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Research lines / Líneas de investigación

TMTFactory is committed to technological innovation and has its own research team and focused on:

* Artificial intelligence
* Ambient intelligence
* Attentive personal-assistants
* Augmented reality
* Context-awareness
* Human-computer interaction
* Knowledge representation
* Machine-to-Machine and Ubiquity
* Multi-agent systems
* Personalized and social recommendation
* Semantic Web
* Service-oriented architectures
* Usability of interfaces

TMTFactory has his own research department, TMTResearch, to create new services, enhance current products and offer an added value to end users. Since 2007, TMTResearch has been involved in seven research projects with a total budget of 3,5M€.

TMTResearch is currently involved in several research projects:
SEMANTS (AVANZA I+D) 2009-2011, “Distribución Inteligente de Contenidos Semánticos a través de Interfaces Multimodales”. Objective: promote information society access to enhance the welfare and quality of life of citizens and tourists. Therefore, it is intended to demonstrate the potential of different technologies to create more sophisticated and have a real impact on people's needs. Financing source: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio. Total budget: 2M€. TMTFactory’s budget: 300.000 €.
ASKS (ACC1Ó) 2010-2012, “Advanced Social Knowledge Search”. Objective: provide users a new paradigm of research based on Social Networks, personal agents and semantic tools. The project aims to reduce users difficulties to search replies on Internet by means of current methods, as well as Intranets from companies or organizations that manage big amount of information. ASKS will enhance the information search process, enhancing the quality of the replies and reduce the time of response (and associated expenses) concerned with these tasks. Financing source: ACC1Ó and la Generalitat de Catalunya along with FEDER Total budget: 1,5M€. TMTFactory’s budget: 220.000 €.
SPARKS (AVANZA I+D+i) 2010-2012, “Búsqueda de Conocimiento Fiable enriquecida por Agentes a través de Redes Sociales”. Objective: provide to users a search channel to access information efficiently (in terms of accuracy and relevance) by means of a multi-agent system. A channel that promotes the information filtering process, making it easier to interchange this information by using agents as representatives of the users in their interactions. Financing source: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio Total budget: 1,6M€. TMTFactory’s budget: 210.000 €.
CADOOH (AVANZA I+D+i) 2011-2013, “Context-Aware Digital Out Of Home”. Objective: provide a new paradigm of information society access by means of new interactive methods based in communications M2M and contents generated and shared by end users (P4P). Financing source: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio Total budget: 1,4M€. TMTFactory’s budget: 915.000 €.

TMTResearch has already developed the following research projects:
INREDIS (CENIT) 2007-2010, “Related interfaces between the environment and people with functional diversity”. Objective: development of new technologies to allow communication and interaction between people with some kind of functional diversity and the environment. Financing source: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio. Total budget: 24 M€. TMTFactory’s budget: 1,5 M€.
ALIVE (STREP from european FP7) 2008-2010, “Coordination, organisation and model driven approaches for dynamic, flexible, robust software and services engineering”. Objective: to combine coordination and organization mechansims withe driven design model to create new software development tools and services for real systems.Financing source: European Commission. Total budget: 3,8 M€. TMTFactory's budget: 200.000 €.
SOPAT (PROFIT) 2007-2008 , Servicio de orientación personalizada y accesible para turismo. Objective: mejorar considerablemente los sistemas de señalización existentes para turistas de cualquier lengua y desarrollar nuevos sistemas de accesibilidad para usuarios con diversidad funcional. Financing source: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio. Total budget: 425.000 €. TMTFactory's budget: 220.000 €.