EU research in Knowledge based systems: Progress & prospects Roberto Cencioni & Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media [email protected] Unit.

EU research in Knowledge based EU research in Knowledge based systems: Progress & prospectssystems: Progress & prospects

Roberto Cencioni & Stefano Bertolo

DG Information Society and Media

Unit INFSO.E2

[email protected]@cec.eu.int

ISWC’05, GalwayISWC’05, Galway

Knowledge technologies in FP6: Knowledge technologies in FP6: basic factsbasic facts

• by Q1 2006 58 projects, 260 M€ funding

• 443 participants, 638 participations:

– 52% public, education, … participants

– 48% private, commercial, … participants

• 32 countries; 58% from top 5 countries(DE, UK, FR, IT, ES)

ScopeScope

• RTD&D

– long term research (formal, theoretical)

– technology / component research & development

– applied, system-level research

– demonstration

• Emphasis on

– generic, enabling technologies

– flexible, cross-sectoral application platforms

3 research lines3 research lines

1. Cross-media Content (call 2):new forms of digital content: creativity, interactivity, user experience & control, cross-platform access & delivery…

2. Content & Knowledge (call 4):intelligent content objects: metadata generation / extraction, semantic indexing & retrieval, aggregation, personalisation, workflow ...

3. Knowledge (calls 1 & 4):… next foil

Semantic Web’s and beyondSemantic Web’s and beyond

3. Knowledge:– intersection of Web, MM and KR&R

– networked information & communities

– web/multimedia "documents": text + image, video, audio, shapes …

– automation of knowledge lifecycle

– from static to dynamic information, interaction, work flows …

– data semantics as well as evolving processes & tasks

Support for Semantic Web projects since 2002!

2 research foci2 research foci

• Knowledge acquisition & modelling,capturing knowledge from raw information and multimedia content

– multimedia content analysis, semantic annotation & categorisation

– ontology evolution, knowledge extraction

– content harvesting, web/multimedia mining

– searching on distributed resources

• Knowledge sharing and use,exploiting semantically enriched information to provide actionable meaning

