Foreword

Welcome to new and returning readers!

Foreword is an opportunity to present some key points from recent initiatives of our labs. Have a close look at NewSum, an application that received the 1st prize in Efarmogiada 2013. Also at PServer, offering the possibility of personalization of other applications. Both developed at IIT, they are now offered to all for free through SciFY.

In July, IIT successfully organized the International Research-Centered Summer School (IRSS13). We are very proud, as it was the first time a Robotics oriented school was organized in Greece. There were also many other important events, organized by IIT or where our Researchers participated in: conferences, workshops, tutorials, webinars.

The website of the Spanish Mininstry of Interior makes a special mention of the PERSEUS EU funded Demonstration Project and specifically of the Eastern Campaign that is coordinated by our Institute.

A measure of success of our Institute is the growing number of job openings in the areas of informatics & telecommunications. Currently, we have six new job openings in support of scientific and technical R&D projects, and one new PhD scholarship.

Stelios Thomopoulos, IIT Director

Research

R&D Exploitation

First prize for open source application NewSum
The Android revolutionary application NewSum, that offers global perspective on news at a glance, received the first prize in Efarmogiada 2013 - the first Greek cross platform apps development competition. NewSum, based on technologies developed at the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL), is further developed and distributed with the support of SciFY.
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PServer upgraded to version 1.1 - now has its own official site
Personalization Server (PServer) is an opensource application developed at the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) of IIT, which offers the possibility of personalization of other applications. It is now offered to all for free through SciFY. Visit pserver-project.org and find how to enter the era of personalized services

Public R&D dissemination

Special mention of the PERSEUS Project by the Spanish Mininstry of Interior
The website of the Spanish Mininstry of Interior makes a special mention of the PERSEUS EU funded Demonstration Project and specifically of the Eastern Campaign that is coordinated by our Institute.
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Best content for kids - 2^nd European Award competition
Share your opinion via the 2nd European Award for best content for kids. The effort is supported by the European thematic network POSCON (where SKEL from IIT participates) and funded by the SAFER INTERNET Programme of the European Commission.
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• 24 June: webinar on the POWDER Recommendation
  Dr Stasinos Konstantopoulos, SKEL, presented the POWDER W3C Recommendation at the premises of the Semantic Web Company, Vienna, Austria. The talk was broadcast live as a Webinar by SWC. Read more

Publications

Books, Journal articles, Conference papers

New R&D Projects
• REVEAL (REVEALing hidden concepts in Social Media) (accepted)
• SPEEDD (Scalable ProactivE Event-Driven Decision making) (accepted)
• T-NOVA (Network Functions as-a-Service over Virtualised Infrastructures) (accepted)

List of IIT FP7 projects (in pdf)

Events

12 October: PServer WorkShop #2
Introducing PServer to the community: the research, the tool, the practical benefits for all. Personalization Server (PServer) is an opensource application developed at the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) of IIT, offered to everyone, for free, through SciFY. We are inviting you to the second PServer workshop to share the knowledge with you!
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27 September: Researchers Night 2013 - Discovering the unknown world of the researcher
You are welcome to NCSR Demokritos, to participate to 2013 researchers' night that will take place on the 27 of September. The researchers' night is an event of scientific dissemination promoted by the European Commission: it takes place every year in over 300 European cities. The event is organized with the objective of bringing researchers and the general public together on the same date in different European cities, disseminating the culture of scientific research and promoting the researcher's profession in society. The central event for this year, for Greece, will take place at NCSR Demokritos.
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BioASQ (Large-scale online biomedical semantic indexing)
- 27 September: the 1st BioASQ Workshop will be held at Valencia, Spain. Read more
- 30 August: end of the 1st BioASQ Challenge - with the end of the 2nd Task, both tasks of the 1st BioASQ Challenge, Task 1A (biomedical semantic indexing) and Task 1B (biomedical question answering), have been successfully completed. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of both tasks and their subtasks. Read more
- 16 August: collaboration of BioASQ with NLM - the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Medical Text Indexer is being used as one of the baselines for the international BioASQ challenge. Read more
- 9 August: BioASQ was presented at the BioNLP Workshop (Part Of The ACL 2013 Conference). Read more
- 20 July: BioASQ was presented at the ISMB/ECCB 2013 Conference. Read more

