Welcome

Two major technological evolutions modify our relationship with our environment:

• Widely available and cheap computer power. Simple objects that surround us are gaining sensors, computational power, and actuators, and are changing from static, into adaptive and reactive systems.
• The explosion of networks of all kinds offers new possibilities for the development and self-organization of communities.

The new characteristics of data reflect a World in Movement:

• Time and space. The objects of analysis exist in time and space. Often they are able to move.
• Dynamic environment. These objects exist in a dynamic and unstable environment, evolving incrementally over time.
• Information processing capability. The objects are endowed with information processing capabilities.
• Locality. The objects never see the global picture - they know only their local spatio-temporal environment.
• Real-Time. The models have to evolve incrementally in correspondence with the evolving environment.
• Distributed. The object will be able to exchange information with other objects, thus forming a truly distributed environment.

The goal of this project is to develop research of Data Mining techniques to extract useful knowledge from data with these characteristics.

Project sponsored by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia
Contract: PTDC/EIA-EIA/098355/2008
Contact Person: João Gama jgama@fep.up.pt. 
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