Dr Bedour Al Rayes

Our PhD student Bedour Al Rayes passed her viva with minor corrections. Well done Dr Al Rayes! She will also soon join King’s Saud University in Saudi Arabia as Assistant Professor.

Dr Ulli Schaechtle

Our PhD student Ulli Schaechtle has passed his viva with minor corrections. Well done Dr Schaechtle! Ulli will soon join MIT as a research associate.

PhD student Bedour Alrayes wins prize with CONAN

CONAN, a negotiation agent system developed in the dicelab as part of Bedour M. Alrayes’ PhD thesis, won second place in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Prize for Saudi Students in the UK. The picture below show Mrs Alrayes after she has received the prize. Well done Bedour!

Workshop on Personal Health Systems for Chronic Diseases

Workshop on Personal Health Systems for Chronic Diseases (PHSCD 2015) at Pervasive Health 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 20, 2015. Workshop website here. With the advent of new mobile technologies and new portable sensors, systems to monitor patients affected by chronic diseases have become a reality. With the aging of society and the surge of patients with chronic conditions the development of monitoring infrastructures has become a major goal for the…

Activity Recognition paper nominated for best paper award

Our work on Activity Recognition for Personal Health Systems was successfully presented by Kostas Stathis at PRIMA’14 in Australia. The work has been supported by the Commodity12 project. The paper was nominated for the best paper award.

HYDRA was presented at IEEE HealthCom'14

The HYDRA architecture paper was successfully present by Ulrich Schaechtle at HealthCom’14 in Brazil. The work has been supported by the Commodity12 project. Read Natalia Díaz Rodríguez’s report of the Turku Center for Computer Science from here.

Papers accepted for HEALTHCOM 2014 and PRIMA 2014

Members of the lab will be presenting papers in IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 in Brazil and PRIMA 2014 in Australia. The papers are as follows: Kafali, O, Schachtle, U & Stathis, K 2014, ‘HYDRA: a HYbrid Diagnosis and monitoRing Architecture for diabetes’ Paper presented at 16th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom’14), Natal , Brazil, 15/10/14 – 18/10/15. Kafali, O, Romero, AE & Stathis, K 2014, ‘Activity Recognition…

Digital business technologies dominate the emerging technologies hype cycle…

According to Gartner 2014, digital business technologies dominate the emerging technologies hype cycle, for more details check this link.

Workshop on Decision Making and Forcasting using Big Data

Event Processing, Forecasting and Decision-Making in the Big Data Era (EPForDM) EDBT 2015 Workshop March 27, 2015 https://cer.iit.demokritos.gr/epfordm Workshop Aim The Big Data era has posed a number of challenges in applications related to event processing. In particular, the data volume, velocity and distribution necessitate the design on new scalable approaches for the efficient and timely processing of the produced data. The lack of veracity in the handled data/events further…

Ranking of programming languages

Get the article from the IEEE Spectrum review from here.