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_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The current way of using the Internet differs greatly from the initial ideas that sprouted 40 years ago. Wireless, mobility, new ways to produce, consume and share content and social networks all have put new requirements on the future Internet. In the SAIL project, through Network of Information, we are looking at new [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Reservoir was a pioneering project which defined, developed and validated the fundamental building blocks of cloud computing infrastructures, including infrastructure elasticity, cloud federation and and flexible deployment of services across federated clouds. The European Commission has explicitly referred to Reservoir as its ”Flagship Project on Cloud Computing Research.” (see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/newsletter-march2011_en.html). _____________________________________________________________________ KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objective of IRMOS was to enable real-time interaction and collaboration between people, using distributed multimedia applications running on top of a cloud infrastructure, where processing, storage and networking are delivered with guaranteed levels of service. This has been successfully achieved. The IRMOS approach and technical solutions constitute a new generation of [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY User-Managed Access (UMA) is a protocol that enables individuals to use a unified control point for authorizing who and what can get access to their online personal data (such as identity attributes), content (such as photos), and services (such as viewing and creating status updates), no matter where these things live on the [...]