Seminar: “Belief Rule Base Expert Systems” and their applications, Pr. Shahadat Hossain | 18th July 2018

Pr. Mohammad SHAHADAT HOSSAIN, Dpt of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong (Bengladesh):
The Evolution of Belief Rule Based Expert Systems: A New Paradigm of Computing

Abstract Belief Rule Base Expert Systems (BRBESs) are widely used in the diverse domains, especially where uncertainty is considered as a critical issue. This talk will present the evolution of BRBESs methodology starting from knowledge representation, inference and learning by taking account of the complexity of the problems of diverse domains, especially the medical domain. This will demonstrate the scope and challenges of developing BRB based deep learning and evolutionary optimization algorithms as well as the integration of BRBESs methodology within the Big Data environment in the light of our current research. The developed approaches of integrating pervasive computing with the BRBESs will also be presented.

Short bio: Pr Mohammad Shahadat Hossain is serving as the Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh since 2007. He worked as the chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Chittagong University, starting from 2005 to 2011 for six years. He received both his MPhil and PhD in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He is an internationally renowned scholar holding many prestigious scholarships and visiting professorships in abroad. He awarded prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in 2009 through a rigorous academic evaluation. He also awarded prestigious Tyndall Visiting Fellowship in 2006. In 2011 and 2013, Professor Hossain awarded prestigious European Commission sponsored Erasmus Mundus Academic Staff Fellowship at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He is also the holder of PERCCOM’s (Pervasive Computing and Mobile Communication for Sustainable Development) Scholar Scholarship as a Visiting Professor, which is sponsored by the European Commission, starting from 2014 to till-to-date. He successfully completed a number of research projects. Recently, he awarded prestigious Swedish Research Council grant for the project entitled “A Belief Rule Based DSS to Assess Flood Risks using Wireless Sensor Networks”, where he is working as a Foreign Node Leader. His current research area includes the novel idea of sustainable computing which combines pervasive computing with belief rule based expert systems. Investigation of pragmatic software development tools and methods for Information Systems in general and for GIS, in particular is also his area of research. He is continuing his research in other adventurous areas of computing such as health informatics, affective computing, deep learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Big data, e-government and philosophy of computing. He is supervising master and doctoral level students both at home (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh) and abroad (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden). He has published about hundred scholarly articles in the reputed international journals (such as IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Soft Computing, Expert Systems, Journal of Medical Systems) and conferences (such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE LCN, IEEE CCNC).

 

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ESOF | 14th-19th of July 2018

 

ESOF (EuroScience Open Forum) is the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. It is dedicated to scientific research and innovation and offers a unique framework for interaction and debate for scientists, innovators, policy makers, business people and the general public.

FabSpace 2.0 at ESOF Toulouse 2018 as part of the worskop organized by CNRS and the association Women & Science.

  

 

ESOF 2018, from monday 9th to Saturday 14th of July 2018 :

 

4000 delegates from 80 countries

400 journalists and science communicators

150 conferences, workshops and scientific sessions

200 events open to the general public, attended by more than 35 000 participants

 

 

OpenDay: Toulouse FabSpace invites you to IRIT!

 

• Open Day FabSpace 2.0 and its applications: Thursday, July 5th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Salle des Thèses
• Fabspace is pleased to welcome Mihai IVANOVICI, Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania): Friday, July 6th from 11 am to 12 pm, J. Herbrand Auditorium

 

 

We hope to welcome you there; to better receive you, do not hesitate to confirm your participation in one or the other of the events by return mail.

