Our group achieved the 1st place in the BioASQ challenge on large-scale online biomedical semantic indexing. Check out the description of our solution. Check out our award.

Our group achieved the 8th place in the MLSP 2013 bird classification challenge. Check out a joined publication on the top solutions.

Group’s paper with title “PLIS+: A Rule-Based Personalized Location Information System” has received the Best Challenge Demo Award at the 6th International Rule Challenge of the 6th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML-2012@ECAI).

Group’s paper with title “Extending a Multi-agent Reasoning Interoperability Framework with Services for the Semantic Web Logic and Proof Layers” was selected among the 2 best of the 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML-2011@IJCAI) and was presented at IJCAI-2011 at the Large Track of Best Papers from Sister Conferences.

Our group achieved the 1st place in the concept-based retrieval sub-task of the photo-annotation task of ImageCLEF 2011. Check out the paper describing our approaches.

PhD student of our group, Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, ranked 2nd in the cold start track of ECML PKDD 2011 Discovery Challenge (VideoLectures.Net Recommender System). Check out the paper describing the solution.

Our group achieved top results in the in the ISMIS 2011 Music Information Retrieval Contest – Music Instruments. Check out our ISMIS 2011 paper on our solutions.

The group’s paper with title “A Contract Agreement Policy-Based Workflow Methodology for Agents Interacting in the Semantic Web” has received the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2010).

Grigorios Tsoumakas the only person to succesfully solve a challenge on measuring advertising effectiveness, published on Kevin Hillstrom’s MineThatData blog.