Location of JSI

Europe Slovenia

Micro-location of JSI

Department of Knowledge TechnologiesJožef 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 1949. • 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 - OrganizationResearch Departments

Physics (6 deps.) Chemistry and Biochemistry (5 deps.)

ICT & Electronics (7deps.) Nuclear technology (1 dep.)

Department of Knowledge Technologies (21 members)

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)

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