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New focus points on FIWARE national workshops organisation
FIWARE programme promotion at local level has been crucial for involving startups and SMEs not only to FIWARE, but also to Europe research and innovation environment.
Extensive experience of ceFIMS-CONNECT partners extracted from (co-)organizing and running different events and actions related to FIWARE programme promotion in 2014 have been compiled into a recommendations report available at http://www.cefims.eu/2014/11/fiware-accelerator-recommendations/.
Since no new FIWARE calls are expected, the content and orientation of these promotion events may evolve. The new focus points we recommend are:
- Promote national funding programmes where using FI-WARE is a plus for the proposals, either creating specific FI-WARE oriented funding instrument or identifying already existing programmes where FI-WARE technology is welcome.
- Promote startups and SMEs having succeed in FI-WARE. These companies and their representatives can share their experience in FI-WARE and is highly recommendable to give them a slot. The benefit is double: for the audience to know more about real experiences, and for the speakers to promote their work.
- Inform about new FI-WARE related initiatives such as the OASC (The Open & Agile Smart Cities) or the AIOTI (The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation). These people can provide to newcomers some keys to approach successfully FI-WARE solutions.
ceFIMS-CONNECT Monitor open call – Submit your article on Future Internet and 5G initiatives!
ceFIMS-CONNECT is looking for short articles describing Future Internet and 5G initiatives and developments in European countries.
Started in December, 2014, as a dedicated publication for the FIF members, the Monitor concept is now extended to all national Future Internet and 5G stakeholders, including three different types of Monitors:
- FIF Monitor – existing publication contributions from FIF members summarizing national FI and 5G developments, success stories, best practices;
- FI Monitor – contributions from National and European projects or initiatives with special interest in the Future Internet (FI) domain;
- 5G Monitor –contributions from all projects or initiatives (national and European) with special interest in the 5th generation mobile networks.
If you have news to share, please E-mail submission to alicja (at) man (dot) poznan (dot) pl or jclarke (at) tssg (dot) org or submit to our LinkedIn group discussion. Article submissions typically range from 600 to 1,000 words, with a short feature on the author(s)
See the template and example submissions at http://www.cefims.eu/publications/#monitors
Submissions received will be highlighted in the ceFIMS-CONNECT and FIRE newsletters, reaching well over 1,000 targets.
FIRE Newsletter available
The 18th FIRE Newsletter is now available at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications/newsletters.html
This Newsletter provides information about upcoming events, Open Calls and finished projects that continue to operate under the Open Access instrument (ie. BonFIRE and OFELIA).
It also reports on the results of recent Open Calls and other past events, and reminds about the FIRE polls, which are a simple mechanism to help define the contents of the next FIRE Workprogrammes.
The FIRE newsletter is brought to you by the AmpliFIRE Support Action.
CONCEDE
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SUMMARY
The research in “Content Based Query Concept for Exploration and Discovery of Information in Earth Observation and Medical Libraries” – CONCEDE project aims at enhancing the functionalities of the Earth Observation (EO) Payload Ground Segment systems and the next-generation services for an enhanced data realisation.
With an exponential increase of available data volume, the need for a new generation of data mining tools and knowledge discovery in databases concepts becomes emergent. CONCEDE pursues to develop a complete and embracive theoretical and applicative framework that will allow for a compendious exploration of heterogeneous data resources, resulting in the discovery of semantic information hidden in image libraries. A demonstrator will be generated in order to validate and evaluate the capabilities of the proposed concept. The project’s objectives envisage three main contribution: to European Space Agency (ESA) research activities, to new applications solutions development and to scientifically development.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a complete theoretical and applicative framework that will allow for a comprehensive exploration of heterogeneous data resources, resulting in the discovery of semantic information hidden in image libraries
- Analyzing the image content through data compression algorithms which do not require any prior knowledge extraction and it are completely parameter free
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LINK:http://ceospacetech.pub.ro/index.php/research/concede
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Tagged data management
Intelligent Systems
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SUMMARY
The aim of this research group is to investigate and develop novel intelligent-based technology and techniques that can be used to provide integrated access to disparate information sources distributed across the Internet as well as basic technologies and toolkits apt to support the realization of intelligent-based systems in modern telecommunications
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing an intelligent agent to assist mobile users
- Designing a pervasive assistant for hospital staff
- Exploring the use of analytics in immersive spaces
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LINK:http://www.um.edu.mt/ict/ics/research/groups/ist
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Tagged intelligent systems
LT-BY Cloud
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SUMMARY
The project aims to enhance cross-border IT R&D and Innovation networks among Vilnius, Grodno and Minsk science institutions in order to develop and strengthen their linkage to IT enterprises. The project partners intend to achieve this by designing innovative cross-border Cloud Computing (CC) cluster uniting Lithuania and Belarus and based on the latest CC technologies.
