Projects

Current Projects

NEP4B website

NeP4B (Network of Peers for Business) aims to contribute innovative ICTs solutions for SMEs, by developing an advanced technological infrastructure to enable companies of any nature, size and geographic location to search for partners, exchange data, negotiate and collaborate without limitations and constraints. The infrastructure will base on independent and interoperable semantic peers who behave as nodes of a virtual network. With these results the NeP4B project intends to provide a substantial contribute to the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) concept, which represents one of the core aspects of the European Information Society 2010 initiative.
The project vision is towards an Internet-based structured marketplace where companies can access the huge amount of information already present in vertical portals and corporate databases and use it for dynamic, value-adding collaboration purposes.
In order to develop this vision, the project will investigate and design a technology as the basis for creating a network of semantic peers, providing advanced semantic services for B2B applications, where companies can classify their own profiles, offers and features so as to gain public visibility to potential customers and partners. The peers will cooperate on the trusted network on a P2P basis to deliver the targeted semantic services to all the users of the system.

SEEMP (IST-4-027347-STP) website

The SEEMP (Single European Employment Market Place) project aims at enhancing the already provided e-Employment services by developing a highly advanced, ontology-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) based interoperability infrastructure that will be based on Service Oriented Architecture and will offer access to semantically enriched employment services. SEEMP will allow interoperability between the existing National/Local job market places (PES systems) at pan-European level. A SEEMP “peer” will act as an extension framework for an existing PES, capable of providing added value services to job seekers, employers and central and/or local governments.

EG4M ( – )

Project description coming soon.

Closed Projects

ATELIER (IST-2001-33064, 2001-2004)

Architecture and Technologies for Inspirational Learning Environments
The aim of the ATELIER project is to contribute to inspirational learning environments, which are grounded in an understanding of creative practices within design, architecture and art.

Campiello (Esprit Project # 25572, 1997-2000)

Campiello – Interacting in collaborative environments to promote and sustain the meeting between inhabitants and tourists
The Campiello project aims to experiment the use of innovative ICT and interaction paradigms to support and facilitate the dynamic exchange of information and experiences between the local communities of the Historical Cities of Art and Culture and their visitors. The main objective of the project is stimulating people to interact and cooperate in building new knowledge based on the cultural local resources in order to strengthen the sense of belonging to the local community.

Two cities have been chosen as context of the experiment: Venezia in Italy and Chania in Crete (Greece).

KLEE&Co (ESPRIT Project 28842, 1999-2000)

Knowledge & Learning Environments for European & Creative Organizations
The output of Klee&Co was an innovative prototype of a knowledge management technical and organizational solution, based on the “view with context”, where objects could be visualized in their context (related documents, related links, related subject matter experts, related communication and e-mails).

MAIS (FIRB – )

Project description coming soon.

MILK (IST 2001-33165, 2001-2004)

Multimedia Interaction for Learning and Knowing.
MILK embraces the internet-enabled possibilities to access knowledge “anywhere and anytime”, according to the business needs of organizations working in the internet economy. MILK is an integrated and comprehensive knowledge management solution which supports working in a number of situations by providing three access environments (PC, mobile, and social.)