GSI (Group of Intelligent Systems) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) corporate presentation

1. Intelligent Systems Group (GSI)
Carlos A. Iglesias
Autor:
Grupo de Sistemas Inteligentes
Universidad Sistemas Inteligentes
Grupo de Politécnica de Madrid
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Largest technical university in Spain
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20 engineering and architecture schools
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3.311 faculty members
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38.885 undergraduate students
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4.636 graduate students
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2.229 support staff
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2607 researchers
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More than 200 EU projects
st
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1 Spanish university in the participation
in EU projects

3. Telecommunications
Engineering School
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Largest Telecommunication Engineering
School in Spain
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3400 students, 240 PhD students, 100
Master students
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250 professors
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150 research assistants
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130 administrative staff
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8M € - research budget

4. Department of
Telematic Systems Engineering
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Research in different areas:
● Next Generation Internet
● Network and Services in Internet
● Architecture
● Intelligent Systems
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46 professors
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40 PhD students
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100 research students
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Organizers of WWW2009

5. Research lines
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Intelligent technologies in Service
Engineering (SE)
● Multiagent systems
● Decision support systems
● Semantic Technologies

6. Multiagent Systems
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Network management and service
engineering
● Network and Service monitoring / diagnosis
● Distributed Workflow based process
management
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Methodologies
● Knowledge Engineering
● Agreement Patterns
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Agent Architectures

7. Decision support
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Service Management
● Validation of plans for deployment services
● Validation of configuration of data systems /
data fusion
● SLA Management
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Security
● Intrusion detection
● Multi-sensor data fusion
● Detection of inconsistencies

8. Semantic technologies
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Semantic Technologies and Web2.0
approaches
● Lightweight semantics for services
● Ontologies for ad-hoc services
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Recommendation systems
● Contextual recommendations
● Social tagging
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Opinion mining /
Idea Management technologies
● Ontologies for opinions / ideas

9. Key FP7 projects
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FP7 ICT Omelette - Open Mashup
Enterprise service platform for LinkEd
data in The TElco domain
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FP7 ICT Romulus - Domain Driven
Design and Mashup Oriented
Development based on Open Source Java
Metaframework for Pragmatic, Reliable
and Secure Web Development
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Eurosentiment – Shared Language
Resource Pool for Sentiment Analysis of
Social Media

10. Key national projects
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Web 4.0 – Question Answering and
Information Retrieval with a Smart Phone
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Financial Twitter Tracker – Social media
tracking with semantic technologies
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CALISTA – Decision support for managing
home networks
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THOFU – Hotel of the Future
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Disasters2.0 – Intelligent Systems for
assisting in crisis situations

11. Tools
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Idea Management
● Based on Drupal
● Interoperability of Ideas based on gi2mo
ontology and open linked data
● Analysis of Ideas
– Similarity
– Metrics

12. Tools: IdeaStream Idea
Management

13. Tools: Idea Analytics and
Visualisation

14. Tools: social simulation
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Social simulation
● Scenario of evacuation in buildings
● Simulation of individual human psychology
and emergent behaviour
● Process improvement using simulations
● Policy modelling and analyse behaviour

15. Social simulation

16. Decision support tools
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Hyphotesis
confirmation / risk
analysis based on
bayesian causal
networks
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Assessment in
disaster situations
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Combination of
web 2.0 and
intelligent
techniques

17. Decision support tools
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Diagnosis in
telecommunication
networks
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Hyphotesis
confirmation / risk
analysis based on
bayesian causal
networks

18. Opinion mining / Sentiment analysis
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“Linked Opinions” - Sentiment analysis
meets Semantic Web
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OPAL – Integration in Drupal
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Visualisation of Sentiment Analysis in
Social Media
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Big Data & Semantic Web

19. Corporate Networking
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Enhace corporate
networking for the
Digital Enterprise
with
● Semantic scraping
● Semantic
matchmaking
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Assessment on
business models

20. Evented Web Automation
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EWE – Ontology for the Evented WEb
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ECA Rules for automating
● Service integration
● Mobile adaptation based on web sensors
● Social services interaction
● Home automation
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Intelligent event processing based on
Nodejs and agent platform

21. Personal assistants
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Provide assistance in natural language
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Capability to execute actions (look for info
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Decision support (next action, workflow,
…)
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Tools for developing dialogues
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Information retrieval from Internet
combined with Question-Answering
engine

22. Dialogue management

23. Clients for Virtual Worlds, Moodle,
Mobile...

24. SmartTV, Phone, Chrome plugin,...

25. Scrappy
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Semantic scrapping
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Extraction of RDF triples from Web pages
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Rule induction of scraping rules based on
visual features

26. Scrappy

27. Contact
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Carlos A. Iglesias
Intelligent Systems Research Group
cif@dit.upm.es