Project kick-off meeting 6-7 September 2010 Berlin Grant Agreement n° 257184 Project Overview Overall objectives & approach Nikos Karacapilidis, CTI.

Project kick-off meeting6-7 September 2010 Berlin

Grant Agreement n° 257184

Project OverviewProject OverviewOverall objectives & approachOverall objectives & approach

Nikos Karacapilidis, CTI

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Project summary: the first cloudProject summary: the first cloud

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The goal The goal

• What– facilitate and augment collaboration and decision

making in data-intensive and cognitively-complex settings

• How – by exploiting and building on the most prominent high-

performance computing paradigms and large data processing technologies to meaningfully search, analyze and aggregate data existing in diverse,extremely large, and rapidly evolving sources

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Man vs Machine approachMan vs Machine approach

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Synergy of machine & human reasoningSynergy of machine & human reasoning

Scalable High-Performance Data Mining

Collaboration SupportDecision Making

Support

make

decisions build

consensusmakesense

innovate

collaborate

data search

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data mining

text mining

opinion mining

WWW crawling

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Some numbersSome numbers

• Partners: 8• Project duration: 36 months

• Total budget: 3,510,000 €• Funding: 2,600,000 €• Total PMs: 413

• Milestones: 11• Deliverables: 42

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The Dicode consortiumThe Dicode consortium

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The Dicode consortium (cont.)The Dicode consortium (cont.)

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The proposed architectureThe proposed architecture

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S&T objectives and project’s milestonesS&T objectives and project’s milestones

O-1: Fully understand the current practices and needs of diverse communities and organizations 1

O-2: Provide a suite of innovative and interoperable services2

O-3: Provide innovative work methodologies3

O-4: Ensure usability and acceptability of the Dicode services and work methodologies4

M1 - month 2Overall Project

Framework Setup

M2 - month 6Requirements

& Specifications

1

M3 - month 12Dicode Services

I

M4 - month 15Integrated

Suite of Services I

2,3 2

M5 - month 18Trials Evaluation

Report I

4

M6 - month 19Exploitation & Dissemination

Plan

4

M7 - month 21Revised

Specifications

1

M8 - month 24Dicode Services

II

2

M9 - month 28Integrated

Suite of Services II

2,3

M10 - month 32Trials Evaluation

Report II

4

M11 - month 36Final Dicode

Report

1,2,3,4

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Overall strategyOverall strategy• Evolutionary approach

– Throughout the project, stakeholders will be actively engaged in the specification, design and evaluation of the foreseen solutions;

– An incremental development approach will be followed, thus ensuring that end users can experiment with the Dicode services from the early stages of the project (operational prototype versions of the foreseen services will be available at the end of the first year of the project; enhanced versions will be delivered in month 24; final versions will be ready in month 33);

– User requirements will be refined through testing (involving users from all three use cases);

– An operational integrated suite of services will be early available for trials and proof-of concept purposes, which is the best way to gather feedback in order to test our research hypotheses and appropriately refine the overall approach;

– The existence of the above integrated suite of Dicode services early on in the project enables early exploitation and dissemination and ensures project sustainability.

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Overall strategy (cont.)Overall strategy (cont.)• Two main phases

– Phase I (months 1-18), during which requirements and specifications are produced, operational versions of the Dicode services are developed and integrated, innovative work methodologies are sketched, and feedback from the first validation and assessment of the Dicode outcomes is collected;

– Phase II (months 19-36), where specifications and the overall conceptual framework is revised, Dicode services and integrated suite offer advanced capabilities, work methodologies turn to best practices and innovative work guidelines, Dicode outcomes continue to be thoroughly tested, while the final evaluation via use cases and the overall project’s evaluation take place.

• Exploitation activities take place throughout the project’s duration

• Being committed to an open source approach, the project makes significant impact and delivers re-usable results on many different levels of intelligent information management.

