Current Projects
OpenPHACTS
The Open PHACTS consortium, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), will reduce the barriers to drug discovery by applying semantic technologies to available data resources, creating an Open Pharmacological Space.
Open PHACTS (the Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) will deliver a single view across available data resources, and will be freely available to users. Scientific text, difficult to analyse by computer, will have factual assertions extracted as semantic triples, allowing for the first time the prospect of querying textual and database data together to give answers needed to identify new drug targets and pharmacological interactions. While the semantic approach has been delivered in small-scale and targeted approaches so far, its promise for multiscale data integration has remained largely unfulfilled - Open PHACTS is a major project including many of the top semantic web experts, committed to deliver on this promise.
Predicting the impact of current events on the arrival of tourists.
The purpose of this project is first to collect and amalgamate data concering events of political instability over the last 30 years from many major newswire report providers (Reuters, BBC, FBIS, Factiva) to create an RDF KB, while automatically identifying duplicate reports. To facilate this process we have created an OWL version of the CAMEO (Conflict and Mediation Event Observations) Codebook. Using the integrated dataset we aim to establish a methodology of measuring the impact of events of political instability in terms of fluctuations in the rate of arrivals and departures of tourists. Ultimately we expect to be in a position to develop an automatic tool to predict the likely impact of current events (based on the terminology used by the various reporting organisations) on tourist arrivals in real time.
The project is funded by the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management of the Cyprus University of Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Antonis Theocharous
Past Projects
OpenKnowledge
OpenKnowledge was a 3 year long STReP project financed under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. The goal of the project was to decrease the cost of participation in semantic based systems that are increasingly developed in the context of the Semantic Web. This was be achieved by focusing on semantics related to interaction (which are acquired at low cost during participation) and using this to avoid dependency on a priori semantic agreement; instead making semantic commitments incrementally at run time.
The "Open" in OpenKnowledge thus is significant in two senses: it assumes an open system, which anyone may join at any time; it assumes an openness to being joined, achieved through participation at low individual cost.
Video Game Psychophysiology Lab
An ongoing project at the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute the lab is among very few world-wide which aspire to tackle the question of whether video games psychologically affect the gamer, by monitoring in real time a number of physiological, facial and neurophysiological measures while engaging in violent video games. It will shed light on whether extensive video game play causes cognitive and behavioral changes, and aims to establish which personality types are at risk.
myTea: Best Practice in eScience
The myTea project was a year long collaboration between Smart Tea/CombeChem (University of Southampton) and myGrid (University of Manchester) eScience projects to develop an integrated experimental capture system for bioinformatitians. The project was funded by EPSRC.