elektronická verzia publikácie - FIIT STU

Annual report 2011 103Support of Building a Center of Excellence for Smart Technologies, Systems, andServices II (ITMS 26240120029)Project leader: M. Bieliková for FIIT STUMembers UISI: P. NávratSupported by: European Structural FundDuration: January 2010 – January 2013Description:The objective is to improve, build further, and put into operation thetechnological infrastructure that would enable to sustain the center ofexcellence of research and development for enterprise informationsource processing and presentation with the application of advanceddistributed architectures for parallel processing of extensive sources ofsemistructured data and high performance computing for complex applications.Research of methods for acquisition, analysis and personalized conveying ofinformation and knowledge (ITMS: 26240220039)Project leader: M. Bieliková for FIIT STUMembers UISI: M. Barla, M. Bieliková, A. Bou Ezzeddine, D. Chudá, M. Holub,M. Kompan, G. Kosková, T. Kramár, T. Kučečka, P. Lacko,P. Mederly, P. Návrat, I. Polášek, V. Rozinajová, J. Suchal,R. Šelmeci, J. Šimko, M. Šimko, J. Tvarožek, M. Tvarožek,V. Vranić, D. ZeleníkSupported by: European Structural FundDuration: January 2011 – January 2014Description: The purpose of the project is to develop new methods of acquisition,search, and recommendation of information and knowledge. The needfor such methods comes from a huge range of the data available in differentdomains when their manual search for a human is not possible.Contemporary methods have enabled a remarkable move in this field,but they still do not enable to effective information providing so thatthis would include the context: the user, his or her goals, properties,and capabilities, as well as parameters of the environment in which informationprocessing takes part (time, place, and technical resources).Personalization of physical activity to fight against childhood obesity (2010et018)Project leader: M. BarlaMembers UISI: P. Bielik, P. Krátky, Š. Mitrík, M. Tomlein (students)Supported by: Tatra banka FoundationDuration: January 2011 – December 2011Description: The project deals with a worldwide problem — the lack of physicalactivity resulting in overweight, obesity and other severe diseases. It'saim is to take advantage of modern information technologies to motivatepeople to do more physical activity and to improve their lifestyle.This is done by tracking and evaluating users' activity, providingfeedback and personalized recommendations of activity and, aboveall, providing various means of motivation based also on principles ofgamification.