Advances in Data Mining

The implemented project was the combination of research project and event organisation.

The project was dedicated to the interdisciplinary discussion on advances in data mining underpinning elaboration of socio-technical approach to data mining.

The wider goal of the project was to demonstrate usability of data mining for education, economics and engineering.

All project partners have an extensive experience, and many researchers work in the field of data mining. It allowed organizing a high quality review process, which  ensured high quality of the publications and fruitful discussion during the seminars.

Scientific seminars facilitated further cooperation and technology transfer within various scientific disciplines between institutions in the Baltic countries and German partner higher education establishments within H2020 and other research and project programmes.

1. Preliminary information exchange on advances in data mining and discussion on data mining methodologies, etc (Hochschule Wismar, Klaipeda University, Centre for Education and Innovation Research, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, Kaunas University of Technology and Tartu University; Internet communication between partners)
2. Klaipeda University, Centre for Education and Innovation Research and Tartu University staff short visit to Hochschule Wismar. Discussions on advances in data mining and Guest lecture / Seminar (Hochschule Wismar, Germany)
3. Model development and data acquisition module (Klaipeda University, Lithuania)
4. Hoschule Wismar, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, Centre for Education and Innovation Research and Tartu University staff short visit to Klaipeda University. Joint experiments and Guest lecture / Seminar (Klaipeda University, Lithuania)
5. Experimental data processing and analysis (Internet communication between Hochschule Wismar, Klaipeda University, Centre for Education and Innovation Research, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, Kaunas University of Technology and Tartu University, Internet communication between partners)
6. Preparation and submission of papers/joint publication (Hochschule Wismar, Klaipeda University, Centre for Education and Innovation Research, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, Kaunas University of Technology and Tartu University; Internet communication between partners)
7. Preparation of Project report (Klaipeda University, Lithuania; Internet communications between partners)

Direct:

Klaipeda University academic staff and students of Faculty of Humanities and Educational (~40 persons) and Kaunas University of Technology academic staff (4 persons)

Hochschule Wismar academic staff and students of Faculty of Engineering of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Robert-Schmidt-Institute (~20 persons) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Communications Signal Processing Group (~20 persons).

Participants from higher education institutions, research organizations, business, etc. are welcomed. Target group are scientists, engineers, economists, businessmen, ICT specialists and students.

It was planned to receive approximately 20 applications for making presentations during the seminars and 20 papers and accept approximately 10 presentations and 10 papers. Moreover, approximately 40 listeners without publications were expected. Therefore, the seminar actually served 50 attendants, 10 presentations and approximately 10 scientific publications.

During the seminars 2 keynote talks were given by Andreas Ahrens (Hochschule Wismar, Germany) and Ojaras Purvinis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania).

Indirect (Public not directly involved in the project activities): an increased quality service was received by

• staff (15 persons) as well as PhD (9 persons) and Master students (12 persons) of higher education institutions,
• staff (10 persons) and clients (25 persons) of ICT industry and business, etc.