RESEARCH AGENCIES

1. Ministry of Science and Higher Education: www.nauka.gov.pl

2.  National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR): www.ncbir.pl

3. National Centre for Science (currently being set up): www.ncn.gov.pl

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ORGANISATIONS

Det Norske Veritas

Polish Ministry of Health

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center(PSNC)

University of Poznan (Economics)

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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

Future Internet Engineering

The project “Future Internet Engineering” is the strategic polish research project aimed at improving capabilities of the current Internet by proposing more efficient network infrastructure and new set of applications. The project activities are grouped in four main work packages that correspond to: (1) transformation of the current IPv4 network into IPv6, (2) designing, prototyping and testing of the system for Future Internet that is based on novel architecture exploring the concept of virtualization, (3) designing, prototyping and testing selected advanced applications, and (4) designing and building national research network for supporting experimentally driven research in the area of Future Internet, named PL-LAB. The project collects more than 120 researchers from 9 top organizations (research centers and academia) in Poland working in the area of ICT.

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Ego: Virtual Identity

One of the most important factors that will enable shift to the Future Internet, as it is believed it should look like, is a revolution in means of communication with one another via the Internet. Emerging services are expected to accelerate a transfer of increasing number of real-world activities to the Web. It is crucial for users to facilitate understanding of their needs by aforementioned services and content providers. This will enable full utilization of opportunities, that will be provided by the Future Internet with regard to access to information.

Ego project, financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, aims to enable people to semi-automatically create their representations, called virtual identities, to manifest their information needs in various Web sources. Project goal is also to enable Web sources to agilely adapt to users’ expectations. Fulfilment of this goal will enable better understanding of users’ needs by information sources and services to enhance customisation and flow of information in the Web.

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eXtraSpec

The goal of the eXtraSpec project is to create a solution that analyzes internal documents of the organization and external Web sources in order to find an appropriate expert from the specific domain or who has specific competencies.

Project eXtraSpec is an innovative solution that identifies problems from HR domain. Project result might be used in a wide spectrum of organizations where appeared a need to find an expert with a particular skills. Our solution can be use in public institution as well as in enterprises. It is possible to search experts among employees (e.g. while composing a team for internal project) or while looking for a potential candidates. Project results will contribute to decreasing information asymmetry at labor-market and partially converting tacit knowledge into explicit and widely used knowledge.

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NOR-STA

The project aims at development and deployment of innovative services to support processes of achieving and assessing conformance to standards and norms. The services provide for representing and maintaining conformance arguments, integrating these arguments with the supporting evidence and assessing the compelling power of the arguments. All these services are accessible through standard Internet browsers and their deployment is planned in accordance of the SaaS cloud computing model. The project integrates three main viewpoints on standards: owner, user and assessor. NOR-STA services support all three viewpoints and move the whole problem of conformance demonstration and assessment to the Internet in a way which respects security and privacy perspectives. The project runs a series of Case Studies with partners from medical and business sectors including hospital quality management and secure outsourcing management. Expansion to other sectors is foreseen in the project course. It is expected that the project will conclude with a spin-off company.

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PLATON

The project focuses on development of e-Services for Polish scientific community based on the infrastructure of the national optical research and educational network PIONIER. The PIONIER network covers the whole territory of Poland and connects research entities and higher education establishments with the GEANT network and scientific networks of neighbouring countries. Basing on the infrastructure of the PIONIER network, the project PLATON develops e-Science services that will be accessible for all researchers from all over the Poland.

The main goal of the project is to implement 5 advanced s-Services: videoconference services, campus services, eduroam, archiving services and scientific HD TV services for educational and research purposes (e.g. visualisation for telemedicine, medical research and education).

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Semantic Monitoring of the Cyberspace

Internet is evolving rapidly, being present in every aspect of our lives. Today’s society except from using Internet for fun or work, has also to handle multiple cyber threats. The major objective of the SMC project is to integrate data from heterogeneous sources and enable for automatic detection of cyber threats. The project therefore faces the following challenges related to automated detection of Internet threats:

• handling large amount of structured and unstructured data,
• integrating data from diverse sources,
• evaluating if particular activity or data indicate a cyber threat.

Information from chosen Internet sources, like social network sites or on-line auction services, will be filtered applying a threat profile to find a particular threat. Experts’ role will be limited to definition of the detection process and a profile of a cyber threat.

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