Open Day FabSpace 2.0 and its applications:

 

12h30 – Josiane Mothe : FabSpace 2.0 What’s aquò?
12h45 – Mounia Sedri : Navigation system for people with disabilities
13h00 – Nassim Yousfi : Accessibility of satellite images for use by persons with visual impairments
13h15 – Laure Vacquié : Population estimate of an area

 

Mihai IVANOVICI, Transilvania University of Brasov (Roumanie):
Non-linear approaches based on the maximum distance — a pseudo morphology and PCA approximation for color, multispectral and hyperspectral data/image analysis
 

Abstract: In the context of complexity assessment and texture image characterization for color natural and fractal images, we start by introducing a probabilistic pseudomorphology based on the Chebyshev inequality. We present our experimental results on complexity assessment by fractal measures, as well as image segmentation based on tailored texture features. Further on, we propose a maximum-distance-based pseudomorphology and show that extending the existing morphological approaches for texture characterization from grayscale to color and to multispectral images in a straight-forward way is not able to make full usage of the spectral information acquired by the sensors. Then the same maximum distance is used for developing a non-optimal geometric approximation of the principal component analysis (PCA). We validate this approach on synthetic 2D data and show its usefulness for the visualization and analysis of hyperspectral images. We conclude on how outliers of a multivariate data set can provide information compared to the majority, as in classical statistics.
Short bio: Mihai Ivanovici holds a PhD in electronics from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is a full professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania (UTBv), within the Department of Electronics and Computers. He is head of Multispectral Imaging and Vision (MIV) Laboratory (http://miv.unitbv.ro), coordinator of the C13 Research Centre “Integrated Electronic Systems and Advanced Communications” within the R&D Institute of UTBv and vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science within UTBv. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing societies. His research interest and expertise are in the field of color and multispectral image acquisition, processing and analysis. Currently he is supervising two PhD students and mentors two post-doctoral students.

 

 

The Bootcamp | June 2018

Participate to the 2^nd Bootcamp organized by FabSpace !

 

 

Send your submission now !

 

 

Qu’est ce qu’un bootcamp ? Un bootcamp c’est un mois de formation pour vous accompagner et vous aider à transformer votre idée en start-up. Des sessions techniques et des sessions business sont proposées :

 

 

Comment ça se passe ? Si vous êtes sélectionné, vous aurez accès à des cours exclusifs dispensés par des professionnels de l’entrepreneuriat et de l’observation de la Terre. Ces cours sont enregistrés et mis en ligne, pour un visionnage à la carte, à votre rythme, et compatible avec vos disponibilités. Vous êtes invité(es) à un Apéro de clôture du Bootcamp le vendredi 29 juin entre 17h et 18h au FabSpace de Toulouse ( Catalyseur- Batiment U4 UT3).

 

Les plus : Rencontrer des professionnels de toute l’Europe et gagner l’opportunité d’être accompagné par le réseau local.

 

Qui peut candidater ? Etudiant, professionnel, chercheur… l’essentiel est d’avoir une idée de projets autour des open data et en particulier des open data spatiales.

 

Consulter le programme ici

Pour candidater, téléchargez le dossier et adressez-le nous par mail dès que possible.

Date limite de candidature : 15 juin 2018.

Publication des sélectionnés : juin 2018.

 

 

Vindo Team announced as the winner of the FabSpace 2.0 prize in ActInSpace® 2018 in Toulouse, France

 

The Vindo Team from the Netherlands is announced as the winner of the FabSpace 2.0 Prize in the third edition of ActInSpace® 2018 which was held on the 25th – 26th of May 2018 all over the world, knocking out other 54 applications. The announcement took place during the finals of ActInSpace® 2018 on the 27th of June 2018 in Toulouse, France. This year, FabSpace 2.0 is being one of the official partners of ActInSpace 2018.

 

ActInSpace® is an international innovation contest inspiring young women and men worldwide to meet challenges based on space technologies, data, patents and infrastructures to launch start-ups into all areas of our daily lives. Designed for students but open to everyone, the objective of the contest is to foster entrepreneurship, encourage start-up creation and promote the use of space technologies and space acquired data to change citizen’s lives, to boost employment and to protect our planet.

 

This year the contest was fulfilling an international ambition which are transforming an essentially European edition into an international edition; bringing together 53 cities from 32 countries in all continents; attracting 3400+ participants with 510 teams working on 60+ different challenges; and creating between 20 and 30 new start-ups.

