KP-Lab

Project summary

KP-Lab is an ambitious project that focuses on developing a learning system aimed at facilitating innovative practices of sharing, creating and working with knowledge in education and workplaces. KP-Lab presents a unifying view of human cognition. It is based on the assumption that learning is not just individual knowledge acquisition or social interaction, but shared efforts of transforming ideas and social practices. 

The objective of the KP-Lab project is to develop theories, tools, and practical models to elicit deliberate advancement and the creation of knowledge, as well as the corresponding transformation of knowledge practices in education and workplaces. The essential way of developing the collaborative technologies is through a co-evolutionary process involving researchers, technological developers and users.

KP-Lab entails design experiments and longitudinal studies in educational institutions and professional organisations. The development work builds on emerging technologies, such as semantic web, real-time multimedia communication, ubiquitous access using wireless devices, and inter-organisational computing. The development will be done mostly on an open source basis.

This Integrated Project, sponsored by the European "Sixth Framework Programme”, will run for 5 years. The first three years (2007-2009) will be the R&D phase, while the last two last years will be devoted, mainly, to dissemination activities and exploitation planning. Indeed, the partners are committed to make the project and it’s progress widely known as well as ensuring that its outcomes will reach a significant academic and commercial appeal to warrant a sustainable economic and research future.

The multinational consortium integrates expertise from various domains, including pedagogy, psychology and engineering as well as end-users and key representative from the corporate/business sector to provide authentic environments for research and piloting. The project involves 22 partners from 14 countries, as well as many schools, universities, companies and work places and other prospective end-users. Some of these are not partners of the consortium but will participate in the experimental phases of the project.

Home page of the KP-Lab project and Knowledge Practice Portal

Project participants

• Helsingin yliopisto(Finland)
• EVTEK - ammattikorkeakoulu(Finland)
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem(Israel)
• SILOGIC(France)
• Jaakko Poyry OY(Finland)
• Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegetem(Hungary)
• Technicheski Universitet Sofia(Bulgaria)
• Karolinska Institutet(Sweden)
• Universiteit Utrecht(The Netherlands)
• FH OO Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH(Austria)
• Scienter Societa Consortile a Responsabilita Limitata(Italy)
• Universita Degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biofisica ed Elettronica(Italy)
• Vysoka skola ekonomicka v Praze(Czech Republic)
• Universite de Neuchatel(Switzerland)
• Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse(France)
• Technical University of Kosice(Slovakia)
• Universitetet I Oslo(Norway)
• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas(Greece)
• Tessera Multimedia S.A(Greece)
• Universite Paris-Sud(France)
• Skelleftea Kommun Skeria Utveckling(Sweden)
• Radvision Ltd(Israel)

TUK team (CIT)

• Jan Paralic (project leader)
  
• Karol Furdik
  
• Jozef Wagner
• Marek Paralic
• Frantisek Babic
• Peter Bednar

Previous

• Martin Sarnovský
• Peter Smatana
• Michal Racek

TUK tasks

• Knowledge Process service - link
• Gateways to Content Repositories - link
• Text-mining services - link
• History (log) based awareness - link
• Persistence API - link
• Search services - link
• SWKM Client + Explorer - link
• Analytical Services

TUK publications

2009

• Babič, F., Paralič, J.,Furdík, K., Bednár, P., Wagner J. (2009). Use of semantic principles in a collaborative system in order to support effective information retrieval. Computational Collective Intelligence, Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems (ICCCI 2009). LNAI 5796/2009, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 365-376, ISBN 978-3-642-04440-3.
• Paralič, J., Babič, F., Wagner, J., Simonenko, E., Spyratos, N., Sukibuchi, T. (2009). Analyses of knowledge creation processes based on different types of monitored data, In: Proc. of the ISMIS 2009. Foundations of Intelligent Systems. LNCS 5722/2009, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 321-330, ISBN 978-3-642-04124-2
• Babič, F., Paralič, J., Raček. M., Wagner, J. (2009). Knowledge Practices Laboratory. Ambient Intelligence Perspectives. Vol. 1, No.1 (2009), p.42-49, IOS Press, ISSN 1875-4163.

