Information visualisation workshop

ANNEX 3: List of participants

Heidrun	Allert	Universitaet Hannover	[e-mail]
Stanislaw	Ambroszkiewicz	Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences	[e-mail]
Pasqualino	Assini	The Data Archive - University of Essex	[e-mail]
Paolo	Avesani	ITC-IRST	[e-mail]
Sonia	Bergamaschi	DSI - Universita di Modena e Reggio-Emilia	[e-mail]
Harold	Boley	Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz	[e-mail]
Matteo	Bonifacio	Arthur Andersen Italia	[e-mail]
Bert	Bos	W3C/INRIA	[e-mail]
Luca	Botturi	Universita della Svizzeria italiana	[e-mail]
Malek	Boualem	France Telecom R&D	[e-mail]
Paolo	Bouquet	University of Trento (Italy)	[e-mail]
Paul	Brandt	TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory	[e-mail]
Dan	Brickley	ILRT/W3C	[e-mail]
Martin	Bryan	The SGML Centre	[e-mail]
Gerhard	Budin	University of Vienna	[e-mail]
Joe	Bullock	Canon Research Centre Europe	[e-mail]
Stephen	Buswell	Stilo Technology Ltd	[e-mail]
Antonio	Capani	Explo-IT Research	[e-mail]
Paola	Capitani		[e-mail]
Nicola	Capuano	Università degli Studi di Salerno	[e-mail]
Jens	Christensen	CE
Ioannis T.	Christou	Intracom S.A.	[e-mail]
Vania	Conan	Thomson-CSF Comsys	[e-mail]
Stefan	Covaci	POPNET AGENTSCAPE AG	[e-mail]
Zhan	Cui	BT Plc, UK	[e-mail]
Cinzia	D’Ascanio	CE	[e-mail]
Patrick	De Causmaecker	KaHo Sint-Lieven	[e-mail]
Jos	De Roo	AGFA	[e-mail]
David	De Roure	University of Southampton	[e-mail]
Jean	Delahousse	Mondeca	[e-mail]
Peter	Demeester	KaHo Sint-Lieven	[e-mail]
Steven	Depuydt	KUL, ESAT, Docarch	[e-mail]
Mike	Dewar	NAG Ltd	[e-mail]
Hadhami	Dhraief	University of Hannover	[e-mail]
Ying	Ding	University, Amsterdam	[e-mail]
Edd	Dumbill	XML.com (O’Reilly Network)	[e-mail]
Kurt	Englmeier	DIW-German Institute for Economic research	[e-mail]
Jérôme	Euzenat	INRIA Rhône-Alpes	[e-mail]
Peter	Fankhauser	GMD-IPSI	[e-mail]
Dieter	Fensel	Free University of Amsterdam	[e-mail]
Christian	Fillies	Fillies & Friends Consulting	[e-mail]
Gerti	Foest	DFN (German Academic Network Association)	[e-mail]
Martin	Fredriksson	Blekinge Institute of Technology	[e-mail]
Maurizio	Gabbrielli	Universita' di Udine	[e-mail]
Carole	Goble	University of Manchester	[e-mail]
Guido	Grau	ITV Denkendorf	[e-mail]
Volker	Grienitz	UNITY AG	[e-mail]
Christian	Gronoff	SEMIOSPHERE	[e-mail]
Lynda	Hardman	CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica)	[e-mail]
Bent	Hauschildt	CE
Birgit	Hay	University LUC Diepenbeek	[e-mail]
Pat	Hayes	IHMC, University of West Florida	[e-mail]
Andrea	Helbach	MedienRaum asbl	[e-mail]
Erik	Hellman	Blekinge Institute of Technology	[e-mail]
Johan	Hjelm	Ericsson	[e-mail]
Timo	Honkela	Gurusoft Oy	[e-mail]
Bernard	Horan	Sun Microsystems	[e-mail]
Ian	Horrocks	University of Manchester	[e-mail]
George	Ioannidis	University of Bremen	[e-mail]
Mikael	Jern	Advanced Visual Systems Aps and Linkoping University Sweden	[e-mail] or [e-mail]
Charalampos	Karagiannidis	Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH)	[e-mail]
Atanas	Kiryakov	OntoText Lab., Sirma AI Ltd.	[e-mail]
Wolfgang	Klas	Universität Wien, Institut für Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik	[e-mail]
Claudia	Kunze	University of Tübingen	[e-mail]
David	Leal	CAESAR Systems Limited	[e-mail]
Steffen	Lindek	International DOI Foundation	[e-mail]
Maite	López-Sánchez	iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components S.A.	[e-mail]
Sigfrid	Lundberg	Lund university library/NetLab	[e-mail]
Valerie A.	Martin	Brunel University	[e-mail]
Mia	Marttiini	Gurusoft Oy	[e-mail]
Brian	McBride	HP Laboratories	[e-mail]
Robert	Meersman	VUB STARlab	[e-mail]
Zdenek	Mikovec	Czech Technical University Prague	[e-mail]
Libby	Miller	ILRT, University of Bristol	[e-mail]
Amedeo	Napoli	CNRS -- INRIA -- Universités de Nancy	[e-mail]
J.	Nicklisch-Franken	Persist AG	[e-mail]
Mikael	Nilsson	Royal Institute of Technology	[e-mail]
Francis	Norton	Intelligent Environments	[e-mail]
Bert	Paepen	KUL, ESAT, Docarch	[e-mail]
Chaitali	Patel	Brunel University - Semantic Integration Environment (SITE)	[e-mail]
Patrick	Peiffer	TADORO.COM Servolutions GmbH	[e-mail]
Domenico	Perrotta	CE
A.	Persidis	Biovista	[e-mail]
R.A.	Poell	Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)	[e-mail]
Yann	Pollet	Matra Systèmes & Information	[e-mail]
Sylvie	Regnier-Prost	GIE EADS CCR	[e-mail]
Francesco	Ricci	ITC-irst	[e-mail]
Michael	Rose	Technical University of Denmark	[e-mail]
Günther	Rothfuss	successnet ag	[e-mail]
Catherine	Roussey	LISI	[e-mail]
Janne	Saarela	Pro Solutions	[e-mail]
Norman	Sadeh	CE
	Salerno	University of Salerno	[e-mail]
Demetrios G.	Sampson	Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH)	[e-mail]
Heinz	Schweppe	Freie Universität Berlin	[e-mail]
Mark	Seaborne	Sterling Commerce	[e-mail]
Frederique	Segond	Xerox Research Centre Europe	[e-mail]
Dave	Snowdon	Xerox Research Centre Europe	[e-mail]
Xavier	Sosnowska	Cedefop	[e-mail]
Samuel	Sourdeu	FOREM	[e-mail]
Kilian	Stoffel	University of Neuchâtel	[e-mail]
Rudi	Studer	Univ. of Karlsruhe	[e-mail]
York	Sure	University of Karlsruhe	[e-mail]
Christos	Tatsiopoulos	EPIS LTD	[e-mail]
Ralph	Traphöner	tecinno GmbH	ralph.traphö[e-mail]
Eric	van der Vlist	DYOMEDEA	[e-mail]
Piek	Vossen	Sail Labs BVBA	[e-mail]
Gerhard K.	Wagner	Austrian Federation for the Information Industry	[e-mail]
Frauke	Weichhardt	beratung im netz	[e-mail]
Alessandro	Zanasi	IBM	[e-mail] [e-mail]

