Coordinating European Future Internet Research

infrastructure

Connect2Care

Posted by www.cefims.eu on July 17, 2014   |   Comments Off

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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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A formal approach to querying big data

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 12, 2014   |   Comments Off

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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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ADVENT

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 12, 2014   |   Comments Off

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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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MonIEFlex

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 11, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

One of the biggest challenges facing green energy is its unpredictable, variable output which makes it difficult for an energy supplier to maintain the crucial balance between production and consumption in the network. In short, suppliers need an energy network infrastructure which offers a high degree of flexibility. The MonIEFlex project seeks to address this challenge by developing new software components to ensure that the variability in the energy consumption of large industrial consumers is dealt with effectively and automatically. This shifts the onus on flexibility from the supply side to the demand side.
MonIEFlex will define, design and assess new software components which can constitute a new digital architecture for large-scale industrial consumers, which is capable of adjusting the level of consumed power quickly and automatically.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing technical solutions for the definition of a digital architecture
  • Creating services in which determine and managing flexibility
  • Conducting socio-economic studies on the potential economic benefits of the technology output
  • Applying, testing and validating the results in an operational environment.
  • Determining the flexibility potential for a selection of industrial processes
  • Showing how digital components and adaptive algorithms can determine where there is flexibility, and how to automatically (re)configure these industrial processes.

 

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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/projects/2014/03/20/monieflex

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GBAN

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 11, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The GBAN project is engaged in a number of activates relating to DSL technology, ranging from the development of new methods for improving the stability and performance of already deployed digital subscriber line (DSL) systems, to the development and deployment of the next generation DSL technology “G.fast”.

DSL is still the leading technology for delivering broadband over fixed access networks with a worldwide market share of over 55% (equal to about 360 million subscribers as of Q1-2013). Many network providers and operators have replaced the copper wiring with fibre, and have introduced faster “vectored” DSL systems. New technologies such as “fibre to the distribution point” (FTTdp) are on the cusp of being implemented but some research problems remain to be solved, such as the design of more robust DSL signal processing algorithms, the characterisation of twisted-pair cables deployed in the last drop at frequencies up to 200 MHs, and the development of deployment strategies. Te GBAN project seeks to address these challenges and thereby to improve stability, performance, and coverage in DSL systems.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing new methods for optimising vectored VDSL2 parameters in an actual network environment aiming at improving stability, performance, and coverage.
  • Developing deployment strategies for “sero-touch” vectored VDSL2 systems.
  • Studying the coexistence of vectored VDSL2 with legacy xDSL and unbundled lines.
  • Characterising A1 Telekom, Austria’s twisted-pair cables deployed in the last instalment.
  • Analysing the potential of G.fast systems in terms of reach and rate.
  • Producing strategies to ensure the coexistence between G.fast and VDSL2.
  • Developing novel multiuser signal processing schemes for G.fast systems aiming at rate maximisation, energy minimisation, and improved quality of experience.

 

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LINK: http://www.ftw.at/research-innovation/projects/gban

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Energy and IT

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 9, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Energy & IT is a research group at the Institute of Computer Technology at the University of Technology Vienna. The group’s research is focused in two domains: power engineering and information technology (IT); and on forging synergies through global collaboration in both areas.

Climate change, rising energy demand, and the use of IT are all contemporary developments which are causing a fundamental change in the extent and nature of electrical energy usage. IT can be used within the energy system through sensory data acquisition,database compiling, electrical energy services, and globally distributed control mechanisms. It is the aim of Energy & IT to make contributions in this regard.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing interfaces for internet of things –enabled vehicles in the Smart Grid
  • Integrating low-emission vehicles with the electric distribution grid
  • Identifying and implementing synergies through the use of ICT infrastructure for multiple applications, thereby effectively lowering the infrastructure’s unit cost

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LINK: http://energyit.ict.tuwien.ac.at/

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RiSE: Rigorous System Engineering

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SUMMARY

Methods for computer systems engineering have steadily improved, but not kept pace with rapidly increasing system complexity. Contemporary software development paradigms, from programming languages and patterns to software architectures and design processes, are fast becoming inadequate, and in many cases obsolete. RiSE (Rigorous systems engineering) seeks to move beyond classical model checking and a-posteriori verification – both in the use of model checkers and in the development and deployment of additional paradigms – to develop computer systems infrastructure for the future internet.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing new language-based, architectural, and verification paradigms for highly concurrent software and for software with real-time demands.
  • Designing game-theoretic algorithms for analyzing and synthesizing individual system components within a larger context.
  • Developing and improving decision procedures that lie at the very heart of every automatic method and tool for system design and analysis.

