Prezentácia pre šéfa do Krakowa Ladislav Hluchý Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Prezentácia pre šéfa do Krakowa

Ladislav HluchýInstitute of Informatics

of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Informatics – Research Directions and Departments

• Research directions– Parallel and distributed information processing– Design and testing of digital systems and their technological realisations– Nano- and micro-structures and their realisation with the use of electron beam lithography– Discrete processes modelling and control– Robotics (kinematic structures, animation), mobile systems, sensors and effectors– Speech processing, Image processing, Numerical methods and algorithms– The Institute of Informatics also deals with development of experimental laboratory equipment and

printed circuit boards.

• Departments– Parallel and distributed computing– Design and diagnostics of digital systems– Numerical methods and algorithms– Speech analysis and synthesis– Electron beam lithography– Discrete processes modelling and control– Sensor systems

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Department ofNumerical methods and algorithms

Fundamental & applied research on:

- Discrete sinusoidal transforms and cosine modulated filter banks: theory, fast algorithms, applications, implementation and integer realization,

- Fire research, principles, models and methods: 1. forest fire computer simulation, fire behaviour modeling, reconstruction and prediction of forest fire under real conditions,

2. fire in buildings, departments, personal motor car fires and fires in road tunnels,

- Other research activities: linear algebra, signal and image processing, parallel processing.

APVT project: Fire modelling and simulation,APVT-51-037902 (2004 - 2006)

The aim of project: (Institute of Informatics SAS, Bratislava)- To simulate real forest fire growth in a given topographical area with

different simulated weather conditions by numerical computation

on PC, using FARSITE software and data gathered in a localities

in Slovak Republic; further improvement of applied models, too,- To simulate

past fires – reconstruction

active fires - decision support

potential fires - prevention,- Other practical goals

creation of a decision support system, as means provided to a training

centre, for educational purposes, ecosystem institutions, insurance companies, etc.

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The aim of project: (Technical university at Zvolen, collaborative partner )

- Description of the space situation on digital elevation model with resolution 25 and 10 m,- Stands description (its tree species composition, age, crown closure, height, diameter, quality ),- Definition of “fuel” parameters for the afforested territory. To use and verify the processes suggested at “growth models”,- Verify all available forest data by the information from high resolution materials and pictures,- Accessibility of the territory , capacities and source location - key importance in forest fire defense and decision support system,- Education of students and PhD students for real using of the results of this project and application at praxis.

APVT project: Fire modelling and simulation, APVT-51-037902 (2004-2006)

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After 6 hours After 2 days combustion 6 people’s lives lost

Forest fire 23.10.2000 in the National park where people’ were entrapped by a fire (reconstruction)

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APVV project: Personal motor car fires, computer simulation and its experimental verification , APVV-0452-06 (2008 - 2010)

??? Why motor car fires ??? “ The latest estimate made by the EC state that the number of motor cars fires in Europe increases about 6 times faster than current number of cars on roads “[Verdunner, H. : Road traffic accidents - what can be done to save lives ?, Fire and Rescue, No 4, pp. 10-14, 2005]

Statistics of fires in SR between 2001 - 2004 :2529 Motor cars fires 25 people’s lives lost 53 people’s were injured during these fires 10.1 million euro is the total price of the damage [ Year-book’s, Fire safekeeping, 2001-2004]

In 2005 : Int. Tunneling Association - Committee on Operation safety of Undeground Facilities was establish, ITA - COSUF

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The general aims of the project are :

- Experimental examination of the course and expansion of individual phases of motor car fire and investigation of possibility of flashover to adjacent cars in open and non open space, too,

- The obtain data necessary for simulation of selected motor car fires by computer program based on CFD and visualize the results of simulation,

- Knowledge and facility obtained during these task to use to more general utilization to modeling potential fire risk,

- To test the software on multi-processor computers

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The aims of the project (Institute of Informatics SAS, Bratislava) :

- To understand the simulation methods and the software conditions correct using ( Fire Dynamics Simulator, NIST US)

- To prepare the input data for the simulation,

- To model the development of selected types of fire on computer,

- To visualize the results of simulation and their interpretation,

- To compare the results of experiments and simulations and make verification.

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The aims of the project : (Faculty of Special Engineering, University of Žilina, collaborative partner) :

- Initiation of fire in selected place of care,

- Examination of the course and expansion of individual phases of burning,

- Monitoring of spreading changes and development phases of the fire, and possibilities of flashover to adjacent cars,

- Measurement of the released energy from a unit surface, the thermal radiation intensity, the rate of heat and smoke intensity,

- Evaluation all experiments.


Department of Design and Diagnostics of Digital Systems

Research interests

Design field:• Architectures for testable & reliable design of digital systems (FPGA,

CMOS ASIC)• Hardware implementations of specific algorithmsResults: IP digital cores: data encryption and decryption algorithm designs,

modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) algorithm low power design for MP3 (350, 90 nm)

Test field • Algorithms for test pattern generation for digital systems

o at the behavioural level (using VHDL)o defect-oriented level

• Algorithms for system diagnosis in multiprocessor or distributed systems

• Test compression methods for delay faults in digital circuits• Methods and techniques of memory testing and self-repairing• Testability of asynchronous circuitsResults: random and deterministic defect oriented ATPG tool, ATPG tool for delay faults,

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LPP-0140-09 Virtual design laboratory for high schools VILAB

(granted by Slovak Research and Development Agency)

Project objective:

Developing partnership of researchers, teachers and students:

• it will enhance the chances for innovation of expert subject curricula of teachers,

• it will give new knowledge and skills to students, thus enhancing their interest in the study and in practice in technological branches.

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VILAB - goals of the Institute of Informatics

Transfer of research knowledge in microelectronics and of currently available technologies to secondary school teaching process to support its innovation.

Promoting modern processes and means in the field of application

of digital integrated circuits and systems on chip.

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VILAB - goals of the schools

Creating a virtual laboratory for the design of digital circuits for students of high schools focused on electrical engineering and/or applied informatics.

Providing professional design software and hardware environment for digital design for FPGA technologies with new teaching materials.

