WP 3. Enhancing expertise and exchanging know-how through international workshops and conferences

Facilitation of knowledge sharing as well as raising the visibility of the ENGINE Centre in the scientific environment were indicated as the main objectives of FP7. In total, two conferences will be organized, as well as 11 workshops of the duration of 1-3 days, 5 workshops (duration: 1-5 days) covering diverse subjects from Network Intelligence research area.

Knowledge enhancement of the ENGINE researchers will be also achieved through the participation at international scientific conferences. The participation at the conferences abroad will be active. i.e., each participation must be associated with a presentation including the most recent research results or chairing of the conference, workshop or specific session.

The main objectives for the workshops and conferences are as follows:

• providing comprehensive knowledge to the ENGINE staff about the state-of-the-art and methodology in Network Intelligence
• identifying potential ENGINE expertise in a crucial area of global scientific interest
• identifying what skills and knowledge available at the ENGINE can be used for providing new industrial applications
• identifying the links between current research projects at the ENGINE and their potential applications in the industry
• establishing relationships with industrial and scientific partners for future cooperation
• establishing collaboration between the ENGINE and the international teams and institutions working within the Network Intelligence area.

Once the ENGINE project is over, we hope that the European Workshop on Network Intelligence (ENI) brand will be recognized worldwide and we will be able to transform it a conference.

We would like to aggregate and continue three one-time workshops (WT 3.4, WT 3.5 and WT 3.6) in the form of a single Summer School on Network Intelligence, after the ENGINE project is finished. It is supposed to be annually repeated.

Descriptions of tasks:

• WT3.1 – The 2014 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ANONAM 2014)
• WT3.2 – The 9th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES 2015
• WT3.3 – European Workshop on Network Intelligence (ENI)
• WT3.4 – Workshop on Complex Network Mining and Analysis
• WT3.5 – Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning
• WT3.6 – Workshop on Interdisciplinary Network Intelligence in Applications
• WT3.7 – Workshop on Nonstationary Models of Pattern Recognition and Classifier Combinations under the framework
• WT3.8 – Workshop on Machine Learning in Life Sciences
• WT3.9 – Workshop on Solving Classification Problems Embedded in the Nature of Data
• WT3.10 – Workshop on Survivable Content Oriented Networking
• WT3.11 – Workshop on Application of Gaze tracking Methods in Mobile Applications Usability Verification
• WT3.12 – Workshop on Machine Vision and Graphics (MaViG)
• WT3.13 – Workshop on Soft Computing Methods and Application (SoCMA)
• WT3.14 – Enhancing knowledge exchange and ENGINE Centre staff expertise, through participation in the international workshops and conferences