Company profile and role in NARNIA

The socio-technological integrator and innovator

Company profile and role in NARNIA

George M. [email protected]

G.M EuroCy Innovations LtdCyprus

NARNIA Midterm Review MeetingNicosia, Cyprus, 9 October 2012

http://www.eurocyinnovations.com/eurocy-website/



Outline

EuroCy profile Our NARNIA team Role in the project



EuroCy profile• G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd (EuroCy) is an IT and

Consulting company founded in 2008 in Cyprus• Contributing to the social e-inclusion, development and

innovation in Cyprus and beyond: Design and development of state-of-art Web-based software solutions Study of application fields, analysis of business requirements

• To achieve effective inclusion of young and healthy, as well as, older and impaired people

Consulting for efficient technology adoption Training and change management Dissemination and exploitation activities

• Active role in European and National research To advance the in-house knowledge and services’ portfolio Create strong partnerships, towards the provision of next generation

and state-of-art services to its customers throughout the world



Offered services• Software engineering• Training• Consulting services

Change management e-Procurement e-Government and e-Inclusion Technology adoption Open and free software Intelligent control of complex systems Optimization techniques and operational research

• Research and development Knowledge mining and management e-Government, e-Health, e-Procurement services Semantically enhanced interoperable components and services Intelligent control and applications Social Inclusion and social aspects of technology adoption Critical Infrastructure Protection etc.



Indicative projects

• ViPi – Virtual Portal for Interaction and ICT Training for People with Disabilities (www.vipi-project.eu)

Lifelong Learning Programme “one-stop-shop” learning environment ICT skills for employment of people with

disabilities

• FixCyprus.com service (www.fixcyprus.com), in cooperation with CSDR (KEDE)

Social government service Open channel for the communication among

citizens and local authorities towards the direct reporting of practical problems arising in public places, for prioritization and resolution

http://www.fixcyprus.com/



Partners and Clients• Partners

Academic sector• Several European Universities through the research programmes

NGOs and non-profit research centers• CSDR (Center for Scientific Dialogue and Research)• Marie Curie Association (Bulgaria)

Private sector• European Dynamics S.A (Greece)• SignalGenerix (Cyprus)• IntelliCys (Cyprus)

• Clients Public sector

• European Commission• Treasury of the Republic of Cyprus• Local authorities in Cyprus

NGOs Private sector

• BBD-Europe



Role in NARNIA• Development and technical maintenance of the project

Website and the Collaboration Intranet• Host and fund the research of ESR8 to work on:

The application and development of computational intelligence methodologies in analyzing archaeological data (WP5)

pattern recognition techniques for adaptive learning, expert intelligent algorithms to assist archeological research in analyzing and making sense out of large quantities of structured and semi-structured data

Cooperation with KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks (see next slides)

Time schedule: Months 13-48



Role in NARNIA• Training courses (Month 30, May 2013)

Methodologies in analyzing structured and semi-structured archaeological data towards extracting knowledge

Especially designed for archaeologists, anthropologists and other research fellows originating from the field of humanities

Focus on best practices on data storing, data analysis, information representation and knowledge extraction



Role in NARNIA• Deliverables

Project Website and source code (ER01, UCY) - Delivered The NARNIA intra-communication and collaboration platform. Source

code of the platform and related user guide (ESR08, UCY) - Delivered Six-months and annual reports including information about all

management, research and training activities (ESR08) - Ongoing The application and development of computational intelligence

methodologies in analyzing archaeological data – Report (ESR8, EUROCY) - Pending

The application and development of computational intelligence methodologies in analyzing archaeological data – Peer-reviewed manuscript (ESR8, EUROCY) - Pending



Our business vision

• Exploit our market orientation, with the academic excellence of KIOS Research Center of UCY

• Develop a toolset of advance (knowledge extraction) algorithms to be used by Engineers, Computer Scientists and Archaeologists



Our NARNIA team• George Milis (Director and RTD Manager at EuroCy)

MSc in Advanced Computing with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, and a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in Electrical and Computing Engineering

Served for 6 years as Senior IT consultant in European Dynamics SA in Athens, Greece

Extensive experience in knowledge extraction and management, semantically-enhanced interoperable services, project management, analysis and consulting for efficient adoption of technology in collaborative environments

• Demetrios Eliades (Senior Consultant at EuroCy) PhD in Electrical Engineering, UCY, (in 2011), MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 2005

from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in Electrical and Computing Engineering

Research assistant in KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks Background in computational and artificial intelligence, statistical learning and

pattern recognition• Liza Charalambous (Early Stage Researcher at EuroCy)

MSc in Digital Signal Processing Intelligent System (2011) and BSc Hons in Information Technology and Multimedia Communications (2010), from Lancaster University

Currently employed at EuroCy and KIOS Research Center as an Early Stage Researcher for the NARNIA project

Background in sound and image processing, adaptive filters and intelligent systems multimedia coding and distribution, and several techniques of computational intelligence



KIOS Research Center• ESR08 is funded to follow a PhD program in University of Cyprus

Fellowship started in Nov 2011, PhD enrollment in Jan 2012• KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Network

www.kios.ucy.ac.cy “Kios” (Κοίος) is the Titan of intelligence and the inquisitive mind

• Conducting high quality, interdisciplinary research for the benefit of society and promotion of the knowledge-based economy

Multidisciplinary teams of young scientists and engineers Create synergies: can you combine archaeology, chemistry and

engineering?• Advancement of knowledge in the areas of computational

intelligence and system design• Collaboration between industry, academia and research

organizations • Education opportunities to new researchers, through targeted

training programs

http://www.kios.ucy.ac.cy/



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