Delivering special lessons for selected parts of the school subject electrical engineering, electrical technology and computer systems.

Specifying tasks for student theses, competitions, as well as for courses of design software usage with methodical handbooks.

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Applets for education

Training tools for BIST and DFT applications• applets for BIST and MemBIST construction• applet for test wrapper construction• applets BIST, Wrapper a MemBIST in education at SUT FIIT

Bratislava, TU in Tallinn and TU in Jonkoping• accessible at www.ui.savba.sk/diag/tools/testability.html

Testing system DefSim

for defect testability education in CMOS circuits (technology CMOS 0,8 μm) designed and produced with partners in the REASON project

granted by IST-2000-30193 REASON: Research a training actions for system on chip design (2002-2005)

Organisation of tutorials, courses, workshops, joint research, training tools development in the field of testing and testability of digital systems.

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Laboratory of E-beam Lithography

R&D Field: Micro- and nanoscience and engineeringResearch subject: Electron-Beam Lithography & Pattern

Transfer Application: • The fabrication of submicrometer and nanometer patterns • The fabrication of binary photomasks for photolithography, deep-UV lithography • Mix-and-Match Lithography Facilities: e-beam equipment ZBA21 (variable shaped spot size 100 nanometer - 3 micrometer, substrates size 4 – 6-inch)

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Laboratory of E-beam Lithography

Projects: Centre of Excellence for New technologies in Electrical Engineering

The strategic objective: to increase research and development potential of the Bratislava region in micro- and nanotechnologies

Facilities of the Centre: - Laboratory for metal coating (evaporation system) - Laboratory for the preparation and shaping of nanostructures

(electron and ion dual beam FIB, Quanta 3D 200i from FEI) - Laboratory for the detection of nanoclusters (x-ray based LAB- GISAXS)

Partners: Slovak Academy of Sciences (Institute of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Physics Institute of Measurement Science, Institute of Informatics), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

http://www.asfeu.sk/operacny-program-vyskum-a-vyvoj/op-vyskum-a-vyvoj/

http://www.europa.eu/

http://www.asfeu.sk/aktuality/aktuality/

SEMCO-WS

• Semantic Composition of Web and Grid Services• Goals

– To create a distributed, easily-deployable semantic repository for all information pertinent to SOI resources

– To extent workflow composition logic towards data– Compose workflow not only from existing application services, but

also from existing (pre-computed) data; don’t repeat computations– To enable workflow description by WS-BPEL– A business semi-standard; the middleware will gain much larger user

base– To extend/specialize other parts of K-Wf Grid middleware– Service quality prediction, user collaboration– We have dropped monitoring infrastructure of K-Wf Grid

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K-Wf Grid: Objectives

• Objectives of K-Wf grid– To enable users to create complex workflows and use

grid resources without detailed knowledge of grid– To construct workflows optimized for underlying

infrastructure, using its advantages and avoiding its bottlenecks

– To (semi-)automatically construct workflows based on user’s requirements, using semantic annotation of services, data, applications and resources

– To constantly renew information about the grid by using complex monitoring network – to learn from experience

– To provide simple, easy-to-use interface to K-Wf Grid services

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K-WfGrid Consortium

www.kwfgrid.net

Bratislava

Athens

Genova

Kraków

Innsbruck

Berlin

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Partners

• Fraunhofer FIRST (Berlin, Germany)

• UIBK (Innsbruck, Austria)

• IISAS (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

• CYFRONET (Cracow, Poland)

• LogicDIS S.A. (Athens, Greece)

• Softeco Sismat SpA (Genoa, Italy)

SEMCO-WS: Architecture

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SEMCO-WS: publikácie, Ph.D., diplomové práce

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DMM

• Data Mining Meteo (DMM) – Forecast and Detection Methods of Significant Meteorological Events based on Data Mining

• Goals– Enhance and extend a forecating application developed by

MICROSTEP-MIS– Deploy novel and experimental data integration and data mining

techniques in a business environment– Experiment with data mining of meteorological/environmental data

• Partners– MICROSTEP-MIS– Insitute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences– Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical

University in Košice

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ADMIRE – Concept & Goals

• Goals of ADMIRE:– Easy-to-use data mining technology– Abstract view of data integration and data mining

• For better coping with data and resource heterogeneity

• Concept of ADMIRE:– Low-level infrastructure for managing distributed

resources– Middle-level data integration covered by OGSA-DAI– High-level model, language, architecture

• These are the main research objectives of ADMIRE

ADMIRE Consortium & Timeline

• Consortium– University of Edinburgh, UK - data integration, OGSA-DAI, architecture– Vienna University, Austria - high-level model and language– UPM, Spain - ontologies for data integration and data mining– Fujitsu Labs Europe, UK - low-level WS-RF-based infrastructure (USMT)– Institute of Informatics, SAS, Slovakia - pilot application, knowledge management, user

interfaces– COMARCH SA, Poland - pilot application, use case definition

• Timeline– M1 to M12 – first prototype of pilot applications and architecture, some tools– M12 to M18 – second prototype of architecture, user interface, tools, ADMIRE white

paper version 1– M18 to M36 – iteration of the prototype-evaluation-prototype process; new version of

ADMIRE white paper, architecture; stabilization of the DMI-L language for data mining process description

ADMIRE Architecture

• High-level architecture– A series of gateways, interconnecting distributed

resources, concentrating, streaming and processing DMI requests

Knowledge management, knowledge technology

Basis for the research in the area of knowledge technology comes from long term study performed within the following projects:

• Pelllucid – A New Platform for Organisationally Mobile Public Employees - (2002-2004) EU 5FP RTD project IST-2001-34519

• NAZOU - Tools for Acquisition, Organization and Maintenance of Knowledge in an Environment of Heterogeneous Information Resources, (2004-2007) Slovak National Project SPVV 1025/04

• RAPORT - Research and development of a knowledge based system to support workflow management in organizations with administrative processes, (2005-2007) Slovak National Project APVT-51-024604

PELLUCID A Platform for Organisationally Mobile Public Employees IST-2001-34519, 5FP (2002-2004)

http://www.sadiel.es/Europa/pellucid/

Overview of Pellucid

The overall objective was to develop an adaptable platform for assisting organizationally mobile employees.

