Conclusions and Recommendations of the Romanian ICT RTD SurveyTraian Rebedea
The document summarizes the findings of an ICT RTD survey conducted in Romania and provides conclusions and recommendations. It finds that Romania's participation and success rates in FP7 ICT calls are low compared to other EU countries. Key reasons identified include a lack of experience in EU projects, poor networking and proposal writing skills. Recommendations include increasing visibility of funding opportunities, improving support from national authorities, and encouraging greater involvement in European research collaborations to build experience.
ICT research in the context of European Union
CASE SUMMER SCHOOL ON APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
APPLIED SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND TESTING
JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
The challenges of open data: emerging technology to support learner journeys Graham Attwell
The document discusses the development of an open database called LMI for All that contains UK labor market information (LMI) to support individuals' career and learning decisions. It describes the objectives to identify robust LMI sources, collate them in an accessible online tool, facilitate easy use of the data, and evaluate the tool with stakeholders. The process of developing the database involved creating an LMI repository, assessing and linking various data sources, and testing the database with users. Challenges included linking different data sets and developing the technology to support multiple platforms and devices.
International experience in informatics curriculum developmentMart Laanpere
This document summarizes international experience with informatics curriculum development. It provides background on Estonia's experience developing informatics as a school subject, including national strategies implemented since the 1980s. It then discusses key concepts in curriculum development and different types of curriculum. The remainder explores how informatics has been approached as a school subject in various countries, challenges in establishing it, and differences in approaches.
DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in E...Juan Jesús Baño Egea
This document presents a framework for developing digital competence in Europe. It identifies 5 areas of digital competence containing 21 competences total. The framework is based on a literature review, case study analysis, and expert survey. It provides definitions and examples for each competence across three proficiency levels. The goal is to help define digital competence and provide guidance for its assessment and development.
The IT Administrator is an independent IT qualifications within the EUCIP system, which write the necessary competences for the „administrator” position. The 3.0 version of the IT Administrator (EUCIP) defines a narrower set of competences, which allows to possess a basic exam, and obtaining a EUCIP IT Administrator Fundamentals (ITAF) certificate. To obtain this ITAF certificate the candidates have to proof their knowledge in four areas (Hardware, Operating systems, Networks and IT security).
PATHS state of the art monitoring reportpathsproject
This document provides an update to an Initial State of the Art Monitoring report delivered by the project. The report covers the areas of Educational Informatics, Information Retrieval and Semantic Similarity relatedness.
Informatics curricula in three Baltic statesMart Laanpere
In the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania each developed their own approach to teaching informatics in schools. Estonia moved towards integrating informatics as a cross-curricular theme and offering optional courses, while Lithuania maintained informatics as a compulsory standalone subject. Latvia adopted elements of both Estonia and Lithuania's models, requiring basic digital literacy courses and making an advanced informatics course optional for STEM-focused students. Over time, Estonia has continued refining its curriculum to emphasize programming, project-based learning, and preparing students for the digital workplace.
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Romanian ICT RTD SurveyTraian Rebedea
The document summarizes the findings of an ICT RTD survey conducted in Romania and provides conclusions and recommendations. It finds that Romania's participation and success rates in FP7 ICT calls are low compared to other EU countries. Key reasons identified include a lack of experience in EU projects, poor networking and proposal writing skills. Recommendations include increasing visibility of funding opportunities, improving support from national authorities, and encouraging greater involvement in European research collaborations to build experience.
ICT research in the context of European Union
CASE SUMMER SCHOOL ON APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
APPLIED SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND TESTING
JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
The challenges of open data: emerging technology to support learner journeys Graham Attwell
The document discusses the development of an open database called LMI for All that contains UK labor market information (LMI) to support individuals' career and learning decisions. It describes the objectives to identify robust LMI sources, collate them in an accessible online tool, facilitate easy use of the data, and evaluate the tool with stakeholders. The process of developing the database involved creating an LMI repository, assessing and linking various data sources, and testing the database with users. Challenges included linking different data sets and developing the technology to support multiple platforms and devices.
International experience in informatics curriculum developmentMart Laanpere
This document summarizes international experience with informatics curriculum development. It provides background on Estonia's experience developing informatics as a school subject, including national strategies implemented since the 1980s. It then discusses key concepts in curriculum development and different types of curriculum. The remainder explores how informatics has been approached as a school subject in various countries, challenges in establishing it, and differences in approaches.
DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in E...Juan Jesús Baño Egea
This document presents a framework for developing digital competence in Europe. It identifies 5 areas of digital competence containing 21 competences total. The framework is based on a literature review, case study analysis, and expert survey. It provides definitions and examples for each competence across three proficiency levels. The goal is to help define digital competence and provide guidance for its assessment and development.
The IT Administrator is an independent IT qualifications within the EUCIP system, which write the necessary competences for the „administrator” position. The 3.0 version of the IT Administrator (EUCIP) defines a narrower set of competences, which allows to possess a basic exam, and obtaining a EUCIP IT Administrator Fundamentals (ITAF) certificate. To obtain this ITAF certificate the candidates have to proof their knowledge in four areas (Hardware, Operating systems, Networks and IT security).
PATHS state of the art monitoring reportpathsproject
This document provides an update to an Initial State of the Art Monitoring report delivered by the project. The report covers the areas of Educational Informatics, Information Retrieval and Semantic Similarity relatedness.
Informatics curricula in three Baltic statesMart Laanpere
In the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania each developed their own approach to teaching informatics in schools. Estonia moved towards integrating informatics as a cross-curricular theme and offering optional courses, while Lithuania maintained informatics as a compulsory standalone subject. Latvia adopted elements of both Estonia and Lithuania's models, requiring basic digital literacy courses and making an advanced informatics course optional for STEM-focused students. Over time, Estonia has continued refining its curriculum to emphasize programming, project-based learning, and preparing students for the digital workplace.
The document discusses Karel Perutka, a senior lecturer at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. It describes his educational background, areas of teaching which include MATLAB programming, and research interests which center around adaptive control, real-time control, and creating educational games and tools using MATLAB. It also provides details about four games he has created to help students learn programming concepts through a gaming format, including Labyrinth of MATLAB, LUDO, Automtest, and Riskuj.
Augmented Reality (AR) is on the way to establishing itself in business and teaching once more. However, there is a lack of uniform guidelines or even standards both in the creation of teaching materials and in the use of AR in teaching. In addition, the industry needs enough well-trained specialists who can implement the established AR concepts, making a transfer from university to industry necessary. Therefore, in this talk we address both challenges in teaching with AR and the special needs of teaching about AR.
As teaching with AR will surely advance human performance and also brings in new perspectives with the communication, coordination and collaboration of AR in supporting human performance. As computer scientists, we have a European, interdisciplinary and application-oriented perspective, as our experience comes from several funded European projects in these areas. We also incorporate new incentives into teaching contexts in our framework, such as gamification, learning analytics and experience capturing. In addition, we refer to international standardization efforts such as IEEE ARLEM.
Teaching about AR adopts a multi-perspective view. First, there is scientific and technological basic knowledge helping to understand the underlying physical and technical principles. Second, there is engineering and design knowledge to master the creation, fabrication, and utilization of AR in many ways. Third, there is the necessary pedagogical knowledge to transform these complex settings in manageable teaching scenarios and processes, e.g. for higher education curricula.
Here, teaching AR can learn from traditions of science and engineering education as well as from more recent knowledge about computer science education. Examples from recent and on-going European projects will illustrate the argumentation.
This document discusses the challenges faced by engineers in developing countries like Nepal. It notes that while there are now several universities offering IT and engineering degrees, issues remain around the quality of education and alignment with industry needs. Factors inhibiting development include a lack of resources and infrastructure outside major cities, as well as social perceptions that do not value technical careers. However, some positive trends are emerging, such as growing startup activity and IT jobs. The IT Society of Nepal aims to address these challenges through advocacy, training programs, and bridging the gap between academia and industry.
This document provides a summary of a report on ICT use in education in Spain based on a 2011-2012 survey. It finds that:
- Spain has national strategies and central guidelines on ICT learning objectives in primary and secondary education. ICT is taught as both a subject and a tool across other subjects.
- The survey was conducted by the European Commission and European Schoolnet to benchmark ICT access, use, and attitudes in schools across Europe. It received responses from head teachers, teachers, and students in 27 countries.
- Key indicators in the report relate to ICT infrastructure availability, frequency of ICT use, digital skills of teachers and students, professional development, and school support measures. Results
Department of Information and Communication Technologies. Univ. Pompeu Fabra,...Aurelio Ruiz Garcia
The UPF ICT Department was created in 1999 and has since emphasized scientific excellence and internationalization. It has over 30 tenured faculty, 13 ICREA professors, and over 800 undergraduate students. The department focuses on cognitive and intelligent systems, audiovisual technologies, communications and networks, and computational biology. It offers various graduate and undergraduate degree programs and has strong industry partnerships, with over 70 internship agreements with companies. The department also engages in numerous knowledge transfer activities including incubators, conferences, and cultural/educational events.