25-28 August: IIT organized four contests in ICDAR 2013
The Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CIL) organized four contests in the context of the 2013 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013).
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9 August: IIT organized the Multiling-2013 workshop
Dr. G. Giannakopoulos, SKEL, organized the Multiling-2013 workshop, in the context of the International Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013, 4-9 August), at Sofia, Bulgaria.
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3 August: co-organization of the NetMed 2013 workshop
Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos, in cooperation with Aldo F. Dragoni from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, and Femida Gwadry-Sridhar from University of Western Ontario, Canada, organized the 2nd Interational Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Netmedicine (NetMed' 13), in the context of the International Joint Conference of Arftificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013, 3-9 August), at Beijing, China.
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8-19 July: IIT is actively present at this year's Summer School of NCSR Demokritos
Continuing a long tradition, the 48th orientation and information Summer School for graduates/post-graduates from universities and technological institutions, was organized with success, between 8 and 19 july, at NCSR Demokritos. During the summer school, members of IIT (Dr Thomopoulos, Dr Perantonis, Dr Kourtis, Dr Giannakopoulos and more) gave some very interesting lectures.
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17-19 July: NCSR Demokritos hosted the 1^st Hellenic Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation
The motivation for organizing this event was the need to strengthen research and innovation, which is more than ever necessary to revive the competitiveness and productivity of the country.
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4-5 July: IIT organized a Workshop in the context of the C2LEARN Summer School
The Workshop "Using ICT tools to foster creative thinking in learning contexts" was organized by the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) of the IIT, in the context of the C2Learn Summer School: "Creativity and Games in Education", at Rethymno, Greece.
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16-19 May: participation in the 1st Greek Innovation Expo 2013 at HELEXPO PALACE
To Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the IIT participated in the first Innovation Conference 2013 and presented new technological solutions and products developed within European projects.
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• 25 August: CIL co-organized a tutorial on "Performance Evaluation in Document Image Analysis" in the context of the 2013 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013). Read more
• 10 June: Dr. G. Paliouras, SKEL, gave a tutorial on "User Community Discovery: the transition from passive site visitors to active content contributors" in the context of the 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013 (UMAP 2013). Read more
• 1-6 July: Dr. V. Karkaletsis, SKEL, was member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st international Summer School on Open & Collaborative Governance which was held in the context of the 4th Samos Summit 2013 on Digital Innovation for Government, Business and Society. Read more
• 3 July: Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos has been invited and participated in the "Promising Greek Startups" conference and bootcamp, at Megaron Mousikis, Athens, organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Read more
• 1 July: the IIT hosted the SafeLine Greece meeting, on 1st July 2013. The subject of the meeting was "Notice and Takedown illegal content from the Internet - procedures". Read more
• 26-27 June: Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos participated to the 2nd Language Technology (LT) - Innovate Summit which took place in Brussels. Read more
• 20 June: the IIT hosted the Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board of the Greek Awareness Centre Saferinternet.gr. The overall theme of the meeting was: "Towards a better Internet for our children". Read more
• 5-7 June: Dr. P. Karampiperis, SKEL, was Scientific Committee Co-Chair at the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Applied Models and Metadata in Computational Science: Challenges & Opportunities in Big Data Environments (KREAM 2013). Read more
• 29-31 May: Dr. V. Karkaletsis, SKEL, was member of the Steering and Program Committee of the 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2013). Read more

Education

4-31 July: students and robots interacted in the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
Successfully completed the International Research-Centered Summer School in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Robotics, Social Media, Digital Preservation. 22 foreign and Greek students and researchers have participated in this pioneer initiative for Greece. The Summer School was organized by the Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at IIT, ATC (Athens Technology Center), and the Interactive Robots and Media Lab.
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27 September (applications deadline): scholarship for PhD
One (1) scholarship for a doctoral thesis in the technologies of semantic web and databases, at IIT in collaboration with the University of Alcalá. Applications until 27 September 2013.
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PhD thesis completed, congratulations to Ioannis Giannoulakis, "Opportunistic scheduling algorithms for wireless network access: Analytical methodologies and comparative performance evaluation", July 2013. Read more

5 April-24 May: Seminars for PhD candidates at IIT
The seminar-workshop series on research methodology, were organized by the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications started on Friday, April 5 and ended on May 24.
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Lecture series at IIT - The IIT Seminar series gives the opportunity to postgraduate students, to new or existing members of the Institute's labs, to internal and external (invited) speakers to present their work and establish collaborations. List of upcoming and past seminars
27 March - 29 May: lecture series presenting the IIT labs - The research laboratories of IIT presented their activities, projects and goals in a series of six lectures. View recent seminars

2013-14: topics for MSc/BSc Theses and internships by IIS
See all the topics proposed by the Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) Division of IIT, for MSc/BSc theses and internships for 2013-14, in scientific areas like algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, image analysis, and many more.

• Internships completed by: Papoutsakis Georgios, Sgouropoulos Dimitris, Kostis Konstantinos, Konstantas Christos, Theodorou Eleni, Zamplaras Dionisios, Sakkas Christos, Kalafati Marianthi. Read more

Miscellaneous

• Six (6) job openings (application deadlines from 27/9 to 23/10), five (5) positions at the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) and one (1) position at the Media Networks Laboratory (MNL). Read more
• 7 August: in the context of his visit to China, from 3 to 9 August, and his participation at IJCAI 2013, Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos also visited the School of Software Engineering at the Beijing University of Post & Telecommunications (BUPT) to present IIT and discuss future cooperation. Read more
• 1^st August: Dr. S. C. A. Thomopoulos is the new director of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications.
• 31 July: the new, updated versions of the IIT labs' websites are launched, visit: CIL, ISL, MNL, NeL, SKEL, WiCom.
• 14 July: Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos presented IIT and its activities to Prof. Yiorgos A. Bakamitsos and his team of Executive Students, from A.B. Freeman School of Business, of Tulane University, USA. Read more
• Advisory: Dr. C. D. Spyropoulos has been invited and agreed to participate in the Advisory Board of the project "Greek Cybercrime Center". Read more

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