Tuesday 13th May 2008 / Wednesday 14th May 2008


Program on Tuesday 13th May 2008 >>

09.00 - 09.30 Welcome Presentations

  • Welcome, Michael May, Fraunhofer IAIS (KDubiq Project Coordinator) and
    Stefan Wrobel, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS Director
  • Presentation of the KDubiq Blueprint, background, final project status (20 min)
    Michael May, Fraunhofer IAIS and Lorenza Saitta, University Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.


WG1: KDubiq Application Environments (Session Chair: Koen Vanhoof)

09.30 - 10.00 KDubiq Applications : an Overview and Lessons Learned

Koen Vanhoof, Hasselt University, Belgium

10.00 - 10.30 Smart Motes for KDubiq Technology

Alicia Asin Perez, Libelium company, Spain (www.libelium.com)

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.40 Invited talk: Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management

Mounir Mokhtari, Handicap Engineering and Comm. Lab., Institut National de Télécommunications, France

11.40 - 12.20 Invited talk: KDubiq Challenges and Visions for Future Space Missions

Alessandro Donati , Head of Advanced Mission Concepts and Technologies Office (OPS-HSC), European Space Agency

12.20 - 14.00 Lunch


WG2: Ubiquitous Technologies (Session Chair: Donato Malerba)

14.00 - 14.40 Mining in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Assaf Schuster, Technion University, Haifa, Israel

14.40 - 15.00 Aggregate Threshold Queries in Sensor Networks

Tsachi Sharfman, Technion University, Haifa, Israel

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break


Session on Probabilistic Robotics and Activity Mining (Session Chair: Michael May)

15.30 - 16.30 Invited Talk: Probabilistic Robot Navigation with RFID

Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg, Germany

16.30 - 17.00 Statistical Relational Activity Mining

Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

17.00 - 17.15 Short break


WG6: HCI and Cognitive Modelling (Session Chair: Ernestina Menasalvas)

17.15 - 17.45 How a Human-Centric Viewpoint Can Complement the Understanding of KDubiq: The Case of Privacy

Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

17.45 - 18.20 Invited Talk: Ubiquitous Web

[--Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Director of Yahoo Research Center Europe and South America, Barcelona, Spain

18.20 - 20.00 Reception with Poster and Demo Presentations

  • Distributed Data Mining on Sensor Networks
    Uros Platise, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Channel Prediction for Modulation & Coding Selection
    Carolina Fortuna, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Knowledge Discovery for Sensor Network Comprehension
    Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Joao Gama and Luis Lopes
  • Machine Learning for Maritime Safety and Security Systems
    Gerben de Vries, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Tracking from GPS Data - Results from GeoPKDD (6FP) EU-Project
    Yucel Saygin,Sabanci University,Turkey
  • CONET: Cooperating Objects NOE, 7FP, EU-Project
    Pedro Marron (coordinator), University of Bonn, Germany
  • GPS-Tracking and Track-Annotation on Mobile Phones
    Michael Mock, fraunhofer IAIS and Michael Rohs, Dt. Telekom Lab., Berlin; Germany
  • Data Mining for Safety - A Framework for Auditing Web Applications
    Christian Bockermann, University of Dortmund, Germany
  • Learning from Data Streams: Histograms and Change Detection
    Raquel Sebastiao and Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Distributed Clustering Based in Affinity Propagation
    Xianliang Zhang, LRI, Université de Paris-Sud, France
  • Leveraging the power of spatial data mining to enhance the applicability of GIS technology
    D. Malerba, A. Lanza, A. Appice
  • TinyOS Poster Presentation
    Rasmus Pedersen,Business School of Copenhagen, Denmark

>>Program on Wednesday 14th May

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