– collaboration, knowledge sharing

– user & context modelling, personalisation

– semantic web services & business processes

– interworking & legacy systems …

Outcome of Call-4Outcome of Call-4

• 150+ submissions received

• 25 proposals retained, nearly 250 organisations

• 124 M€ total funding

• largest EU call ever in the information access / management domain

– projects due to start Q1 2006

MUSCLE

KnowledgeWeb

REWERSE

Aim@Shape

Acemedia

DIP

SEKT

VIKEF

Alvis

Aspic

DirectInfo

News

Simac

Metokis

AgentLinkIII

KB20

3DTV

Axmedis

IperG

Inscape

IPRacine

NM2

Polymnia

WalkOnWeb

WorldScreen

RevealThis

Peng

Holonics

Content4All

M-Pipe

GameTools

INCOMM

LeMatch

NoE IP STP CA SA

Knowledge & Content Project Portfolio

K-Space

NeOn

Salero

Super

Live

X-MediaMesh

Musing

Nepomuk

OpenKnowledge

Luisa

TAO

Boemie

Swing

Towl

Sevenpro

AsIsKnown

Trends

BootStrep

Ontogeo

S-TEN

MediaCampaign

Caretaker

TripCom

Patexpert

Text

Multimedia

Knowledge Representation

ServicesCall 1 Call 2 Call 4

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

MUSCLE

KnowledgeWeb

REWERSEAim@Shape

Acemedia

DIP

SEKT

VIKEF

Aspic

DirectInfo

News

SimacMetokis

AgentLinkIIIKB20

3DTV

Axmedis

IperG

Inscape

IPRacine

NM2

Polymnia WalkOnWeb

WorldScreen

RevealThis

Peng

HolonicsContent4All

M-Pipe

GameTools

LeMatch

NoE IP STP CA SA

Knowledge & Content Project Portfolio

NeOn

Salero

Super

Live

X-Media

Mesh

Musing

Nepomuk

OpenKnowledge

LuisaTAO

Boemie

Swing

Towl

Sevenpro

AsIsKnown

Trends

BootStrep

OntogeoS-TEN

MediaCampaign

CaretakerTripCom

Patexpert

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

Alvis

INCOMM

K-Space

260M€

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

Aspic

NoE IP STP CA SA

Knowledge Management Environments

NeOn

Ontogeo

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

24.1M€

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

KnowledgeWeb

DIP

NoE IP STP CA SA

Semantic Web Services / InferenceSuper

TripCom

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

31.5M€

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

Aim@Shape

Acemedia

DirectInfo

News

IPRacine

NM2

Polymnia

RevealThis

Peng

Content4All

NoE IP STP CA SA

Semantic Indexing / Search

Trends

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

Alvis

41.2M€

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

Simac

NoE IP STP CA SA

Semantic Knowledge Management

Salero

Mesh

Boemie

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

Sevenpro

24M€

Foundations Infrastructure Professionals Consumers Community

2M€

3M€

7M€

9M€

SEKT

NoE IP STP CA SA

Inferential Knowledge ManagementX-Media

Musing

Nepomuk

BootStrep

MediaCampaign

Caretaker

Patexpert

Call 1 Call 2 Call 4

5M€

sem web service

sem annotationmodellingsearchinference

K-Space

55.8M€

OpenKnowledgeOpenKnowledge• Specific Targeted Research Project, 36M

• uedin ou vu csic unitn osou

• interaction_modelling semantic_routing

ontology_mapping

semantic_qos markup

testbeds empirical_studies

user_apps dissemination management

NeOnNeOn

• Integrated Project, 48M

•

aece atos cnr fao inria isoco jsi onto ou sag ukarl uko upm usfd

• dynamics networked_ont contexts

human_factors methodology infrastructure

fishing_ont pharma_ont exploitation management

NepomukNepomuk

• Integrated Project, 48M

• cog dfki edg epfl fzi hpgl ibm iccs imc kth l3s

nuig prc sap trt usi

•

management visualization

personal_semweb work_process distributed_search

sem_social_network architecture dissemination bioscience business organisation_km linux_community

SuperSuper• Integrated Project, 36M

•sap etel ibis ibm ids isoco lfui mip nuig nexcom

niwa onto ou tid pue tue ustutt tp cefriel

• sem_bproc methodology proc_composition

proc_mediation modelling

proc_engine architecture

telecoms_ont telecoms_biz

exploitation standards dissemination management

Towards FP7Towards FP7

• New framework expected to start end 2006

• Main proposals (FP, SPs, RfP) forwarded to Council & Parliament

• Significant budget increase … depending on EU financial perspectives after 2006

• Traditional as well as new SPs (eg Space)

• Traditional collaborative research (Cooperation SP) as well as grants for individual teams (Ideas SP)

• IST rebranded - now simply ICT, ~2 M€ / year• still the largest thematic component within FP• centred around 4 components:

– Core Technologies (incl. Knowledge)– Integration Environments (eg personal, home)– Application Poles (incl. Content)– Future and Emerging Technologies

• Knowledge placed next to (human & artificial) Cognition• Content (commercial, corporate) next to educational &

cultural content• by and large, the proposed structure does not follow

current DG-INFSO organisational lines …

See www.cordis.lu/fp7/

ICT research within FP7ICT research within FP7

TimeplanTimeplan• timeframe:

– phase 1 (directions & priorities) March 2006– phase 2 (strong justification!) March-May– phase 3 (workprogramme) June-July– phase 4 (focus of initial calls) July-Sept– phase 5 (spreading the word…) Oct-Dec

• elicit input from ALL relevant circles:– research topics

• continuity vs. new directions• emerging challenges vs. gaps & failures in FP6• long term research vs. development & validation• relationships vis-a-vis adjacent topical areas

– instruments & shared infrastructures– stakeholders: S&T communities & disciplines– ICT industry, user industries

We need your input, asap!We need your input, asap!

• work ahead:– assess FP6 portfolio, identify gaps & duplications

– screen vendors & integrators, market drivers & products

– gather socio-economic justification, facts & figures

– sounding board (virtual / physical meetings)

– expert roundtables (Bxl / Lux / at major conferences)

– open public consultation• by email

• web based

• for each candidate research topic:– why public intervention

– why at EU level, rationale & added value

– expected impact (scientific, technological, economic)

– time-to-exploitation & (eventual) application space

Some issuesSome issues

• Knowledge & Content the largest topical area in FP6, budget likely to remain constant in FP7, so– ongoing convergence of Knowledge & Content tracks

– which research lines can be discontinued to make room for new research topics

– how to share more widely and effectively precompetitive research results

– how to enhance impact & promote up-take: more focused approach to application tasks & domains?

– how to forster more ambitious endeavours

– how to stimulate synergy with national & industrial initiatives

– how to broaden the programme base• more research centres, more companies, more high-tech users

– how to consolidate foundations & middleware, how to progress towards flexible & scaleable reference architectures …

More informationMore information

www.cordis.lu/fp7/

Our own website (under re-construction):

• www.cordis.lu/ist/kct/

Your input (1 page per topic):

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Inquiries:

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