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WP2: Requirements Gathering and System SpecificationsWP2: Requirements Gathering and System Specifications

UOL

WP4: Data-IntensiveCollaboration & Decision Support

Services

WP4: Data-IntensiveCollaboration & Decision Support

Services

CTI

WP5: Integrated Services & Innovative Work MethodologiesWP5: Integrated Services &

Innovative Work Methodologies

UPM

WP3: Voluminous & Complex Data Mining

Services

WP3: Voluminous & Complex Data Mining

Services

FHG

WP6: Validation & AssessmentWP6: Validation & Assessment

BRF

Use case 1

Use case 2

BRF

IMA

Use case 3

PUB

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List of WPs List of WPs

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Our visionOur vision

High-performance data mining

Data mining on unstructured &

multi-faceted data

Collaboration & decision making support

Dicode

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Use casesUse cases

• Carefully chosen to: – address clearly established problems, widely recognized in industry and

academia; – cover the full range of features and functionalities of the project, while

representing alternative collaboration and decision making paradigms

• Case #1: Clinico-Genomic Research Assimilator– Responsible partner: BRF

• Case #2: Trial of Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment– Responsible partner: IMA

• Case #3: Opinion mining from Unstructured Web 2.0 Data– Responsible partner: PUB

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Management structureManagement structure

Project Coordinator(PCO)

Project Management Board(PMB)

Technical Development Committee (TDC)

Validation & Exploitation Committee (VEC)

WP2 leader WP3 leader W4 leader W5 leader W6 leader W7 leader IMA PUB

Steering Committee (SC)

General Assembly (GA)

Scientific Advisory Board(SAB)

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Project coordinationProject coordination

• PCO: Nikos Karacapilidis, CTI• Deputy PCO: Stefan Rüping, FHG

• WP Leaders

• Project Office @ CTI– Nena Karagianni: day-to-day project administration– Eleni Anisiou: financial administration

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Management bodiesManagement bodies• Project Management Board (PMB)

– PCO (Nikos Karacapilidis - CTI), Michael May (FHG), Vania Dimitrova (UOL), Victor Maojo (UPM), Isabel Drost (NEO)

• Technical Development Committee (TDC)– Manolis Tzagarakis (CTI), Gerhard Paaß (FHG), Dicode Research Fellow (UOL),

Guillermo de la Calle Velasco (UPM), Isabel Drost (NEO)• Validation and Exploitation Committee (VEC)

– Sophia Kossida (BRF), Scott Robinson (NEO), Duncan Russell (IMA), Ralf Löffler (PUB)

• Steering Committee (SC) – Nikos Karacapilidis (CTI – WP1 leader), Lydia Lau (UOL – WP2 leader), Stefan

Rueping (FHG – WP3 leader), Manolis Tzagarakis (CTI – WP4 leader), Victor Maojo (UPM – WP5 leader), Holger Düwiger (NEO – WP7 leader), Duncan Russell (IMA), Sophia Kossida (BRF – WP6 leader) and Ralf Löffler (PUB)

• Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)– PCO (Nikos Karacapilidis - CTI), Michael May - FHG, Vania Dimitrova – UOL,

Victor Maojo - UPM and three external advisors (not necessarily Europeans, to be defined within the first two months of the project)

• General Assembly (GA)

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Dissemination issuesDissemination issues

• Dissemination and exploitation strategy– Particular exploitation targets and plans

• Public & private sector

– Modern marketing and communication best practices• Online & offline

– Dissemination activities dedicated to relevant IT companies, workgroups and communities

– Publicity of important Deliverables– Scientific dissemination activities– Typical dissemination activities– Participation to EC Events & concertation meetings

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http://dicode-project.eu/http://dicode-project.eu/

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Dissemination issues (cont.)Dissemination issues (cont.)

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Success criteria Success criteria

• Quality– scientific and technical achievements of the project

with regard to the project objectives stated in the Technical Annex

• Effectiveness– corresponding use of resources per partner

• Impact– continued relevance with regard to programme

objectives, technological advances, evolving market needs and trends

• All three are important

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Success criteria (cont.)Success criteria (cont.)

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Let’s start the journey …Let’s start the journey …