The Summer School is organized by the Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR "Demokritos" (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/), and the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (http://www.irmllab.com). This is the fifth summer school in a sequence initiated by the Interactive Robots and Media Lab. For the second time in a row, it will take place in Greece at NCSR "Demokritos" (located in Athens, Greece) between July 3 and July 30, 2014.
The Summer School has an innovative format: it is Research-Centered, with a strong focus on mini-projects of month-long duration, carried out by multiple teams of 3-4 students including a mix of academic levels (Postdoc, PhD, undergraduates). Selected seminars and lectures will also take place; but not exceeding two hours per day.
The outcome of the summer school includes both numerous scientific publications, as well as longer-term collaborations. For example, the scientific output from the last summer schools has already led to a number of papers in leading conferences and journals with several more underway.
This year’s topic and research project areas focus on the cognitive systems or the data analysis viewpoint, as pertaining to:
- Human Robot Interaction
- Dialogue Systems
- Computer Vision
- Information Visualisation
- Data and content analytics - data mining
- Social Media Analysis
- Semantic technologies and the Web of data
- User Modelling and Recommendation systems
- Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent Systems
- Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics
- Autonomous Creative Systems
For more information visit the School’s webpage:
http://irss.iit.demokritos.gr/