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SOLUTIONS
- Signing an agreement between partners with regard to the common use of Cloud Computing related infrastructure
- Helping 30 regional IT companies to develop CC technologies and reach global markets
- Initiating at least 3 R&D projects by IT SMEs in CC area
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LINK:http://www.enpi-cbc.eu/go.php/eng/1S_906_project_LLB_2_142/1026
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IHSIT-CD
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SUMMARY
This project seeks to produce a decision making system for automatic diagnostics solutions of skin and lung cancers on the base of IT- analysis of data images received from patient using the multi-spectral optical system. IT based solution system will reduce the possibility of human error due to a lack of specialised personnel. A standardized database of clinical examples will be constructed, developed and implemented on the back of Belorussian and Lithuanian partners’ infrastructure.
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SOLUTIONS
- Contributing to the enhancement of health & social sphere development and cross-cultural communication
- Enhancing professional networking and visibility
- Empowering oncology professionals
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Tagged health
Development of Semantic Web information infrastructure and deductive mechanisms
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SUMMARY
The project is aimed at developing segments of a Semantic Web information infrastructure and its deductive mechanisms. The Semantic Web represents a set of a broad array of distributed Web services ranging from structurally simplest ones, such as those for intelligent information search, to most complex ones, such as e-business services, which include intelligent autonomous agents as business entities, ontologies as the information basis (including business rules systems structured as ontologies) and deductive mechanisms that enable agent autonomy and intelligence as well as intelligent and purposeful behaviour of the system as a whole. In particular, within the project specific ontologies relevant for the Croatian academic community are investigated.
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SOLUTIONS
- Investigating specific ontologies for the Croatian academic community
- Developing prototypes for a semantic web information infrastructure
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LINK:http://www.foi.unizg.hr/eng/research/National-scientific-projects#
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Tagged semantic web
COST: Transit
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SUMMARY
Information and communications technology can increase infrastructure usage, improve safety, enhance travellers access to information and reduce transportation times as well as fuel consumption. Therefore advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are becoming increasingly widespread as a mean of optimizing transit operations and infrastructure usage. However, models currently used to describe and predict passengers lows across the network do not take adequately into consideration the effects brought about by ITS on transit operations and on user behavior. Hence, transport planning based onto ITS is not completely meaningful and does not exploit to the full the amount of high quality data made availabl. This deficiency can delay the realization of the benefits of enhanced passenger information provision.
The project aims to gathers together researchers in the field of transport and urban and regional planning, transport operators and authorities, consultancies and software developers. The main goal is to exchange knowledge and research in the field of transit assignment models, tailored to the era of Intelligent Transport Systems.
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SOLUTIONS
- Improving on existing solutions in the field of transit assignment models
- Increasing infrastructure usage, improving safety, enhancing travellers’ access to information and reducing transportation times as well as fuel consumption
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Tagged data management, transport
Optical fiber sensor applications for automatic measurement of the weight on the move
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SUMMARY
Latvia is a country highly reliant on transportation services. But there is a lack of modern ICT tools. The main aim of this project is to develop such tools for the traffic system in Latvia. The team will develop algorithms for electrical signal processing and will develop controllers for projecting different vehicle weights.
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SOLUTIONS
- Determining the speed of vehicles, classification, number of vehicles;
- Identifying traffic jams on the roads and switching frequency of traffic lights;
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Tagged transport
Methods and technologies for IT security incident detection and analysis
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SUMMARY
The overall aim of this project is to promote the integration of scientific research and the production and commercialization of research results in the IT sector. Realizing the project will involve creating new technologies that will facilitate and expedite security incidents and vulnerabilities discovery. The new technology makes it easier to investigate incidents in the prevention of detecting and to prevent potential attacks.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a tool for T security incident detection
- Developing new methods, skills and techniques (a form of intellectual property, some of them will be patented), which will allow knowledge and technology transfer in the form of: a) a commercial benefit from the technologies developed licensing IT outsourcing firms or removals from these firms in this generated by the project-based technologies for software development; b) increase their research potential involvement in the new EU research projects.
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LINK:http://www.lumii.lv/resource/show/688
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Tagged security and privacy
Data-Centric Genomic Computing (GenData 2020)
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SUMMARY
The main objective of the project is the creation of new innovative technology solutions to support healthcare systems of the next generation. In the near future, genomic medicine will be fully integrated in the care of patients and genomic data will be part of the medical information of each of us. If this scenario impacts positively on our lives (eg., Diagnosis genomic allow to treat individuals according to personalized therapies), at the same time several issues are raised which need to be addressed such as the way in which genomic data are modeled and queried, or the need to protect the privacy of sensitive information. In this project, the research team will focus on aspects of security and privacy, the key factors for successful integration of genomics in healthcare systems. How do we ensure that our sensitive genomic data are adequately protected? How to ensure that the privacy of individuals who participate in medical studies to be preserved? How to assure that only authorized parties to access genomic data? UNIMI will answer these and other questions by developing innovative solutions that address the issues of security and privacy related to the storage, collection, dissemination and use of genomic data.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing the data model GenData 2020 given the diversity of genomic data and providing a high-level language for the selective extraction of data.
- Collaborating in the definition of the data model to ensure that includes the features needed for the specification and implementation of security controls and privacy.
- Developing a formal and rigorous semantics for (part of) the conceptual model and define an executable formal semantics for the query language.
