Location of JSI EuropeSlovenia

Micro-location of JSI Department of Knowledge Technologies Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana

Jožef Stefan Institute - Profile Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian national research organization in the area of natural sciences and technology The Institute was founded in The staff of around 700 people is specialized in research of: – information and communication sciences & electronics, – physics, – chemistry, biochemistry & nanotechnology – nuclear technology.

Jožef Stefan Institute - Organization Department of Intelligent Systems (18 members) Centres Infrastructure (6) Technology and Consultancy (13) Educational (4) Center for Knowledge Transfer in IT (3 people)

Department of Knowledge Technologies (Profile) Head: Prof. Nada Lavrac Staff: 19 researchers + 2 support + 6 external Historical note: –Founded as Artificial Intelligence Group in 1979 –Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1985 –Department of Intelligent Systems in 1995 (AI & NLP Lab) –Splitting into two departments (KT & IS) in 2004 Close collaboration in Slovenia with: –Intelligent Systems Department at J. Stefan Institute –Center for Knowledge Transfer in IT at J. Stefan Institute (Head - Mitja Jermol, previously Dr. Tanja Urbančič) –Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Ljubljana –Companies Quintelligence and Temida –…forming a group of approx. 60 people working in AI.

Department of Knowledge Technologies (main research areas)

– Machine learning/Data mining: probabilistic learning in noisy domains (8), text and web mining (5), inductive logic programming (2), equation discovery (3) – Knowledge management (4) – Ecological modeling (3) – Decision support systems (2) – Human language technologies (3) – Logic & cognitive science (1)

LAKOS Laboratory at the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Ljubljana –CIM, cybernetic models, intelligent manufacturing, networked organisations and distributed manufacturing Faculty of Economics, Univ. of Ljubljana –networked organisations, business, management and organisation models, knowledge management several Slovenian Clusters (eKnowledge, automotive, ICT, high-tech) Other collaboration relevant to ECOLEAD

Department of Knowledge Technologies (Assets) Software: – Text-Garden – set of (mainly) Text-Mining tools based on portable C++ library – LINUS, RSD – relational rule learners – CN2-SD, APRIORI-SD – propositional rule learners – Largarnge/LagraMge – Equation Discovery systems – DEXi – system for multi-attribute decision support Language Corpora: – MultexEast – …

International (non-EU) Collaboration Carnegie Mellon University, US – Link Analysis, Text-Mining, Market Analysis Microsoft Research, UK – Text-Mining, Link Analysis Stanford University & NASA Ames, US – Equation Discovery, Ecological Modeling Osaka University, Japan – Equation Discovery Tokyo University, Japan – Human language technologies

Involvement in FP5 EU Projects R&D projects – SolEuNet – Data mining and Decision support for Virtual Enterprises (JSI coordinator) – METAL – Meta Learning approaches (FET) – CINQ – Query Languages for Data Mining (FET) – GMonit – Data mining & Decision support in Ecology Research Networks – KDNet – Knowledge Discovery Network – KMForum – Knowledge Management – Nemis – Text-Mining network – EUnite – Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery Network

Active FP6 projects Integrated Projects (IP): – ECOLEAD – Cooperative Networked Organizations – SEKT - Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP): – ALVIS – Next Generation Search Engines – SIGMEA – Data mining in Ecological Modeling Networks of Excellence (NoE): – PASCAL – Machine Learning for Interfacing techniques Specific Support Actions (SSA): – WYS-CEC - Women and Youth in Science

What ECOLEAD expects from JSI? Main JSI contributions: –…delivering state of the art knowledge and providing research in the broad field of Knowledge technologies (WP2-WP5) –… coordinating workpackage WP7 (Training) –…developing software solutions based on Knowledge technologies for WP2 and WP3 –…collaboration in other workpackages

What JSI expects from ECOLEAD? Main JSI expectations: –to be member of the leading CNO initiative and recognizable research project –to become competitive with non-EU (US) related research –to build successful commercial and research software to support CNO –to integrate with other related research areas –to have a real impact on the development of virtual business

JSI group at the first ECOLEAD meeting in Ljubljana

Training activities for Ecolead Establishing & maintaining virtual learning community through –On-line content (courses, seminars, summer-schools, conferences, …) –Common support functions (on-line, print, text-books…) Setting up the European training programme on VO by: –Distributed - virtual summer schools, workshops –Common European curricula –VO for training …activities will be covered by “Center for knowledge transfer in IT”