Projects / Programmes
January 1, 2009
- December 31, 2014
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
2.07.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Computer science and informatics |
|
1.08.00 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Control and care of the environment |
|
2.06.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Systems and cybernetics |
|
6.05.00 |
Humanities |
Linguistics |
|
Code |
Science |
Field |
P176 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Artificial intelligence |
Code |
Science |
Field |
1.02 |
Natural Sciences |
Computer and information sciences |
Knowledge Technologies, Data Mining, Decision Support, Knowledge Management, Language Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Researchers (38)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
02749 |
PhD Marko Bohanec |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
632 |
2. |
36220 |
PhD Martin Breskvar |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2014 |
31 |
3. |
05806 |
PhD Bojan Cestnik |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
189 |
4. |
29890 |
PhD Darko Cherepnalkoski |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
|
2009 - 2014 |
25 |
5. |
15660 |
PhD Marko Debeljak |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
303 |
6. |
16415 |
PhD Damjan Demšar |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2010 - 2011 |
46 |
7. |
11130 |
PhD Sašo Džeroski |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
1,171 |
8. |
05023 |
PhD Tomaž Erjavec |
Humanities |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
599 |
9. |
28015 |
PhD Blaž Fortuna |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
144 |
10. |
26475 |
PhD Valentin Gjorgjioski |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2009 - 2011 |
15 |
11. |
17137 |
Marko Grobelnik |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Technician |
2009 - 2014 |
419 |
12. |
32284 |
PhD Elena Ikonomovska |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2009 - 2012 |
17 |
13. |
32282 |
PhD Aneta Ivanovska |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2012 - 2014 |
122 |
14. |
32152 |
PhD Matjaž Juršič |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
|
2009 - 2014 |
27 |
15. |
31050 |
PhD Dragi Kocev |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2012 - 2014 |
194 |
16. |
36355 |
PhD Jan Kralj |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2013 - 2014 |
38 |
17. |
28291 |
PhD Petra Kralj Novak |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2010 - 2014 |
127 |
18. |
08949 |
PhD Nada Lavrač |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Principal Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
852 |
19. |
35470 |
PhD Jurica Levatić |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2012 - 2014 |
38 |
20. |
36912 |
PhD Dragana Miljković |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2014 |
69 |
21. |
12570 |
PhD Dunja Mladenić |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
635 |
22. |
03323 |
PhD Igor Mozetič |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
181 |
23. |
29002 |
Blaž Novak |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
17 |
24. |
36356 |
PhD Aljaž Osojnik |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2013 - 2014 |
44 |
25. |
27759 |
PhD Panče Panov |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2013 - 2014 |
136 |
26. |
35475 |
PhD Matic Perovšek |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2012 - 2014 |
15 |
27. |
29539 |
PhD Vid Podpečan |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
89 |
28. |
34452 |
PhD Nikola Simidjievski |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2011 - 2014 |
54 |
29. |
32908 |
PhD Ivica Slavkov |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2013 |
29 |
30. |
34647 |
PhD Janez Starc |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2012 - 2014 |
12 |
31. |
31810 |
Tadej Štajner |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2010 - 2014 |
21 |
32. |
34455 |
PhD Nejc Trdin |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2011 - 2014 |
29 |
33. |
04586 |
PhD Tanja Urbančič |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
289 |
34. |
37486 |
PhD Anita Valmarska |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2014 |
25 |
35. |
34262 |
PhD Anže Vavpetič |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Junior researcher |
2011 - 2014 |
30 |
36. |
37487 |
Katja Zupan |
Humanities |
Junior researcher |
2014 |
22 |
37. |
22279 |
PhD Bernard Ženko |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
166 |
38. |
23582 |
PhD Martin Žnidaršič |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Researcher |
2009 - 2014 |
154 |
Organisations (2)
Abstract
The gap between the amount of data available in digital form and the human capacity to analyse data is increasing in all fields of human activity. Data can come in many forms, from well-structured, such as relational databases, to free text stored on different media and in different languages. Human decision-making has also become more challenging, given the increased amount of information, and the increased number of options available in every decision-making situation. The research program "Knowledge Technologies" aims to carry out basic and applied research in its main research areas - Intelligent Data Analysis, Decision Support, Knowledge Management and Human Language Technologies - all key technologies for the development of the emerging Knowledge-Based Society. The program will advance the state-of-the-art in the above research areas, by developing new methods, techniques, and tools, and by applying them to important practical problems. Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis and Decision Support will include ecological modelling, medical problem solving and health care, economy and marketing. Research in Knowledge Management will be concerned with the management of Virtual Organizations, with an emphasis on the relation between collaborating businesses and academia. In Human Language Technologies the main goals will be the development of tools and models for processing of Slovene and other languages, the compilation of Slovene and multi-lingual corpora, providing support for translating, language teaching and lexicography, and the production of digital archives and complex digital editions. By means of basic and applied research the Knowledge Technologies program will thus advance the Information Society and its activities, businesses and processes.