Pellucid :– improves organisation effectiveness and efficiency by formalisation,

recording, storage and preservation of experience and knowledge; and

– supports workers during integration in a new department or role by giving access to specific knowledge and experience accumulated in the past.

Use of a new agent-based 3-layered architecture

Focus on Administrational Processes

The Pellucid Consortium

II SAS, BratislavaSlovak Republic

MT Department of Genova, Italy

Mancomunidad de Municipios del Bajo

Guadalquivir

CCLRC Rutherford Appleton LaboratoryOxfordshire, England

Regional Ministry of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía

Objectives and Motivations

Organisationally mobile employees move, as a normal part of their career progression, to different departments or units in a sector wherethey do not necessarily have direct experience.

They need to develop an understanding of the new working environmentand its processes in order to master the new situation rapidly.

Question: How to assist such employees?

The answer: PELLUCID – the experience of previous occupants of the role would be valuable for them, if only it could be made accesible and tailored to their individual needs.

PELLUCID: Basic System Architecture

Pellucid Agents

Pellucid System

Organizational Memory

Workflow Management System

User Interface

PELLUCID: Possibilities for Synergies

Possibilities for synergies in the following areas:– Workflow Based Systems– Management of Administrational Processes– Knowledge Management– Intelligent Software Agents

– Coordination– Learning– Monitoring– etc.

NÁZOU Tools for acquisition, organisation, and maintenance of knowldge in an environment of heterogenous information resources

http://nazou.fiit.stuba.sk/home/?page=about

Objectives

• models of heterogeneous environment (uncertainty, systems for modelling imperfect information, models of application domain, user models, context models, navigation models, metadata and ontologies, multilanguage sources, and multiagent systems),

• knowledge acquisition (information recommendation, acquisition of user model/environment model, special languages for flexible query, and ontology creation),

• knowledge organization (ontologies, various inductive methods, and small world networks), and

• knowledge presentation (adaptive navigation, adaptive content presentation, and virtual and enriched reality).

Partners

• Slovak technology university Faculty of informatics and information technology in Bratislava

• Institute of informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

• University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Košice

• Softec, Ltd., Bratislava

Research activities

• Research and development of methods for knowledge acquisition, organization, maintenance, and presentation

• Design of software architecture for intelligent knowledge management• Design and development of the corporate memory• Design and development of the components for semantic annotation• Research and design of processes ensuring data security• Integration and validation of the software architecture• Extension of results into other domains

Methods for acquisition

The group of methods for the acquisition of data and offers includes those methods that serve for:

• the acquisition of data from the Internet (downloading offers), • the supportive functions important for mere acquisition of the offers from

the Internet (offers' sources identification, basic evaluation of relevancy),• direct offers identifications from acquired documents in required formats

(individual offers' extraction, documents' conversion).

The group consists of: • Method for Relevant Internet Data Resource Identification (tool RIDAR)• Method for Job Offer Fetching (tool WebCrawler)• Method for Internet Documents Relevance Estimation (tool ERID)• Method for Web Page Wrapping (tool Wrapper Suite)• Job Offer Portal (tool JOP)

Acquisition and annotation chain

Acquisition and annotation chain

• The chain is responsible for acquisition of job offers from the Internet and their processing from non-structured textual representations to (semi)structured representation in relational database and domain ontology.

• Integration itself is realized by a CRON job, which executes regularly in succession the methods RIDAR, WebCrawler, DocConverter, RFTS, OnTea and supporting tool RDB2Onto. Other methods have a supporting role in the process and are executed by the methods listed in the CRON job.

Methods for organisation and maintenance

Group of methods for the organization and the maintenance of data and offers includes tools which analyze and process acquired data and offers in such a way that they would be ready for the presentation and search connected with it.

The main concern is documents' annotation with the aim to find the parts of a document with certain meaning, clustering of documents (probabilistic, fuzzy), the analysis with the aim to search communities, extracting information by inductive logical programming, finding the best objects out of more well-ordered lists, indexing, and also the tools that enable search in text documents.

The group consists of about 20 implemented software tools, e.g. OnTeA, OntoSim, OntoCase, IGAP, TopK, etc. that apply developed methods for annotation, clustering, and various search mechanisms.

Determining the best offer for a user

A sequence diagram of the implemented chain

Methods for organisation and maintenance

The chain deals with user dependent search, i.e. finding most relevant objects for many actual users in parallel. Every user can have unique, different notion of suitable objects. We represent this notion as user preferences based on fuzzy sets. User preferences can be obtained directly from user, learned from ranked objects or generated from user index. They are subsequently used for finding most relevant objects. This approach is combined with full text searching for keywords.

Methods for presentation and personalization

The methods for the presentation of offers utilize the suggested frame for the presentation of offers represented by ontology (Prescott, Presentation-Cocoon-Ontology), which represents the method that in general provides the presentation of the information represented by ontology, (or also by the XML language with the following transformation via XSL patterns). This tool provides unified presentations of offers with the use of presentation ontology Fresnel.

The group consists of 7 tools: • Method for User Preferences Acquisition (tool UPreA)• Method for Client-side User Action Logging (tool Click)• Method for Semantic Logging (tool SemanticLog)• Method for Analyzing User Action Logs (tool LogAnalyzer)• Method for Adaptive Faceted Ontology Browsing (tool Factic)• Method for Cluster-based Graph Browsing (tool ClusterNavigator)• Method for Presentation of Ontology-based Job Offers (tool Prescott)

Adaptive presentation of offers

Addressed problem

• Some properties of large open information spaces are dynamic – new content is added, existing content is removed or modified, and the diversity of their user base. This often results in many irrelevant search results as well as the infamous navigation problem, which occurs when users loose track of their position in hyperspace. Furthermore, a single common user interface is unable to accommodate the specific needs of individual users thus reducing overall user comfort and productivity.