The Department of Telecommunications at New Bulgarian University was established in 1994 and has since graduated over 550 students. It has numerous degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels focused on telecommunications, with areas of research including mobile networks, digital networks and services, ICT management, and more. The department has several specialized laboratories where students gain hands-on experience in topics such as electronics, radio communications, networking, and more cutting-edge fields.
Engineering the Aggregate - Talk at Software Engineering for Intelligent and ...Danilo Pianini
A distributed system can be seen as a single computational machine rather than a collection of multiple communicating machines, as it is usually perceived. Reasoning on the aggregate of situated devices under this privileged point of view can lead to interesting engineering solutions that allow for abstracting away the networking protocols, and focusing on producing advanced, self-stabilizing coordination algorithms.
Helvetas ICT Tools For Collaboration Interim Reportpete cranston
The document summarizes findings from evaluating Helvetas' use of collaborative technologies like Donyaso. It finds that while tools are used for communication, knowledge sharing occurs in isolated "islands" with limited sharing between groups. Donyaso is underutilized and lacking in features. It recommends phasing out Donyaso and moving to a new platform, implementing quick wins like simplifying processes, and developing a 24-month roadmap to replace systems and achieve consensus on requirements.
1. Technology Centre Hermia Ltd strengthens technology companies in the Tampere region of Finland and implements development projects in cooperation with companies, universities, and research institutions.
2. It coordinates the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise Programme and is responsible for national clusters in intelligent machines, ubiquitous computing, digital content, future energy technologies, and nano- and microsystems.
3. Technology Centre Hermia furthers the competitiveness of key industry clusters in the region through projects and networking to promote new business and expertise in pivotal high-tech fields.
Will Robots Take all the Jobs? Not yet.Dagmar Monett
Slides of the talk at the 3rd European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021 (a virtual conference), November 18th, 2021.
Graduate Engineering School for Information & Communication TechnologiesTélécom Paris
Telecom ParisTech, top Graduate Engineering School for
Information & Communication Technologies :
Communication & Electronics, Computer Science & Networking, Signal and Image processing
Economics, Management & Social Sciences
Open Source: The next big thing in technology transfer to developing nationsJamil AlKhatib
Free Open Source (FOS) should be one of the least expensive and most effective solutions for technology and knowledge transfer to developing nations. This concept has diffused to several fields such as software, hardware, and content. FOS offers not only a low cost alternative for technology acquisition, but also for networking based on cooperation. In addition, the transaction
costs of communication, licensing and negotiations are minimized, freeing up funds for real development. In this paper, FOS incentives, indicators, and measures are explained and the advantages of FOS as a viable technology and knowledge transfer tool for developing countries are highlighted.
This document summarizes two network analyses conducted by Dialogic that examined collaboration networks in the Dutch educational system. The first analysis looked at networks between secondary schools in the Universum program and higher education institutions (HEIs) and Jet-Net companies from 2005-2007. The second analyzed networks among HEIs in the Sprint program, Jet-Net companies, and secondary/vocational schools in 2008. Both aimed to understand how programs by the Platform Bèta Techniek fostered collaboration across educational levels and with businesses to strengthen STEM education and workforce preparedness. Key findings were that the Universum program expanded networks between secondary and higher education, while the Sprint program provided a baseline for later evaluating network growth throughout the entire education
My updated resume for (UMTS, WCDMA, LTE-Advanced 4G and 5G, SDN and NVF) wireless engineering.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Technology transfer in Lithuania: Sunrise Valley exampleSunrise valley
The document summarizes technology transfer efforts in Lithuania, specifically the Sunrise Valley project. It outlines Lithuania's low levels of R&D investment and innovation. Sunrise Valley aims to strengthen connections between education/science and businesses by developing a science and technology park. It will provide business support services and promote entrepreneurship/commercialization of research from local universities. The project's goals are to create a high-tech cluster, boost employment, and make Lithuania more competitive through knowledge-based economic development.
C-DAC is the premier R&D organization for IT and electronics under the Ministry of Electronics and IT in India. It was established in 1988 and has emerged as a leading organization working on strengthening national technological capabilities in areas like supercomputing, language processing, health informatics, and more. C-DAC operates through multiple centers focused on applied R&D, education, and skills development, contributing to India's digital advancement.
