiens, Lego robots

STARNET Project – service for local & reg. IT companies 2 live AI applications in SK industry More at: www.ai-cit.sk

Centre for Intelligent TechnologiesCentre for Intelligent Technologies

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Fraunhofer Institute; Empirica, GmBH; Uni of Wuppertal, Uni of Regensburg; Uni of Stuttgart; D

CITEC Information Oy, Ab; Uni of Vaasa, FIN TEXT e-Solutions, SpA; Joinet, SpA; Lombardini, SRL; IT RAND Europe; TIE Nederland; NL Danish Technological Institute; DK PLANET, s.a.; National Technical University of Athens; GR EMAX S.A.; PL T-OnLine; Synergon Information Systems plc., Hungarian

Academy of Sciences; HU Cisco Systems Inc., CALTECH (California Institute of

Technology, Pasadena); USA ALADIN –Alpine and Carpathian Universities Network in

area of e-business development, SL SK companies: Tatrabanka a.s., SE a.s., TEKO a.s., …

Cooperating/Project partnersCooperating/Project partners

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Strengths: Expertise in given scientific areas Networks of partners, representation in EU bodies Experience in proposal writing and “EU fundraising” Project management approach/skills Experience in EU projects (incl. user driven approach,

business models/plans, market intelligence, …) Existing research teams / “seeds”Weaknesses: Uneven distribution of the “Strengths” within TUK Limited innovation activities, technology transfer Immature university-industry collaboration, contract

research/mission oriented research Better in cooperation on EU level than in collaboration with

local companies(?)

An attempt for SWOTAn attempt for SWOT

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Opportunities: Foster university-industry “dialogue” Develop project-based collaboration (funded from

EU and other sources) MINERVA Develop an “IT Centre of Excellence” in the Kosice

regionThreats: a “common language” not found … missing the next train to Knowledge society (or,

even worse - missing, too many next trains :-(

An attempt for SWOT (2)An attempt for SWOT (2)

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What next?What next?