- Identifying the properties that must be met by cryptographic solutions used for data and applications.
- Developing an expressive and flexible model, a language and a mechanism for controlling access to the specification and implementation of permissions that govern access to genomic data.
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Tagged data management
Adaptive and self-organising systems
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SUMMARY
In modern applications there is an increasingly need of coordination models for distributed systems that can face the unpredictability of behaviour of certain system subparts that cannot be handled at design-time because of legacy or deployment issues. Examples include sensor networks, pervasive computing systems, and all those distributed and open systems that involve different entities (services, devices, sensors, humans, and so on) that should opportunistically interoperate.The main requirements of these scenarios are robustness against failures, situatedness and adaptivity, all of which are to be achieved without human or supervised control, thus calling for innovative coordination models. Such scenarios are typically tackled by drawing inspiration from natural systems, where an intrinsic self-organisation exist by which the globally intended behaviour emerges out of local interaction of individuals.
The research team seeks to develop new innovative techniques and tools for their analysis, design and deployment, are to be conceived. They have to support the designer in “controlling the emergence of adaptive behaviours” and in making qualitative and quantitate predictions about how the system works and about possible design errors.
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SOLUTIONS
- Identifying formal models for specifying self-organising systems and analysing their properties, such as stability and resilience
- Developing simulation tools for performing “what-if” analysis
- Developing a rich catalogue of self-organising design patterns and of a methodology supporting their composition to obtain new patterns useful in system engineering
- Conceiving of new computational abstractions and languages, and of corresponding middleware technologies and tools, to mainstream the self-organisation paradigm
- Implementing specific applications of pervasive computing systems, in contexts like smartcities or traffic control
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Tagged autonomous systems
SmartCity Bologna
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SUMMARY
Bologna Smart City aims to create a strategic alliance between the world of research, business and public administration aiming to pool resources, talents and ideas to use Internet of Things technology to make the city more environmentally sustainable, reduce costs, avoid energy waste, improve the general quality of life, guarantee social inclusion and the right to participation, education and health, promoting culture as a means for the growth and economic development of the community.
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SOLUTIONS
- Redesigning the Iperbole Civic Network, based on cloud technologies and an integrated digital identity, joining the contents and services of the PA, businesses and the local community
- Developing intelligent networks (Smart grid, Ultra-Broadband Fibre to the Home (FFTH) and Smart Lighting);
- Promoting sustainable mobility (development of an intelligent mobility network – also electricity based);
- Promoting safe and sustainable neighbourhoods Health and Welfare
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LINK:www.unibo.it/it/ricerca/progetti-e-iniziative/bologna-smart-city
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Tagged smartcity
ProHaptics
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SUMMARY
In this project research is done into the communication of haptic information in networked telemanipulation systems. The project team put a special focus on perceptual coding of haptic data streams and address this issue by exploiting the limitations of human haptic perception. The researchers also consider in our work error-resilient communication of haptic information in the presence of packet loss and communication delay.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a perceptual online and offline compression schemes for haptic signals
- Designing objective quality evaluation schemes for haptic computing and communication
- Integrating haptic compression schemes with stability ensuring control architectures
- Multiplexing multiple modalities and error-resilient haptic communication
- Producing a mathematical model of human haptic perception and theoretical analysis
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LINK:http://www.lmt.ei.tum.de/forschung/projekte/prohaptics.html#overview
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Tagged communication networks
MIMODeS
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SUMMARY
Technology scaling has reached a point at which process and environmental variability are no longer negligible. With every new technology generation the behavior of CMOS devices becomes less predictable. Process variability, aging, sensibility to radiation, etc. lead to bit flips on register-transfer level. New approaches are required which allow building reliable systems on an unreliable hardware. This project focuses its research on hardware-reliability in wireless communication systems. The team follow a cross-layer approach which exploits the mutual trade-offs of system performance, hardware reliability, and implementation complexity. Wireless systems are especially suited for this approach because they have an inherent algorithmic error resilience.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a novel cross-layer methodology to guarantee reliable system behaviour on unreliable hardware
- Discovering how physical defects project themselves on register-transfer level
- Simulating bit flips on gate level and discovering their impact on the system
- Identifying and implementing low-complexity resilience actuators
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LINK:http://spp1500.itec.kit.edu/286_297.php
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PreFairAppl
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SUMMARY
The main focus of the project is the development of “fair” applications which preserve the privacy of the users. The concept of fairness ensures that the computations are performed in a way that recognizes the users’ individual preferences on their inputs. There are many applications for which it is highly desirable to achieve both fairness and privacy simultaneously. The project has developed two applications to demonstrate their technology: the E-Chat application, an instant massager which was developed to demonstrate homomorphic cryptography, and an iPhone app which allows two parties to negotiate the time for a meeting in a privacy-preserving manner.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing privacy-preserving multi-party reconciliation using fully homomorphic encryption
- Developing and implementing privacy-preserving reconciliation protocols
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LINK:http://www.prefairappl.info/
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Tagged security and privacy
eConnect
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SUMMARY
Seven municipal utilities from all over Germany – Aachen Allgau, Duisburg, Leipzig, Osnabrück, Sylt, and Trier – have teamed up with “econnect Germany” to create a research network and compete successfully in the technology competition “ICT for Electric Mobility II” which is run by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
