NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

The Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space

Areas of Activity of the Institute

Information Society. Economy of Knowledge. Information technologies for support to decision making related to environment protection management issues, efficient use of nature, actions to prevent emergencies

Electronic Parliament Systems of electronic and analytical support to processes of administrative and regional governance Information technologies in education

Ontological integration of distributed information systems

Information Provision of the Society. Economy of Knowledge

Institute developed a National indicators system for analysis of information society development in Ukraine and its regions. This system is now on the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

National system of indicators related to assessment of development of information society in Ukraine includes three mutually related composite indices
Penetration of into society; Index of technological application of ; Index of usage in armaments and information protection means. Calculation of indices is based upon the stage-by-stage determination of sub-indices, aggregates, which are formed from the following basic indicators.

Basic Indicators of National Indicator System for Development of Information

Society in Ukraine Share of Internet users in Ukraine Share of costs for software Level of computational capacity of information and telecommunication infrastructure Share of owners of computers in Ukraine Level of information provision of leading libraries of the country Level of concentration of population in the area of coverage by mobile communication Level of development of mobile communication in Ukraine Share of income from mobile communication services per capita Share of owners of phones of fixed communication in Ukraine Level of quality of fixed communication lines Potential of demand Competitive status Share of scientific and research organisations in sector Level of development potential of information and telecommunication infrastructure

Level of regulative load in area Level of priority of for government Level of compliance of authors rights for software Level of legal support to business Efficiency of legislation that regulates Internet activity Level of technological development of industry Level of usage of advanced industrial technologies in industrial enterprises Level of innovative activity in the country Level of usage of modern by scientists Level of Internet activity of scientists and researchers Level of development of electronic governance Level of application of I in national planning, monitoring and supervision of technological development processes. Area of usage of Internet and telecommunication means by population Level of information security of the country Level of application of in planning and governance Level of application of in health care establishment and hospitals

Information technologies for support to decision making related to environment protection management issues, efficient use of nature, actions to prevent emergencies
Environment protection management; Protection and efficient usage of renewable natural resources; Planning of actions to prevent and liquidate emergencies; Ecological audit; Insurance of ecological risks.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

GIS are the automated data banks, which contain different information of nature, environment, social and economic content, relation to certain territory. As the source materials used to enter the data into GIS the following is currently being used:

Remote sensing data, which update available geographic information;

General topographic maps; Standard statistical reporting forms; Text sources, pictures, illustrations etc. The existing system of information support to decisions for environment protection and ecological safety governance at regional level requires considerable modernization that allows to developing more justified decisions focused on addressing the practical tasks to ensure: Stable social and economic as well as ecological and balanced development of region; Efficient usage of renewable natural resources of region; Efficient protection of environment; Forecast of natural and technogenic emergencies and management of planning of actions to prevent and liquidate such emergencies. Optimal form of the said modernization is the regional subject-oriented information system with the bank of geo spatial data. Main concept of such selected GIS means the layer-by-layer presentation of geographical information with the following synthesis of subject-oriented maps.

Ecological maps

Electronic Parliament
By definition of Inter-Parliamentary Union the Electronic Parliament is a legislative body, which achieves higher transparency, openness and accountability in its activity due to efficient usage of advanced tools of information and communication technologies

Priorities of Information Legislative Process in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Ensure efficient activity of parliament, its transparency and openness Ensure security of information resources of parliament and confidentiality of information on person Maintain the dialogue between parliament, members of parliament of Ukraine and citizens Improve mechanisms of reporting of parliament, members of parliament of Ukraine to voters Ensure full access of citizens to information about functioning of parliament Participate in global information society

Programme Purpose
Achieve, as maximal as possible, automation of information and organization processes in activity of MP corps in general, including the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, MP factions as well as the Personnel of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine through creation of modern systems to govern the legislative process and document turnover in parliament; On -line information and analytical support to members of parliament of Ukraine, assistants-consultants to members of parliament of Ukraine, experts of the Personnel of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Establish new automated system for processing of incoming, outgoing internal information and document flows and control of orders, on-line generation of analytical and reporting and reference documentation Technical improvement of communication systems to ensure quick functioning of members of parliament of Ukraine, committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Personnel of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, including on issues related to activity of executive authorities, local self-governance bodies and informing the citizens.

Systems of Information and Analytical Support (SIAS) to Processes of Administrative and Regional Governance
SIAS is a distributed system that ensure interaction of systems of different levels (centre region - district) replication of data loading.

 Purpose of SIAS development is to improve quality of and timeliness of managerial decisions being taken by management of local authorities due to: Provision of managers of region and districts with online information with regard to current social and economic situation on territories; Provision, on the basis of processing of necessary information, with the justified proposals on improvement of social and economic level of region; Enabling, due to usage of WEB-technologies, the manager to receive from SIAS database the necessary information irrespective of his location.

Information technologies in education

Designing the Information and Educational Environment Improve efficiency of usage of distributed information resources for educational purposes based on application of knowledge systems

Main Trends of Development of Modern Society

Globalization of all sectors of public life; Accelerated development of highly technological industries of economy; Innovative and integration civilized processes; Continuously growing demands of society with regard to level of preparedness of new generation to activity in information society; Functioning of information and education environment.

