The socio-technological integrator and innovator Company profile and role in NARNIA George M. Milis G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd Cyprus NARNIA Midterm Review Meeting Nicosia, Cyprus, 9 October 2012

The socio-technological integrator and innovatorOutline  EuroCy profile  Our NARNIA team  Role in the project

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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.

The socio-technological integrator and innovator Indicative projects ViPi – Virtual Portal for Interaction and ICT Training for People with Disabilities ( project.eu)  Lifelong Learning Programme  “one-stop-shop” learning environment  ICT skills for employment of people with disabilities FixCyprus.com service ( 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator 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   “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

The socio-technological integrator and innovator The way to innovation goes through excavation Thank you! Questions?