eChallenges e2015 Agenda

Updated: 2015-08-18 15:26:56

Disclaimer: This is the Advance Programme, which is subject to change.

Day 1: 25 November 2015

09:00
09:00
Opening Plenary 1a: Opening Plenary - Horizon 2020
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Priorities in H2020 2016-17 Work Programme
Morten Moller, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Belgium

Lithuanian Participation in FP7 and H2020
Anzelma Ūselienė, MITA, Lithuania

10:30
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
11:00
11:00
Session 2a: eGovernment
Chair: Njei Check, National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies , Cameroon
Issues Arising from the Specification of an Information Acquisition and Analysis Toolkit for Policy Makers in Governmental and Legislative Institutions
Steve Taylor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

e-CODEX: A Few Cases in Shaping the European Payment Order Procedures across Member States
Natalie Nickel, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany

Fostering transparency and participation in the data-based society: a Sustainable Architecture for a Social Platform for Open Data
Vittorio Scarano, Università di Salerno, Italy

11:00
Session 2b: Digital Libraries and Intelligent Content
Chair: Ken McHugh, Tigerspike, Singapore
Current lack of interoperability among submission information packages and the bright future
Tarvo Kärberg, National Archives of Estonia, Estonia

An Open Source Implementation of Business Intelligence Systems: A Case of the Technical University of Kenya
Ishmael Obonyo, University of Nairobi, Kenya

An Upper Abstraction Layer for ‘Reasoning’ on CAAD Tools - Two interfaces
Antonio Fioravanti, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy

11:00
Workshop 2c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT39 - Cooperation with Africa
Morten Moller, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Belgium

ICT Research Capacity in Kenya
Jacob Njagih, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Kenya

ICT Research Capacity in Ethiopia
Leulseged Alemie, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ethiopia

ICT Research Capacity in Uganda
Maxwell Otim, Uganda National Council for Science and Technology , Uganda

ICT Research Capacity in Burundi
Augustin Nsabiyumva, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Burundi

ICT Research Capacity in Tanzania
Mauridi Abubakari, COSTECH, Tanzania, United Republic Of

12:30
Lunch : Lunch & Networking
14:00
14:00
Session 3a: eGovernment
Chair: Leulseged Alemie, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ethiopia
A Novel Framework of an Expert System by integrating Capability Approach and BRB to Evaluate E-Government Services
Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Lessons Learnt from the Use of Prosperity Indicators in Policy Making: Towards Community-Generated Indicators
Ourania Markaki, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Lithuanian National Platform of Electronic Documents: Towards Cross-Border Interoperability
Antanas Mitasiunas, Mit-SOFT Ltd, Lithuania

14:00
Workshop 3b: Enhancing Content for Enriched User Experience in Media Consumption
Chair: Barry Smith, Bibliographic Data Services, United Kingdom
Entity Linking in Media Content and User Comments: Connecting Data to Wikipedia and other Knowledge Bases
David Tomás, University of Alicante, Spain

Creating Dynamic TV Viewer Communities to Increase User Engagement
Marco Tiemann, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Benefits of Using Ranking Skip-Gram Techniques for Opinion Mining Approaches
Yoan Gutiérrez, University of Alicante, Spain

14:00
Workshop 3c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Research Capacity in Egypt
Haitham Hamza, Software Engineering Competence Centre, Egypt

ICT Research Capacity in Tunisia
Noureddine Hamdi, Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Tunisia

ICT Research Capacity in Senegal
Toumane Doumbouya, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche , Senegal

ICT Research Capacity in Cameroon
Njei Check, National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies , Cameroon

ICT Research Capacity in Malawi
Gift Kadzamira, National Commission for Science & Technology, Malawi

15:30
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
16:00
16:00
Session 4a: Product Innovation
Chair: Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria
A Prototype-Based Case Study of Secure Mobile Payments
Till Halbach, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

c-Space: 3D Visualization and Modelling of Digital Models on Mobile Devices
Davide Lotto, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy

Commercialization of Composite Software Resulting from Collaborative Research
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University St. Gallen, Switzerland