2008

• Babič, F., Paralič, J. (2008). Identification of tacit knowledge during realization of knowledge creation processes. In: Junior Scientist Conference 2008, Wien, Austria. p.15-16, ISBN 978-3-200-01612-5.
• Wagner, J., Babič, F., Bednár, P. (2008). Persistence API – a generic RDF persistence framework. DATAKON 2008, Brno, Czech republic. p.227-235, ISBN 978-80-7355-081-3.
• Paralič J., Babič, F. (2008). Support of innovative processes in a computer-based collaborative system. Basys 2008, Porto, Portugal. p.145-152, ISBN 978-0-387-09491-5.
• Babič, F., et al. (2008). Trialogical learning in practice. In: Acta Electrotechnica et Informatica. roč. 8, č. 1 (2008), s. 32-38. ISSN 1335-8243.
• Babič, F., Paralic J., Wagner, J. (2008). KP-Lab platform based on service-oriented approach. In: Znalosti 2008 (Knowledge 2008), Bratislava, Slovakia. p.319-322, ISBN 978-80-227-2827-0.
• Babič, F., Wagner, J., Paralič, J. (2008). The Role of Ontologies in Collaborative Systems. The 6th Slovakian - International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence 2008, Herlany, Slovaki
• Babič, F., Wagner, J. (2008). Awareness service based on events logs. 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies 2007, Kosice, Slovakia. p.106-109, ISBN 978-80-89284-10-8.
• Furdík, K., Paralič, J., Smrz, P. (2008): Classification and automatic concept map creation in eLearning environment. In: V. Snásel (ed.), Proceedings of the Czech-Slovak scientific conference Znalosti (Knowledge) 2008, Bratislava, February 2008, pp. 78 - 89, ISBN 978-80-227-2827-0.
• Furdík, K. (2008). Prototype of a tool for classification of textual documents in eLearning environment. In: F. Babič, J. Paralič (eds.), WIKT 2007 - Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies (Košice, November 15 - 16, 2007). Centre for Information Technologies, FEI TU Košice, Slovakia, 2008, pp. 41 - 45. ISBN 978-80-89284-10-8.

2007

• Babič, F. (2007). Modelling of knowledge creation processes through process ontology. PhD. conference FEI 2007, Kosice, Slovakia. p.121-122, ISBN 978-80-8073-803-7.
• Babic, F., Paralic, J. (2007). Knowledge practices Laboratory (KP-Lab) Project. In Proc. from the Czech-Slovak scientific conference Znalosti (Knowledge) 2007, Ostrava, Czech Republic, February 2007, pp. 364-367, ISBN 978-80-248-1279-3
• Babic, F., Wagner, J. (2007). Modeling of knowledge creation processes based on Activity theory. In. Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2006, November 28-29, 2006, Bratislava, printed by Equilibria Ltd., Slovakia, March 2007, pp. 131-134, ISBN 978-80-969202-5-9
• Babič, F., Wagner, J., Paralič, J. (2007). New approach to collaborative work in education context. Information and Communication Technology in Education 2007, Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic. p.153-156, ISBN 978-80-7368-388-7.
• Babič, F., Wagner, J. (2007). Trialogical learning - new approach to education. 5th International Conference on Emerging e-learning Technologies and Applications ICETA 2007, Stara Lesna, Slovakia. p.183-187, ISBN 978-80-8086-061-5.
• Furdík, K. (2007). Text pre-processing algorithms for classification and clustering tasks in an e-Learning system. In: The conference "XVII. Colloquium of young linguists", November 7 - 9, 2007, Liptovská Osada - Škutovky, Slovakia. (in Slovak) (to appear)
• Paralic, M., Wagner, J. (2007). Universal Semantic Knowledge Middleware. In. Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2006, November 28-29, 2006, Bratislava, printed by Equilibria Ltd., Slovakia, March 2007, pp. 19-22, ISBN 978-80-969202-5-9
• Smatana, P., Bednar, P. (2007). RDF Suite - Case Study. In. Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2006, November 28-29, 2006, Bratislava, printed by Equilibria Ltd., Slovakia, March 2007, pp. 114-115, ISBN 978-80-969202-5-9
• Smrz, P., Paralič, J., Smatana, P., Furdík, K. (2007). Text Mining Services for Trialogical Learning. In: Znalosti 2007: 6. ročník konference, VŠB-TU Ostrava, pp.97-108, ISBN 978-80-248-1279-3.

2006

• Babic, F. (2006). Knowledge Management - How to get the Competitive Advantage (in Slovak). Proc. of the Cybernetics and Informatics conference, Michalovce, Slovakia, 2006, pp. 40-41, ISBN 80-227-2431-9
• Babic, F., Paralic, J., Smatana, P., Smrz, P. (2006). Knowledge-practices laboratory. In: Information and Communication Technology in Education: 2006. Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2006. pp. 157-161. ISBN 80-7368-199-4
• Furdik, K., Bednar, P. (2006). Using Jbowl Library for Natural Language Processing (in Slovak). Conference "XVI. Colloquium of young lingvists", November 2006, Casta-Papiernicka, Slovakia (in press).
• Paralic, J. (2006). Developing Knowledge-Practices Laboratory. Proceedings of extended abstracts describing currently running projects at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University in Kosice, May 2006.
• Smrz, P., Paralic, J. (2006). Technological support for the KP-Lab project (in Czech). In: Proc. of the 5th Seminar on Technologies for e-Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2006, pp. 37-42. ISBN 80-01-03512-3