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LINK: http://arise.or.at/

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Elastic Optical Networks

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2014   |   Comments Off

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The main objective of the project is to develop innovative solutions for telecommunications transport networks compatible with new applications such as 3D video, clouds, etc. which place a demanding burden on bandwith. The technology output will be based on flexible optical network (known as elastic optical networks, EONs) equipped with a multi-domain and control plane.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Making new future internet applications more bandwith friendly.
  • Standarising and industrialising the solutions proposed for the EON network

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LINK: http://badania.ca.pw.edu.pl/index/projekt/4154

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DependableCloud

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Cloud computing is being increasingly adopted by individuals, organizations, and governments. However, as the computations that are offloaded to the cloud expand to societal-critical services, the dependability requirements of cloud services become much higher, and we need to ensure that the infrastructure that supports these services is ready to meet these requirements.

The DependableCloud project seeks to tackle the challenges that arise from two distinctive characteristic of the cloud infrastructure. The first is that non-crash faults, despite being considered highly unlikely by the designers of traditional computing systems, become commonplace when those systems are scaled up into the more complex cloud infrastructure. The second issue issue is that, in order to meet their scalability and reliability requirements, cloud services replicate state across multiple sites, and direct users to the lowest latency one so that not all operations can be executed optimally. The project aims to provide solutions to these problems by developing new systemic models.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Solving dependability issues that arise when cloud infrastructures become higher scaled, more complex, and more societal-critical
  • Defining a new fault model, and constructing a series of building blocks and key protocol elements that enable the construction of fault-tolerant cloud services.
  • Developing a novel consistency model that allows for developing highly scalable services that are fast when possible and consistent when necessary, and a labeling methodology to guide the programmer in deciding which operations can run at each consistency level.

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LINK: http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/project/project.php?id=112http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/project/project.php?id=112

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SwiftComp

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Data processing solutions for cloud computing infrastructures, such as Map-Reduce and DryadLINQ, have been designed for batch processing of bulk data but have proved inadequate for real-time processing. Latency can be improved by extending batch processing systems, by exposing partial computations and early results, as in (e.g. Map-Reduce Online) or pursuing incremental models. Such approaches can weaken resilience to faults. SwiftComp seeks to combine the low latency benefits of soft state based decentralized computations with the fault tolerance guarantees of a backing store.

SwiftComp will design specialized computation CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type), such as min/max registers, counters, accumulators, products, sorted sets/maps, that preform computations as new data is added to the CRDT, thus performing incremental computations.Ssince updates to CRDTs happen primarily in memory replicas, computations will benefit from the low latency and high throughput of soft state. The project will leverage past experience in stream and incremental data processing and use Participatory Sensing (P/S) as a reference scenario. P/S explores the ubiquity of sensor capable mobile phones to capture information about the environment, users’ routines, etc.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Improving cloud computing architecture by designing data processing solutions which combine the low latency benefits of soft state based decentralized computations with the fault tolerance guarantees of a backing store
  • Addressing real-time, incremental data processing by tightly integrating computations into a decentralized storage system, striving for both performance and resilience, to ensure deterministic computations in the presence of faults
  • Using the Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) abstraction to allow multiple replicas of the same data (structure) to be modified without coordination, guaranteeing that replicas can be merged later without need for any conflict resolution policy.
  • Pursuing a programming model for combining computation and storage abstractions is a seamless way, including provisions for computations that process live streams and globally consistent snapshots of partial or whole datasets.

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LINK: http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/project/project.php?id=107

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MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 4, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Distributed video coding (DVC) is a technology used to compress video codes. Appling the DVC approach to developing the architecture for visual sensor networks can provide significant benefits and efficiencies over and above existing architectures. This project will advance the state-of-the-art by developing competitive multi-view DVC solutions for visual sensor networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Fully exploiting the potential of the multi-view distributed video coding paradigm through producing techniques for the creation of high quality side information
  • Combining predictive coding techniques – to exploit the temporal correlation – with distributed coding techniques – to exploit the Inter-view correlation – in order to obtain improved rate-distortion (RD) performance.

