Transcript The socio-technological integrator and innovator

Company profile and role in NARNIA
George M. Milis
[email protected]
G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd
Cyprus
NARNIA Midterm Review Meeting
Nicosia, Cyprus, 9 October 2012
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Outline
 EuroCy profile
 Our NARNIA team
 Role in the project
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EuroCy profile
• G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd (EuroCy) is an IT and Consulting
company founded in 2008 in Cyprus
• Contributing to the social e-inclusion, development and innovation
in Cyprus and beyond:
 Design and development of state-of-art Web-based software solutions
 Study of application fields, analysis of business requirements
• To achieve effective inclusion of young and healthy, as well as, older and
impaired people
 Consulting for efficient technology adoption
 Training and change management
 Dissemination and exploitation activities
• Active role in European and National research
 To advance the in-house knowledge and services’ portfolio
 Create strong partnerships, towards the provision of next generation and stateof-art services to its customers throughout the world
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Offered services
• Software engineering
• Training
• Consulting services
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Change management
e-Procurement
e-Government and e-Inclusion
Technology adoption
Open and free software
Intelligent control of complex systems
Optimization techniques and operational research
Research and development
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Knowledge mining and management
e-Government, e-Health, e-Procurement services
Semantically enhanced interoperable components and services
Intelligent control and applications
Social Inclusion and social aspects of technology adoption
Critical Infrastructure Protection
etc.
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Indicative projects
• ViPi – Virtual Portal for Interaction and ICT
Training for People with Disabilities (www.vipiproject.eu)
 Lifelong Learning Programme
 “one-stop-shop” learning environment
 ICT skills for employment of people with disabilities
• FixCyprus.com service (www.fixcyprus.com), in
cooperation with CSDR (KEDE)
 Social government service
 Open channel for the communication among
citizens and local authorities towards the direct
reporting of practical problems arising in public
places, for prioritization and resolution
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Partners and Clients
• Partners
 Academic sector
• Several European Universities through the research programmes
 NGOs and non-profit research centers
• CSDR (Center for Scientific Dialogue and Research)
• Marie Curie Association (Bulgaria)
 Private sector
• European Dynamics S.A (Greece)
• SignalGenerix (Cyprus)
• IntelliCys (Cyprus)
• Clients
 Public sector
• European Commission
• Treasury of the Republic of Cyprus
• Local authorities in Cyprus
 NGOs
 Private sector
• BBD-Europe
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Role in NARNIA
• Development and technical maintenance of the project Website
and the Collaboration Intranet
• Host and fund the research of ESR8 to work on:
 The application and development of computational intelligence methodologies
in analyzing archaeological data (WP5)
 pattern recognition techniques for adaptive learning, expert intelligent
algorithms to assist archeological research in analyzing and making sense out
of large quantities of structured and semi-structured data
 Cooperation with KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks
(see next slides)
 Time schedule: Months 13-48
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Role in NARNIA
• Training courses (Month 30, May 2013)
 Methodologies in analyzing structured and semi-structured
archaeological data towards extracting knowledge
 Especially designed for archaeologists, anthropologists and other
research fellows originating from the field of humanities
 Focus on best practices on data storing, data analysis, information
representation and knowledge extraction
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Role in NARNIA
• Deliverables
 Project Website and source code (ER01, UCY) - Delivered
 The NARNIA intra-communication and collaboration platform. Source code of
the platform and related user guide (ESR08, UCY) - Delivered
 Six-months and annual reports including information about all management,
research and training activities (ESR08) - Ongoing
 The application and development of computational intelligence methodologies
in analyzing archaeological data – Report (ESR8, EUROCY) - Pending
 The application and development of computational intelligence methodologies
in analyzing archaeological data – Peer-reviewed manuscript (ESR8, EUROCY)
- Pending
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Our business vision
• Exploit our market orientation, with the academic excellence of KIOS
Research Center of UCY
• Develop a toolset of advance (knowledge extraction) algorithms to
be used by Engineers, Computer Scientists and Archaeologists
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Our NARNIA team
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George Milis (Director and RTD Manager at EuroCy)
 MSc in Advanced Computing with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from the Department of
Computing, Imperial College London, and a Diploma from the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece, in Electrical and Computing Engineering
 Served for 6 years as Senior IT consultant in European Dynamics SA in Athens, Greece
 Extensive experience in knowledge extraction and management, semantically-enhanced
interoperable services, project management, analysis and consulting for efficient adoption of
technology in collaborative environments
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Demetrios Eliades (Senior Consultant at EuroCy)
 PhD in Electrical Engineering, UCY, (in 2011), MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 2005 from the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece, in Electrical and Computing Engineering
 Research assistant in KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks
 Background in computational and artificial intelligence, statistical learning and pattern
recognition
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Liza Charalambous (Early Stage Researcher at EuroCy)
 MSc in Digital Signal Processing Intelligent System (2011) and BSc Hons in Information
Technology and Multimedia Communications (2010), from Lancaster University
 Currently employed at EuroCy and KIOS Research Center as an Early Stage Researcher for
the NARNIA project
 Background in sound and image processing, adaptive filters and intelligent systems multimedia
coding and distribution, and several techniques of computational intelligence
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KIOS Research Center
• ESR08 is funded to follow a PhD program in University of Cyprus
 Fellowship started in Nov 2011, PhD enrollment in Jan 2012
• KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Network
 www.kios.ucy.ac.cy
 “Kios” (Κοίος) is the Titan of intelligence and the inquisitive mind
• Conducting high quality, interdisciplinary research for the benefit of society
and promotion of the knowledge-based economy
 Multidisciplinary teams of young scientists and engineers
 Create synergies: can you combine archaeology, chemistry and engineering?
• Advancement of knowledge in the areas of computational intelligence and
system design
• Collaboration between industry, academia and research organizations
• Education opportunities to new researchers, through targeted training
programs
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Thank you! Questions?
The way to innovation goes
through excavation
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