Yearly Archives: 2015


“Big Data Platforms and Applications. Methods, Techniques and Performance Evaluation” – invitation for chapters

Extracting valuable information from raw data is especially difficult considering the velocity of growing data from year to year and the fact that 80% of data is unstructured. In addition, data sources are heterogeneous (various sensors, users with different profiles, etc.) and are located in different situations or contexts. This is why the Smart City infrastructure runs reliably and permanently to provide the context as a “public utility” to different services. Context-aware applications exploit the context to adapt accordingly the timing, quality and functionality of their services. The value of these applications and their supporting infrastructure lies in the fact […]


cHiPSet goes Carioca: Presentation at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (21/Oct/15)

As part of the ongoing dissemination activities, Horacio González-Vélez, cHiPSet vice-chair, gave a keynote talk on the overall objectives and progress of the Action to academics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) on 21st of October. Comprised of physical and computer scientists and graduate students, the UFRJ group showed significant interest in our current status and future cooperative links with cHiPSet. https://www.ufrj.br/noticia/2015/10/22/instituto-t-rcio-pacitti-promove-evento-sobre-big-data


New book on MAS in DIC

  Springer published new book on multiagent systems in data intensive computing prepared by Joanna Kolodziej, Luis Correia and Jose Manuel Molina. All guest editors are involved in our Action.  More ‘cHiPSet names’ can be found at the authors’ list: Pietro Lio, Otthein Herzog, Florin Pop, Mauro Iacono. Enjoy the reading! Book preview available at http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319237411


cHiPSet presentation at DCABES

Dr. Horacio González-Vélez, cHiPSet Vice-Chair, delivered the  opening keynote of the 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science (DCABES 2015) in Guiyang, China on August 18th 2015. Entitled “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications”. 


MC&WG Meeting Special Session in Cracow

As part of its first MC/WG cHiPSet in Cracow on 11/Sep/2015, cHiPSet hosted a special cross-pollination session with leading industry and academic organisations. There were presentations from Center for Technology Transfer of Cracow University of Technology, Comarch, NESUS Cost Action, and the Kościuszko Institute. All presentation offer a great opportunity to increase cooperation endeavours for cHiPSet participants. More details avaiable at http://chipset-cost.eu/index.php/mcwg-meeting-special-session/