The goal of “econnect Germany” is to develop sustainable and intelligent electro-mobile traffic applications integrate electric vehicles into the smart grid of the future.These technologies are studied, developed and tested by means of information and communication technology. Special consideration will be given by the project team to developing applications for public utility infrastructure.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing intelligent eMobile traffic applications
- Testing on seven sites around Germany
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LINK:http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/projects/econnect
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Tagged transport
Context-Aware Semantic Multimedia Services for Mobile Communities
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SUMMARY
Mobile multimedia data management is poses a great challenge to almost all non-functional requirements on future mobile information systems. Context- awareness and multimedia semantics are crucial approaches to meeting this challenge. Based on our prior results, the project focuses on developing mobile multimedia services with aspects of multimedia semantics and context awareness. Advanced hardware including the 3D outdoor scanner and the 3D object scanner will be integrated into the technological output to deliver high-quality multimedia data resources. Prototypes will be developed on different smartphones such as iPhone and Google G1 to prove the concept and demonstrate in practice.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing mobile multimedia services with aspects of mulitpedia semantics and context awareness
- Designing prototypes for different smartphones
- Conducting research on mobile multimedia data management on advanced service protocols such as XMPP or FASP, mobile multimedia test bed with comprehensive mobile community success measures, and mobile multimedia services in emerging cloud computing
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Tagged mobile
DiGiHybrid
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SUMMARY
The aim of this project is to use Internet of Things technology to develop fault-tolerant and reliable controllers for digital hydraulic valves, The project team will design second generation digital hydraulic valves that are energy efficient. They also aim to improve the controllability and the fault tolerance of control systems via developing a modular control code.
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SOLUTIONS
- Reduce hydraulic losses by using a regenerative, multi-chamber cylinder approach and to prove safety and reliability of the software for the digital hydraulic technology
- Implementing a fault-tolerant, general purpose platform for digital hydraulic accumulators
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LINK:http://tucs.fi/research/research-units/dslab/#RUprojects
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Tagged mechanical, services
Communciation Systems
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SUMMARY
The Communication Systems group studies the future internet with a focus on three viewpoints: information security, interactive applications, and embedded/distributed implementations. Information security research in Communication Systems concentrates on researching information security technologies for networked systems and applications of the communication-intensive future from the engineering and human points of view. The strategic goal in the group’s research is to apply research and technological development to building the secure information society. We consider the basic elements for human well-being as the most fundamental drivers for pursuing this strategic goal, in which the technology driven and human driven development directions meet.
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SOLUTIONS
- Advancing methods for adaptive multicore systems
- Designing specification analysis tools for secure RFID implant systems
- Developing a system for online testing of many-core systems in the dark silicon era
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LINK:http://tucs.fi/research/research-units/comsys/#RUprojects
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Tagged communication networks
FReSCo
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SUMMARY
Control system paradigms, based on Internet of Things technology, are an essential part of modern software systems. In the FReSCo project, a model will be developed for future resilient control systems capable of measuring a wide set of observables, including inexact ones derived from the environment. Because of the differences in the resources, protocols, and devices, inexact observables are incomparable with rigorous control system data. Hence, it is not easy to build systems which can incorporate such data. It is therefore necessary to derive a method for identifying and representing relevant context, as well as proposing a method which will describe the relation between the raw observables and the data.
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SOLUTIONS
- Investigating the use of formal methods to solve the problem
- Providing reusable solutions improving the development of industrial processes for future resilient control systems.
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LINK:http://monet.uef.fi/wiki/FResCo
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Tagged data management
STRONgrid
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SUMMARY
The purpose of this project is to address the challenges that the secure and reliable operation of the power grids will face in the future. This will be done by developing a solid, interdisciplinary theoretical foundation capable of supporting the development of better tools for planning, operation and control of power grids which are interconnected across traditional national boundaries and at various voltage levels. It is our vision that by advancing phasor measurement technology and applications in wide areas of monitoring and control, many of these challenges can be met.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a solid foundation for the production of planning, control, and operational tools for power grids
- Advancing phasor measurement technology and application in wide areas of monitoring and control
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Tagged energy
SmartC2Net
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SUMMARY
Adding intelligence to the power grid requires communication and computation infrastructure, with consequent requirements for additional investments. To be cost efficient, it is therefore essential to enable intelligent power grid operation by leveraging existing communication infrastructures. The goal of SmartC2Net is to develop, implement, and validate robust solutions that enable smart grid operation on top of heterogeneous off-the-shelf communication infrastructures with varying properties.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing adaptive network and grid monitoring
- Designing strategies to control communication network configurations and QoS settings
- Producing extended information models and adaptive information management procedures for the Smart Grid
- Validating the effectiveness of this project in representative use-cases of the active operation of Distributed Energy Resources connected to medium and low voltage distribution networks.
