The LinkedDesign FP7 project completed successfully in August 2015, and achieved a positive final review that took place in Brussels in October 30, 2015. The LinkedDesign LEAP platform, implemented within the project lifetime, enables user-centric lifecycle information management and provides context-driven access to federated information and knowledge, such that each user is equipped with all information required for his/her specific role and engineering task – preventing from information overload leading to long search times. Furthermore, the LEAP platform fosters cross-discipline collaborations between users by novel approaches for collaborative engineering. The LEAP front-end has been developed as a Virtual Obeya, constituting a virtual control center where all information confluence and are shared at desks for each involved participant, independent of location and context.
Within the context of the project, UBITECH has heavily contributed to the technical design and implementation of the LinkedDesign Conceptual Model (LD Ontology). Additionally, UBITECH has led the implementation of the LinkedDesign Instance Importer that offers a set of reasoning services over HTTP protocol, thus it provides a simpler and easier integration approach to start facilitating the utilization of highly complex functionalities similar to the ones offered by a reasoner. The specific component exposes reasoning services over a HTTP API, which can be easily deployed and configured on a Cloud environment. It may also support arbitrary ontologies and rules expressed in SWRL. Based on the fashion by which it was implemented, the LinkedDesign Instance Importer may easily achieve high availability and scalability.
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A scientific paper entitled “Propelling SMEs Business Intelligence through Linked Data Production and Consumption” has been presented by UBITECH at the 10th OTM/IFAC International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N’2015) that is part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops 2015 (OTM 2015). OTM 2015 is being held in Rhodes, Greece at October 26-29, 2015. At this paper, Eleni Fotopoulou and Anastasios Zafeiropoulos – along with other co-authors – propose an approach for the production of added-value business analytics through the consumption of interlinked versions of data and the exploitation of linked data principles. Furthermore, the paper includes the findings that were realised through the execution of the Business Intelligence Analytics pilot operation of the LinDA project, which concerns the examination of the effects of Over-The-Counter (OTC) medicines liberalisation in the OTC market pool and business opportunities in Europe. The analysis aims at identifying correlations between pharmaceutical, healthcare, socio-economic and political parameters and tackles several research questions that were identified at the initial steps of the analysis.
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UBITECH has actively participated in the kick-off meeting, in Nieuwegein, Netherlands (October 8-9, 2015) of the SUBSOL research project, officially started on September 1st, 2015. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 642228) and spans on the period September 2015 – August 2018. SUBSOL targets at introducing a new way of thinking in terms of water resources management, promoting the sustainable development of coastal areas worldwide.
UBITECH participated at the Cloud Forward 2015 Conference that took place in Pisa, Italy at 6-8 of October 2015. The Cloud Forward 2015 Conference brought together experts from industry and academia to consider the future of and beyond Cloud Computing. The conference reviewed experiences and discussed future directions to overcome problems and provide new opportunities for the utilisation of leading edge Cloud Computing by industry and academia and for ICT developers providing innovative solutions. Dr. Constantinos Vassilakis participated on behalf of the ARCADIA and INPUT Horizon 2020 projects on the clustering activities organized within the conference and mainly the “Software Engineering for Services and Applications” cluster and the “New Approaches for Infrastructure Services” cluster. A set of presentations were provided concerning the overall objectives and approach followed in the ARCADIA project, as well as the current status of the white paper that is under preparation within the “Software Engineering for Services and Applications” cluster for describing current challenges and trends in the software engineering world.
UBITECH participated at the Critical Infrastructure Protection workshop at PCI 2015 that took place in Athens, Greece at 2nd of October 2015. In the workshop, several research initiatives were presented with regards to risk mitigation for Critical Infrastructure protection, Critical Infrastructure security and resilience, software defined security mechanisms along with applied tools for supporting ports security and assessing the risks for ports’ supply chain services. On behalf of UBITECH, Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos presented a novel approach for designing and implementing software defined security mechanisms taking into account the opportunities that exist based on the evolvement of novel technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies. Main security threats, challenges and opportunities for the design of advanced security solutions were presented taking into account different NFV deployment models. For more information, please 
UBITECH participated at the “State of the art technologies in next generation data networks” workshop at PCI 2015 that took place in Athens, Greece at 2nd of October 2015. The workshop explored the challenges faced towards the transition to the Future Internet and the adoption of novel technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies. On behalf of UBITECH, Dr. Constantinos Vassilakis presented a novel infrastructure and paradigm to support Future Internet personal cloud services in a more scalable and sustainable way and with innovative added-value capabilities, as it is designed and being developed within the framework of the INPUT Horizon 2020 project. The INPUT technologies will enable next-generation cloud applications to go beyond classical service models, and even to replace physical Smart Devices, usually placed in users’ homes (e.g., set-top-boxes, etc.) or deployed around for monitoring purposes (e.g., sensors), with their virtual images, providing them to users “as a Service.” For more information, please contact us or find the presentation here.
