Welcome to

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• Welcome to
• Joef Stefan Institute
• Ljubljana
• Slovenia

Department Head Prof. Nada Lavrac
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Joef Stefan Institute - Profile

• Founded in 1949
• The leading Slovenian national research
  organization in natural sciences and technology
  
• information and communication technologies
• chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology
• physics, nuclear technology and safety
• Joef Stefan International Postgraduate School
  (founded in 2004) offers MSc and PhD programs
  
• ICT, nanotechnology, ecotechnology
• research oriented, basic management courses
• courses in English
• around 700 researchers, students, support staff

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Joef Stefan Profile

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Joef Stefan - Profile

• Joef Stefan (1835-1893) was one of the most
  distinguished physicists of the nineteenth
  century
  
• He originated the law of the total radiation
  from a black body

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Department of Knowledge Technologies - Profile

• Staff 25 researchers and support staff, 19
  students and external collaborators, Head Nada
  Lavrac
  
• Main research areas
• Machine learning/Data mining (12)
• Knowledge management (4)
• Ecological modeling (3)
• Decision support systems (2)
• Human language technologies (3)
• Logic cognitive science (1)

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Department of Knowledge technologies

• Core

Applications

• Ecological modeling
• AI in medicine
• Healthcare
• Agriculture
• Enterprise management
• Marketing and News

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KT IJS - Funding

• National funding (1/3)
• Basic research project on Knowledge Technologies
• National RD projects, client applications
• EU funding (2/3)
• 3 IP projects
• 10 STREP projects
• Networks of Excellence
• Specific Support Actions, Coordination Actions

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EU projects (2004-2009)
projects
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Publications
publications
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Data Mining / Machine Learning

• Machine learning techniques
• classification rule learning
• subgroup discovery
• relational data mining and ILP
• Data mining applications
• medicine, health care
• ecology
• knowledge management, virtual organizations
• Data mining and decision support integration

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Subgroup Discovery
application
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Decision Support

• Methods
• Qualitative Multi-Attribute Modeling
• Decision Analysis
• Data Warehouses and OLAP
• Software
• DEXi Multi-attribute decision support
• Applications
• over 50 applications for clients evaluation of
  companies, personnel management, project
  evaluation, land-use planning, agronomy, medicine
  and health-care, sport

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Multi-attribute decision support Applications
and DEXi Software
software

• DEXi supports
• what-if analysis
• stability analysis
• temporal tracing
• how explanation
• why explanation

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Text Mining and Semantic Web OntoGen
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Text Mining and Semantic Web Document Atlas
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Text Mining and Semantic Web Contents Land
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Text Mining and Semantic Web Semantic Graphs
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IST World Text and Web Mining support for EU
Commission http//pi.ijs.si
application
most active country
number of project collaborations
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