Project
Institute of Informatics
International Projects
TREX - Targeting Real Chemical Accuracy at the Exascale (TREX)
Ako dosiahnuť reálnu chemickú presnosť v exascale ére
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2022 - 31. 3. 2024 |
| Program: | Horizont 2020 |
| Project leader: | Prof. Ing. Štich Ivan DrSc. |
iMagine - Imaging data and services for aquatic science (iMagine)
Cloudové služby pre spracovanie obrazových údajov pre vedy o vode
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2022 - 31. 8. 2025 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | iMagine provides a portfolio of free at the point of use image datasets, high-performance image analysis tools empowered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Best Practice documents for scientific image analysis. These services and materials enable better and more efficient processing and analysis of imaging data in marine and freshwater research, accelerating our scientific insights about processes and measures relevant for healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters. By building on the computing platform of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) the project delivers a generic framework for AI model development, training, and deployment, which can be adopted by researchers for refining their AI-based applications for water pollution mitigation, biodiversity and ecosystem studies, climate change analysis and beach monitoring, but also for developing and optimising other AI-based applications in this field. The iMagine compute layer consists of providers from the pan-European EGI federation infrastructure, collectively offering over 132,000 GPU-hours, 6,000,000 CPU-hours and 1500 TB-month for image hosting and processing. The iMagine AI framework offers neural networks, parallel post-processing of very large data, and analysis of massive online data streams in distributed environments. 13 RIs will share over 9 million images and 8 AI-powered applications through the framework. Having representatives so many RIs and IT experts, developing a portfolio of eye-catching image processing services together will also give rise to Best Practices. The synergies between aquatic use cases will lead to common solutions in data management, quality control, performance, integration, provenance, and FAIRness, contributing to harmonisation across RIs and providing input for the iMagine Best Practice guidelines. The project results will be integrated into and will bring important contributions from RIs and e-infrastructures to EOSC and AI4EU. |
EGI-ACE - EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC (EGI-ACE)
EGI pokročilé počítanie pre EOSC
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 30. 6. 2023 |
| Program: | Horizont 2020 |
| Project leader: | doc. Ing. Hluchý Ladislav CSc. |
| Annotation: | The mission of the EGI-ACE project of EGI is to implement the Compute Platform of the European Open Science Cloud, by delivering a secure federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities in collaboration with providers of the EGI Federation, commercial providers, data providers and international research infrastructures of pan-European relevance. |
| Project web page: | https://www.egi.eu/projects/egi-ace/ |
BattPor - Inline evaluation of Li-ion batery electrod porosity using machine learning algorithms
Inline evaluácia pórovitosti elektród Li-ion batérií pomocou algoritmov strojového učenia
| Duration: | 1. 6. 2022 - 31. 5. 2025 |
| Program: | ERANET |
| Project leader: | Ing. Budinská Ivana PhD. |
SILVANUS - Integrated Technological and Information Platformfor wildfire Management (SILVANUS)
Integrovaná technologická a informačná platforma pre manažment lesných požiarov
| Duration: | 1. 10. 2021 - 31. 3. 2025 |
| Program: | Horizont 2020 |
| Project leader: | Ing. Balogh Zoltán PhD. |
| Annotation: | SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots. The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504x104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated through 11 pilot demonstrations across Europe and internationally using a two sprint cycle. |
SWORD - Smart Wound monitoring Restorative Dressings
Inteligentné diagnosticko-terapeutické náplasti
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2020 - 30. 6. 2024 |
| Program: | Horizont 2020 |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Bardošová Mária CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to combine the expertise and resources of four academic groups working at the frontiers of material research and two SMEs, one engaged in producing commercial medical materials as well as having own research capacities. The Consortium plans to develop wound dressings which an be rated as a radical innovation in the area of chronic wound care. Our efforts will concentrate on the design of a new product which will combine diagnostic and therapeutic actions and facilitate wound healing, while at the same time minimize treatment costs and optimize wound management thus positively influencing patient's wellbeing. A range of new composites derived from naturally occurring materials, such as chitin and halloysite combined with colloids will be studied. The ensuing hybrid materials will be processed using micro- and nano-manipulating tools, including roll-to-roll and electrospinning technologies. A thorough characterization program will be undertaken in order