Smart Agent Technologies
Encyclopedia
The Studio Smart Agent Technologies (SAT) is part of the
Research Studios Austria ForschungsgesmbH
, a non-profit research organization. It aims to facilitate the transfer of academic research into commercial applications thus implementing an innovation pipeline from universities into markets. To this end, SAT cooperates with both, universities and other academic institutions, as well as innovative companies.
The Studio SAT competes for national and Europe
an research grants and funding in research excellence. It does contract research for clients in the private and public sectors and it receives the funding for its independent research from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research.
During the years 2004 and 2005 SAT accompanied the development of a mobile content download platform by 3united and Ericsson
as a research partner concerning personalization.
From 2006 to 2008 SAT guided research activities concerning semantic systems and recommender systems for Verisign Communications GmbH, the Viennese
branch of VeriSign
.
With its flag ship project easyrec
, an open source
recommender engine, SAT launched an incubator for spreading the ideas and usage of personalization in early 2010.
Research Studios Austria ForschungsgesmbH
Research Studios Austria
The Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH is a non-profit research institution and manages innovations from universities to market in the area of eTechnologies and Smart Media...
, a non-profit research organization. It aims to facilitate the transfer of academic research into commercial applications thus implementing an innovation pipeline from universities into markets. To this end, SAT cooperates with both, universities and other academic institutions, as well as innovative companies.
The Studio SAT competes for national and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an research grants and funding in research excellence. It does contract research for clients in the private and public sectors and it receives the funding for its independent research from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research.
History
The Studio Smart Agent Technologies has been founded in 2003 as one of the first research units of the Research Studios Austria, a division of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) formerly known as Austrian Research Centers (ARC). In April 2008 the Research Studios Austria were spun out into a new company and the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH was founded.During the years 2004 and 2005 SAT accompanied the development of a mobile content download platform by 3united and Ericsson
Ericsson
Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
as a research partner concerning personalization.
From 2006 to 2008 SAT guided research activities concerning semantic systems and recommender systems for Verisign Communications GmbH, the Viennese
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
branch of VeriSign
VeriSign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...
.
With its flag ship project easyrec
Easyrec
easyrec is an open source Web application that provides personalized recommendations using RESTful Web services to be integrated into Web enabled applications...
, an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
recommender engine, SAT launched an incubator for spreading the ideas and usage of personalization in early 2010.
Research
The main research areas of SAT include:- Recommender Systems
- Personalization
- Semantic Systems
- Data Mining and Visualization
- Intelligent Agent Solutions