Title : Extraction of Historical Events from Unstructured Texts

Presenter Roxane Segers
Abstract Historiography revolves around events as these express important changepoints in reality. We postulate that events can play an important role in improving automated search and data integration in the historic domain as events connect information about who did what where and when. We present a pattern based approach to automatically extract historical named events like "French Revolution" and "Second World War" from unstructured texts in Dutch. The extracted events are the backbone of a structured event thesaurus that will consist of events with their time, place and participants.

Title : Internet of Services: Any room for Value Networks?

Presenter Ivan Razo-Zapata
Abstract Service industry has been experiencing an enormous growing in the last years, it encapsulates over 70 of USA and Europe economies. Although the evident potential of this sector is clear, there are still some misunderstandings in areas like service composition, customer targeting and service provision. Although service networks represent a flexible way of service delivering, there are still some knowledge gaps regarding strategic bundling of services and value (co)creation within the network. In our research we aim at a framework for Service Value Network (SVN) composition from a business-oriented perspective. By business orientation we mean that the framework must take into account economic relationships rather than work flow properties. Business models are centered on the notion of value, therefore it is relevant to determine who is offering what of value to whom and what expects of value in return. In this presentation I will talk about internet-based business models, SVNs, and some preliminary results on SVN composition.