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1570

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COPWIN

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 4, 2014   |   Comments Off

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The main technical objectives of the COPWIN (Coordinated MultiPoint Strategies for Future Wireless Networks) project are to design, implement and validate techniques exploring BSS (baseline system specification) collaboration for future wireless systems. The aim is to design and demonstrate practical multicell transmission and reception techniques that improve user’s fairness and throughput.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing practical precoders for the downlink of multicell MIMO-OFDM based networks
  • Developing efficient multiuser detection techniques for the uplink of multicell MIMO SC-FDMA based networks.
  • Designing efficient signalling strategies both for the feedback of wireless link information and distribution among the cooperating network elements, aiming to optimize the trade-off between achieved performance and signalling overhead, with particular emphasis will be placed on inter-cluster feedback and quantization strategies.
  • Designing and optimising medium access control protocols for the considered clustered multicell architecture with joint scheduling and dynamic link adaptation.
  • Assessing and validating the proposed downlink and uplink algorithms under realist scenarios, trough a system level simulator based on LTE specification.
  • Developing an FPGA based testbed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed algorithms, integrating and characterising the promising algorithms

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1778

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SIMPLI-CITY

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 9, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

“SIMPLI-CITY – The Road User Information System of the Future” will foster the usage of full-fledged road user information systems – helping drivers to make their journey safer, more comfortable, and more environmentally friendly.

The project will develop a holistic framework which structures and bundles potential services that could deliver data from the various sources to road user information systems as well as allows road users to make use of the data and to integrate it into their driving experience. The real-world application be demonstrated in two dedicated use cases:

  1. The “Meeting the Increased Mobility Demand” use case will show how SIMPLI-CITY helps users in their journeys to big events and also provides the innovative topic “personalised traffic restrictions”.
  2. The “Enhancing the Driving Experience” use case will especially focus on the enhancement of environmental friendliness using services developed in SIMPLI-CITY as well as dedicated comfort and leisure services like media streaming.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Enabling third party providers to utilise a next-generation, European wide, mobility-related service platform to create a wide range of interoperable, value-added services, and applications for drivers and other road users
  • Providing an end user assistant allowing road users to make use of the information provided by applications and to interact with them in a non-distracting way – based on a speech recognition approach.
  • Delivering a Mobility Service Framework as the foundation for all services and end user applications facilitated by the project
  • Following the Mobility-related Data as a Service approach to allow data from sensors, cooperative systems, telematics, open data repositories, user-centric sensing, and media data streams to be modelled, accessed, and integrated in a unified way.
  • Creating a Personal Mobility Assistant (PMA) which will allow end users to interact with services in an intuitive, non-distracting way.

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LINK: http://simpli-city.eu

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Optimisation of Networks against Malicious Attacks

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SUMMARY

Contemporary society increasingly depends on complex systems such as the Internet, traffic, electrical power grids, social networks, ecological networks and so on. Due to the importance of these systems, the complex networks which are used to model them have been receiving much interest from multiple disciplines of the research community. Despite progress on several fronts, many crucial aspects of complex networks are not yet sufficiently understood. One of these aspects is the robustness of these systems to random failure and malicious attacks.

The goal of this project is to optimise model networks in a dynamical process, changing their topology in the search for robust structures which can withstand malicious attacks. The project’s applications will be of special interest to epidemiologists who want to break up disease transmission networks by targeted vaccinations and to police forces when disrupting criminal networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Utilising Monte-Carlo based optimization technique as well as novel, bioinspired optimization processes such as the evolutionary modification of populations of networks
  • Developing generally applicable methods for enhancing robustness based on the connection between the network’s topology and its resilience to malicious attacks
  • Using the tools for network optimisation to devolvop strategies for social, and in particular criminal, network disruption
  • Adopting fragmentation optimisation an inverse robustness optimisation simulation methods to develop efficient attack strategies and to learn how to immunise and protect benign networks
  • Applying the found strategies to disrupt real world criminal networks in collaboration with the federal police forces

