2004-2006 MARIE CURIE International Fellowship - New Techniques For Handling Quality and Uncertainty in Spatial Mining Dr. M. Halkidi visits as a PostDoc researcher the University of California, Riverside. 2001 - 2004 - IST/h-TechSight (IST-2001-33174) - subcontractor The overall objective of the project is to develop platform for Knowledge Management in the sector manufactures and process industries. Out mission in this context is the effective extraction of keywords and semantics from large and evolving collections of web documents followed by appropriate organization of the corpus allowing high quality search with multiple similarity criteria (among which semantic similarity). 2001-2004 - IST/NEMIS (IST-2001-37574) - subcontractor NEMIS is a network of excellence (NoE) that brings together researchers, academics and practitioners of the Text Mining domain. NEMIS aims to improve knowledge sharing, research efficiency and knowledge discovery, to promote the exchange of opinions, debate, knowledge and expertise among the domain experts, and to co-ordinate ongoing research efforts at the EU level. Our participation aimed at consulting the consortium in the area of text mining for documents putting emphasis on the web. 2001-2004 IST/FET - PANDA - Patterns for Next-Generation Database Systems - FET Working Group (IST-2001-33058) With the advent of hardware advances, complex information resulting from data intensive applications is posing requirements for today's (and tomorrow's) Database Management Systems (DBMSs). Such information possesses a number of key features such as huge volume of data, diversity and complexity. We claim that the term pattern is a good candidate for generic representation of these novel information types. PANDA Working Group will study current state-of-the-art in pattern management and explore novel theoretical and practical aspects of a pattern-based management system (so-called, PBMS). Aided by an Industrial Advisory Board, PANDA-WG will face application of the novel PBMS technology in real needs, such as those found in financial and telecommunications fields. 2001-2004 IST/FET - DB/GLOBE (IST-2001-32645) The DBGlobe project aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing. On the premise, global computing is a database problem: how to design, build and analyse systems that manage large amount of data. However, the traditional database approach of storing data of interest in monolithic database management systems becomes obsolete in such environments. In current database research, data are relatively homogeneous, exhibit a small degree of distribution (just a few network sites) are passive in that they remain unchanged unless explicitly updated. All these assumptions do not hold in the global computing world. This creates the need for new theoretical foundations in all aspects of data management: modelling, storage and querying. Local Project Page 2001-2003 IST/I-KnowUMine (IST-2000-31077) The Project aims to develop a novel and innovative generic platform for Automated Re-engineering of on-line services based on Content, Knowledge and Web Site Metrics. The I-KnowUMine will provide the basis for development of numerous on-line services ranging from Electronic Information Services and Electronic Publishing to e-commerce and on-line collaborative applications. It will evaluate, customize and integrate cutting-edge technologies and incorporate research results on Content Management, Knowledge Management and Web Usage Mining in order to semi-automatically re-construct underlying information structure. The revised structure reflects the needs of end-users or user groups for targeted information while affects and improves overall performance, usability and user retention. 1999-2001 PENED/GSRT Research & Development for Knowledge Discovery in Medical Data (with Medical School, Univ. of Athens). 1999-2001: Bilateral Cooperation between Greece and Germany The objective of the project is research in the area of uncertainty management in the area of spatial and temporal database systems. R&D 1999 ESPRIT/VRSHOP Design and development of WWW enabled Virtual Reality interfaces for e-commerce applications. Interactive distributed design of 3D spaces with definition of a multitude of spatiotemporal parameters.