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A scientific paper entitled “MARK1 – A Decision Support System for the Early Detection of Malignant Melanoma” has been accepted for oral presentation at the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare – “Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies” (MOBIHEALTH 2014), which is held in Athens, Greece, on November 3-5, 2014. Konstantinos Perakis, Thanassis Bouras and their co-authors present the conceptual architecture of a platform that can address the need for early and accurate detection of skin lesion through a screening solution that will be easily accessible to the general public with the guidance, supervision and inspection of the primary care physician. The proposed solution shall provide painless, effortless and efficient self-screening of skin lesions, for early, accurate detection of melanoma, independent of the patient’s location, safeguard sensitive patient data and maintain patient-doctor confidentiality, as well as ensure accurate diagnosis delivered by the specialist (physician), independent of the physician’s and patient’s physical locations. MARK1 goes beyond providing a pattern recognition system, and incorporates a self-screening application with a lightweight DSS which supports medical experts in reaching a diagnosis. MARK1 integrates clinical diagnosis rules based on Total Body Photography, a Decision Support and a content based image retrieval system to assist expert diagnosis, and the ubiquitous information access of the handheld modern devices.

Source: http://mobihealth.name/2014/show/home

UBITECH is participating at the eChallenges e-2014 Conference that is taking place in Belfast, Northern lreland at 29-31 October 2014. Specifically, UBITECH is actively involved with the organization of the workshop “Making (Linked) Open Data Available for Business” that is realized within the framework of the LinDA FP7 project. Two presentations entitled “Linked Open Data for EU SMEs: The case of Business Analytics” and “Business Value Creation from Linked Data Analytics: The LinDA Approach” are given by Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos during the workshop. The latter presentation is associated with a scientific paper, co-authored by UBITECH, that has been accepted for presentation at the conference. At this paper, Panagiotis Hasapis, Eleni Fotopoulou and Anastasios Zafeiropoulos – along with other LinDA consortium members – propose an approach for the extraction of Linked Data analytics, based on the exploitation of a set of tools for proper transformation and interlinking of public and private datasets and the realization of analysis over them. The proposed approach targets at enhancing the ability of public and private sector organizations to provide usable Linked Data, while offering SMEs the opportunity to perform advanced algorithmic analysis.

Source: http://www.echallenges.org/e2014/

A scientific paper entitled “An innovative approach for the protection of healthcare information through the end-to-end pseudo-anonymization of end-users” has been accepted for oral presentation at the 1st International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare (HealthyIoT), which is held in Rome, Italy, on 27-28 October 2014. Panagiotis Gouvas, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Konstantinos Perakis and Thanasis Bouras present the approach and conceptual architecture of SHIELD, an innovative methodological approach and network architecture-deployed within the framework of the FI-STAR project- targeting at the protection of healthcare information through the pseudo-anonymization of end-users. SHIELD suggests a new network and software architecture targeting at the provision of high quality pseydonymized context-aware services, and provides a holistic framework for the provision of such in the healthcare domain, based on: 1) the design of the networking architecture that guarantees the anonymity of end-users and the protection of their personal data, 2) the dynamic creation of unique pseudonyms for the SHIELD end users and 3) the deployment and operation of a PKI and issuance of digital certificates per pseudonymized end user.

Source: http://healthyiot.org/2014/show/home

UBITECH is participating at the 2nd European Conference on the Future Internet that is taking place in Munich, Germany at 17-18 September 2014. Specifically, UBITECH is actively present at the FI-STAR Stand, demonstrating the company’s activities in the FI-STAR project. Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos has presented the SHIELD Specific Enabler that is being developed by UBITECH R&D team for promoting, leveraging and enforcing the notion of pseudo-anonymization of end-users in the course of their interaction with the FI-STAR platform, services, applications and generic enablers. In the course of his presentation, more than 150 ECFI participants have visited the FI-STAR stand and learnt about UBITECH’s end-to-end pseudo-anynomization technologies, while Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos had a series of short interactive sessions and discussions with more than 30 visitors interested in the aforementioned demonstrated technologies.

