LASIGE is sponsoring two keynotes in the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI 2018), taking place at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. As such, LASIGE researchers are welcome to attend the keynotes of M.-Carmen Juan and Jaroslav Křivánek.

LASIGE Researchers Carlos Duarte and Tiago Guerreiro are taking the roles of Web4All conference Program Chair and ACM ASSETS 2020 General Chair, respectively.

AgreementMakerLight (AML) achieved top performance in several tracks of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2018 (OAEI), a competition run yearly at the International Semantic Web Conference. AML is an ontology matching system developed by LASIGE in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In 2018, AML maintained its top ranking position at OAEI in several tracks, and obtained the best results in the newly introduced tracks, consolidating its position as the leading ontology matching system.

The 5-year European Project "CIRCLES – Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems" (Call: H2020-SFS-2018-2020 Topic: LC-SFS-03-2018 – Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems – IA Innovation action) starts today. Sara C. Madeira coordinates LASIGE’s team, participating in all tasks in work package “Bioinformatics and systems biology: data storage, data integration and microbiome modelling”, and leading task “Modelling of microbiomes across food chains in relation to covariates and metadata”. The project coordinator is Marco Candela, UNIBO – University of Bologna, there are 30 participans from academia and industry all over Europe. FCiencias/LASIGE is the only Portuguese participant.

LASIGE researchers, students, and collaborators promote monthly workshops at Fundação Raquel and Martin Sain to tutor blind people in using technology.

Sara Silva, who has recently won a Principal Investigator contract from FCT, has been invited to present her goals for the next five years within the LASIGE center to the general audience, including school students. The event will take place on the afternoon of the 31st of October, at Teatro Thalia.

The FCUL team Caracóis Hipocondríacos won the 3rd place at the national inter-universities programming contest, earning the silver medal. One of the three contestants, Nuno Burnay is a junior researcher at LASIGE, where he is developing his Masters Thesis on verification of protocol conformance in REST APIs.