- Showing that intelligent distribution grid operation can be realized in a robust manner over existing communication infrastructures even despite the presence of accidental faults and malicious attacks
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Tagged energy
Smart Grid Ready Energy
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SUMMARY
With the Energy Agreement of March 22, 2012 Denmark has succeeded in obtaining broad political commitment to an ambitious green transition that focuses on promoting renewable energy in all sectors. The agreement requires substantial expansion of wind power corresponding to the annual consumption of 1.5 million households. Thus in 2020 wind power will account for approximately 50% of Denmark’s electricity consumption compared to 25% today.
Moving towards intermittent energy sources such as wind power will challenge the electricity grid, as it implies supply-driven consumption in contrast to the consumer‐driven production, that we have today. The Energy Agreement focuses on Smart Grid technology as a means to face this challenge. However for Smart Grid to succeed, we need intelligent consumers, so-called prosumers, who automatically adjust their electricity consumption to the actual supply situation.
Accounting for approximately 1% (280 GWh) of the national electricity usage, commercial greenhouses are interesting as prosumers, as the majority of their electricity consumption is confined to a single production process: supplementary lighting for controlling crop growth.
This project will enable commercial greenhouses to become prosumers by developing the next generation of energy and cost efficient supplemental lighting systems that utilise the physiological flexibility of crops to provide balancing services in the Danish Smart Grid.
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SOLUTIONS
- Integrating greenhouses as prosumers into the Smart grid
- Providing innovative use of weather forecasts, combinations of SON-T and LED lamps, light response profiles showing the ability of different crops to adapt to irregular light conditions, and Smart Grid price signals.
- Using the DONG Energy Power Hub project to integrate the developed software with the Smart Grid.
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Tagged energy
WallViz
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SUMMARY
The objective of the WallViz research project is to use develop wall-sized, interactive displays to improve decision making processes based on massive collections of data. The academic project participants address this objective in collaboration with case partners working in healthcare, finance, and sustainability. Their analysis of data is essential for the efficient use of resources and has direct consequences for businesses and society, for instance, by improving the resource efficiency of the healthcare sector, analyzing resource expenditure in companies, and helping to address climate change.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing highly interactive, wall-sized visualisations that allow fast-paced interactive and collaborative exploration of massive collections of data.
- Inventing database techniques which allow for fast response to ad-hoc user queries and for finding interesting starting points for subsequent interactive exploration.
- Understanding the problem areas, needs, and data analysis practices in case partners’ work, grounding the research in important and concrete concerns.
- Integrating and evaluating visualisations in case partners’ work, aiming at improving analyses of massive data collections and, consequently, decision-making.
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LINK: http://wallviz.dk/
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Tagged data management
Connect2Care
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SUMMARY
Current telemedicine projects in social and health sciences only develop ad-hoc solutions to infrastructural challenges in the areas of, for example, connection, identification, secure communications, automatic switching between networks and data formats, and integration with electronic medical records.
This project aims to provide a basis for an open technical infrastructure to support the development of secure, scalable ICT-based social and health services. This infrastructure will build upon and complement existing infrastructures, particularly the Health Data Network, the National Service Platform, and the National Programme for telemedicine and home monitoring.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing and increasingly coherent infrastructure based ona collection ofopen technicalrecommendationsand standards
- Dramatically reducingbothcomplexityand development costs forcompanies developing telemedicine solutions for the home and the chronically ill.
- Establishing and evaluatingXDSbackendbased on MicrosoftXDS.bopen sourceimplementation
- Cooperating withNet4Careestablishingv0.1ofinfrastructure elements
- Providing recommendations and standards to create a basis for corporate, ICT-based health and social care products which can communicate with each other and with other ICT solutions in the home, in hospitals, municipal home care by GPs, etc
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LINK: http://www.partnerskabetunik.dk/projekter/connect2care.aspx
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Tagged infrastructure, society
iCareNet
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SUMMARY
Context awareness has the potential to revolutionise the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyse and automatically respond to users’ behaviour and the situation he or she is in. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and or mobile devices is out of question. A particularly relevant field are is that of Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living (HWA) applications, which is at the focus of the proposed network.
Research on context awareness has continued to intensify during the last decade due to the availability of cheap sensing technologies and mobile systems. Still, building reliable context-aware systems that can deal with complex real-life situations and environments remains an open research challenge and requires a multi-disciplinary effort. iCareNet aims to make a decisive contribution towards solutions in the area of human-computer interaction and in the area of the social factors involved in the deployment of context-aware applications.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing robust and scalable system architectures and design methodologies for human-computer interaction systems
- iCareNet unites efforts of an interdisciplinary network of leading European research groups and a strong industrial participation.
- Establishing ERASMUS partnerships, formal recognition of lectures, and the design of long-term joint Ph.D. programs to ensure that the network leads to long-lasting collaborations and benefits for the involved institutions.