 

 

As partner, FabSpace 2.0 provided three challenges based on Earth Observation Data (links: http://bit.ly/FS-AIS2018) and dedicated prizes which are a free trip to Toulouse to attend the ActInSpace® 2018 international final; receive a mentoring program by experts in selected area; and a meeting with Airbus representative in Toulouse. There were 11 FabSpaces who are involved as organiser of ActInSpace® 2018 including FabSpaces France: Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nice, Brest; FabSpace Poland: Warsaw; FabSpace Germany: Darmstadt; FabSpace Greece: Athens; FabSpace Cameroon: Yaundé; FabSpace Cyprus: Limassu; FabSpace Czech Republic: Prague; and FabSpace Netherlands: Noordwijk. The FabSpace 2.0´s challenges attracted many teams from various locations worldwide such as Brazil, New Zealand, Tunisia, Nigeria, Gabon, Latvia, Azerbaijan, France, Portugal, Greece, and the United Sates.

 

Josiane Mothe from University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS), the Coordinator of FabSpace 2.0 project said: “With more than 50 teams participating on the challenges provided by FabSpace 2.0 at ActInSpace® 2018; it has been a real success. Moreover, Vindo’s application idea is completely in line with the overall objective of FabSpace 2.0: to stimulate open innovation in Earth Observation to make our planet a better place to live in. We hope that many new innovative start-ups like Vindo can be created and developed in the near future.”

 

Vindo, the winning team of FabSpace 2.0 Prize was competing in the COPERNICUS APP LAB challenge located in the Netherlands, one of the FabSpace 2.0 organiser in collaboration with the local ESA BIC. Vindo App successfully won the competition by providing an innovative idea with the concept of letting people find the ideal city within the App and urges cities to be shaped after their needs. The App is using Copernicus data.

 

“Winning the FabSpace 2.0 Earth Observation Prize at the ActInSpace® 2018 is a great honour for us. The support of Fabspace 2.0 encourages us to develop our application further and shows that we can have a positive impact on society. We want to thank FabSpace 2.0 and the ActInSpace® Team for the opportunity to come to Toulouse to meet other teams from all over the world and exchange ideas.” said Tristan Faschinger, an Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft, one of Vindo team member. To find out more about the Vindo App, simply watch their video (including a demo) on YouTube.

 

FabSpace 2.0 is proud to be partner of ActInSpace® 2018 and hopes that this event will stimulate the uptake and reuse of space technology and data and identify future applicants for ESA BICs and partner incubators. A full list of the challenges winners can be found at: https://actinspace.org/

ActInSpace 2018 | 25th and 26th of May 2018

 

 

Ce mois-ci, FabSpace 2.0 a officiellement annoncé les nouvelles activités de partenariat pour la troisième édition d’ActInSpace® 2018 qui se tiendra du 25 au 26 mai 2018 dans le monde entier. ActInSpace® est un concours international d’innovation qui incite les jeunes femmes et hommes du monde entier à relever des défis basés sur les technologies spatiales, les données, les brevets et les infrastructures pour lancer des start-up dans tous les domaines de la vie quotidienne. Conçu pour les étudiants mais ouvert à tous, l’objectif du concours est de favoriser l’entrepreneuriat, encourager la création de start-up et promouvoir l’utilisation des technologies spatiales et des données spatiales pour changer la vie des citoyens, dynamiser l’emploi et protéger notre planète.

Le concours vise également à stimuler l’adoption et la réutilisation de la technologie et des données spatiales et à identifier les futurs candidats aux BIC de l’ESA et aux incubateurs de partenaires. Depuis sa création en 2014, 13 start-ups ont été créées grâce à ActInSpace®. Parmi les start-ups à succès, citons Kermap (www.kermap.com), Upalgo (http://ezako.com/en), Skyai et Hypermiles (https://hypermiles.tech).