A Cloud Computing Framework for Ethiopian Higher Education InstitutionsIOSR Journals
This document discusses implementing a cloud computing framework for Ethiopian higher education institutions to help address their IT challenges. It proposes a hybrid cloud model combining a private cloud managed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Education and public clouds. This would allow institutions to efficiently share resources like registrar systems, reducing costs significantly. The cloud framework could provide resources to institutions in a cost-effective way while maintaining security and privacy through the hybrid public-private model. Overall, the document argues that a cloud computing approach would help Ethiopian higher education institutions overcome IT issues and budget constraints.
The conference report summarizes the SEMIC.EU Yearly Conference 2011 focused on rethinking semantic interoperability through collaboration. The key highlights included:
- Declan Deasy announced new directions for SEMIC.EU including developing e-Government core vocabularies and creating an EU semantic interoperability community of practice.
- Brand Niemann shared the experience of the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice in the US and emphasized the importance of knowledge centric systems.
- Dr. Stefan Decker discussed opportunities and challenges of using semantic technologies like linked open data and ontologies to improve government data interoperability and access.
20090327 Software Engineering -- What's in it for me?Arian Zwegers
Presentation about the opportunities for funding in Software and Services, esp in the FP7 ICT Work Programme, ITEA2, and Artemis, for the CSMR conference, Kaiserslautern (Germany), 27 March 2009
The document discusses Karel Perutka, a senior lecturer at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. It describes his educational background, areas of teaching which include MATLAB programming, and research interests which center around adaptive control, real-time control, and creating educational games and tools using MATLAB. It also provides details about four games he has created to help students learn programming concepts through a gaming format, including Labyrinth of MATLAB, LUDO, Automtest, and Riskuj.
Augmented Reality (AR) is on the way to establishing itself in business and teaching once more. However, there is a lack of uniform guidelines or even standards both in the creation of teaching materials and in the use of AR in teaching. In addition, the industry needs enough well-trained specialists who can implement the established AR concepts, making a transfer from university to industry necessary. Therefore, in this talk we address both challenges in teaching with AR and the special needs of teaching about AR.
As teaching with AR will surely advance human performance and also brings in new perspectives with the communication, coordination and collaboration of AR in supporting human performance. As computer scientists, we have a European, interdisciplinary and application-oriented perspective, as our experience comes from several funded European projects in these areas. We also incorporate new incentives into teaching contexts in our framework, such as gamification, learning analytics and experience capturing. In addition, we refer to international standardization efforts such as IEEE ARLEM.
Teaching about AR adopts a multi-perspective view. First, there is scientific and technological basic knowledge helping to understand the underlying physical and technical principles. Second, there is engineering and design knowledge to master the creation, fabrication, and utilization of AR in many ways. Third, there is the necessary pedagogical knowledge to transform these complex settings in manageable teaching scenarios and processes, e.g. for higher education curricula.
Here, teaching AR can learn from traditions of science and engineering education as well as from more recent knowledge about computer science education. Examples from recent and on-going European projects will illustrate the argumentation.
This document discusses the challenges faced by engineers in developing countries like Nepal. It notes that while there are now several universities offering IT and engineering degrees, issues remain around the quality of education and alignment with industry needs. Factors inhibiting development include a lack of resources and infrastructure outside major cities, as well as social perceptions that do not value technical careers. However, some positive trends are emerging, such as growing startup activity and IT jobs. The IT Society of Nepal aims to address these challenges through advocacy, training programs, and bridging the gap between academia and industry.
This document provides a summary of a report on ICT use in education in Spain based on a 2011-2012 survey. It finds that:
- Spain has national strategies and central guidelines on ICT learning objectives in primary and secondary education. ICT is taught as both a subject and a tool across other subjects.
- The survey was conducted by the European Commission and European Schoolnet to benchmark ICT access, use, and attitudes in schools across Europe. It received responses from head teachers, teachers, and students in 27 countries.
- Key indicators in the report relate to ICT infrastructure availability, frequency of ICT use, digital skills of teachers and students, professional development, and school support measures. Results
Department of Information and Communication Technologies. Univ. Pompeu Fabra,...Aurelio Ruiz Garcia
The UPF ICT Department was created in 1999 and has since emphasized scientific excellence and internationalization. It has over 30 tenured faculty, 13 ICREA professors, and over 800 undergraduate students. The department focuses on cognitive and intelligent systems, audiovisual technologies, communications and networks, and computational biology. It offers various graduate and undergraduate degree programs and has strong industry partnerships, with over 70 internship agreements with companies. The department also engages in numerous knowledge transfer activities including incubators, conferences, and cultural/educational events.