to understand the molecular-level interactions between the composite components. The determination of materials structure will allow a complete understanding of how their properties originate so that they can be tailored to precisely fit their application. The dressing will feature diagnostic sensors capable of measuring pH, humidity, temperature and associated bacterial activity as well as a highly absorbent layer designed to drain the wound and release therapeutic agents. Each member of the Consortium is well-resourced in terms of facilities, infrastructure and technology transfer support so as to provide an ideal environment for the research program, the training of younger researchers and the exploitation of findings. Leveraging from nationally funded grants and actively engaging in research exchanges while seeking to produce a radical innovation in the area of 'smart' dressings the project will address all three key drivers of the knowledge-based society, namely research, education an innovation. |
| Project web page: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/873123 |
LITHME - Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME)
Jazyk v ére človek-stroj
| Duration: | 6. 10. 2020 - 5. 10. 2024 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Sabo Róbert PhD. |
COBRA - COnversational BRAins
Konverzujúce mozgy
| Duration: | 1. 2. 2020 - 31. 1. 2024 |
| Program: | Horizont 2020 |
| Project leader: | Prof.Mgr. Beňuš Štefan PhD. |
| Annotation: | The EU-funded COBRA project will train the next generation of researchers to accurately characterise and model the linguistic and cognitive brain mechanisms that allow conversation to unfold in both human-human and human-machine interactions. The first challenge will be to determine how alignment and prediction may both rely on and contribute to setting up brain-to-brain coupling relationships. The second will relate to the development of computational models of alignment and prediction for more socially-acceptable text-to-speech synthesisers, human-machine dialogue systems, and social robots. |
| Project web page: | https://www.cobra-network.eu/the-project/ |
FIRElinks - Fire in Earth System: Science & Society (FIRElinks)
Požiar v systéme Zeme: veda a spoločnosť
| Duration: | 1. 6. 2019 - 1. 6. 2023 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Glasa Ján CSc. |
AI4EOSC - Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud (AI4EOSC)
Umelá inteligencia pre EOSC
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2022 - 31. 8. 2025 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | The AI4EOSC (Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud) delivers an enhanced set of advanced services for the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models and applications in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). These services are bundled together into a comprehensive platform providing advanced features such as distributed, federated and split learning; novel provenance metadata for AI/ML/DL models; event-driven data processing services or provisioning of AI/ML/DL services based on serverless computing. The project builds on top of the DEEP-Hybrid-DataCloud outcomes and the EOSC compute platform and services in order to provide this specialized compute platform. Moreover, AI4EOSC offers customization components in order to provide tailor made deployments of the platform, adapting to the evolving user needs. The main outcomes of the AI4EOSC project will be a measurable increase of the number of advanced, high level, customizable services available through the EOSC portal, serving as a catalyst for researchers, facilitating the collaboration, easing access to high-end pan-European resources and reducing the time to results; paired with concrete contributions to the EOSC exploitation perspective, creating a new channel to support the build-up of the EOSC Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning community of practice. |
| Project web page: | https://ai4eosc.eu/ |
EuroScienceGatew - leveraging the European compute infrastructures for data-intensive research guided by FAIR principles (EuroScienceGateway)
využitie európskych výpočtových infraštruktúr pre výskum náročný na údaje riadený zásadami FAIR
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2022 - 31. 8. 2025 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | In the past decade, many scientific domains have been transformed into data-driven disciplines relying on the exchange and integration of internationally distributed data. Exploiting this data is still a laborious and largely manual task, prone to losses and errors, and increasingly specialised beyond most users technical capabilities. FAIR practices are encouraged but their adoption curve is steep. The needs for compute and data resources, tools, and application platforms are often domain-specific. Many scientists struggle to navigate this intricate ecosystem. Generally, researchers do not possess the computing skills to effectively use the HPC or Cloud platforms they need. Thus, new approaches are needed to enable all researchers, with widely ranging digital skills, to efficiently use the diverse computational infrastructures available across Europe, for asynchronous and for interactive applications. EuroScienceGateway will leverage a distributed computing network across 13 European countries, accessible via 6 national, user-friendly web