Conceptual Basics
Trends of development of modern society
Globalisation educational processes; Establish the knowledge system; Intensive development of information and communication technologies

Establishment of information and education environment

Establish the electronic education resources Develop the methodological principles of designing the education and training environments in information society Determine the sources and carriers of knowledge Determine the carriers of purpose of education and training process Establish the means of maintenance and support to educational interaction between the subjects of education and training process depending on specific form of education

APPROACHES TO ESTABLISHMENT OF INTEGRATED INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

Establishment and usage of knowledge management systems in education process; Establish the corporate distributed education information systems; Design the information environment to activity of students on the basis of software tools of education interaction support server; Develop the methodologies to use information systems and technologies to maintain modern knowledge systems; Establish the methodological and technological platform to support the processes of creative activity of students on the basis of usage software tools of education interaction support server.

TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Establish the semantic space on the basis of thesaurus model Develop the multi-aspect education system Develop the descriptions of educational programmes Compile the curricula Determine the classes of information resources, which are equivalent to sections of educational programmes and stages of curricula Establish the aggregates of descriptions of various basic notions, phenomena and processes of content of subjects on the basis of thesaurus model Determine the functional and structural links between classes of information resources Select the basic elements of knowledge (objects-notions) on the basis of their encyclopaedia description Design the main terminological vocabulary of subject using also the means of visualization of objects-notions Optimise the aggregates of basic knowledge elements Provide access to knowledge elements on the basis of usage of ontologies of subject areas

Network instruments in information environment

Ensure operational interaction of sources and users of educational information related to one subject area or combined by one or similar areas of interests; Support to interaction of all participants of educational process (i.e. sources and users of heterogeneous information) within the non-single aggregate of subject areas with possibility of expanding this aggregate; Ensure expansion of the list of sources and users of heterogeneous information within any subject area or field of interests occurring in the course of educational process; Limit access to information educational resources to specific subject area or field of interests due to possibility of resolving the previous task; Enabling participation of specific source of user of the respective information education resources in certain subject areas; Enabling operational search of source of the required information resources by students as for the specific subject area.

Architectural and structural organization of the educational environment

Establishment of Electronic Libraries Based on Linguistic Corpuses

Text Corpus
Linguistic of language corpus of texts large, in electronic form, unified, structured, formatted, philologically competent array of language data designed to resolve the specific linguistic tasks.

Advisability to Establish the Corpuses

Advisability to establish the corpuses is determined by three prerequisites: Data of various type are contained in corpus in their natural context form that enables to comprehensively and objectively study them Quite large (representative) volume of corpus guarantees typical nature of data Possibility of multiple usage of corpus, established one time, to resolve the various linguistic tasks Besides that certain corpuses give the possibility to receive different references related to vocabulary, grammar, accentology and history of language.

Usage of Corpuses
Search of Examples and Determination of Frequency of Language Phenomena:
Language research, Compilation of vocabularies, Compilation of school-books

Testing and Development of Software for Text Automated Processing

Tasks to be Addressed by Corpus:

ensure scientific research with materials; analyse changes in language; receive accurate and reliable information.

Who uses it?

linguists; scientists; journalists, writers, editors; teachers; students and pupils.

Main results
Technological platform to develop and use the ontological models in educational process is established Means to integrate different information models in information and educational environment are established Methodological support to usage of computer ontologies in educational process is established First version of linguistic corpus of educational and methodological literature is designed Means of content analysis of quality of educational materials are established Programme and information as well as methodological software for integrated learning of science basics using the inter-subject links is established

Ontological Integration of Distributed Information Systems (Generalized Procedure)

Integration of various information systems requires consolidation of their meta models. This is an ontological task. It is necessary to define what classes describe subject area of application of each information system and how they are linked with classes of other systems Ontology formal description of certain area of knowledge that includes relevant classes of objects, their taxonomy (hierarchy), links and restrictions (axioms) accepted in this area. Ontology explicitly defines the semantics of data. Ontology can be expressed in the form of meta model that is necessary to establish the model of subject area. It is required to describe the meta model of activity, meta model of thesaurus and meta model of IT infrastructure and then to show their interrelation The single meta model represents correlation between activity and IT infrastructure.

FUNCTIONAL FEATURES
One entry point of user in all information systems Context analysis Possibility to create subject vocabularies and classifiers Transparency of decisions Receipt of information from non-structured texts Unique simplicity of request generation Associative search peculiar to human thinking Cataloguing of input information

Distributed Information Resources

Classification of knowledge Knowledge saving and exchange

Integration into video archive

Dealing with any types of data of various formats Dealing with information on various languages Rights of access and security

Easiness of administration

ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Ontologies Application

Ontologies

Development

Development - of

Ontologycontrolled IS

Establishment of Electronic Training Courses

Ontological Knowledge Base in IS

Knowledge Manual Development Control Remote Automated Development of of Simple Ontologies ( ) Computerised (Formal) Ontologies Training Semantic Web Semantic - Web ServiceOriented Architectures Formalisation
Languages

System Integration of Inter disciplinary Scientific Knowledge

National Base of Academic Knowledge Personified

Knowledge ( , ) Acquisition (expert,

Standards

text document)
Theory

Methods
Implementation

Automated Acquisition of Knowledge from Large Volumes of Text Information

Knowledge

Structuring of Knowledge ( ) (manual or automated)

Strategies Models Algorithms

Methodology of Automated Designing of Subject Area Ontology

Known Systems Editors

Original Toolkit

An example of primary ontology of elearning

Subject discipline Information system Information technology General linguistics ontology

Knowledge about Subject discipline Source of Knowledge Relations Concept

Intelligent Information System

Function del

Characteristic
Acquisition of Knowledge Knowledge representation Knowledge processing Knowledge management

Subject area`s ontology

System for processing natural language Expert system Training system The system re-engineering enterprises System of support and making decisions Intelligent tool

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