Meet PRONTO at the RuleML 2011 (5th International Symposium on Rules) in Fort Lauderdale, USA, on November 03-05, 2011. The second part of the RuleML 2011 is co-located with the BRF (14th Business Rules Forum) which will take place from October 30 to November 03, 2011.

PRONTO partner NCSR "Demokritos" will present the paper "Probabilistic Event Calculus based on Markov Logic Networks" at the RuleML 2011. PDF

Meet PRONTO at the ICCV 2011 (13th International Conference on Computer Vision) in Barcelona, Spain, on November 06-13, 2011.

PRONTO partner Fraunhofer will present the PRONTO-related paper "Analyzing Pedestrian Behavior in Crowds for Automatic Detection of Congestions" at the "1st IEEE Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Large Crowds" in conjunction with the ICCV 2011. This workshop is scheduled for Monday, November 07.

Meet PRONTO at the AVSS 2011 (8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance) in Klagenfurt, Austria, on August 30-September 02, 2011.

PRONTO partner Fraunhofer will present the PRONTO-related paper "Automatic Detection of Dangerous Motion Behavior in Human Crowds" within the Oral Session 4 "Activity Monitoring" on Thursday, September 01, 10:20-12:00.

Meet PRONTO at the Interspeech 2011 (12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association) in Florence, Italy, on August 28-31, 2011.

In addition, PRONTO partner Fraunhofer will present the PRONTO-related paper "Source Separation using the Spectral Flatness Measure"  within a poster session at the CHiME Workshop, a satellite event of the Interspeech 2011, on September 01, 2011. CHiME is an International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments.

Meet PRONTO at the RuleML 2011 (5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused) in Barcelona, Spain, on July 19-21, 2011. RuleML 2011 is co-located with the IJCAI 2011 (22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) which will take place on July 16-22, 2011. At both of the events held in conjunction, PRONTO partner NCSR "Demokritos" will participate including a paper presentation at the RuleLM 2011 and a tutorial presentation at the IJCAI 2011.

Paper Presentation at RuleML:

Track paper "On Complex Event Processing for Real-time Situational Awareness" PDF

Tutorial Presentation at IJCAI:

Meet PRONTO at the DEBS 2011 (5th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems) in New York, USA, on July 11-15, 2011. 

The PRONTO solution will be introduced with a focus on the City Transport Management (CTM) demonstration case by a paper presentation titled "PRONTO - Support for Real-time Decision Making". Besides the project scope, the two use cases (real-time event detection and post analysis) are part of the presentation as well as the complex event detection module which will be explored. 

Meet PRONTO at the vfdb-GFPA 2011 (59th Annual Conference of the German Fire Protection Association/GFPA) in Berlin, Germany, on May 29 - June 01, 2011. 

At this year's conference, PRONTO partner UPB in cooperation with FDDO/IFR will present the PRONTO demonstrator at its own booth to domain experts in the field of emergency management and response. The PRONTO software will be presented for in-situ decision support and post-operational use cases like debriefing and training.

Meet PRONTO at the PETRA 2011 (4th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments) in Crete, Greece, on May 25-27, 2011. 

The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment, or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective. People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes.

PRONTO partner NCSR "Demokritos" will attend for a paper presentation titled "ER Designer Toolkit: A Graphical Event Definition Authoring Tool".

Meet PRONTO at the ISCRAM 2011 (8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 08-11, 2011. The 2011 conference is subtitled "From early-warning systems to preparedness and training". 

The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide network of researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management.

The PRONTO consortium is looking forward to organise its third international workshop "User Centered Design Process for Emergency Management Information Systems: Methodology, Case Studies and Results" co-located with the ISCRAM 2011 conference. The PRONTO session addresses to a combination of research areas based on the fact that the user centered design process is focused on different application fields, from different perspectives and with different ambitions. The research domain aims at methods, techniques, procedures and best practices especially adopted for the field of crisis information systems.

Meet PRONTO at the CeBIT 2011 exhibition in Hannover, Germany, on March 01-05, 2011. 

