Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7

• Program: COST

• Project acronym: Keystone

• Project title: Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources

• Duration: Oct 2013 – Oct 2018

• Coordinator: Francesco Guerra (U. Modena, Italy)

• Other partners: The project involves 24 countries, see http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1302?parties

• Abstract: To build efficient and expressive keyword search tools, the action “semantic KEYword-based Search on sTructured data sOurcEs” (KEYSTONE) proposes to draw upon competencies from several disciplines, such as semantic data management, the semantic web, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, machine learning, user interaction, service science, service design, and natural language processing.

• Program: KIC EIT ICT Labs “Computing in the Cloud” Action Line

• Project acronym: Europa

• Project title: Massively Parallel Data Management

• Duration: Jan 2013 – Dec 2013

• Coordinator: Volker Markl (TU Berlin, Germany)

• Other partners: Univ. Paris-Sud (France), Aalto Univ (Finland), InternetMemory (France)

• Abstract: Europa focuses on massively parallel algorithms and platforms for data management in the cloud. At TU Berlin, the Stratosphere open-source platform has been developed as part of this activity. At Inria and Univ. Paris-Sud , our work has focused on developing the AMADA platform for efficiently exploiting Web data in the Amazon cloud.