LINK: http://itu.dk/en/Research/~/link.aspx?_id=C7B852B27648458194AF6C02CE1D5D23&_z=z
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Tagged Internet of Things
Massive Data Mining by Sampling (MaDaMS)
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SUMMARY
Data mining is the driving force behind a paradigm shift in the way we conceive models of our surroundings. Society relies extensively on models of physical, social, and economic phenomena, that give us the predictive power which allows us to build a bridge in the confidence that it will not collapse, forecast the effect of economic stimulus packages, select the best livestock for breeding, and so on. The massive amount of data that has become available opens the up opportunity for completely new ways of understanding and modeling data, through the use of algorithms. This project will explore the possibilities available in a new approach to massive data mining which has origins in advanced sampling methods of data stream algorithmics.
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SOLUTIONS
- Marrying efficient algorithms and statistical principles in the field of data mining.
- Focusing on three application areas with a common theoretical core: Financial modeling, recommendation systems, and genotype/phenotype mining.
LINK:itu.dk/en/Research/~/link.aspx?_id=691A59A67CE64415ACAAAC486820FC23&_z=z
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Tagged data management
eData
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SUMMARY
The shift towards e-Science and the use of computational techniques in the sciences brings with it the need for effective analyses of very large collections of often complex scientific data.
Much of today’s data handling, ranging from measuring relevant variables, to data collection, to integration, to analysis, and finally to decision making, is processed through automated techniques. The term e-science (electronic or enhanced science) is used to denote this type of data intensive and computationally intensive work in collaborative science. Analytical results and decision making are based on various processes, each of which might introduce errors.
This project aims to provide a foundation for e-Science by developing novel techniques that enable scientists to detect and correct anomalies in source data, in an on-line, interactive, lineage-preserving, and semi-automatic manner. This contrasts traditional algorithms that operate in a batch manner on static data and require data mining expertise for their use. We propose a new paradigm that allows domain experts to tap into the full potential of data mining by inventing scalable algorithms that build on insights from most notably the area of subspace clustering to offer effective foundations for anomaly detection and correction that render subsequent analyses robust in the context of imperfect source data.
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SOLUTIONS
- Identifying relevant subspace projections in high dimensional data
- Scaling to large scale data collections
- Integrating seamlessly into the eScience lifecycle
- Handling dynamic data incrementally and efficiently
- Making use0friendly for those with little or no data mining expertise
- Allowing for feedback and updating by domain experts
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LINK: http://itu.dk/en/Forskning/Forskningsprojekter/SmartOSN
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Tagged data management
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Exploiting Multi-Modal Data for Large-Scale Purposes
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SUMMARY
The project aims at exploiting large collections of unlabeled multi-modal data, mainly video footage, to further the development of state-of-the-art technology in video, audio and natural language understanding, interpretation, annotation and retrieval by combining unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. It will address problems that are very difficult (some probably impossible) to solve in a single modality by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Progress in individual research areas – vision, natural language processing and speech will be achieved by co-training and by exploiting the results of other modalities as cross-training data. For the efficient processing of large data collections appearing in all modalities, the project will also concern generic problems of organisation, indexing, and searching based on a similarity that is necessary for building real-life applications.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing the technology necessary for semantically consistent human motion segmentation
- Developing a key-pose similarity algorithm for motion data retrieval
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LINK: http://www.dri.ie/projects
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Privacy and Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
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SUMMARY
This project focuses its research in the following three areas: 1. The analysis of temporary changes in privacy protection requirements for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and proposal for scalable privacy protection protocols reflecting the changes. 2. A proposal for a framework that enables the (semi)automatic design of optimal intrusion detection systems for particular WSNs with a particular topology, sensor nodes capabilities and threats. 3. The analysis of the methods suitable for automatic search and optimization of security-related protocols personalized for a given network technology and layout.
In each area the proposed solutions will be tested and verified in small scale, experimental WSN deployment, avoiding some of the deficiencies and limitations of simulated verification.
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SOLUTIONS
- Improving intrusion detection systems for wireless sensor networks
- Developing an adaptive security architecture for location privacy sensitive sensor network applications
- Designing multi-objective optimization of intrusion detection systems for wireless sensor networks
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LINK: http://www.muni.cz/research/projects/14905
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The ceFIMS CONNECT project was initiated in March 2014 as a follow-on from the original ceFIMS project. ceFIMS CONNECT seeks to realise the recommendations made by the final ceFIMS roadmap report through the engagement of National and European Future Internet stakeholders, leading to more strategic and co-ordinated investment in the Future Interne.
This site contains a public database featuring representative ongoing Future Internet research projects, as well as information on national research structures. ceFIMS members can also access the members section which provides a repository of additional information. Functionalities are currently being added which will allow ceFIMS members to upload and update info on their own country’s FI research projects and structures to allow greater cooperation and alignment.
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Partners
| WIT | Waterford Institute of Technology (Coordinator) |
IRELAND |
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| FCT | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | PORTUGAL |
| AMETIC | Asociación de Empresas de Electrónica, Tecnologías de la Información, Telecomunicaciones y Contenidos Digitales | SPAIN |
| PSNC | Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland) | POLAND |
Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913
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SUMMARY
Irish Record Linkage is a project funded by the Irish Research Council, and developed in partnership with the Digital Repository of Ireland, University of Limerick and Insight at NUI Galway. The project aims to provide a comprehensive map of infant and maternal mortality for Dublin from 1864-1913. The project will reconstruct family units and create longitudinal histories by linking records of Birth, Marriage and Death (vital registration data), generously provided by the General Register Office.
