Forthcoming Events

Third-Generation Data Mining: Towards Service-Oriented Knowledge Discovery (SoKD-2010)
To be held on 24 September 2010 in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD 2010), Barcelona, 20-24 September 2010. The workshop organizing committee is chaired by Melanie Hilario.

Past Events

Planning to Learn Workshop (PlanLearn-2010)
Held on 20 August 2010 in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010), Lisbon, 16-20 August 2010.The workshop was co-organized by Pavel Brazdil and e-LICO members Abraham Bernstein and Jörg-Uwe Kietz.

Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences
Held on 10 July 2010 in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-2010), Boston, 9-13 July 2010. Simon Jupp, Julie Klein, Joost Schanstra and Robert Stevens described their work on the KUP Ontology in a presentation entitled "Developing a Kidney and Urinary Pathway Knowledge Base".

e-Lico Project Meeting and Extension Kick-Off
Held on 9-11 June 2010 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2010), Heraklion, 30 May - 3 June 2010
This conference included a public presentation session entitled "News from the Front: Latest Results from EU projects", which took place on June 2nd. The e-LICO project was one of the 11 EU FP7 projects presented in this session and in the matchmaking session that followed.

Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web
Held on 31 May in conjunction with ESWC-2010. Melanie Hilario gave give an invited talk on "Optimizing the Knowledge Discovery Process through Semantic Meta-Mining" at this workshop, which was co-organized by Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (PUT).

e-LICO Extension Negotiation Meeting
In the framework of FP7-ICT Call 5, a proposal was submitted to extend the e-LICO consortium to 3 institutions from the Enlarged Europe. This proposal has been retained for funding by the EC, and a negotiation meeting took place on 24 March 2010 in Luxembourg. The three new partners are the Josef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the Rudjer Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia) and the Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland).

e-LICO Annual Review
The first annual review of the e-LICO project was held on 23 March 2010 in Luxembourg.

Taverna Training Course
Katy Wolstencroft of the University of Manchester organized a hands-on training course on the Taverna workflow editor and enactor for interested e-LICO participants. The course took place on 3-4 March 2010 in INSERM, Toulouse.

Training Course on the Medicel Integrator Platform
Medicel organized a 2-day training course on the Medicel Integrator Platform for biological research on 3-4 March 2010 in the company premises in Helsinki. The course was attended not only by e-LICO biological partners but also by data miners involved in biological data mining.

e-LICO Project Meeting
This technical and management meeting took place on 3-4 November at the University of Manchester, School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.

KUP Ontology Day
Held at the University of Manchester on 2 November 2009, this event gathered e-LICO partners involved in the development of the KUP ontology as well as clinicians, biologists and bioinformaticians from the EuroKUP Cost Action.

Third EuroKUP Working Group Meeting
Sheffield, UK, 30-31 October 2009
An e-LICO delegation headed by INSERM participated in this EuroKUP event to ensure involvement of KUP specialists in collaborative EuroKUP/e-LICO activities, in particular the development of a specialized ontology and database.

Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge (CK 2009)
Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC, USA, October 25, 2009
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester) gave a keynote talk on "Collaborative ontology building: so much more than authoring an ontology" at this workshop, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009)

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles of Knowledge Discovery (ECML/PKDD 2009)
This is the premier conference on machine learning and knowledge discovery in Europe. The 2009 edition took place on 7-12 September in Bled, Slovenia.  The University of Geneva team presented two papers on multiple kernel learning and feature weighting -- issues directly related to mining multi-omic, high-dimensional data from multiple sources.

Third Generation Data Mining: Towards Service-oriented Knowledge Discovery (SoKD09)
Two e-LICO papers were accepted for this workshop held in conjunction with ECML/PKDD on 7 September 2009. The University of Zurich and Rapid-I presented e-LICO Protégé-Based Planning and the Data Mining Workflow Ontology, while the University of Geneva team discussed the Data Mining Ontology for Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning.

Knowledge Representation for Health Care (HR4HC) Workshop
Verona, 19 Jul 2009
Robert Stevens gave an invited talk on Semantic e-Science at this workshop held in conjunction with AIME.

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Stockholm, 27 June - 2 July 2009
The University of Manchester demonstrated Taverna and BioCatalogue at this event, which coincided with the release of Taverna 2.1 beta.

Protégé International Conference
Amsterdam, 26 June 2009
Robert Stevens and Simon Jupp gave a tutorial on OWL2.

Ontology Course and Working Session on the KUP Ontology
University of Manchester, 19-21 May 2009
Julie Klein (INSERM) visited UNIMAN on May 19-21, 2009 to attend the Introduction to OWL course and discuss KUPO development issues with Robert Stevens and Simon Jupp. [Read more]

EuroKUP/e-LICO Joint Working Session
Nafplio, Greece, 29-30 March 2009
Representatives of the e-LICO consortium participated actively in the EuroKUP Cost Action's Working Session held on 29-30 March 2009 in Nafplio, Greece. [Read more]

e-LICO Kick-Off Meeting
University of Geneva, Switzerland, 12-13 February 2009
The kick-off meeting of the EU FP7 collaborative project e-LICO took place on 12-13 February 2009 in the premises of the AI Laboratory, University of Geneva. [Read more]