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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-126853

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Bringing Internet Access to Disconnected Populations in Developing Countries

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Hybrid communication architectures are network infrastructures from Smartphones which combine opportunistic and broadband networking. This project aims at studying the fundamental trade-offs involved in designing a hybrid communication architecture. The goal is to bring modern communication services to populations in remote communities with sparse and patchy communication infrastructure.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Modernising communication infrastructures in developing countries without necessitating large-scale infrastructural redesign.
  • Optimising resource and design trade-offs in hybrid communication architectures

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LINK: https://www.rdb.ethz.ch/projects/project.php?proj_id=30870&type=search&z_detailed=1&z_popular=1&z_keywords=1

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Broadband Testbed for Secure Access to Community Services

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The proliferation of broadband services has created new demands on the broadband communication network. Broadband services need to be increasingly robust and to guarantee high levels of availability, confidentiality and privacy.

This project seeks to develop robust communication solutions which can guarantee secure access to public services. To this end, the project team will establish clear requirements for connection through creating a systems environment for home and personal networks. All developed solutions will be validated and verified on Acreo’s National testbed.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Improving the functionality of Gateways for eHealth networks
  • Designing a robust 3rd party Semantic Web for the OSGI platform
  • Developing techniques for the secure authorization of users and equipment and Dual Homing between fixed and mobile networks
  • Testing solutions on the Acreo National Testbed

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LINK: https://www.acreo.se/projects/broadband-testbed-for-secure-access-to-community-services

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RASTER

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Telecommunication has become a complex amalgam of many interdependent service and network providers and an integral part of contemporary society. A problem thus arises for critical infrastructure providers in accurately assessing the effectiveness of their continuity programmes. In this context, the Raster project seeks to develop a methodology for the risk assessment of large-scale telecommunication services.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a risk assessment method based on a simplified model of the transmission, switching, and supporting elements of a telecommunications service
  • Refining the risk assessment model iteratively until all relevant risks can be analysed

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ewi/is/research/raster.doc/

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Reliable Mobility Systems

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SUMMARY

This project aims to improve Holland’s traffic, transport and logistical systems. To this end, the project teams will develop a robust Smart infrastructure network which can mitigate the effects of local disruptions and enable synergies between road traffic and high-tech public transport. This will involve the design and application of an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which will allow users to make informed transport medium and route choices based on real-time data. The team will also develop sustainable logistics solutions incorporating reliability, efficiency and environmental-friendliness.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a Smart travel infrastructure for Holland which will maximise traffic flow and transport efficiency
  • Designing an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) based on wireless sensor networks enabling commuters to make informed transport decisions
  • Producing environmentally aware transport solutions

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LINK: http://www.tno.nl/content.cfm?context=thema&content=innovatiegebied&laag1=894&laag2=913&item_id=913

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ASINE

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The primary objective of the ASINE project is to formulate a methodological approach to the design and evolution of services in networked enterprises. An architecture-based approach is needed to cover multiple views on the design and evolution of a networked enterprise in a cohesive way.

The proposed programme of work is at the leading edge of this field and has potential to make a significant economic impact

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SOLUTIONS

  • Formulating and validating the proposed theory through experimentation in different domains including the financial and construction sectors
  • Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective drawing on both Computer Science and Management and Business Studies

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LINK: http://www.fnr.lu/en/Research-Programmes/Research-Programmes/Projects/Architecture-Based-Service-Innovation-in-Networked-Enterprises-ASINE

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MOVE

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Recent years have seen advancements in new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), designed to increase traffic efficiency and reduce economically detrimental commuting times. Such systems aim to maximize the use of the existing road infrastructure using smart navigation systems.

