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Empowerment of Citizens through Classification and Enrichment of Open Internet Resources (FACILE)

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Project Description:
With the increase of digitalization and empowering of users, patients/citizens extensively use Internet for searching health information but they are often overwhelmed by the amount, complexity and questionable quality that a generic search engine often provides. The goal of this project is to develop a tailored meta search engine, FACILE, that allows a user to specify his/her information requirements in a simple way. It, then, retrieves tailored Web information by exploiting the Web structured data (schema.org) and provides the “right” amount of Web content that is trustworthy and simple to understand.

Researchers: Marco Alfano, Markus Helfert

Funding:EU H2020 (MSCA COFUND), SFI – Lero

Collaboration / Partners: University of Palermo, Italian National Council of Research

Timeframe: 2018-2020

About the Researchers:

Marco Alfano

Marco Alfano is a Research Fellow at Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, and an Affiliated Researcher at Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University. He is currently working on patient empowerment by facilitating acquisition, comprehension and learning of health information on the Internet. His research interests include e-health, smart cities, data analytics, machine learning, information retrieval and Open Data/Big Data. He has authored more than fifty peer reviewed articles for journals, books and conferences. He has received grants from international bodies such as the European Union (under the FP7 H2020 framework programs) and national bodies such as Enterprise Ireland and the National Research Council of Italy participating to several European projects.

Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is Professor in Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University, Innovation Value Institute (Ireland) and the Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Managem ent. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.

Email:Markus.Helfert@mu.ie