Migration

Migration is a complex and challenging phenomenon, which affects all levels of society at a local, national, regional, European, and international level. A multistakeholder approach, in combination with the development of new Information and communication technologies (ICTs) solutions is imperative on the one hand to support the smooth integration of migrant/refugees and asylum seekers to the hosting communities (as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda’s call to ‘leave noone behind’), as well as on the other hand to address any foreseen challenges related to human rights protection as well as to border security.

M4D, having actively participated in several migration related projects, aims to support the need for future development of information sharing platforms and ICT enabled migration services, compliant with security-by-design principles, as well as all with relevant ethical and legal issues. Key research and development activities of M4D in the migration domain, where it aims to capitalize on and move the research and development forward include:

  • Semantic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Content based Recommender Systems / Matchmaking
  • Ontologies alignment with text analysis and generation requirements
  • Decision support and visual analytics
  • Human Computer Interaction / Conversational agents
Interactive Visual Analytics applicable to migration end users (NGOs/Policy Makers) for displaying and extracting useful information (WELCOME EU project)
1 Modelling migrant integration services and profiles (MIICT project Ontology)

 

1D. Ntioudis et al., “Immerse: A Personalized System Addressing the Challenges of Migrant Integration,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICMEW46912.2020.9105981.

PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

  1. G. Meditskos, S. Tegos, C. Bouas, A. Tassios, K. Manousaridis, M. Papoutsoglou, T. Mavropoulos, S. Vrochidis, "Towards Semantically Conscious, Conversation-Based Chatbot Services for Migrants.", in Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2024), Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 139–148. OPEN ACCESS
  2. G. Tzionis, G. Antzoulatos, P. Papaioannou, A. Mavropoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, M. González Burgos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Vlachopoulou, "Evaluation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence methods in Language Learning Classification of Spanish Tertiary Education Students.",in Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning (IMCL 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 9, 2023. OPEN ACCESS
  3. E. A. Stathopoulos, A. I. Karageorgiadis, A. Kokkalas, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Query Expansion Benchmark on Social Media Information Retrieval: Which Methodology Performs Best and Aligns with Semantics?", Computers, vol. 12, no. 6, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12060119 OPEN ACCESS
  4. D. Ntioudis, P. Masa, A. Karakostas, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-Based Personalized Job Recommendation Framework for Migrants and Refugees.", Big Data and Cognitive Computing, vol. 6, no. 4, 2022. DOI:10.3390/bdcc6040120
  5. G. Antzoulatos, T. Mavropoulos, G. Tzionis, A. Karakostas, A. Costas, M. González Burgos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Usage of Visual Analytics to Support Immigration-Related, Personalised Language Training Scenarios.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning (IMCL2021), 4-5 November 2021. OPEN ACCESS
  6. A. Chatzimichail, E. Stathopoulos, D. Ntioudis, A. Tsanousa, M. Rousi, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "IoT and Semantic Web Technologies.", in Semantic IoT: Theory and Applications - Interoperability, Provenance and Beyond, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2020, p. 3-33. OPEN ACCESS
  7. D. Ntioudis, E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, A. Karakostas, F. Huber, R. Bratska, S. Vrochidis, B. Akhgar, I. Kompatsiaris, "IMMERSE: A Personalized System Addressing the Challenges of Migrant Integration.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2020), Workshop on ICT and Multimedia Tools for Migrants Inclusion in Host societies (WIMMIH2020), 2020.
  8. G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris. “Converness: Ontology-driven Conversational Awareness and Context Understanding in Multimodal Dialogue Systems”. Expert Systems, Special Issue on e-Health and Staying Smarter, 1 February 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  9. L. Wanner, E. Andre, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrus, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martinez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru, S. Vrochidis, "Design of knowledge-based agent as a social companion", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist), Barcelona, Catalonia, November 2017.
  10. G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Description Logics and Rules for Multimodal Situational Awareness in Healthcare", in Special session on Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction for Health and Basic Care Applications at MMM 2017.
  11. G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, S. Vrochidis, & I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-Driven Context Interpretation and Conflict Resolution in Dialogue-Based Home Care Assistance", In 9th Int. Conf. on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences - SWAT4LS. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Paschke, A., Burger, A., Splendiani, A., Marshall, M.S., and Romano, P. (eds.), vol. 1795, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016.
  12. G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, S. Vrochidis, L. Wanner, I. Kompatsiaris,"Question Answering over Pattern-Based User Models", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2016), pp. 153-160. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2993318.2993331
  13. L. Wanner, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Dominguez, G. Llorach, S. Mille, F. Sukno, E. Kamateri, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Andre, F. Lingenfelser, G. Mehlmann, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, B. Vieru, L. Lamel, W. Minker, L. Pragst, Stefan Ultes,"Towards a Multimedia Knowledge-Based Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities", 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction (MARMI 2016), New York, USA, June 6, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2927006.2927011
  14. G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, Louisa Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, L. Wanner, "Towards an Ontology-driven Adaptive Dialogue Framework", 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Re-trieval for Multimodal Interaction (MARMI 2016), New York, USA, June 6, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2927006.2927009