Cette année, le concours remplira une ambition internationale qui transforme une édition essentiellement européenne en une édition internationale; rassemblant 70 villes de tous les continents; attirer plus de 3000 participants à travailler sur plus de 60 défis différents; et créer entre 20 et 30 nouvelles start-ups.

En tant que partenaire, FabSpace 2.0 apportera quelques défis basés sur les données d’observation de la Terre (liens: https://bit.ly/2qLXVMv et https://bit.ly/2vuiOAy) et un prix dédié. Philippe Lattes, Directeur adjoint Espace d’Aerospace Valley, l’initiateur du projet FabSpace 2.0, a déclaré: «Le projet Fabspace est une innovation pédagogique qui permet aux étudiants de découvrir le programme Copernicus, le potentiel des données d’observation de la Terre et le monde de l’entrepreneuriat. Faire partie d’ActInSpace est une formidable opportunité pour promouvoir les activités de FabSpace “.

L’ouverture internationale du projet FabSpace est en cours et une grande partie des nouveaux FabSpaces lancés sont déjà intégrés dans les actions menées. 11 FabSpaces sont impliqués en tant qu’organisateurs ou partenaires d’ActInSpace® 2018, notamment:

•      FabSpace France: Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nice, Brest
•      FabSpace Pologne: Varsovie
•      FabSpace Allemagne: Darmstadt
•      FabSpace Grèce: Athènes
•      FabSpace Cameroun: Yaoundé
•      FabSpace Chypre: Limassu
•      FabSpace République tchèque: Prague
•      FabSpace Pays-Bas: Noordwijk

Juste après le concours, chaque équipe pourra postuler au prix FabSpace 2.0. Le projet le plus prometteur utilisant les données d’observation de la Terre sera accueilli à Toulouse pour assister à la finale internationale ActInSpace® 2018; recevoir un programme de mentorat d’experts dans un domaine particulier; et une réunion avec le représentant d’Airbus à Toulouse.

L’inscription est actuellement ouverte. Les étudiants, les citoyens et les entrepreneurs sont encouragés à s’inscrire. Pour en savoir plus sur ActInSpace® 2018, les défis FabSpace 2.0 et pour vous inscrire, veuillez visiter: https://actinspace.org/

 

LES ORGANISATEURS

Avec le CNES, deux grandes institutions du domaine spatial s’investissent dans l’organisation du Concours ActInSpace.

 

LE CNES

Le CNES est l’autorité de conception de l’édition 3 et fait partager son expérience à tous les autres acteurs. Le CNES prend en compte les opinions des différents partenaires dont le premier d’entre eux l’ESA. Il reste cependant décisionnaire du déroulé de l’événement, du règlement du concours, de l’élaboration du plan de communication global et de la coordination pour la rédaction des sujets, afin d’assurer une continuité par rapport à l’édition 1 et 2. Il est aussi l’organisateur de l’événement en France et dote le concours d’un prix CNES pour les participants dans les villes françaises.  https://cnes.fr/

L’AGENCE SPATIALE EUROPÉENNE

L’ESA BIC SUD FRANCE

LE CO-ORGANISATEUR

L’INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ INDUSTRIELLE

AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE NOTRE SPONSOR GOLD

AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE

PARTENAIRE HISTORIQUE

    ActInSpace s’est initialemement inspiré du Hackaton des “24h de l’innovation®” organisées depuis 2007 par notre partenaire l’ESTIA.    

      ActInSpace est également soutenu par les CCT : Les communautés de Compétences Techniques.  

Les CCT sont des “club de connaissances sans mur” orientés sur les domaines d’expertises utilisés dans le domaine spatial. A l’intérieur de ces CCT, la CCT Applications est le réseau des acteurs sur les applications, les services et usages des technologies spatiales.

Cette Communauté de CompétencesTechniques “Applications” est ouverte à tous les acteurs et utilisateurs du secteur spatial et des secteurs d’usages. Elle est un partenaire tout naturel de ActInSpace auquel elle fait bénéficier son réseau d’experts.