The Department of Telecommunications at New Bulgarian University was established in 1994 and has since graduated over 550 students. It has numerous degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels focused on telecommunications, with areas of research including mobile networks, digital networks and services, ICT management, and more. The department has several specialized laboratories where students gain hands-on experience in topics such as electronics, radio communications, networking, and more cutting-edge fields.
Engineering the Aggregate - Talk at Software Engineering for Intelligent and ...Danilo Pianini
A distributed system can be seen as a single computational machine rather than a collection of multiple communicating machines, as it is usually perceived. Reasoning on the aggregate of situated devices under this privileged point of view can lead to interesting engineering solutions that allow for abstracting away the networking protocols, and focusing on producing advanced, self-stabilizing coordination algorithms.
Helvetas ICT Tools For Collaboration Interim Reportpete cranston
The document summarizes findings from evaluating Helvetas' use of collaborative technologies like Donyaso. It finds that while tools are used for communication, knowledge sharing occurs in isolated "islands" with limited sharing between groups. Donyaso is underutilized and lacking in features. It recommends phasing out Donyaso and moving to a new platform, implementing quick wins like simplifying processes, and developing a 24-month roadmap to replace systems and achieve consensus on requirements.
1. Technology Centre Hermia Ltd strengthens technology companies in the Tampere region of Finland and implements development projects in cooperation with companies, universities, and research institutions.
2. It coordinates the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise Programme and is responsible for national clusters in intelligent machines, ubiquitous computing, digital content, future energy technologies, and nano- and microsystems.
3. Technology Centre Hermia furthers the competitiveness of key industry clusters in the region through projects and networking to promote new business and expertise in pivotal high-tech fields.
Will Robots Take all the Jobs? Not yet.Dagmar Monett
Slides of the talk at the 3rd European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021 (a virtual conference), November 18th, 2021.
Graduate Engineering School for Information & Communication TechnologiesTélécom Paris
Telecom ParisTech, top Graduate Engineering School for
Information & Communication Technologies :
Communication & Electronics, Computer Science & Networking, Signal and Image processing
Economics, Management & Social Sciences
Open Source: The next big thing in technology transfer to developing nationsJamil AlKhatib
Free Open Source (FOS) should be one of the least expensive and most effective solutions for technology and knowledge transfer to developing nations. This concept has diffused to several fields such as software, hardware, and content. FOS offers not only a low cost alternative for technology acquisition, but also for networking based on cooperation. In addition, the transaction
costs of communication, licensing and negotiations are minimized, freeing up funds for real development. In this paper, FOS incentives, indicators, and measures are explained and the advantages of FOS as a viable technology and knowledge transfer tool for developing countries are highlighted.
This document summarizes two network analyses conducted by Dialogic that examined collaboration networks in the Dutch educational system. The first analysis looked at networks between secondary schools in the Universum program and higher education institutions (HEIs) and Jet-Net companies from 2005-2007. The second analyzed networks among HEIs in the Sprint program, Jet-Net companies, and secondary/vocational schools in 2008. Both aimed to understand how programs by the Platform Bèta Techniek fostered collaboration across educational levels and with businesses to strengthen STEM education and workforce preparedness. Key findings were that the Universum program expanded networks between secondary and higher education, while the Sprint program provided a baseline for later evaluating network growth throughout the entire education
My updated resume for (UMTS, WCDMA, LTE-Advanced 4G and 5G, SDN and NVF) wireless engineering.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Technology transfer in Lithuania: Sunrise Valley exampleSunrise valley
The document summarizes technology transfer efforts in Lithuania, specifically the Sunrise Valley project. It outlines Lithuania's low levels of R&D investment and innovation. Sunrise Valley aims to strengthen connections between education/science and businesses by developing a science and technology park. It will provide business support services and promote entrepreneurship/commercialization of research from local universities. The project's goals are to create a high-tech cluster, boost employment, and make Lithuania more competitive through knowledge-based economic development.
C-DAC is the premier R&D organization for IT and electronics under the Ministry of Electronics and IT in India. It was established in 1988 and has emerged as a leading organization working on strengthening national technological capabilities in areas like supercomputing, language processing, health informatics, and more. C-DAC operates through multiple centers focused on applied R&D, education, and skills development, contributing to India's digital advancement.