Significance for science
Our research in the area of knowledge technologies aimed at research excellence and at setting new research trends in collaboration with partners from the numerous European projects in which we participated. Through research excellence and transfer of scientific results into practice we contributed to Slovene competitiveness in the European and international research arena. We were a key international player in the areas of complex data analysis, big data, text and multi-media analysis. Our key role is exemplified by our successful participation in numerous international projects, including 52 EU projects in the 2009-2014 program funding period, four of which we currently coordinate (FP7 projects MAESTRA, NRG4Cast, TOPOSYS, XLike). We have published papers in journals with the highest impact factors in the field of machine learning, data mining and knowledge management (JMLR, MLJ, DMKD, Knowledge-Based Systems, etc.) and in other top scientific journals (Nature Methods, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS One, etc.) and presented our work at prestigious international conferences (ECML/PKDD, IDA, ICDM, ILP, DS, NIPS, etc.). We were active as chairs of program committees and organizers of numerous international conferences, workshops, tutorials, seminars and summer schools (ECML/PKDD-09, AIME 2011, ILP 2012, ICCC 2014, DS/ALT 2014), as members of editorial boards of scientific journals (MLJ, DAMI, ACM TKDD, AIM, AAI, JMLR, JAIR, AI Com, IJCL, JLRE, EcoMod, EcoInf), conference program committees (ICML, ECML/PKDD, ICDM, ILP, KDD, IDA, ACL, etc.), and gave invited lectures at conferences. We collaborated with distinguished scientific (Stanford, MIT, Tokyo Institute of Technology, etc.) and industrial institutions (Microsoft Research Cambridge, British Telecom, New York Times).
Significance for the country
Through basic research, we directly contributed to the advances in information technologies, needed for the Slovene knowledge-based society. We contributed to advances through continued participation in EU projects, further enabling Slovenian industrial partners to become members of European consortia. Basic research in knowledge technologies has become increasingly important also as a provider of advanced ICT infrastructures to other disciplines, including environment protection, bioinformatics, medicine, health care, economy and management, where we contributed to application development. The second role of the program was indirect, through the impact on socio-economic and cultural development of Slovenia. (a) Complex data analytics, text and multimedia mining methods were used (in continued collaboration with Slovene industrial partners) in practical solutions in the areas of environmental protection, health care, finance, social network and media analysis. (b) By using multiparameter decision support, positive impact on societal and service sectors was achieved via applications in education, health care and investments/projects assessment, leading to greater efficiency and operational transparency of public and governmental institutions. (c) Contribution to Slovene cultural development is based on the fact that the cultural identity of Slovenes is intimately tied to our language. Our language technologies and digital heritage research contributed to the accessibility of written Slovene cultural heritage through open digital editions of historical (for which we were twice granted Google awards) and contemporary Slovene language resources, which are used in teaching of the Slovene language, in lexicography and in the development of modern computational methods for processing of Slovene, thus empowering Slovene to fully function in the information society. The program significantly impacted businesses and education by continued know-how transfer through applied projects and seminars organized by the JSI Center for IT Knowledge Transfer, while distance learning is enabled through our award-winning portal VideoLectures.net, already providing over 16,000 video lectures. We contributed to postgraduate education as professors and supervisors at the Universities of Ljubljana, Maribor, and Nova Gorica and several foreign universities. In 2004 we have founded the Knowledge Technologies module of the ICT postgraduate study program at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, in which we are yearly responsible for six courses and for supervising many PhD/MSc students.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si