portals, facilitating access to compute and storage infrastructures across Europe as well as to data, tools, workflows and services that can be customized to suit researchers' needs. At the heart of the proposal workflows will integrate with the EOSC-Core. Adoption, development and implementation of technologies to interoperate across services, will allow researchers to produce high-quality FAIR data, available to all in EOSC. Communities across disciplines - Life Sciences, Climate and Biodiversity, Astrophysics, Materials science - will demonstrate the bridge from EOSC's technical services to scientific analysis. EuroScienceGateway will deliver a robust, scalable, seamlessly integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research, contributing an innovative and customizable service for EOSC that enables operational open and FAIR data and data processing, empowering European researchers to embrace the new digital age of science. |
National Projects
ARIEN - Analysis of environmental influences on power industry equipment by the methods of artificial intelligence and cloud computing (ARIEN)
Analýza vplyvu prostredia na zariadenia energetického priemyslu metódami umelej inteligencie a cloudového počítania
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Ing. Kvassay Marcel PhD. |
| Annotation: | The main goal of project ARIEN is to develop & verify a new innovative method for the estimation of local pollution deposition for power industry needs based on the data collected by the SHMU Institute. It will rely on advanced techniques of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data integration and was not yet applied in Slovak power industry. It will help to prevent outages on 110 kV and 400 kV overhead lines caused by flashovers. The results obtained by this method will help to optimize the design of insulators and improve the quality of maintenance during operation. Artificial intelligence is the logical choice, because so far we have not been able, due to their complexity, to describe the processes of pollution dispersion, deposition and chemical interaction adequately by standard physical and chemical models. Techniques of artificial intelligence and neural networks can find new relationships between the input and the output data. Neural networks, however, require large training sets. Therefore, the second project goal is to develop a method for obtaining a sufficiently large set of synthetic data for their training and testing. The third project goal is to research & develop a new method for measuring the insulator pollution by the analysis of their acoustic emissions captured by contactless detectors placed in their vicinity. Here we rely on the experience of the project partner VUJE with measurement systems installed on overhead lines and able to work during their normal operation. These goals reflect current priorities of European research as well as pressing needs of Slovak power industry: in 2015, the standard STN 33 0405 regulating the assessment of high-voltage insulator pollution deposition and their required cleaning frequency, was withdrawn. The new methodology will help replace the tedious & demanding process mandated by this standard by a new one relying on readily available information and the latest computing techniques. |
ALOIS - Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease from speech using artificial intelligence and social robotics
Diagnostika Alzheimerovej choroby z reči s použitím umelej inteligencie a sociálnej robotiky
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2025 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Ing. Rusko Milan PhD. |
EWA - Early Warning of Alzheimer
Early Warning of Alzheimer
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2020 - 31. 8. 2023 |
| Program: | Štrukturálne fondy EÚ Bratislavský kraj |
| Project leader: | Ing. Rusko Milan PhD. |
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Estimátor výroby FVE SR na báze inštalovaného výkonu, lokality, času a meteo veličín
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 30. 9. 2023 |
| Program: | Iné projekty |
| Project leader: | Ing. Krammer Peter |
ICONTROL - Intelligent Cloud Workflow Management for Dynamic Metric- Optimized Application Deployment (ICONTROL)
Inteligentné riadenie tokov práce v cloude pre dynamické a metrikami optimalizované nasadzovanie aplikácií
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | doc. Ing. Hluchý Ladislav CSc. |
| Annotation: | ICONTROL is a platform for dynamic and intelligent function-based workflow application deployment and run-time redeployment in hybrid edge cloud computing environments. ICONTROL will automatically construct and deploy complex workflow-based cloud applications in an end-to-end manner. ICONTROL will use semantic information on available cloud-based application functionalities to automatically generate complex workflows of functions, which will be executed across edge and cloud resources. It will help users to automate function selection, configuration and deployment, dealing with run-time failure or performance issues through automated redeployment. To remove obstacles for non-cloud expert users to use complex function-based workflow applications, ICONTROL will support a separation of tasks among 3 categories of specialists. Cloud application developers will develop application and backend functions, semantically annotate and describe them. AI-powering