A Cloud Computing Framework for Ethiopian Higher Education InstitutionsIOSR Journals
This document discusses implementing a cloud computing framework for Ethiopian higher education institutions to help address their IT challenges. It proposes a hybrid cloud model combining a private cloud managed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Education and public clouds. This would allow institutions to efficiently share resources like registrar systems, reducing costs significantly. The cloud framework could provide resources to institutions in a cost-effective way while maintaining security and privacy through the hybrid public-private model. Overall, the document argues that a cloud computing approach would help Ethiopian higher education institutions overcome IT issues and budget constraints.
The conference report summarizes the SEMIC.EU Yearly Conference 2011 focused on rethinking semantic interoperability through collaboration. The key highlights included:
- Declan Deasy announced new directions for SEMIC.EU including developing e-Government core vocabularies and creating an EU semantic interoperability community of practice.
- Brand Niemann shared the experience of the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice in the US and emphasized the importance of knowledge centric systems.
- Dr. Stefan Decker discussed opportunities and challenges of using semantic technologies like linked open data and ontologies to improve government data interoperability and access.
20090327 Software Engineering -- What's in it for me?Arian Zwegers
Presentation about the opportunities for funding in Software and Services, esp in the FP7 ICT Work Programme, ITEA2, and Artemis, for the CSMR conference, Kaiserslautern (Germany), 27 March 2009
Research Overview about the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) - Technische Universität Darmstadt - Germany
Research areas towards Adaptive Seamless Multimedia Communications are: Knowledge & Educational Technologies, Multimedia Technologies & Serious Games, Mobile Systems & Sensor Networks, Self-organizing Systems & Overlay Communications, Service-oriented Computing
TSSG is a leading Irish research center in telecommunications positioned among the top 3 in Ireland and top 10 in Europe. It conducts basic research, applied research, and commercialization. TSSG has participated successfully in 11 EU FP7 projects with 52 industrial partners, gaining benefits such as collaborating on pre-competitive research and helping bring research results to market. Participating in FP7 projects can benefit partners through co-developing new technologies and business models for future networks and mobility solutions centered around the user.
TSSG is a leading Irish research center in telecommunications positioned among the top 3 in Ireland and top 10 in Europe. It conducts basic research, applied research, and commercialization activities. TSSG has participated successfully in 11 EU FP7 projects with over 50 industrial partners, gaining benefits such as collaborating on pre-competitive research and helping bring results to market. Participation can involve issues around intellectual property and knowledge sharing that require consideration.
Intervención Olavi Luotonen. Comisión europea. Scientific Officer, New Infrastucture Paradigms and Experimental Facilities en las Primeras Jornadas de Centros de Conocimiento. Citilab Cornellà #citilab #joceco
Introducing the need for a Domain Model in Public Service Provision (PSP) eGo...Efthimios Tambouris
This is the presentation of a paper accepted in the ICDIM conference in London. The presentation took place on the 13th of November 2008. A relevant journal publication also exists (see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4746837&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4746837)
This document discusses Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation program for 2014-2020. It provides an overview of Horizon 2020's focus on ICT, including key thematic areas like cyber-physical systems, future internet, big data, and robotics. It also describes how Horizon 2020 calls are developed through input from the European Commission, advisory boards, and stakeholders. Specific upcoming calls are highlighted and the document provides tips for optimizing proposals to these calls.
Sala+ Presentation Cali Cartagena Octubre 2008 V0.0congresoandicom
The document discusses the SALA+ project, which aims to support cooperation between Europe and Latin America in networked and electronic media research and development. Specifically, it seeks to develop strategic research agendas, organize awareness workshops in Latin America, implement a community for organizations interested in cooperation, and maintain a website as a portal for cooperation. It also outlines common strategic research agendas developed between the EU and countries like Colombia, focusing on priority research topics in areas such as content creation, networking infrastructure, and new media experiences.
eParticipation initiatives in Europe: Learning from PractitionersEfthimios Tambouris
Paper presented in ePart 2012 conference, IDHEAP, Switzerland. The paper is available from Springer (see http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-15158-3_5)
FP7 Case Study: NanoStreams, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Be...Invest Northern Ireland
The document summarizes the origins and development of the NanoStreams project, an EU-funded research collaboration aimed at developing low-cost, energy-efficient servers for real-time analytics on streaming data. It describes how the project was initially conceived to address performance challenges in financial trading, brought together experts from across Europe, and was a good fit for an EU call focused on synergies between high-performance and embedded computing. The collaboration involved both universities and companies developing new technologies to enable high performance from small, low-power systems.
