Department of Knowledge Technologies

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Department of Knowledge Technologies

• Joef Stefan Institute
• Ljubljana
• Slovenia

Department Head Prof. Nada Lavrac
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Location of JSI
Europe
Slovenia
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Micro-location of JSI ?
Department of Knowledge Technologies
Joef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana
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Joef Stefan Institute - Profile

• Joef 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.

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Department of Knowledge Technologies
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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
  Urbancic)
  
• Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of
  Ljubljana
  
• Companies Quintelligence and Temida
• forming a group of approx. 60 people working in
  AI.

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Other collaboration relevant to ECOLEAD

• 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)

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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)

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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

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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

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Involvement in FP5 EU Projects

• RD 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

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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

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JSI group at the first ECOLEAD meeting in
Ljubljana
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JSI in Ljubljana