The aim of this project is to study and understand vehicular flow characteristics and to propose new uses for wireless communications technologies in reducing vehicular traffic congestion, enhancing commuter safety and reducing transport emissions. The project will make use of and develop new vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), systems which can be used to collect and distribute traffic metrics among local, wirelessly connected cars and road side units and provide advanced navigation services.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Investigating how and where traffic information, such as traffic speed, destination and density, can efficiently be retrieved from and communicated to vehicles
  • Specifying adapted routing and dissemination protocols to be able to cope with the changing dynamics of vehicular traffic
  • Designing Traffic Coordination Points (TCPs) can collect and evaluate traffic metrics for a given area and suggest, via the vehicular network, individual routes which minimise travel timeliness
  • Using TCP information to dynamically adapt the timings for the local traffic lights to maximize the vehicular throughput
  • Implementing a realistic simulation environment to evaluate the performance of the proposed system under different traffic scenarios
  • Validating a practical prototype under real traffic conditions in Luxembourg City using the existing “Hot City Mesh” as an infrastructure network

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LINK: http://www.fnr.lu/en/Research-Programmes/Research-Programmes/Projects/Mobility-Optimization-Using-Vehicular-Network-Technologies-MOVE

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SeSaNet

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The SeSaNet project seeks to address security risks arising from the increasing levels of unauthorised access given to critical networked control systems (NCS). Hence, the objective of the project is to design secure and safe NCS so as to improve the security of large-scale critical infrastructures. Specifically, the main focus of this project is to investigate how cyber attacks manipulate control algorithms and systems as well as safety-critical physical processes.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Investigating how cyber attacks manipulate control algorithms and systems
  • Designing of secure and safe networked control systems
  • Combining all safety and security issues to an integrated approach
  • Using fault-tolerant control (FTC) to detect and isolate faults in network components during runtime
  • Adapting the control algorithm to keep the controlled physical process in a desired state even if faults occur

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FI Forum & IPv6 Taskforce

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SUMMARY

The Irish Future Internet Forum and the Irish Ipv6 Task Force are both collaborative organisations established by Irish ICT organisations with a shared interest in and desire to accelerate the development of the Future Internet in Ireland.

Irish Future Internet Forum
The IFIF was established by the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group at Waterford Institute of Technology. The purpose of forum is to bring the Irish ICT research community together so as to facilitate the discussion of issues related to Future Internet activities in the EU and globally. At the first meeting of the IFIF, 160 participants from Government, Industry and Academia met to discuss a number of topics related to the Future Internet.

It is envisaged that the IFIF will allow Irish industrial and academic partners to engage in discussions that will lead to new research initiatives .

Irish IPv6 Task Force
The Irish IPv6 Task Force, and chaired by Mícheál Ó Foghlú of TSSG, was established in 2004. The Irish National IPv6 Centre was set up in 2005 as a collaboration between the TSSG in Waterford Institute of Technology, the Hamilton Institute in NUI Maynooth, BT Ireland and HEAnet. The role of these organisations is to encourage the transition of the Irish network to IPv6 to allow continued growth of the Internet and its services in Ireland.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Promoting Ireland as an early adopter of the Future Internet
  • Creating of awareness of the Future Internet and its potential impact on the Irish economy
  • Promoting participation of Irish stakeholders in the European Future Internet Initiates
  • Encouraging greater R&D investment in activities around the Future Internet
  • Encouraging the development of test sites and trails around aspects of the future internet
  • Promoting greater strategic alignment between National and European research and innovation initiatives in the Future Internet Environment
  • Ensuring the successful transition of the Irish network from IPv4 to IPv6 so as to guarantee the future development of the internet and its services

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LINK: Irish Future Internet Forum http://www.futureinternet.ie/FutureInternet11/index.php

LINK: Irish IPv6 Task Force http://www.ipv6.ie/

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Future Cities

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SUMMARY

To improve quality of life and ensure sustainability, future smart cities will increasingly rely on information and communications technology to optimise the performance of transportation, security, business, telecommunications, water-management, and energy-supply systems. DSG’s FutureCities research project is investigating the design of the middleware needed to support such cities.

The FuturCities project is focused on the exploitation of data from very diverse sensors, including those contributed by individuals, to enable (semi) automatic management of city-scale services. In particular, the project team is investigating the design of new programming models, middleware architectures, communication infrastructures, and advanced analytics to allow sensor data to be gathered, transported, and interpreted effectively to optimise urban resource usage and service delivery, and thereby improve the quality of life and sustainability of cities.