Opening – Introductions and Welcome by the hostsamossummit
The University of Aegean consists of five schools located across six Aegean islands in Greece, as well as eighteen departments that offer undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The Department of Information Communication Systems Engineering in particular offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees related to information and communication technologies. It also runs the Information Systems Laboratory, which conducts research and consulting through projects funded by the European Union and Greek government on topics like e-governance, e-business, and interoperability.
Le Hoa Nghiem is a software developer and engineer based in Italy with experience in research, analytics, machine learning, and embedded systems. She has a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering and worked on projects involving video processing algorithms, building chatbots, website analytics using clustering and classification algorithms, and FPGA design. Her skills include Python, C/C++, Java, machine learning libraries, Linux, and she has proficiency in English.
The Legacy and the Future of Research Networks in Technology-Enhanced LearningRalf Klamma
Ralf Klamma
Orphée Rendevous 2017, Font Romeu, France
Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) RWTH Aachen University, Germany
klamma@dbis.rwth-aachen.de
Presentation on ICT trends in developments and what this means for the agri-food business, focussing on the FIspace platform. The presentation was part of the mastercourse Hortibusiness in which about 20 entrepreneurs from the horticultural business are participating.
An eGovernment survey among Austrian municipalititesJohann Höchtl
The document summarizes the results of an eGovernment survey conducted among Austrian municipalities in 2008. Key findings include:
- Municipalities saw a 13% decline in employees from 2002 to 2008 but no increase in IT staff.
- 87% of municipalities did not plan new IT projects or e-services at the time due to exhaustion or limited resources.
- Smaller municipalities had a higher ratio of IT employees to overall staff due to limited economies of scale.
- The survey revealed a design flaw that overestimated broadband internet speeds in many areas.
Similar to Software Services in Romania – Academia and Industry (20)
Wholi is a company that aggregates data from public online sources to build knowledge graphs about people and companies. They use machine learning and natural language processing techniques like named entity recognition and topic modeling to extract useful features from text data. They also employ bootstrapped entity and relationship learning to infer additional information. Wholi matches profiles using a deep learning classifier trained on a large dataset of over 500,000 social media profiles to determine which profiles belong to the same individuals. Their goal is to provide a more complete online identity for matching purposes.
Deep neural networks for matching online social networking profilesTraian Rebedea
The document presents a study on using deep neural networks to match online social networking profiles that belong to the same individual. It describes extracting features from profiles, including domain-specific and text-based features. A deep neural network model with multiple fully-connected layers is proposed and shown to achieve high precision and recall on a large dataset, outperforming other supervised and unsupervised baseline methods. The study demonstrates applying deep learning techniques to the task of linking profiles from different social networks that refer to the same person.
How useful are semantic links for the detection of implicit references in csc...Traian Rebedea
The document discusses the usefulness of semantic links for detecting implicit references in chat conversations from computer-supported collaborative learning activities. It finds that on a macro level, the distribution of explicit links between utterances is similar to the distribution of semantic similarity scores, showing semantic similarity can be useful. However, at a micro level analyzing individual links, only around 40% of explicit links could be explained by semantic similarity alone, suggesting semantic similarity misses important links and additional techniques are needed.
A focused crawler for romanian words discoveryTraian Rebedea
The document describes a focused web crawler called RWScraper that was developed to identify new Romanian words from web pages. RWScraper analyzes Romanian texts, distinguishes common nouns from proper names, and extracts new words along with context and metadata to a database. It implements text processing techniques like normalization, language identification, and word tokenization. The system was tested on over 264,000 documents and identified over 53,000 new words, many of which were misspellings, technical terms, or regionalisms. The authors conclude RWScraper provides a way to discover language evolution but could be improved with more accurate NLP and analysis of identified words.
Detecting and Describing Historical Periods in a Large CorporaTraian Rebedea
Many historic periods (or events) are remembered
by slogans, expressions or words that are strongly linked to them. Educated people are also able to determine whether a particular word or expression is related to a specific period in human history. The present paper aims to establish correlations between significant historic periods (or events) and the texts written in that period. In order to achieve this, we have developed a system that automatically links words (and topics discovered using Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to periods of time in the recent history. For this analysis to be relevant and conclusive, it must be undertaken on a representative set of texts written throughout history. To this end, instead of relying on manually selected texts, the Google Books Ngram corpus has been chosen as a basis for the analysis. Although it provides only word n-gram statistics for the texts written in a given year, the resulting time series can be used to provide insights about the most important periods and events in recent history, by automatically linking them with specific keywords or even LDA topics.