algorithms will assist domain application experts to create application workflows using functionalities provided by the cloud application developers, with semi-automated workflow construction techniques by leveraging semantic descriptions. Application users will be able to use their application workflows to instantiate, deploy and run their applications using the automation capabilities of the proposed system in complex hybrid edge and cloud environments, not burdened by complexities related to workflows selection, application deployment, fault resolution, resource elasticity provision, to name just a few. ICONTROL will significantly improve composability and adaptability of workflow-based applications spanning the entire edge-cloud continuum (from remote wireless IoT sensors, through personal devices, to large computing centers), by creating a semantically-enriched, platform-agnostic, and secured FaaS workflow development and execution platform, with automatic infrastructure resource management and provisioning. |
Manipulation of spin properties in 2D materials
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| Duration: | 1. 9. 2022 - 31. 8. 2024 |
| Program: | SASPRO |
| Project leader: | Prof. Ing. Štich Ivan DrSc. |
RFMEMS - Microelectromechanical sensors with radio frequency data transmission
Mikroelektromechanické senzory s rádiofrekvenčnýcm prenosom údajov
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2021 - 30. 6. 2025 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Ing. Havlík Štefan DrSc. |
| Annotation: | The project elaborates the method proposed by the authors, especially of mechanical quantities with wireless signal / energy transmission via electromagnetic field, solution of sensors as well as (micro) electro-mechanisms (MEMS). The task is a logical continuation of the results achieved within the successful solution of the previous project APVV 14-0076, where the principle of scanning and conception of the sensor solution according to the original design (utility model 8653, published patent applications PP 121-2018) was designed and verified. The presented project represents further theoretical and methodological-experimental processing in order to meet specific requirements for the solution of specific sensors including compliant - deformation members and electronic evaluation circuits as well as other electro-mechanisms with respect to selected applications. Part of the solution is to create tools for modeling, simulation and optimization of properties using available MEMS technologies. The project aims to follow the latest global trend in MEMS solutions. |
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- - Modelling and supervisory control of resource allocation systems in discrete-event systems using of Petri nets
Modelovanie a supervízorové riadenie systémov prideľovania zdrojov v udalostných systémoch pomocou Petriho sietí
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Doc. Ing. Čapkovič František CSc. |
| Annotation: | Discrete-Event Systems (DES) are systems that remain in a given state until they are forced to change this state due to the occurrence of a discrete event. In practice, e.g. flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), robot cells, transport and communication systems, etc. are DES. Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) in DES tend to deadlocks. Deadlocks must be eliminated. Petri Nets (PN) will be used to model RAS and synthesize their control to avoid deadlocks. Two approaches to the supervisor synthesis will be explored: (i) on the basis of P-invariants of PN, at the simultaneous thorough analysis of the reachability tree (RT) of PN and at knowledge of the initial state of the PN model; (ii) by the thorough analysis of the PN model stucture and finding siphons and traps without the need to know the initial state. These two approaches will be compared. Their effectiveness and their advantages and disadvantages will be evaluated using the simulation in the Matlab environment. |
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Nanoštruktúrne polovodivé materiály a ich integrácia do chemoodporových senzorov plynov a do senzorov ťažkých kovov
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Kostič Ivan |
Low-dimensional materials - manipulation, functionalisation and bioapplications: LOW-D-MATTER
Nízko-dimenzionálne materiály- manipulácia, funkcionalizácia a bioaplikácie: LOW-D-MATTER
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. Ing. Štich Ivan DrSc. |
ORBIS - Ontology representation for security of information systems
Ontologická reprezentácia pre bezpečnosť informačných systémov
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2020 - 30. 6. 2024 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Ing. Budinská Ivana PhD. |