A Comparative Analysis of Online Crowdfunding Platforms in USA, Europe and Asia
Endrit Kromidha, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Configurable Software Robots Concept in the IT Industry
Jelena Pujanauskiene, 1ClickFactory, Lithuania

16:00
Workshop 4b: Enhancing Content for Enriched User Experience in Media Consumption
Chair: David Tomás, University of Alicante, Spain
Context Management and Analysis for Social TV Platforms
Christina Santzaridou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Combining Three Thriving Business Areas to enable Monetisation for Content Providers and, Ultimately, Value to the End User
Juan Vicente Vidagany Espert, TIE Kinetix, Netherlands

Media Content Linking, Semantic Annotation and Syndication in Social Enabled, Multiscreen Environments
Alexandros Psychas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Multi-Genre Summarization: Approach, Potentials and Challenges
Isabel Moreno, University of Alicante, Spain

16:00
Workshop 4c: IST-Africa - Showcasing African Research Capacity
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
ICT Research Capacity in Mauritius
Ashwin Seegolam, National Computer Board/ Open University Mauritius, Mauritius

ICT Research Capacity in Lesotho
Lefa Thamae, Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Lesotho

ICT Research Capacity in Botswana
Phodiso Potesh Phole, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Botswana

ICT Research Capacity in Namibia
Ebenhezer Kauhonina, National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia

ICT Research Capacity in South Africa
Peacemaker Dlamini, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa

Day 2: 26 November 2015

09:00
09:00
Session 5a: Cloud Computing
Chair: Ken McHugh, Tigerspike, Singapore
Business Processes as a Service: A Model-Based Approach to align Business with Cloud offerings
Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria

Lessons Learnt from a joint EC Co-funded PCP - Cloud for Europe
Eleonora Kuiper, Tax and Customs Administration , Netherlands

Implementation of Hybrid Cloud Storage Based on CDMI Protocol
Pavel Skvortsov, University of Stuttgart, Germany

A Framework for a Cost Efficient Cloud Ecosystem
Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland

09:00
Session 5b: eHealth
Chair: Gintautas Dzemyda, Vilnius University, Lithuania
medVC - a Remote Collaboration Solution Enhanced with Cloud Services and Future Internet Capacities
Sergiusz Zielinski, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

Enhancing Mobile Spontaneous Adverse Drug Event Reporting through Electronic Health Records
Mehmet Kubilay Kahveci, SRDC Ltd., Turkey

Legal Requirement Clusters as Means to Build Legally Interoperable Data Bridges between Research Infrastructures
Wolfgang Kuchinke, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Portugal’s SICO: A new Dimension to Mortality Forecasts in Real Time
Cristiano Marques, Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal

Integration of Smart Wearable Mobile Devices and Cloud Computing in South African Healthcare
Promise Mvelase, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

09:00
Session 5c: Social Implications of Technology
Chair: Vytautas Ramonaitis, Cellular Expert , Lithuania
Elektr-O-Mat - A Participation Game to Match and Explore the Relationship between (Electro-)Mobility and Citizens' Needs
Rica Rieth, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany

Data-Driven and Value Sensitive Urban Decision Making
Susanne Dobner, Centre for Social Innvation, Austria

Sustainability and Competitiveness through Digital Product-Service-Systems
Bernhard Kölmel, HS Pforzheim, Germany

User Involvement and Testing in Interaction Design: Do We Pay Enough Attention to the Users?
Hanne Sørum, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Norway

Intention based Enhancement of Reaching and Grasping
Arjen Bergsma, University of Twente, Netherlands

10:30
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
11:00
11:00
Session 6a: eInfrastructures
Chair: Haitham Hamza, Software Engineering Competence Centre, Egypt
Centre of Excellence for HPC and Engineering: Concept Development
Anna Palaiologk, HLRS, Germany

Capacity-building Across Sectors: Making a Reference Platform for INSPIRE Implementation, Interoperability and Reusability
Robin S. Smith, EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy

ENERGIC-OD Virtual Hubs: a brokered architecture for facilitating Open Data sharing and use
Paolo Mazzetti, CNR, Italy