Practical Machine Learning - Part 1 contains:
- Basic notations of ML (what tasks are there, what is a model, how to measure performance)
- A couple of examples of problems and solutions (taken from previous work)
- A brief presentation of open-source software used for ML (R, scikit-learn, Weka)
Automatic plagiarism detection system for specialized corporaTraian Rebedea
This document describes an automatic plagiarism detection system for specialized corpora developed at the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The system architecture is presented, including the front-end web interface and back-end detection modules. The detection process involves candidate selection algorithms using techniques like fingerprinting and indexing, followed by detailed analysis and post-processing. The system was evaluated on specialized computer science corpora, achieving a plagdet score of 0.22 on one dataset and detecting plagiarism in computer science theses. Areas for further improvement are discussed.
Relevance based ranking of video comments on YouTubeTraian Rebedea
This document presents a method for ranking the relevance of comments on YouTube videos. It involves a two-stage process: first classifying comments as relevant or noisy, then scoring the relevant comments based on topics extracted from the comments and related online resources about the video. The authors describe their classification of comments using linguistic features and a neural network. They also explain three approaches to relevance scoring using topics extracted from comments, Wikipedia articles, and lyrics. The results indicate the method produces a different comment ranking than YouTube, but more evaluation is needed to properly assess the impact of the relevance measure.
Opinion mining for social media and news items in RomanianTraian Rebedea
This document discusses opinion mining techniques for Romanian texts from social media and news. It presents previous work done on opinion mining for English texts, and the limited work done for Romanian. The authors developed several approaches for Romanian, including bag-of-words models, identifying affective words and dependencies, and n-gram probabilities. They evaluated the approaches on an opinionated corpus of Romanian texts from various domains, finding that bag-of-words and frequent n-grams performed best. Dependency parsing was less accurate due to the informal nature of social media texts. Overall the work presented initial methods for Romanian opinion mining with room for improvement.
PhD Defense: Computer-Based Support and Feedback for Collaborative Chat Conve...Traian Rebedea
Here are 3 examples of shallow links from the conversation:
- Utterances 30 and 29 form a shallow link, with 30 continuing the thought from 29 about blogs.
- Utterances 37, 38 and 39 form a shallow link, with 38 and 39 asking for more details about the reason mentioned in 37.
- Utterances 67 and 68 form a shallow link, with 68 providing an additional thought that continues the discussion started in 67 about chat's advantages.
Web services for supporting the interactions of learners in the social web - ...Traian Rebedea
1) The document proposes technologies to support learners interacting in social web platforms like chats and forums through analyzing discourse and providing automatic feedback and recommendations.
2) It describes the PolyCAFe architecture which uses advanced NLP techniques like tagged LSA to analyze conversations and assess participants, and the Social Network Assistant which provides recommendation and social search algorithms.
3) Validation results showed that PolyCAFe improved student and tutor assessment averages and the Social Network Assistant increased perceived usefulness of recommendations and trust in social searches over standard searches, while saving around 30% of the time for manual assessment.
Automatic assessment of collaborative chat conversations with PolyCAFe - EC-T...Traian Rebedea
- PolyCAFe is an automatic assessment tool that analyzes collaborative chat conversations and provides feedback without requiring tutor time.
- It uses natural language processing, social network analysis, and information retrieval techniques to evaluate utterances, measure collaboration, and generate feedback.
- An experiment found that tutors could prepare feedback 35% faster with PolyCAFe and that students found its feedback useful, accurate, and helpful for their learning.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Software Services in Romania – Academia and Industry
1. Software Services in Romania – Academia and Industry Traian Rebedea [email_address] “ Politehnica” University of Bucharest Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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4. Top Successful Projects Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 4 Call 5 Total Politehnica University of Bucharest 3 1 4 4 12 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 3 3 1 2 9 West University of Timisoara 1 1 2 University A.I.Cuza of Iasi 1 1 2 Politehnica University of Timisoara 1 1 University of Craiova 1 1 Babes-Bolyai University 1 1 University of Bucharest 1 1 University of Pitesti 1 1
5. Top Successful Projects Research Institutes Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 4 Call 5 Total National Research and Development Institute for Microtechnologies 1 2 3 National Institute for R&D in Informatics (ICI) 1 1 2 Research Institute for Automation Equipment and Systems (IPA SA) 1 1 2 Institute e-Austria Timisoara 1 1 2 Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy 1 1 National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation 1 1