In order to link individuals, the project will create a Knowledge Platform entitled Irish Record Linkage (IRL) to enhance the research potential of individual level metadata, using best practice in Digital Archiving to facilitate the application of Linked Data technologies, and ingesting content into the Digital Repository of Ireland for long term accessibility and preservation. The application of Linked Data technologies with state of the art digital archiving, preservation and discovery technologies will allow us to interrogate this historical Big Data.
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SOLUTIONS
- Implementing and developing Big Data and data management technologies to furnish new historical data
- Creating a knowledge platform to enhance the research potential of individual level metadata
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LINK: http://www.dri.ie/projects
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Tagged data extraction, data management
Social Repository of Ireland
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SUMMARY
The Social Repository of Ireland project will determine the feasibility of developing a richly annotated archive of social media responses to major events / topics of interest in Ireland, and to preserve this archive in a trusted digital repository. In addition to archiving and preservation, the study will develop practices for semi-automating the processes of annotation and archiving, enriching the data with contextual curation from archives, and assessing legal and ethical issues that arise in the preservation of social media. This project was funded under SFI’s Technology Innovation Development Award scheme. The lead partner is the Digital Humanities and Journalism Group at INSIGHT @ NUIG.
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SOLUTIONS
- Archiving and preserving otherwise ephemeral social media user-content
- Developing practices for semi-automating the process of annotation and archiving, to enrich the data with contextual curation
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LINK: http://www.dri.ie/projects
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Tagged social media
MOTIF
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SUMMARY
The MoTIF project aims to create thesaurus construction guidelines and a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore. The guidelines provide information on the construction of thesauri for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals. Thesauri are vital and valuable tools in content discovery, information organisation and retrieval, and activities common to all fields including cultural heritage and higher education as well as business and enterprise. These guidelines will act as a comprehensive introduction to thesauri and will give professionals the advice they need to improve their own data practices by adhering to international standards and best practice.
The pilot thesaurus, also known as MoTIF, is intended to accompany the thesaurus construction guidelines and acts as an illustrative guide, providing examples throughout the guidelines as well as a sample thesaurus and demonstration of the international principles and best practices outlined in that document.
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SOLUTIONS
- Creating thesaurus construction guidelines and a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore
- Conserving our cultural heritage and improving higher education with leading-edge digital technology
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LINK: http://www.dri.ie/projects
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Tagged data management
IT for Knowledge Management
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SUMMARY
The continuing rapid growth in the volume of data generated by multiple, heterogeneous sources has created the need for increasingly efficient methods of processing and acquiring information. Data must be structured and stored in the right way; it must be possible to efficiently search through the data and analyse it to extract information which would not otherwise be obtained without sophisticated methods and algorithms.
This project uses methods drawn from biological processes to process large amounts of weakly structured data. Methods gleaned from the study of natural phenomena allow processes and theoretical models to be utilised in the develop computational systems and algorithms capable of solving complex problems that cannot be solved (without difficulties) by traditional techniques.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing biomedical applications for the measurement of large-volume data, such as signal processing with a primary emphasis on signals of biological origins, and the modelling and verification of complex processes when planning radio-therapy
- Designing intelligent networks (Smart Grids) which will allow sustainable development through resource optimisation and active management of energy flows in smart grids with emphasis on increasing the positive impact on the environment and social level of the population
- Developing the technology for massively parallel computing on various technological platforms
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LINK: http://www.it4i.cz/3885-2/research-teams/it-for-knowledge-management/?lang=en&lang=en&lang=en
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Tagged data extraction, data management
RODOS 2
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SUMMARY
This project is working on applications which will predict flooding in an area several hours in advance and can rapidly identify traffic congestion in real time so tat traffic can be diverted away from the flooded area without causing traffic congestion in other areas.
Such a solution would rely on collating large amounts of data and evaluating it using efficient algorithms which can extract the relevant information necessary for effective decision-making.
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SOLUTIONS
- Improving data supply and management to support management and decision-making in emergency situations
- Creating traffic load simulation and prediction to aid intelligent navigation and traffic control
- Modelling flood, fire spread and air pollution
- Designing tools for reliability analysis and risk assessment
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LINK: http://www.it4i.cz/earth-sciences/rodos-2/?lang=en&lang=en
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Tagged data extraction, data management, society, transport
A formal approach to querying big data
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SUMMARY
Over the recent years “big data” has became a near-ubiquitous buzzword. The term “big data” generally refers to a context where Gigabytes constitute the unit size for measuring data volumes, where Terabytes are commonly encountered, and many Web companies, scientific, and financial institutions must deal with Petabytes of information. In response to pressing practical needs a variety of systems have arisen, in an ad-hoc and improvisational manner for handling big data.
