Projects

Introduction

Digital Libraries (DL) have been made possible through the integration and use of a number of IC technologies, the availability of digital content on a global scale and a strong demand for users who are now online. They are destined to become essential part of the information infrastructure in the 21st century.

The EGEE project brings together experts from over 27 countries with the common aim of building on recent advances in Grid technology and developing a service Grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day.

The project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The EGEE project will also focus on attracting a wide range of new users to the Grid.

The project will primarily concentrate on three core areas:

Our department has developed the Kronoscope - a device that lets the viewer look into the past. The Kronoscope looks similar to a standing revolving telescope for tourists, but it shows the virtual ancient buildings over the actual Roman ruins at the Museum of Aquincum, Budapest, where it has been installed in April, 2005. Visitors to the ruin-park can walk through the ancient remains and stop at one of the Kronoscopes to see the buildings before them in reconstructed form.

SME Focussed KM System to support extended product in Ambient Intelligence domain

The goal of the project is to develop a knowledge management system that helps the operation of ambient intelligent systems working on four different industrial domains.

In the frame of the project a prototype system is under development that stores typical error situations and their solutions. In the case of problems during the operation the system suggests solutions applied in earlier solved, kknown error situations.

The European Union will launch new quality satellite navigation, the Galileo system, by 2008. In a series of preparatory projects under the umbrella of the Galileo Joint Undertaking, the behaviour and use of the future service are being exploited. We are participating in the VeRT consortium to study the possibilities and the use of Galileo for road tolling, parking and other related services. The VeRT project envisages the creation of an overall system model as well as the design and realisation of a working demonstrator.

We study the polynomial-time approximability of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. In this area, most of our recent results deal with vertex partitions of graphs, under local constraints that prescribe lower bounds on the number of neighbors of each vertex in its class.

Partner institution: LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine (http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/)

National Office for Research and Technology (IKTA-00064/2003)
[ OMFB-00495/2004 ]

The MOBILE INNOVATION CENTRE (MIK) was founded as a result of the call for proposals „The Establishment of R&D and Innovation Centre for Mobile Communication” supported by the National Office for Research and Technology. The Centre is based on the cooperation of universities, an academic research institution, industrial companies, suppliers and organisations dealing with scientific research and innovation, including the representatives of profit-oriented and non-profit sectors.