Karol Furdík

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Kosice, and a researcher in the Centre of Information Technologies, common workplace of Institute of Informatics Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Technical university in Kosice.

Fields of Interest

• Knowledge Management and Representation, Information Retrieval
• Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies
• Ambient intelligence, Internet of Things, People, and Services
• Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
• e-Government, e-Governance, Policy Modelling

Teaching

• IT Service Management, school year 2011/12, 2010/11 (information in Slovak, schedule of teaching)
• Knowledge Management, school year 2011/12, 2010/11 (information in Slovak)
• Computers and Algorithmization, school year 2009/10 (information in Slovak)
• Leading several Bachelor and Master theses

Projects

• 2010-2014: ebbits - "Enabling the business-based Internet of Things and Services".
  FP7 ICT, Contract No. 257852. Integrated EU research and development project. Theme ICT-2009.1.3: Internet of Things and Enterprise environments.
• 2010-2013: ELLIOT - "Experiential Living Lab for the Internet Of Things".
  FP7 ICT, Contract No. 287560. STREP research and development project. Activity Area: 1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise environments.
• 2011-2013: KEGA project No. 065TUKE-4/2011 - "Virtual laboratory for business information systems".
• 2010-2012: CE-II - "Development of Center for Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Systems". br>Project supported by the Research & Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS project code: 26220120030).
• 2010-2012: IT4KT - "Information Technologies for Knowledge Transfer".
  Project supported by the Research & Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS project code: 26220220123).
• 2010-2012: OCOPOMO - "Open Collaboration for Policy Modelling".
  FP7 ICT, Contract No. 248128. STREP research and development project. Theme 7.3: ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling.
• 2010-2012: VEGA project No. 1/0042/10 - "Methods for identification, annotation, search, access and composition of services using semantic metadata in support of selected process types".
• 2009-2011: Data Mining Meteo - "Prediction and detection methods of significant and dangerous meteorological events, based on a mining of meteorological data.". VMSP programme of APVV, project No. VMSP-P-0048-09. Common project of ÚI SAV in Bratislava and FEI, TU in Košice.
• 2008-2011: SPIKE - "Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises".
  FP7 ICT, Contract No. 217098. STREP research and development project.
• 2006-2010: KP-Lab - "Knowledge Practices Laboratory".
  FP6 IST-2004-27490. Integrated EU research and development project.
• 2007-2009: PoZnaT - "Support for knowledge creation processes".
  APVV project No. RPEU-0011-06.
• 2007-2009: VEGA project No. 1/4074/07 - "Methods for annotation, search, creation, and accessing knowledge employing metadata for semantic description of knowledge".
• 2006-2008: Access-eGov - "Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies".
  FP6 IST-2004-27020. STREP research and development project.
• 2006-2010: DEMO-net - "The Democracy Network".
  FP6 IST-2004-27219. Network of Excellence project.
• 2004-2006: VEGA project No. 1/1060/04 - "Document classification and annotation for the Semantic web".
• 2000-2003: Webocracy - "Web Technologies Supporting Direct Participation in Democratic Processes".
  FP5 IST-1999-20364. STREP research and development project.
• 1998-2001: KnowWeb - "Web in Support of Knowledge Management in Company".
  FP4 Esprit Project No. 29065.
• 1998-1999: Vix - Documentation services for large database information system. Gratex International, a.s., branch Košice.

Other activities

• MeTTeG 2012, 6th International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government. Belgrade, Serbia, July 3-5, 2012. Program Committee member.
• itSMF Slovakia. Associated member since 2010.
• SPRERS - Strengthening the Participation of Romania at European R&D in Software Services. EC FP7 ICT project, 2010-2011. Expert group member.
• FedCSIS 2011, Federated Computer Science and Information Systems Conference. Szczecin, Poland, September 18-21, 2011. Program Committee member.
• MeTTeG 2011, 5th International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government. Camerino, Italy, June 30 - July 1, 2011. Program Committee member.
• Semanti-CS. Czech-Slovak community of researchers in the field of Semantic Web. Member since 2011.
• JoinUp (former Semic.eu). Community of the European Commission for sharing semantic assets and resources. Member, contributor since 2008.

Contact

• e-mail: Karol.Furdik@tuke.sk
• phone: (+421 55) 602 5122
• address: UVT, office No. 107, Technical University of Košice, B. Němcovej 3, 042 00 Košice