The architecture of the personalized presentation layer.

The personalized presentation layer description

The used personalized presentation layer consists of a set of interconnected tools that perform specific tasks:

• User modeling by means of client-and server-side automatic user action acquisition with semantics and the subsequent evaluation of acquired data into meaningful user characteristics

• Personalized search using the respective user characteristics as input for queries and the evaluation of search results relevance.

• Personalized navigation via an adaptive faceted semantic browser with support for integrated searching and browsing, facet and restriction adaptation and recommendation, and rating and presentation of domain ontology instances.

The main outcome of the project

Design and implementation of tools for information and knowledge processing within the domain of job offers. The tools operate with data that can be seen in the sequence:

• from primary data on the Internet, or given by user, • through acquired documents, • the documents containing relevant data with respect for application

domain (which are, in our case, job offers), • in direction towards the offers chosen from documents with job

opportunity offers, • up to effective presentation of the offers to user.

The outputs into the educational process

Defended PhD thesis:

• Ing. Marián Babík: Knowledge based systems for automated composition of web services, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2008, supervisor Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

• Ing. Zoltán Balogh: Knowledge based performance prediction for Workflow Scheduling and Composition of Grid Services, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2006, školiteľ Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

• Ing. Marek Ciglan: Data access optimization in grid systems, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2008, supervisor Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

• Zoltán Fazekas, Improving Variability in Software Configuration by Separation of Concerns, Ústav informatiky a softvérového inžinierstva, FIIT STU, supervisor prof. P. Návrat

• RNDr. Tomáš Horváth: User Preference Learning by Induction of Fuzzy and Annotated Logic Programs, PF UPJŠ, 2008, školiteľ prof. P. Vojtáš

• RNDr. Michal Laclavík: Ontology and Agent based Approach for knowledge management, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2006, supervisor Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

• RNDr. Rastislav Lencses: Efektívne a distribuované algoritmy v oblasti vyhľadávania informácií s podporou relačnej databázy, Ústav informatiky, PF UPJŠ, 2005, supervisor prof. P. Vojtáš

• RNDr. Peter Gurský: Searching Top-k objects for many users, PF UPJŠ, 2008, školiteľ prof. P. Vojtáš

• Viktor Oravec: Manažovanie koalície logických agentov, Ústav informatiky SAV, supervisor Prof. B. Frankovič, DrSc.

The outputs into the educational process 2

RNDr. (rerum naturalium doctor )thesis:

• Michal Mati: Spracovanie prirodzeného jazyka, Ústav Informatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, 2006

• Jana Pribolová: Formálne metódy na popis ontológií. Ústav Informatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, UPJŠ, Košice, 2007

• Veronika Vaneková: Preferenčné dopytovanie pre sémantický web , Prírodovedecká fakulta, UPJŠ, Košice, 2008

• Michal Laclavík: Experience Management based on Ontology and Text Notes -The EMBET System, Ústav Informatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, September 2005; obhajoba 10. februára 2006

• Marek Ciglan: Data management in grid environment, Ústav informatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, September 2005, obhajoba 10. február 2006

• Róber Novotný: Stromová algebra vo formálnej logike, Ústav Informatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, 2006

Benefits of the research for educational processes

• Joint publications of students and experienced researchers• Organization of workshops and meetings for students and young

researchers• New interesting topics for master and diploma thesis• Cooperation of students, young and experienced researchers • Creation of study materials that address high actual and up-to-date

issues from informatics

Research and development of a knowledge based system to support workflow management in organizations with

administrative processes

RAPORT

Institute of Informatics Slovak Academy of Sciences (UI SAV), Bratislava

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RAPORT presentation, Krakow

Introduction

Project consortium• Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava)• National Academy of Defense (Liptovský Mikuláš)• Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak Technical

University (Bratislava)

Pilot application in CST NAD LM• Project of APVV Agency Slovakia (2005 – 07) in cooperation of The II SAS

and NAD in Liptovský Mikuláš,• Goal – Support of Military Exercises Planning for CAX in The Centre of

Simulation Technologies NAD in Liptovský Mikuláš.

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Project Goal and Motivation

GoalThe RAPORT system is a supporting system for administrative workflow

processes. It answers the purpose of acquisition, storing and presenting of knowledge, information and experiences by the administrative workflow processes execution.

Motivation• Employees of organizations with administrative workflow processes deal with

many activities that repeatedly use the same information, like e.g. contact information, predefined forms and styles of written documents, information about approval regulations and directives, etc. Problems occur, when one or more employees are missing.

• To reduce problems with substitution of a missing employee (either long term - e.g. retirement, job changing, etc., or short term - vacation, illness, etc.), the proposed system enables acquiring of each employee's knowledge and experience in order to present them to the others in the same or similar context.

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Realization of Military Exercise CAX in CST NAD LM – System Description

Basic CST tasks in the 1st period:1. CAX Definition - Determination of the

content, aims and tasks of a military exercise.

2. CAX Planning - Determination of the scenario, preparation of simulation and technical plan, terrain digital maps, etc.

3. Preparation of the simulation software and exercise logistics.

Basic CST tasks in the 2nd period: 1. Performance of a simulated computer

fight.

Basic CST tasks in the 3rd period:1. Evaluation of the officers involved.2. Evaluation of the quality of the military

exercise preparation by CST NAD.

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Requirements for Knowledge Oriented Management in CAX and Reasons for Project

CST NAD organizes a higher number of time-overlapping exercises during the training year (approx. 12). There are several fundamental problems

• problems with an organization of time-overlapping military exercises, • problems with a large number of documents for different time -

overlapping military exercises,• problems with the coordination and deadlines of individual processes

and tasks during the exercise planning and organization,• problems with underlimited personal staff (this planning is performed

only by 6-7 persons)What is the solution for this situation?

