the Partners

in Project

Consorzio Milano Ricerche (CMR) is a non-profit research consortium established in 1986 by the Universities in Milano and a number of industrial companies. Its mission is to perform industrial research and technology transfer through cooperative projects linking its partners and other companies. As far as the ICT sector is concerned Milano Ricerche has been developing specific competences in knowledge management and semantic web analysis, focusing in particular on probabilistic modelling and approximative reasoning along with data analysis, computational machine learning for data and text mining.

Fondazione Bruno Kessler is a non profit organization that has taken the role of former Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC). It has as its objective both scientific excellence and innovation and technology transfer to companies and public services. In its areas of competence, FBK collaborates with the main actors in global research. Research activities are carried out in scientific and technological areas, such as, advanced computer science, microelectronics, physics, mathematical sciences and in human sciences.

It partecipates through the Office Responsible for Automated Information Systems for the Ministry of Justice – DGSIA - has been created in 1996 with the aim of coordinating all the activities concerning the implementation of IT in the Italian Judicial System. It belongs to the central structure of the Ministry, co-operates with the Minister and has an independent budget.

RWTH Aachen University, Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik VI, is concerned with human language technology and pattern recognition and focuses on advanced stochastic and automatic learning based algorithms. The scientific work of his team is devoted to virtually all tasks in human language technology and pattern recognition; these tasks cover speech recognition, language understanding, and spoken dialog systems, translation of both written and spoken language, computer vision, sign language and gesture recognition.

The European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML) was established in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1997. As such, EML is a private research laboratory and SME. It provides cutting-edge IT services ranging from the conduct of research assignments and the development of innovative IT solutions to consultancy and training. All projects are driven by a user-centered approach where IT systems should be designed and realized in such a way that their users can relate to them as useful extensions of their own capabilities, rather than experiencing them as technical barriers requiring a great deal of effort to come to terms with. Specifically, EML's projects are targeted at forms of interaction between humans and technical systems, intelligent automatic information extraction from large sets of data, as well as location-based mobile systems and their applications.

The Thessaloniki-based Information Processing Laboratory (IPL) of ITI-CERTH has widely participated research projects. Its Athens-based Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab (IVML) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) will also collaborate in the project. It has led European and national projects, has authored more than 120 publications in scientific journals and over 250 in international conferences in the multimedia and knowledge technologies field.

Computer and Automation research institute (SZTAKI) is a Center of Excellence, the leading national institute for computer science, software engineering and applied mathematics. Research tasks are accomplished by the joint efforts of the Distributed Events Analysis (DEVA) research Group, whose goal is the interpretation and organisation of information coming from signals of freely distributed or embedded sensors, mainly of video feeds coming from multimedia-, image- and sound-sensors as well as the evaluation, recognition and classification of events occurring in different location and time. It is specialised in data mining for community and link analysis, custom solutions for extreme large systems (large Intranets, high traffic portals) as well as for languages with particularly complex syntax in collaboration with computational linguistic groups.

Ministry of Justice and Courts of Wroklaw are part of Polish government administration. Polish political system represents parliamentary democracy with traditional separation of powers. Although judicial power is independent in its ruling, the Minister being a part of executive branch co-ordinates its operation. The Minister has a power to set Court budget, to set number of Courts and its territorial competence, to set number of judges, to nominate and under some circumstances to dismiss Court Presidents. Minister is also a prosecutor general and rules operation of prosecutor's offices.

ESAPROJEKT, founded in 2001, is a Polish system integrator providing complex IT services for corporative and institutional clients. It serves the following sectors: industry, healthcare, public administration, environmental protection, civil service, logistics and road transport. In-depth knowledge of the client's sector resulting from specialization in the sector, qualified staff and experience gained through project completion allow ESAPROJEKT to offer clients the highest quality services and products backed by the most modern technology.

The National Centre for IT in Public Administration (CNIPA) is part of the ministry participating in our project. CNIPA was set up in July 2003 as part of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to implement the policy of the Minister for Reform and Innovation in the Public Administration (Ministro per le Riforme e le Innovazioni nella Pubblica Amministrazione). The mission of CNIPA is to help Italian public administration in using effectively ICT technologies to improve service quality and reduce the costs of the administrative action. Its broad field of action included planning, design, development, maintenance and management of information systems, but also assessment of largest IT projects and IT-related training and learning.

European Media Laboratory Research Germany: EMLR as RTD performer (partner)

EML Research gGmbH is a private research institute focussing on Information Technology and its applications. EML Research aims to develop innovative information processing systems that combine highly sophisticated technology with optimum user-friendliness.

Dept. of Informatics Systems and Communication of the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy : DISCo-UNIMIB as RTD performer (partner)

The primary objectives of DISCo department are to develop teaching and research in order to contribute to the innovative processes of the European and Italian productive systems and to initiate re-launching of European research for the Information Society in the field of technology. The research is organised in four main areas: + Software architecture and analysis, distributed systems, imaging and artificial vision, robotics; + Date bases and information systems, artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and management, cooperative technologies; + Bioinformatics, complex systems, formal models of distributed systems; + Information, finance and environment, computational networks and decision sciences.

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Project Automation S.p.A. Italy.  Unfortunately the partner withdrew the project since October 2009.