ANNEX 4: Excerpt from the draft IST Work Programme 2001

III.4 Information access, filtering, analysis and handling (IAF)

The World Wide Web is becoming a major vehicle for the distribution and delivery of multimedia content including video and audio, accessible from stationary (including domestic) and mobile platforms. It is, however, necessary to impose more semantic structure on Web content in order to facilitate, for example, resource and knowledge discovery, information filtering and intelligent browsing. It is, in short, necessary to make Web content machine understandable. Given the sheer size and dynamics of the Web this can only be achieved through highly automated procedures.

IST2001 - III.4.1 Semantic Web technologies

Objectives: To enable users to access, retrieve and filter information from the Web, relevant to their interests and needs, and matching their quality expectations. This requires new and advanced methods, models, tools and systems for services related to access, retrieval and filtering of Web-based content, in particular the development of new search systems and machines, in line with existing and emerging relevant standards. These services would typically be provided by intelligent agents.

Focus:

This Action Line focuses on content technologies that contribute to the creation and exploitation of the Semantic Web. It invites projects that develop, apply and benchmark these technologies in a Web context. They include:

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  Methods and tools for coding and structuring digital content, for defining and declaring its semantics. These would typically employ XML, RDF and other techniques for semantic interoperability and reasoning such as ontologies for domain specific applications.
  
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  Methods and tools for the derivation of semantic attributes of Web-based content (in particular video, audio and images) through, for example,. automatic feature detection, video segmentation and post-processing. This would facilitate multimedia indexing based on content analysis as well as automated categorization of Web resources.
  
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  Semantics based tools for knowledge discovery and intelligent filtering and profiling such as information agents and specific query languages. Semantics based tools for collaborative filtering and knowledge sharing in specific or general user communities.
  
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  Information visualisation: intelligent and visual interfaces which take advantage of semantic information structures to provide users with radical new ways to navigate and search naturally through unknown and complex information spaces.
  

Issues to be addressed by projects under this Action Line include the sustainability and scalability of the proposed approaches concerning, for example, metadata repositories and ontologies. Projects may also wish to focus specifically on the constraints and special requirements of domestic platforms (such as WebTV) and mobile platforms (such as WAP and UMTS) for Web access, and their user communities. Ease of access as well as scalability and presentation of content are likely to be the main challenges here. Moreover, the integration of geographic information into Web-based service environments could greatly benefit the usability of mobile platforms.

Types of Actions addressed: Research and Development, Demonstration, Combined projects, Thematic Networks

Links with WP2000: New Action Line

ANNEX 5: Contacts in the European Commission, Information Society DG, Directorate D, Unit 5 (DG INFSO/D5):

Franco Mastroddi, Dep. Head of Unit, [e-mail]

Gerhard Heine, Principal Administrator, [e-mail]

Martin Littlejohn, Principal Administrator, [e-mail]

Pierre-Paul Sondag, Principal Administrator, [e-mail]

Hans-Georg Stork, Principal Scientific Officer, [e-mail]

Webmaster: Joseph Kirsch, [e-mail]

Secretary: Elvire Lanners, Tel. [phone], Fax. [phone]

Mail address:

European Commission

EUFO

rue Alcide de Gasperi

L-2920 Luxembourg

Location:

Euroforum Building

10, rue Robert Stumper

L-2557 Luxembourg

Relevant URLs:

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/iaf/home.html (IST Key Action III, Area "Information access, filtering, analysis and handling")

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/home.html (IST Key Action III "Multimedia content and tools")

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html (IST website)