Development of a knowledge system for the support of military exercises preparation based on knowledge representation, electronic

communication and web technologies (System RAPORT)

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Requirements for Knowledge Oriented Management in the System RAPORT

• Work quality increasing – work organization demands worldwide knowledge of the rules related to the organization and realization of military exercises

• Decreasing the costs of the organization of the exercise processes – it must be processed by a large amount of information, documents, e-mails, ... , which causes untransparency

• Time saving – documents must be processed and accessible in the required deadlines and users often have no overview of the accessible documents in the required time intervals

• Personal State Stabilization – employee fluctuation due to the absence, illness or change of position can cause untransparency in cooperation and coordination of work during the military exercise preparation

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Objective: To Propose a System

Supports automating of activities during the military exercise preparation, which enables to:

•Remove the duplicity of activities and saves work,• Inform the user about the state of the exercise preparation and

enables an effective approach to documents,•Provide hints and suggestions how to continue the work

and in this way it warns about some difficulties and lists some possible solutions how to successfully solve problems of military exercise preparation.

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Structure of the Military Exercise Preparation - Workflow of Administrative Processes CST NAO LM

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Model of System – inter-connection of all models

• Personal model – description of the personal structure of CST NAD and training army units,

• Data model – description of the documents, e-mails, faxes, etc., which means the structure of the information,

• Process model – description of the activities and events in the CAX preparation (planning) phase,

• Communication model – description of the user, process and document communication,

• Knowledge model – modeling integration of the military exercises preparation on the basis of ontologies.

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RAPORT System Architecture

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Data layer

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Presentation layer

User’s friendly interfaceCollaboration tools and

supported services

Event monitoring and notification

Experience support based on the working context

Predefined data structures and plans

Database systemFile system storage

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Communication

User’s model

Generic, domain and user’s ontology

Information and experience organization + maintenance

Information analysis and processing

Information preparing according to context and plan

Communication

• Presentation layer• provides transparent and user-

friendly middleware for knowledge and information presentation to

users • Process layer

• ensures event monitoring and notification

• analyses the incoming information from presentation the layer

• creates active notes based on the current working context and previous experiments

• prepares the ontological data and required data (e-mails, documents, …)

• Data layer• ensures functionality of the database

and the file system repository • ontology model is stored in OWL

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Evaluation of system RAPORT for CAX Planning

• Knowledge management• collects experience from users by using Active Notes• presents experience to other users working in similar context by Active

Notes

• Schedule management• checks current training plans for important deadlines

• Templates distribution• prepares necessary information (predefined e-mails, documents,

formulas, …) before deadlines with user’s awareness

• Teamwork support• supports user’s experience exchange and collaboration

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Outputs to the educational process

• Diploma thesis:– Bc. Rudolf Dačo, Mobile agents protection, FIIT STU 2007, supervisor Ing. I. Kapustík– Bc. Michal Bebjak, Aspect-oriented implementation of web aplication changes, FIIT

STU 2007, supervisor Dr. V. Vranič– Bc. Peter Šimo, Semanticaly supported web browsing, FIIT STU 2007, supervisor Prof.

P. Návrat– Bc. Jakub Vaňo, Colaborative editing of source files in team work, FIIT STU 2007,

supervisor RNDr. V. Šimáková • PhD thesis - defended:

– M. Laclavík, Ontology and Agent based Approach for knowledge management, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2006, supervisor Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

– Viktor Oravec: Manažovanie koalície logických agentov, Ústav informatiky SAV, supervisor Prof. B. Frankovič, DrSc.

– Zoltán Balogh: Knowledge based performance prediction for Workflow Scheduling and Composition of Grid Services, Ústav informatiky SAV, 2006, supervisor doc. Ing. Ladislav Hluchý, CSc.

– Radoslav Forgáč, Zniťovanie dimenzie klasifikačného priestoru pomocou ITNN, II SAS 2007, Supervisor Prof. I. Mokriš

• PhD students still working on thesis - 3• Presentations and workshops for students and researchers - 7

Thank You for Your Attention!

Ladislav Hluchý

[email protected]

Institute of InformaticsSlovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

(UI SAV)

mailto:[email protected]



Information Retrieval and Information Extraction

lectures

IR Lectures

• Introduction to Information Retrieval• Text Operations, Text Analysis, stemming• Crawling, link processing• IR Models, Indexing techniques• IR Software libraries and systems• Ranking by Graph Algorithms (PageRank, HITS, …) and Searching• Information Extraction• Regular Expressions• Large Scale Data Processing on MapReduce Architecture• Multimedia Information Retrieval• Evaluation Techniques, Precision, Recall• Google• Semantics and IR, Semantic Web Standards

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Lectures conditions

• Every students gets project focused on – Crawling– Indexing– Ranking– Information Extraction– Large Scale information Processing

• They have to consult project 3 times during semester

• Availability of data from day one• Lectures are available at:

– http://vi.ikt.ui.sav.sk/Témy_prednášok

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Spracovanie odkazov

Indexovač

Usporiadanie

Vyhľadávač

Bázadokumentov

Odkazy

Index dokumentov

Sťahovač

Textové operácie

Otázka

Užívateľ

Zoznam dokumentov

Internet

http://vi.ikt.ui.sav.sk/T%C3%A9my_predn%C3%A1%C5%A1ok




Commius

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Commius Vison

• Commius vision of interoperability

– A software system• adaptable • customisable

– For the SMEs • With “zero-cost entry” into interoperability • Delivered as an easy-to-use always available service (ISU)

– Supporting collaboration and bottom-up, flexible, approach to interoperability

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Commius Objectives

• Use e-mail protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) to support System Interoperability

• Design and develop software components to support Semantic and Process Interoperability

• Delivered as an easy-to-use always available service (ISU)

• Develop an Open Source framework– With seamless integration within a network enterprise

environment – Modular and adaptable to different ICT infrastructure

standards

Understand

Communicate

Worktogether

Easy to use

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Commius Objectives

• Demonstrate a pilot application, within three industrial use cases

– Business Case 1 – Interoperability within the Spanish Technology Centers, Fedit (S)

– Business Case 2 – SMEs Technological District, Aitek and Techfin (I)

– Business Case 3 – Enterprise Resource Planning integration (SL)

