Seventh International Ljubljana-Zagreb Workshop on Knowledge Technologies

19-21 October, 2011, Poreč, Croatia

The objective of this workshop is to help the involved participants to revise their current research in the field and set the strategic directions for their future individual and group research work, as well as the inter-group collaboration. Attendance is by invitation only.

List of participants

Workshop schedule

The workshop consists of individual presentations, group presentations, focused discussions and networking events. We hope that the program will stimulate individuals in their research work and enable them to contribute as much as possible to the group vision for future research.

Wednesday, October, 19, 2011.

• 18:00 Opening
• 19:00-19:30 IRB Overview Presentations
  • Dragan Gamberger: Laboratory for Information Systems
  • Tom Smuc: Projects overview
• 20:00-21:00 Dinner
• 21:00-22:00 Networking

Thursday, October, 20, 2011.

• 9:00-9:30 JSI Overview Presentations
  • Nada Lavrac: Overview of KT department and current/recent EU projects
  • Saso Dzeroski: Overview of current/recent EU projects
• 9:30-10:15 Semantic Data Mining, Data Mining workflow management tools and biomedical applications
  • Igor Mozetic (joint work with Vid Podpecan and Nada Lavrac): Orange4WS data mining toolbox and biomedical applications of SegMine (SEGS and BioMine) in Orange4WS (ALL, hMSC) - presentation + demo + Biomedical interpretation of results, SegMine video with expert Helena Motaln
  • Anze Vavpetic: Biomedical applications of g-SEGS and Aleph in Oragne4WS (ALL, hMSC)
  • Janez Kranjc (joint work with Vid Podpecan and Nada Lavrac): Browser-based data mining platform (joint work with - presentation + demo)
• 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30-11:15 Predictive clustering and biomedical applications
  • Saso Dzeroski (joint work with Bernard Zenko, Dragi Kocev and Ivica Slavkov): Predictive clustering for structured prediction in biomedical applications
  • Daniela Stojanova (joint work with Saso Dzeroski): Auto-correlation in predictive clustering
  • Pance Panov (joint work with Saso Dzeroski): Ontologies for analyzing biomedical data
• 11:15-11:45 Modeling and decision support
  • Martin Znidarsic (joint work with Marko Bohanec): Non-functional workflow assessment - presentation and DEXi demo
  • Biljana Mileva Boskoska (joint work with Marko Bohanec): Ranking of options with copulas
• 11:45-12:00 Short break
• 12:00-12:45 Sentiment analysis and financial time series analysis
  • Miha Grcar et al.: Analysis of document streams (FIRST project)
  • Igor Mozetic and Tom Smuc: Forcasting financial crisis (FOC project)
  • Saso Dzeroski and Elena Ikonomovska: Stream data mining (single target regression, multi-target regression and ensembles)
• 13:00-15:00 Lunch
• 15:00 - 15:45 Natural language processing and text mining
  • Tomaz Erjavec: Historical Slovene
  • Dragana Miljkovic (joint work with Nada Lavrac and Igor Mozetic): Semi-automated modeling of biological systems with text mining and Petri Net modeling- presentation of practical results
  • Matjaz Jursic (joint work with Bojan Cestnik, Tanja Urbancic and Nada Lavrac): CrossBee tool for cross-domain text mining - presentation and demo
• 16:00 - 18:00 Collaborations and discussions
  • Miha, Tom and Nada - presentations of approaches to mining heterogeneous information networks and discussion of potential joint publication
  • Tom and Saso - joint publication
  • Tom, Martin, Miha, Nino - eLICO challenge joint publication
  • Dragan, Anze, Nada, Ivica, Bernard, Saso - approaches to mining aggregated datasets (ongoing collaboration with Vree University Brussels (Stijn Meganck, Ann Nowe), and past work on EET Pipeline project) - exchange of experience
• 19:00-20:30 Dinner
• 20:30-22:00 Networking

Friday, October, 21, 2011.

• 10:00-11:00 Matija Piskorec, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Tomislav Smuc: Current RBI projects
• 11:00-11:15 Coffee break
• 11:15-12:15 Nada Lavrac: Presentation of KT department (rehearsal for her vision talk for JSI research council) with feedback from the JSI KT department audience
• 12:15-12:30 Nada Lavrac and Tomislav Smuc: Future activities
• 12:30-14:00 Lunch
• 14:30 Closing

Organization

The workshop is organized by J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia and Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia.

Program Chairs

Nada Lavrac
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dragan Gamberger
R.Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Local Organization