Some of these systems have led to a revival of parallel database management systems and an increased interest in so-called NoSQL data repositories. While progress in database research has lead to a deeper understanding of traditional non-distributed data models and sequential querying, progress in the area of big data computation has proved so far to be insufficient and initial models are only scarcely developed. Given the number of competing systems and their diversity, it remains unclear which system is best suited for which kind of queries. This project therefore aims to develop and study computational models for big data to provide insight into the use of existing systems and to formulate possible improvements and synergies.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a system which is robust against the large-scale computational complexity associated with big data
- Studying query and transformation languages for big data within the developed computational framework.
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LINK: http://www.researchportal.be/en/project/a-formal-approach-to-querying-big-data-%28UH_R-4633%29/
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Tagged data management, infrastructure
A Cloud-Based Reactive Infrastructure for Modelling Participatory Sensing Campaigns
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SUMMARY
The rise of relatively cheap, internet-connected, programmable, sensor-laden smart-phones has vastly increased the potential for people-centric applications. The concept of participatory sensing, in end users can collect, collate, and share contextual and environmental knowledge from peer to peer, through future internet platforms and applications.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing mobile, peer-to-peer, context aware applications for sharing data on the cloud
- Furthering pervasive, citizen-friendly computing
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Tagged cloud, data extraction, smart phones and devices
Computational models for big data algorithms.
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SUMMARY
A central theme in computer science is the design of efficient algorithms. However, recent experiments show that many standard algorithms become unreliable when applied in the context of big data. This is particularly true in the case of database queries. Unfortunately, existing theoretical tools for analysing and validating algorithms cannot tell whether an algorithm will perform reliably in a big data context.
Indeed, algorithms that are considered to be tractable in the classical sense are not tractable anymore when big data is concerned. This project calls for a revisit of classical theoretical assumptions regarding computational complexity. The main goal of this project is the development of a formal foundation, and an accompanying model for scaling up computational complexity, which can be used as a framework in the study of algorithm tractability in the context of big data.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing a formal foundation, and an accompanying model for scaling up computational complexity, which can be used as a framework in the study of algorithm tractability in the context of big data
- Revisiting classical theoretical assumptions regarding computational complexity
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LINK: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/adrem/projects/
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Tagged algorithm, data management
E-Mobility NSR
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SUMMARY
The E-Mobility NSR (North Sea Region Electric Mobility Network) project aims to provide state-of-the-art information to support policy development in e-mobility in the North Sea Region. The research project also looks to provide insight into the insufficiencies, anachronisms, and gaps in the infrastructure, logistics and preliminary standards for multi-charging techniques. Ultimately, the project aims to develop an e-mobility ecosystem in the North Sea Region which will provide a long-term basis upon which regional and local governments, as well as other relevant stakeholders in the NSR, may engage with each other.
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SOLUTIONS
- Supporting policy development for e-mobility in the North Sea Region
- Developing an e-mobility ecosystem which will provide a long-term basis upon which regional and local governments, as well as other relevant stakeholders in the NSR, may engage with each other.
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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/projects/2014/02/28/emobility
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Tagged accessibility, ecosystem, transport
ADVENT
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SUMMARY
Systems software — such as operating system kernels, hypervisors, database engines, web servers, and language run-times — form the foundation of any modern computer system. It is extremely complex and hard to maintain stably and securely, with bugs making entire services unavailable or opening the doors of seemingly secure systems to viruses and criminals. Ensuring its reliability is, thus, imperative for building future trustworthy ICT infrastructures.
The ADVENT project will develop innovative methods and tools for the cost-effective verification of real-world systems software, making it possible to guarantee an unprecedented level of reliability.
Building on the emerging technology of separation logic, the project team will formalise such the ad hoc software engineering concepts used by systems programmers (such as informally described patterns, idioms, and abstractions) which constitute the software architecture. The project team will use the results to drive the design of verification techniques.
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SOLUTIONS
- Formalising the ad hoc, improvised set of practices witch constitute modern software architecture
- Developing verification tools which can scale to large, complex systems
- Improving the cost-benefit ratio of verification technology that will allow verification to scale of systems of real-world size and complexity that so far have been beyond the reach of conventional quality assurance methods
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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/projects/2014/04/07/advent
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Tagged infrastructure
TraPIST
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SUMMARY
Real-time travel information for rail travelers is still used inefficiently today and is rarely combined with other data sources. It is up to the rail travelers themselves to look actively for important information about their trip. The TraPIST project team believes that in a dynamic context such as that of public transport, it would be much simpler to be able to consult the right information at the right time.
The current generation of applications based on real-time train information (RTTI) is still not fully using (open) data to facilitate rail travel. They are often based on only one source, even though more relevant sources are available (e.g. vehicle sensor data, passenger data, weather forecast, etc.). Moreover, travelers today expect additional ‘layers’ of information, such as integration with social media or entertainment.
The TraPIST project seeks to offer train travelers relevant information at the right time and through the most appropriate channel.
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SOLUTIONS
- Developing applications for smart devices and public displays which collects, analyzes, classifies and filters data from various sources, based on a dynamic traveler profile. These applications can be practical, offering travel-related information, as well as social information or entertainment
- Tailoring the information to specific circumstances, contexts, and user preferences
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LINK: http://kom.aau.dk/project/edge/
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Tagged data management, transport
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