Direct involvement of the

end-users

Demonstrate the results

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Commius Partners

1. Softeco Sismat - Italy (coordinator)

2. University of Manchester - United Kingdom

3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - Germany

4. Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences - Slovakia

5. Vienna University of Technology - Austria

6. Atos Origin - Spain

7. SingularLogic - Greece

8. Fedit, Federación Española de Entidades de Innovación y Tecnología - Spain

9. Aitek - Italy

10. Techfin - Italy

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Commius business scenario

Altamoda manager

We need ICT to improve

Altamoda business

Altamoda is an SMEs clothing wholesale seller

Altamoda uses email and internet but the business is carried on manually

Altamoda manager is thinking he needs some simple ICT tools to support its business

Altamoda is an SMEs clothing wholesale seller

Altamoda uses email and internet but the business is carried on manually

Altamoda manager is thinking he needs some simple ICT tools to support its business

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Altamoda manager

Commius Dissemination is effective

Commius Dissemination is effective

Commius community

Zero costeasy-to-install and usealways availableStep by step

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Altamoda manager

Commius community

Altamoda manager decides to try Commius He downloads Commius and install it


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Altamoda manager

Commius community

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Commius monitors emails workflow

Commius starts as simple workflow assistant

Commius monitors emails workflow

Commius starts as simple workflow assistant

Altamoda manager Altamoda customer

Purchase order

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Altamoda manager

You received a Purchase order

Click to send the order to the Purchasing manager



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Altamoda manager





Altamoda Purchasing manager

Process purchase order

Vendors

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Altamoda manager likes Commius

He decides to configure Commius

He asks for services to the Commius community

Altamoda manager likes Commius

He decides to configure Commius

He asks for services to the Commius community

Altamoda manager

Commius community

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A sw expert configures Commius for the company specific business

A sw expert configures Commius for the company specific business

Altamoda manager

Commius communityCommius sw expert

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Commius support the full internal process order workflow

Commius support the full internal process order workflow

Delivery

Altamoda manager

Purchase order

Altamoda customer

VendorsPurchasing manager

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Customers and Vendors have installed Commius

Commius support inter-organisational workflow

Customers and Vendors have installed Commius

Commius support inter-organisational workflow

Altamoda manager

Delivery

Altamoda customer

VendorsPurchasing manager

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Other services are available, such as business information, security provision…

Other services are available, such as business information, security provision…

Altamoda manager Service provider

Purchasing manager

Vendors

Altamoda customer

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IPR and licensing

• The following roles are envisaged

Maintain and upgrade the Commius OS platform > no profit

Configure and Customise Commius Business modules according to the SMEs specific needs > make profit from services

Develop specific system connectors to support integration with ERP and legacy systems > sells proprietary softwareDevelop Business modules addressing specific needs > sells proprietary software

Provide a set of on-line services accessible through the web > make profit from services, or free services (f.i download)

OS community

Local service provider

SW developer proprietary

SW developer proprietary

On lineServices provider

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WP4 System Interoperability

ObjectiveTo deliver technical interoperability by integrating Commius with email

and SMEs infrastructure as well as serving Semantic and Process interoperability layers

Approach Integrating with email and SME environment the way that users

can use their favourite email client and web browser and thus do not change working practices

WP4 is delivering methods and open source components for Integration with email infrastructureModule Execution, Management and Discovery Information ExtractionSystem Connectors

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• Task 4.1 covers:– E-mail Gateway Plugin (EGP),– Module Management,– Connection to E-mail

infrastructure

• Achievements– Client and server version deployed and tested– Code and software release as SourceForge project

http://acoma.sf.net– infrastructure and components developed in Task T4.1

• User guides• Technical guides• Software Release including JavaDocs

Task 4.1 – Interoperability over SMTP

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Task 4.1 – E-mail Gateway Plugin and Module Management

E-Mail Gateway Plug-in Achievements SMTP and POP3 implementation Email Gateway plugin/framework Message Decomposition Attachments Processing

A converter/processor is executed on every type of attachmentNew type of email message added – MPP component html output,

4 different type of emailsModule Management Achievements

Modules management based on OSGi container embedded inside framework

Updating existing modules Executing modules

Modules Interfaces Developed boolean check(String rawEmailText) Set<ModuleResult> execute(String path, String acomaid, String[]

args) Module management (installing, uninstalling, executing)

Web based management interface Directory based

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Task 4.1 – Connection with Email Servers

“Connection with E-Mail Infrastructure” AchievementsE-mail Infrastructure Connection Concepts Research

• Server-Side Connection– MX Dedicated Commius Box

– non-MX Dedicated Commius Box

– Encapsulated Commius

• “Commius Server” deployed– Installed as a OVZ virtual server, Postfix MTA + Maildrop MDA

• Easy to clone , migrate or reconfigure

– Commius intermediates SMTP communication– RMEC - Rule-based Module Execution Component

• A Control Panel Component• Filter = Rule + Module Execution + Config

Company’s E-mail Server

Incoming E-mail

Processed E-mail

Outgoing E-mail

company.com MX

Commius Box


Commius Box

Incoming E-mail

Processed E-mail

Outgoing E-mail

company.com MX


Commius Box

E-mail

E-mailProcessed

E-mail

Processed E-mail

Outgoing E-mail

company.com MX

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T4.2 Information Extraction (IE)

Motivation To analyze and

preprocess text To create meta data

from text

Text Preprocessing Analysis, text operations,

Segmentation, indexing Pattern based IE

Patterns can be used to extract various objects from text => valid for content in enterprise, interoperability and email context

Results are: key - value pairs and its transformation Social Network and other Graph

Extraction of communicating parties and relation to other objects and graph analysis

Achievements Design and prototype implementation available at

Ontea.sourceforge.net CVS pattern based IE based on key - value pairs and its transformation Simple segmentation techniques social network extraction from mailboxes

Interconnection with Task 5.2 Semantic Annotation and whole WP5

Publications

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T4.2 Information Extraction Model

Extraction based on JAVA Regular Expressions

Model supports: named backreferences macros

Result of extraction isset of Key=>Value pairs

Key=>Value pairs (Results) are further processed

Extraction patterns are defined in XML (we have XSD Schema)