| Annotation: | According to the action plan of the government of the Slovak Republic, one of the priorities is to “support research in cyber security”. This project proposal responds to the action plan's requirements by setting research objectives and goals in the field of cybersecurity. The project proposal focuses on new approaches in sharing knowledge about security incidents and indicators. There are several initiatives that seek to formalize and standardize security incidents descriptions. However, it is neither realistic nor desirable to assume that there will be one common standard for describing security incidents. The solution can be offered by creating a core ontology, which semantically integrates various approaches to describing threats and attacks, thus enabling the integration of several standards and knowledge repositories. The tools for representation and processing of ontologies will be used for this purpose. It will be a combination of procedures for collecting data from network communication, creating the necessary ontologies eg. semiautomatic extraction of ontologies from text in natural language – ontology learning, use of selected advanced methods of ontological knowledge representation, e.g. contextualized representation or methodology of ontological metamodeling. A significant shift will be that the ontology of the model can be represented by a graph. The results can be expected to contribute to more efficient sharing, representation, storage, and use of cybersecurity knowledge. |
Progressive methods of the transfer of nanostructured semiconductive 2D materials based on transition metal dichalcogenides onto microelectronic elements
Progresívne metódy transferu nanoštruktúrnych polovodivých 2D materiálov na báze dichalkogenidov tranzitných kovov do mikroelektronických prvkov
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Mgr. Andok Robert PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of this project is to carry out basic research in the field of new progressive nanostruct. semiconductive materials based on dichalcogenides of transition metals with the focus on nanostructured disulfides. The properties of selected nanostructured disulfides will be examined in terms of their use in microlelectronics and expected advantages of nanostructured disulfides in comparison with bulk semiconductor materials will be shown. We will design model microelectronic devices based on specific nanostructured disulfides such as WS2, MoS2, MSe, and develop technological methods for their preparation. We will master mechanical exfoliation of nanostructured disulfide layers and transfer of these nanostructured layers to the microelectronic device on the substrate. We will also focus on the analysis of these layers and their structural properties by physical methods (SEM, AFM, EDX, Raman spectroscopy...) and on the characterization of electrical and transport properties of the model microel. structure. |
Semantic distributed computing continuum for extreme data processing
Sémantické distribuované výpočtové kontinuum pre spracovanie extrémnych dát
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | doc. Ing. Hluchý Ladislav CSc. |
2DQMC - -
Štúdium elektrónových vlastností 2D materiálov ultra-presnými metódami kvantového Monte Carla
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2025 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Prof. Ing. Štich Ivan DrSc. |
Automatic speech processing technologies for support in crisis situations
Technológie automatického spracovania reči na pomoc v krízových situáciách
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof.Mgr. Beňuš Štefan PhD. |
AIPOLOGY - Artificial Intelligence for Personalised Oncology: from Single-Sample Assessment to Real-time Monitoring of Solid Tumours (AIPOLOGY)
Umelá inteligencia pre precíznu onkológiu: od analýzy jednotlivých vzoriek po real-time monitorovanie progresie nádorových ochorení.
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2025 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | doc. Ing. Hluchý Ladislav CSc. |
| Annotation: | The methodologies that oncologists use to decide on a patient's treatment are ever changing. It seems to us that 21st century cancer medicine is much about analysing big data and using mathematical modelling to extract information that can help predict how tumours will evolve and react to potential therapies. The sad fact is, however, that despite ever increasing knowledge on cancer we still lack the proper tools to translate this knowledge to an impactful “bedside” practice that would overcome the limitation from cancer heterogeneity and allow real-time monitoring of disease progression. Here, we propose the AIpology project that aims at the development of novel artificial intelligence strategies to identify molecular traits (individual mutations, mutation signatures and genomic scars) in heterogeneous cancer genomes for which therapeutic targets exist. Based on target clonal mapping and ordering, the system will then outline possible courses of treatment and will intelligently adapt as more data from real time monitoring approaches (such as liquid biopsy) will become available. The system will help us to track each target at the finer time scale than it is possible today and predict future (i.e how the tumour will evolve after being treated with a specific drug) and past (i.e. how long the tumour existed prior to detection) cancer evolutionary trajectories from existing data. Finally, we will understand better why certain cancers become (chemo)therapy-resistant and derive clinically relevant recommendations when they do. |
HYSPED - Research on the application of artificial intelligence tools in the analysis and classification of hyperspectral sensing data (HYSPED)
Výskum aplikácie prostriedkov umelej inteligencie pri analýzach a klasifikácií dát hyperspektrálneho snímkovania
| Duration: | 1. 2. 2022 - 30. 9. 2023 |
| Program: | Európsky fond regionálneho rozvoja (EFRR) |
| Project leader: | doc. Ing. Hluchý Ladislav CSc. |
Projects total: 28