EPS_KIS 2017 Abstracts

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Paper Nr:	1
Title:	GRAGE Action: MSCA-RISE
Authors:	Mourad Oussalah
Abstract:	The EU has to face many challenges in achieving a more balanced regional development and sustainable economic recovery. Many of those challenges have to do with the ageing population trend, urbanization and environment under distress. More liveable and efficient communities is a target to be reached in Europe, where the “silver hair” trends can become a challenging opportunity, from a social, economic and cultural perspective. Despite those challenges are strongly interlinked, solutions provided in urban contexts not often pay due attention to the social process underlying urban trends and to the needs and behaviour of elderly citizens. GRAGE intends to contribute to fill this gap, developing winning ideas to promote an active, harmonious and inclusive citizenship for elderly people living in urban contexts. The consortium gathers ground-breaking expertise from different scientific background (legal, economic, humanities, engineering), from academic and non academic institutions, belonging to several countries (from EU and Ukraine). Using a mix of methodologies, the research and innovation programme of the project will evolve around the idea of citizenship as a collector of interest, healthy environment and suitable urban solutions for an aging society. Main themes will be: green buildings, food and urban agriculture, information and language technology. Researcher will analyze their role in transforming cities in environments that support green and healthy lifestyles for elderly people. GRAGE intents to boost dialogue through Europe, both strengthening the academic and non-academic collaboration and a practical understanding of elderly living across Europe. Such a cooperation can have a series of returns for Europe, ranging from a more effective solution to strategic challenges (sustainable cities and demographic change) to new business opportunities for European firms, offering solutions and products for smart/inclusive/ageing societies at global level.

Paper Nr:	2
Title:	FIRST - virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion
Authors:	Federica Mandreoli, Stephan Boese, Keith Phalp, Norbert Eder, Hongnian Yu, Lai Xu, Paul de Vrieze, Marco Aiello, Yuewei Bai, Giacomo Cabri, Massimo Mecella and Hua Mu
Abstract:	The manufacturing industry is entering a new era in which new ICT technologies and collaboration applications are integrated with traditional manufacturing practices and processes, which brings virtual organisations to factories, i.e. Manufacturing 2.0. Virtual factory to future manufacturing slows the flexible amalgamation of manufacturing resources in multiple organisations to create timely, demand driven product lines. The project “vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion” (FIRST) provides the new technology and methodology to describe manufacturing assets; to compose and integrate the existing services into collaborative virtual manufacturing processes; and to deal with evolution of changes. From the overarching objective to enhance manufacturing integration through the application of advanced IT solutions, the innovative project brings together an experienced researcher with expertise in the designing an interoperability framework for facilitating interoperability on data/information, services and process levels respectively. These outcomes lead to significant business innovations for virtual factories, made possible by an internationally recognised group expertise in (manufacturing) services/ assets description languages, semantic services discover methods, and automated interoperability. The experienced researcher has an existing background in service oriented business process management; ontology based process model registration and management; and web service discovery and selection. She combines this with a perspective on application of those technologies. The FIRST project will take advantage of this complementary experience as well as the academic and industrial relationships in Europe and China respectively, taking advantage of the unique opportunity to address the concept from both perspectives.

Paper Nr:	3
Title:	Collaborative Learning Agents for Swarm Intelligence
Authors:	Ying Zhao and Charles Zhou
Abstract:	We will present a data-driven framework, modeled and measured using a recursive distributed infrastructure named Collaborative Learning Agent and a Deep Learning method named Lexical Link Analysis. The combination allows Deep Reinforcement Learning and Swarm Intelligence to be extended and enhanced in a completely new perspective. We will show simulation results using Collaborative Learning Agents for Swarm Intelligence.

Paper Nr:	4
Title:	Skill Match Making for the Field of IT
Authors:	Peter Mirski and Stephan Schlögl
Abstract:	While matching the skills of individuals with highly demanded skill sets required by jobs and occupations in the IT field is a great challenge, adding necessary learning items and visualizing them on a proposed learning route may be seen a promising approach to this end to end matching problem. Inspired by classic route planning software, the “Open Skill Match Maker” (OpenSKIMR) aims to support young people in planning and simulating their individual learning and career path; hopefully leading to their desired career destination. At the European Project Space we would like to demo our initial prototype and collect feedback and advice from the HCI community.