Macros can be used unlimited times in any pattern

Macros in macros (any level) Results can be enhanced by GATE

annotations (e.g. gazetteer lookups) Macros could be used to create new

patterns only by clicking

T4.2 Information Extraction Model

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Address and product patterns

ExtractionExtraction

ProcessingProcessing

3 words macro3 words macro

ZIP macroZIP macro

Street number macroStreet number macro

Street name macroStreet name macro

City name macroCity name macro

Country macroCountry macro

Address patternsAddress patterns

T4.2 Text Segmentation

Simple segmenters (regex based): Words Sentences Paragraphs Email citations

Segmentation based on result position

Statistical segmenter Finds the most similar repeating

tokens, which could be considered as segment dividers

Uses Levenshtein distance, to compute similarity of dividing tokens

Considers line frequency of dividers, number of dividers

Gate segmentation Tokens SpaceTokens Splits (between paragraphs) Sentences

Segments are represented as results (position, length, key, value) among other results and can be further processed

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Bank statementBank statement

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T4.3 Message Post Processing- Progress

Task 4.3 coversEmail builder (enhanced email message as static HTML)

EGP produce enhanced email from module results

Web GUI (AJAX web application) Employed GWT and GWT-Ext libraries Running on Jetty server integrated in OSGi container

Standardized module output (XML Schema) Email builder and Web GUI use the same XML Schema

Achievements Integration efforts with WP7, EGP and email annotation Improved look & feel of MPP visual componentsEmail building integration schemaEmail attachments processing

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T4.3 Hints/Actions and Email GUI

XML-based email integration Email builder process module

outputs according XML references (note concept)

Action description URL link specifies actions for

custom module invocation date, module type,

position in text, etc.

XML example

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T4.3 MPP User Interface Prototype

HTML part of e-mailMPP GUI component

T4.4 What are System Connectors?

• SC are an abstraction layer of following interactions:– Information from the exchanged emails lead to ‘supportive actions’ available through

COMMIUS UI– Actions are tightly connected to the legacy systems. To achieve these actions, specific

interactions with the legacy systems have to be accomplished• Connectors Chaining

– the output and the input of each SC is a sequence of tuples accompanied by metadata

• Specific types of SC identified up to now– Web Connector– Database & Hibernate Connector– Spreadsheet Connector– Web Service System SC– Geocoding/Reverse GeoCoding SC

• SCs must be configured before usage

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T4.4 System connectors

• Achievements:

– Prototype of SC for• Hybernate DB Connector• RDBs, WebApplications, Spreadsheets

– A chained-usability schema has been proposed• SC1SC2SC3…SCn

– Meta-connector for integration with Information Extraction key-value pair approach

Meta-Connector

Web Connector

SpreadSheet Connector

Database Connector

Internet

Key-value

TransformedKey-value

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WP4 Results

Prototype Being developed and available as SourceForge.net project

Ontea: CVS working code – release will be in November Acoma: release available

Publications Journal and International pub: CAI, IEEE CEC 2009 - E3C Workshop, FIS

2008, ICCS 2008, CGW 2008 Michal Laclavik, Martin Seleng, Marek Ciglan, Ladislav Hluchy:

Ontea: Platform for Pattern based Automated Semantic AnnotationIn Computing and Informatics, Vol. 28, 2009, 555–579

Michal Laclavik, Diana Maynard: Motivating intelligent email in business: an investigation into current trends for email processing and communication research; In Workshop on Emails in e-Commerce and Enterprise Context (E3C); IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing; DOI 10.1109/CEC.2009.47; pp. 476-482, 2009

• Michal Laclavik, Martin Seleng, Emil Gatial, Ladislav Hluchy: Future Email Services and Applications; Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Paper Track of the 1st Future Internet Symposium (FIS'08), CEUR-WS, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-399, pages 33-35, 2008.

• Michal Laclavik, Martin Seleng, Ladislav Hluchy: Towards Large Scale Semantic Annotation Built on MapReduce Architecture; In Proceedings of ICCS 2008; M. Bubak et al. (Eds.): ICCS 2008, Part III, LNCS 5103, pp. 331-338, 2008.

• Michal Laclavik, Martin Seleng, Marek Ciglan, Ladislav Hluchy: Supporting Collaboration by Large Scale Email Analysis; To appear in CGW 2008 proceedings (2009)

Local: ITAT 2009 (1), WIKT 2009 (3), Znalosti 2009 (1), WIKT 2008 (2)

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Commius Conclusion

• Support and infrastructure for:– Email based interoperability – Intelligent Email Processing

• Research Challenges addressed– Email Content Processing – Pattern based Information Extraction – support for Semantic Annotation– External and Legacy System Integration

– Email GUI – Human Computer Interaction Issues– Architectures– Large Scale Information Processing

• Achievements– Deliverable D4.1.2– prototypes including all tasks

ready for good quality M22 Deliverables– Several scientific publications– prototype as release on Acoma.sf.net

AIIA - Adaptive Interoperability Framework for Private and Public Sector

Slovak National Project

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Project Partners

• Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences• Anasoft • SANET

Work Packages

• WP1 Architecture • WP2 Email Enabled Interoperability Infrastructure • WP3 Information Proc and Ext Components • WP4 Semantic Processing Components • WP5 System Conectors Components • WP6 Itneroperability Modules • WP7 Pilot Applictions

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BackEnd Servers

Intranet / Business Workplace

CRM (Contact, Product, History)

ERP (Finance, Accounting)

Knowledge Base / Archive

E-MAIL Server

AIIA SMTP Plugin

Distribute Message

Workplace

WebApps (AIIA,

BackEnd)

E-MAIL Client

AIIA Server

AIIA Service

HelpDesk

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Extranet / Form Registry

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Secure Agent Infrastructure


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Introduction

Objective“Add new smart functions to existing services which will make the communication more effective and helpful for users. Smart functions will be provided by distributed IT systems based on an agents’ infrastructure.”