The PRONTO system will be presented and showcased twice at the CeBIT 2011 exhibition in Hannover (Germany). At two different, but connected booths, namely Fraunhofer (Hall 9, Stand B36) and University of Paderborn C.I.K.  at the Joint Stands of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hall 9, Stand D06), visitors will have the possibility to experience the PRONTO Intelligent Resource Management solution for Emergency Rescue Operations and Public Transport. Visitors are invited to test the PRONTO first prototype by participating in interactive activities and attractions at both of the stands.

For further information about the overall activities and this year's areas of focus at the Fraunhofer joint stand, please also download the Fraunhofer CeBIT-News for Journalists brochure URBAN LIVING.

Visit us twice at

• the University of Paderborn, C.I.K. Stand (Hall 9, D06)
• the Fraunhofer Stand (Hall 9, B36)

Meet PRONTO at the 17th ITS World Congress in Busan, Korea, on October 25-29, 2010. The event will centre on the theme "Ubiquitous Society with ITS."

PRONTO partner Mattersoft Ltd. will present the paper "PRONTO: Event Recognition for Public Transport" on Thursday, October 28. Even if there will be a focus on public transport and the City Transport Management (CTM) scenario within the PRONTO project, Mattersoft will present the scope of the whole project and the developments so far.

Further details about the paper presentation:

TP091: Public Transport: Scheduling/Operations
T_EU01246 PRONTO: Event Recognition for Public Transport
Mika Varjola, Mattersoft Ltd., Finland
October 28, 14:00-15:30

Meet PRONTO at the ICT 2010 Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on September 27-29, 2010.

ICT 2010 is organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. The theme of this year's exhibition is "Digitally Driven".

PRONTO partner NCSR will present PRONTO at the ICT 2010 Networking Sessions on Monday, September 27. The PRONTO-related session is called "Web of Events: Challenges and Opportunities for the event-driven world".

For schedule and details about the PRONTO-related session, please view:

• Networking Sessions

To find out more about ICT 2010 and the conference programme, please view:

• ICT 2010 Conference

Meet PRONTO at the 7th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2010) in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on August 24-27, 2010.

The PRONTO consortium will organise the workshop "Event Recognition for Behavior Measurement, Intelligent Resource Management, and beyond". Click this pdf-version of the abstract to find out more.

For further information about the workshop, please view:

• PRONTO Workshop

For further information about the conference, please view:

• Measuring Behavior 2010

Meet PRONTO at the 20^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 23-26, 2010.

Organised by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), ICPR 2010 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.

PRONTO partner Fraunhofer IAIS will hold a poster session presenting the paper "Action Recognition in Videos using Nonnegative Tensor Factorization" on Tuesday, August 24 (13:30-16:30, Paper TuBCT8.31).

For further information about the conference, please view:

• ICPR 2010

Meet PRONTO at the 4th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2010) in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on July 12-15, 2010.

On Monday, July 12, PRONTO partner NCSR will give a tutorial on the subject of "Logic-Based Representation, Reasoning and Machine Learning for Event Recognition". The tutorial given by Alexander Artikis, Georgios Paliouras, Francois Portet and Anastasios Skarlatidis is divided into two sessions as scheduled hereafter:

T5: Logic-Based Representation, Reasoning and Machine Learning for Event Recognition - Session 1 (Location: TBA; Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm)
T5: Logic-Based Representation, Reasoning and Machine Learning for Event Recognition - Session 2 (Location:TBA; Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm)

The venue for the 2010 edition will be the prestigious King's College in Cambridge, UK which is one of the most beautiful colleges in Cambridge and also has become a symbol of the city.

For further information about the conference, please view:

• DEBS 2010

Meet PRONTO at the 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010) in Athens, Greece on May 05-07, 2010.

For further information about the conference, please view: 

• SETN 2010

EVENTS 2010-Workshop May 04, 2010

Please don't miss to sign up for the workshop "EVENTS 2010 - Recognizing and Tracking Events on the Web and in Real Life" organised by the PRONTO consortium and the WeKnowIT-project the day before this year's SETN conference!

For further information about the workshop, please view:

• EVENTS 2010