COST Action 282

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COST Action 282

• Knowledge Exploration in Science and Technology
• Geerd HF Diercksen
• Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, D

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Contents

• Objectives Challenge
• Working Groups
• Present Status
• MC Meetings
• STSM's
• EC Projects
• Future Plans
• KELSI'2004 Conference
• Integrated STSM's
• Web Site

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Objectives

• Developing implementing computerised systems
  for extracting
• Previously unknown,
• Non-trivial
• Potentially useful knowledge

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Objectives

• Developing implementing computerised systems
  for extracting knowledge from
• Complex,
• High volume,
• Distributed
• Fast changing scientific and RD data basis in
• physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology,
  neuroscience, medical research, social sciences,
  ...

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Objectives

• Developing implementing computerised systems
  for extracting knowledge from data basis within
  the context of
• global computing and data infrastructures like
  the Grid in the areas of
• chemistry, biochemistry, biology, neurosciences,
  medical research, ...

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Challenge

• Create a genuine interest of researchers in
  information science and various live sciences
  disciplines in the subject of each others
  research
• An impossible task? - May be

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Challenge

• It is not sufficient that
• researchers in IT look for applications of their
  methods
• researchers in the life sciences look for methods
  to solve their questions
• because this neither encourages
• the development of new methods nor
• to ask new questions

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Working Groups

• Data Modelling Working Group
• Leader A. Mille (Uni. Lyon-1)
• Knowledge Discovery Management Working Group
• Leader C. Bento (Uni. Madrid) W. Dubitzky
  (Uni. Ulster)
• Computational Creativity Working Group
• Leader A. Cardoso (Uni. Coimbra)

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Status - Overview

• Number of Management Meetings (2003/4) 2
• Number of STMS's (2004) 8
• Number of Newly Funded EC Projects (2004) 5
• Number of EC Projects 12
• Number of Publications (2004) 20

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Status - MCMeetings

• Mario Negri, Milano, I, 17-18 October 2003
• Subject Planning of activities for 2004.
• Decisions
• Focus all activities for 2004 on knowledge
  exploration in the life sciences.
• Organise a conference on Knowledge Exploration
  and Life Sciences Informatics

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Status - MCMeetings

• INRI, Nice, F, 09-10 January 2004
• Subject Planning of a conference.
• Invited experts
• Rui Brito (Protein folding),
• Astrid Lgrid (Functional genomics),
• Sturla Eik-Nes (Biomedical imaging),
• Chris Shaw (Pharmacology/Biotechnology)

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Status - MCMeetings

• INRI, Nice, F, 09-10 January 2004
• Suggestion
• Trigger a symbiosis between researchers in
  Information Technology (IT) the Life Science
• Decision
• Organise the KELSI'2004 Conference, Milano, 25-26
  November 2004

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Status - STSM's

• Institutions Participating in STSM's (2004)
• OFAI, Wien, A
• INRI, Sophia Antipolis, F
• MPA, Garching. D
• Istituto Mario Negri, Milano, I
• NTNU, Trondheim, N
• Uni. Coimbra, Coimbra, P
• Uni. Ulster, Coleraine, NI

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Status - EC Projects

• Newly funded EC Projects Involving Participating
  Institutions
• CASCADE, Chemicals as Contaminants in the Food
  Chain an NoE for Research, Risk Assessment and
  Education (2004-2009)
• HAIR, Harmonized Environmental Indicators for
  Pesticide Risk (2004-2007)
• SIMAC, Semantic Interaction with Music Audio
  Contents (2004-2006)
• UniGrids, Unified Grids (2004-2006)

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Plans - KELSI'04 Conference

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - Conference, Milano,
  25-26 November 2004
• Focus
• To explore the symbiosis between information and
  knowledge technologies and various life science
  disciplines, such as biochemistry, biology,
  neuroscience, and medical research
• To investigate the synergy among different life
  science areas, including cheminformatics,
  bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, medical
  informatics and systems biology

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - , Milano, 25-26
  November 2004
• Organisers W Dubitzky J Lopez (Uni. Ulster)
• Local Organiser E Benfenati (Marion Negri)
• Scope
• Invited Speakers
• xxx (yyy)

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Plans - KELSI'04 Conference

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - Conference, Milano,
  25-26 November 2004
• Invited Speakers
• Gustavo Deco (ICREA, Bercelona)
• Michal Linial (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
• Martin Kuiper (VIB, Gent)
• Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College, London)

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - , Milano, 25-26
  November 2004
• Organisers W Dubitzky J Lopez (Uni. Ulster)
• Local Organiser E Benfenati (Marion Negri)
• Scope
• Invited Speakers
• xxx (yyy)

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Plans - KELSI'04 Conference

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - Conference, Milano,
  25-26 November 2004
• IPC Co-Chairs W Dubitzky J Lopez (Uni. Ulster)
• Local Organiser E Benfenati (Mario Negri)
• Proceedings Springer Lecture Notes

• Knowledge Exploration and Life Science
  Informatics - KELSI'2004 - , Milano, 25-26
  November 2004
• Organisers W Dubitzky J Lopez (Uni. Ulster)
• Local Organiser E Benfenati (Marion Negri)
• Scope
• Invited Speakers
• xxx (yyy)

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Plans - ISTSM

• Integrated STSM
• Characteristics
• about 4-6 STSM's
• from different partner institutions
• to the same partner institution in the Life
  Sciences
• at the same time
• for about 5 days
• 1-2 day Working Group Meeting
• 2-3 invited experts
  

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Plans - ISTSM

• Integrated STSM
• Focus
  
• To provide a setting that may eventually trigger
  symbiosis between researchers in information
  technology and life science
• to explore the synergy among the different fields
  of information technology and life science

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