Thus we should allow creating a pervasive and trusted communication infrastructure fulfilling requirements of crisis management users and ready for immediate application.

Requirements• Provision of a distributed agent paradigm to achieve confidentiality and access

to resources. • It should also provide a smart negotiating system for parameterisation and

independent handling of access requests to achieve rapid reaction.• Should be designed as a collection of software services with agent-like features

(mobility, pro-activity) which would execute in a secure manner.• Enable access legacy IT systems whilst keeping information confidential. • The security should be provided by a specialized component called “Secure

docking module” (SDM).

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Role of II SAS in the Project

• WP2 System analysis and design– T 2.1.2. Secure agent infrastructure analysis, detailed needed infrastructure definition

(UI SAV, HIT)– Our effort 11 PM

• WP4 Secure agent infrastructure– WP Leader– Our effort 38 PM

• WP7 Integration of research results– Our effort 4 PM

• WP10 Demonstrator creation and presentation– Our effort 8 PM

• WP11 Dissemination of research results– Our effort 5 PM

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SAI Deployment Diagram

General Command

Strategic Level

Tactical Level

Operational Level

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Hardware Security

• Core element of the SAI is the Secure Docking Station (SDS)• Realized by two complementary devices called the Secure Docking

Module (SDM) and the Trusted Docking Station (TDS)

SDS = TDS + SDM

Secure Docking Station

Design and development of SDM and TDS is being done by Technical University Graz

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SAI Architecture

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Scenario

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SAI Subsystems

Subsystem Basic description and functionality

Distributed Secure Agent Platform (DSAP)

The core agent platform. Will provide means for agent deployment, execution, migration and

communication.

Process Management Subsystem(PMS)

Based on the plan collected from users will generate a plan of activities. Executes the plan.

User Communication Agent (UCA)

Will communicate with users in a form of guided dialog through electronic device.

Will include authentication and interface to authorization of the user.

Agent Repository (AR) Database of system users, agents and their certificates. Process of accreditation of agents.

Public Key Infrastructure(PKI)

Certification and verification of agents, users and resources.

Resource Inquire System(RIS)

Will provide information which system to query for specific information about resources.

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Common Requirements

Fail-over Ensure fail-over system components especially in case of TS network.

All subsystems will need to address this issue individually.

Interfaces to external systems Security and Certificates with the Docking Station. Interfaces to legacy systems for crises management and related

systems.

EGEE NA3: User training and Induction

• Overal goal: to stimulate and support the development of training mechanisms associated with the emerging national and region Grid organizations to support local training provision

• Sub-tasks:

– Course content creation, scheduling, organization, and delivery - providing training material and courses for grid users and application developers

– Coordinated trainer support mechanisms - online training support framework by provision of digital library with a SOA containing course material and documentations (e-Learning provision)

– Training-Infrastructure provision - the operation of GILDA testbed, updates of the gLite middleware and user level services and tools, monitoring t-Infrastructure and the first level support

– Activity management and partner coordination

Goals of NA3 training courses

• Induction course

– to give an understanding of grid computing– to give an understanding of the EGEE project and its activities– to give an understanding of grid security– to provide an understanding of grid middleware gLite– to enable basic practical use of gLite services

• Application developer course

– to make familiar with fundamental methods of• creating new grid applications and porting legacy code applications to the grid• data management in grid

– to present some high-level grid tools and frameworks designed for developing more complex grid applications

II SAS – NA3 Activity

• GCCP – International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex problems

• Main sessions:

– Grid Computing• national and international grid projects, grid research infrastructures,

grid security, grid access

– Distributed Computing and Large Scale Applications• grid, service-oriented, knowledge-based computing, data movement

mechanisms, workflows• bio, life, earth, chemistry, environmental, astronomy & astrophysics,

high energy, business financial challenges

– High Performance Computing and Large Scale Simulations– Grid Course & Tutorial


• Induction and Application Developer Courses

– total number of courses: 17– participants: potential grid users, researchers, students – number of participants: 6-20– Training material in Slovak language– Main subjects of courses:

• Introduction to grids and EGEE project• Principles of parallel and distributed computing• Grid security mechanisms• Access to grids & Virtual Organizations• Development of grid applications (gridification process)• Grid middleware gLite• High-level grid tools (Genius portal, DIANE)• On-line demonstration of a grid application• Hands-on tutorial (gLite on Gilda testbed: JDL, job submission, job monitoring,

retrieving job output, data management)


• Talks, Discussions, and Consultations

– Main themes:• grid computing, • how to involved to EGEE, • demonstrating the capabilities of EGEE Grid technology,• grid applications

• E-Learning – SlovakGrid Web portal– Relevant documents about Grids, clusters and distributed

computing– References to EGEE documentations– Quick-start documents about: Certificates, Virtual Organizations,

Gilda, Genius, gLite, etc.– Descriptions of several gridified scientific applications

• Maintenance and updating the II SAS GILDA training site

EGEE NA4: User community support and expansion

• Overal goal: to ensure that Grid technology and the EGEE infrastructure are used successfully by a broad spectrum of scientific collaborations

• Sub-taks:

– Support • Virtual Organizations suport • Application porting support• Direct user support (Help desk)

– Strategic Discipline Clusters (High energy physics, Life science, Earth science, Grid observatory, Computational chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fusion)

• Specific support concerning domain-specific software• Development and evaluation of higher-level services to address advanced or specific

needs• Evolution of gLite and testing

– Activity Coordination

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Collection of study materials on grid computing for beginners:

• Manuals translated to Slovak language(gLite, data management, GENIUS, P-GRADE, …)

• Examples of grid programs • Workload management animation, and many other animations• Course presentations – certificates, VO, middleware

• Tutorials• Applications• How to start: step by step directions for beginners with links to screenshots• More than 180 screenshots in Windows, Linux, and gEclipse environment• Videos and other colorful materials on HPC• EGEE infosheets translated to Slovak language

Grid Computing (CD) - eLearning material in Slovak

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Thank You for Your Attention!

Ladislav Hluchý

[email protected]


(UI SAV)


