1   Research seminars

  • „Data semantics for data analytics and AI“
  • „SemTUI for geolocation of addresses“
  • „ Big data enrichment pipelines“
  • “Semantic data enrichment: applications and challenges”
  • “Interactive semantic enrichment of geospatial data”

2   MSc programmes lectures and courses

  • Content for a new Big Data Technologies programme
  • Big Data Management course
  • Data Enrichment course
  • Automated Big Data Pipelines guest lecture
  • Innovation of Product and Services course

3   Collaborative projects

3.1   Use case for the GATE Future city application area: Social infrastructure capacity, distribution, and accessibility

The project includes:

  • Enrichment of object data with geolocation of addresses and distance to another object
    • Research and implementation of algorithms for traversing the perimeter around an object to determine the landmark
    • Integration with GIS tools for visualization of results

3.2  Collaborative project proposals

  • Financed:
    • Horizon Europe enRichMyData project
    • Horizon Europe INTEND project
  • Submitted:
    • Horizon Europe DataTwin project
    • Horizon Europe TALUS project

4   Participation and organization of international events

  • BDVA Forum 2021
  • BDVA Forum 2022
  • Data Science International Summer school 2022
  • Data Science International Summer school 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2023

5   Publications

  • Krasteva I., D. Petrova-Antonova, F. De Paoli, E. Hristov, M. Borukova, M. Ciavotta, R. Avogardro, Geospatial Enrichment of Urban Data for Advanced City Planning: a Pilot Study, Data Engineering and Modeling for AI (DEMAI) within IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), 15-18 Dec. Sorrento, Italy 
  • Karamitov, K., D. Petrova-Antonova, E. Hristov, M. Borukova. Supply-Demand Analysis of Urban Amenities Based on Walking Accessibility. International Workshop on Dataspaces for Digital Twins of Cities Critical Infrastructures (DS4DTCCI) within IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), 15-18 Dec. Sorrento, Italy
  • Flavio De Paoli, Michele Ciavotta, Roberto Avogadro, Emil Hristov, Milena Borukova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Iva Krasteva, An Interactive Approach to Semantic Enrichment of Geospatial Data, Journal of Data and Knowledge Management (Submitted for review)
  • D. Petrova-Antonova, F. De Paoli, M. Ciavotta, E. Hristov, M. Borukova, Geospatial Data Enrichment through Address Geocoding: Challenges and Solutions (in preparation)