Interoperability Profiles for Disaster Management and Maritime Surveillance
Mert Gençtürk, SRDC LTD., Turkey

11:00
Session 6b
11:00
Session 6c: Societal Implications of Technologies
Chair: Gift Kadzamira, National Commission for Science & Technology, Malawi
ICT as an Enabler to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals for Developing Countries: A Proposed Assessment Approach
Ashwin Seegolam, National Computer Board/ Open University Mauritius, Mauritius

Hybrid Multiservice Demand Responsive Mobility Service for Developing Countries
Jecinta Kamau, Kyushu University, Japan

eEducation and its societal implications
Daria Catalui, ENISA, Greece

Legal and Regulatory Challenges for Physical Assistant Robots
Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Università di Bologna, Spain

12:30
Lunch : Lunch & Networking
13:30
13:30
Session 7a: Future Internet and Energy Efficiency
Chair: Andrius Pleckaitis, INFOBALT, Lithuanian ICT Association, Lithuania
FIWARE Generic Enablers as Building Blocks of a Marketplace for Energy
Dario Pellegrino, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy

Building Green City with Green Choices in Traffic
Olli Ojala, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland

An Energy Monitoring based Approach to predict Energy Wastage in the Manufacturing Industry
Sebastian Schmitz, FIR at RWTH Aachen, Germany

13:30
Workshop 7b: Addressing the Societal Challenge of Visual Impairment through European Procurers Platforms
Chair: Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy
Visual impairment- A need assessment methodology based on a systemic approach with the innovation as the paradigm
Vincenzo Vella, AQuAS, Spain

A cross-border multifaceted contextual inquiry for problem domain analysis through a dedicated web portal
Genny Tortora, University of Salerno Italy, Italy

The importance of a demand-driven innovation procurement –Case studies from end-user organizations
Sara Bedin, Independent expert on Innovation Procurement, Italy

Study of the state of the art for visual impairment technologies – initial findings
Stephen Taylor, AREA Science Park, Italy

15:00
Coffee Break : Coffee break: Networking
15:30
15:30
Workshop 8a: Conceptual Modelling and Semantics for Value-based Knowledge Transfer
Chair: Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria
Modeling for Learning in Complex Organizations - the Learn PAd Approach
Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Knowledge Work Designer - Integrating Business Processes, Case Management and Decision Making
Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

Designing Modelling Methods: The Learn PAd Scenario
Nesat Efendioglu, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria

A Tool for Visual Specification and Verification for Secure Process Movements
Moonkun Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea, Republic Of

Learn PAd: Model-Based Social Learning for Pubic Administrations
Darius Šilingas, No Magic Europe, Lithuania

15:30
Session 8b: Technology-enhanced Learning
Chair: Andrius Pleckaitis, INFOBALT, Lithuanian ICT Association, Lithuania
Digitizing Curricula: An Approach for Digital Usability
Henning Eriksson, Umeå University, Sweden

How Video Lecture Capture Affects Student Engagement in a Higher Education Computer Programming Course: A Study of Attendance, Video Viewing Behaviours and Student Attitude
Aidan McGowan, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom

Exploring the Benefits of Augmented Reality in Higher Education Learning
Alexander Okolo, Middlesex University Mauritius Branch Campus, Mauritius

I Know How That Feels – An Empathic Robot Tutor
Arvid Kappas, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Germany

An Approach to a Graph-Based Model for Encouraging Transfer of Knowledge in Learning Activities
Alvaro Fernández Del Carpio, Universidad Católica de Santa María, Peru

R&E Networking and Medical Communities Join Forces to Combat Dengue Fever
Bu-Sung Lee, Singapore Advanced Research and Education Networks, Singapore

17:00
17:00
Closing Plenary 9a: Closing Plenary
Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland
Putting e-2015 Results into Practice: Challenges for the National Innovation System
Edgaras Leichteris, Knowledge Economy Forum, Lithuania

FI-IMPACT Analysis of FIWARE projects to date
Paul Cunningham, IIMC Limited, Ireland


Disclaimer: This is the Advance Programme, which is subject to change.