Source: http://www.ecfi.eu/conference-exhibition/

A scientific paper entitled “A novel development paradigm for deploying applications over programmable infrastructure” has been accepted for presentation at the Workshop on Energy-efficiency, Programmability, Flexibility and Integration in Future Network Architectures (EPFI) at the 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26), which is held in Karlskrona, Sweden, at September 12, 2014. At this paper, Panagiotis Gouvas and Anastasios Zafeiropoulos – given the inability of application developers to foresee the changes as well as the heterogeneity on the underlying networking and computational infrastructure – propose the design and development of novel software paradigms that facilitate application developers to take advantage of the emerging programmability of the underlying infrastructure and therefore develop reconfigurable by design applications.

Source: http://www.itc26.org/workshops/epfi-program/#c1720

MARK1 is one of the 31 proposals that will be funded under the “Bilateral S & T Cooperation between Greece – Israel 2013-2015″ call, of the National Action Range” Bilateral, Multilateral and Regional S & T Partnerships”. The project is partially funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (Grant Agreement No ISR_3233) and runs in the period June 2014 – September 2015. Within the context of MARK1, UBITECH collaborates with the MEDical Image and Signal Processing laboratory (MEDISP) of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, the Department of Medical Physics of the University of Patras, as well as Emerald Medical Applications, an Israeli software development SME with rich experience in Image Processing technology applied to the medical field of Dermatology.

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In the frame of the National Conference of Civil Registries of the Republic of Argentina, held in Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia) in 14-16/05/2014, UBITECH was invited, as the sole contractor and implementer of the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform, to give a live demo of the federal platform, to present the current status of the provinces joining it, as well as to discuss with the provinces´ representatives any requests or possibilities for expanding its current functionalities.

Until the date of the national conference the provinces of Neuquen, Formosa, Tucumán and Corrientes had actively joined the federal platform, while, in the frame of the conference activities and discussions, all the other provinces decided to actively join and participate in the RENAPER Secure Data Exchange Platform – representing and covering almost the whole population of the Republic of Argentina.

Currently, UBITECH is in the process of investigating and negotiating a set of additional functionalities that can further enhance specific aspects of the federal platform of RENAPER.

UBITECH participated and submitted a proposal in the FI-STAR Open Call for additional Project Partners that has been launched in September 2013 with deadline on 20 November 2013. After the evaluation of the 83 proposals received (from 21 countries and 115 proposing organizations) by independent experts, which included off-line evaluations and physical consensus meetings, UBITECH has been invited for negotiations and inclusion in the FI-STAR project consortium.

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UBITECH organised and hosted the Athens kick-off meeting of the DISYS research project, officially started on March 1st, 2014. The project is partially funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (Grant Agreement No 1621-BET-2013) and runs in the period March 2014 – July 2015.

DISYS project aims to study, design and develop an intelligent system for personalized dietary recommendations, which will take into account the nutritional profile of the consumer and selected health indicators (e.g., blood sugar levels, blood pressure, etc.) and will propose “healthy” meals to the consumer which can be consumed in a restaurant.

UBITECH participates in the design, technical specification and implementation of the Nutritional Profile Layer, integrating the business logic required so that the consumer can introduce self – reported personal data such as eating habits and basic medical information (e.g. allergies or conditions like diabetes), which are mapped to the DISYS Semantic Model. UBITECH participates in the implementation of the nutritional profile of the consumer, based on which the dietary recommendations will rely. The Nutritional Profile Layer also integrates the business logic required amongst others for the nutritional analysis of dietary menus and the mapping of this information to the DISYS Semantic Model.For more information, please visit the project’s website or contact us.

Source: http://www.gsrt.gr/Financing/Files/ContentFiles322/katalogos_protaseon.pdf

SEVT with the support of UBITECH organized on 28th of March 2014 in Athens, a workshop to present the Linked2Media platform to its members. The concept of the workshop was to have a small number of companies in order the participants to really test the platform.

After a short introduction of the Linked2Media Research for SMEs Associations project (that is partially co-funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission under the Grant Agreement FP7-286714), the research engineers of UBITECH have performed a short demo of the Linked2Media platform and allowed the real testing of it by the participating Greek food companies’ representatives. In total we had 8 participants coming from 6 companies: Nestlé Group, G. Kallimanis S.A., EZA Hellenic Breweries of Atalanti S.A., MANDREKAS S.A., Mondelez Greece (ex Kraft Foods) and JOTIS S.A. Related material can be found here.

Sources:
– http://www.sevt.gr
– http://www.linked2media.eu/?q=node/66