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SOLUTIONS

Current research is focused in four areas:

  • Smart urban-scale sensing addresses middleware and communications architectures to allow high volumes of data from both public and user-contributed sensors to be gathered and exploited by smart cities. This area merges wireless sensor networks, vehicular sensor networks, and participatory sensing.
  • Smart infrastructure addresses the management of urban-scale critical infrastructure, with a particular interest in autonomic management techniques modelled as self-organising multi-agent systems that exploit model-free learning algorithms to associate meaning and actions with available sensor data.
  • Smart transportation focuses on improving the reliability and safety of road transportation, in particular via advanced urban traffic control and highway management systems.
  • Smart Services addresses middleware for adaptable software services, providing run-time statistical timing analysis, timely reconfiguration, and a software framework for cross-layer adaptation of multi-layer systems

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LINK: http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/FutureCities

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SZTAKI Cloud

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SUMMARY

The SZTAKI project’s aim is to investigate the utility of clouds as distributed computing systems and, subsequently, to develop and deploy a new cloud infrastructure based on the results of the initial research. The new cloud based infrastructure will be significantly more effective and more cost efficient than the former infrastructure built on traditional conceptions and individual specific servers.

Specifically, the developed infrastructure will allow researchers to use scalable clusters established in the cloud to solve processor-intensive issues and will also contain a feature which automatically reallocates resources to under-resourced systems and services.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Researching the possibilities entailed by the dynamic extension of the Hadoop framework for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models
  • Investigating the dynamic resource extension of SZTAKI Dictionary
  • Resolving the asynchronous scale-out of a word processing system for unstructured information
  • Adapting the Hungarian Grid and Cloud User Support Environment to cloud and to make it scalable

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LINK: http://cloud.sztaki.hu/

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Informed Real-Estate Services: Leveraging Web 2.0

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

RealEstate 2.0 aims to confront challenges arising as a result of Greece’s moribund real estate market. Successful real estate businesses must make use of advanced, evidence-based decision making. This project will plug a gap in the e-services market through developing technology which will assist professional or individual retailers in assessing the positive or negative location-related externalities of a particular property.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing advanced e-services for real estate professional and individual retailers such as Personalized access to Properties, Intelligent Property Analysis using location context and Real Estate Analytics over time.
  • Designing a generic infrastructure for harvesting, extracting, aggregating and curating contextual RE information from administrative, tourist or social media sites.
  • Creating a high-quality RE data pool for advanced RE business scenarios.

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LINK: http://www.imis.athena-innovation.gr/index.php?option=com_ipsyp&view=project&pid=23&lang=en

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ILIas

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Due to the increasing frequencies of natural disasters as well as potential terrorist attacks, the protection of critical infrastructures from natural and man-made catastrophic events has become a central challenge. However, as the scale complexity and mutual interdependence these critical infrastructures grows, finding solutions becomes more and more challenging. Furthermore, new technology paradigms such as All-IP networks and Smart Grid functionality blur the classical domain boundaries and facilitate novel attack types.

The ILIas project will develop intelligent solutions for protecting critical infrastructures that provide electricity and telecommunication services to the general public. These solutions will be scalable and reconcile the need for fast automated reaction with manual supervision for highly critical decisions.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Protecting critical societal infrastructures through leading edge ICT
  • Developing a flexible peer-to-peer-based distributed management system to provide a robust and fault tolerant foundation for the network analysis and administration functionalities
  • Ensuring data availability and system control in case of different network failures until overall control can be re-established
  • Designing models for simulating attack scenarios and evaluating the efficiency of protection mechanisms in large-scale networks

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LINK: http://www.gt-arc.com/projects/ilias/

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SASCO

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The development of high-performance systems and critical applications has created the necessity for designing self-adaptive ICT systems. The objective of the SASCO project is, in the context , to design self-adaptive ICT systems able which take into account their immediate environment and adapt to different scenarios.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing the self-adaptation of ICT systems both to the application and to the environment through:

    • Integrating system components with a self-adaptive circuit which allows a given component to change its electrical characteristics autonomously once it is placed in the application

    • Developing the method of static adaption to an application and dynamic adaption to an environment

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MADYNES: Management of dynamic networks and services

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

MADYNES is a research team affiliated with the University of Nancy federation and INRIA. The team is located in the joint INRIA Grand Est and LORIA premise. The project focuses on applied and experimental research dedicated to the management of the Future Internet. More specifically, the MADYNES team are interested in designing and studying novel approaches to configure, monitor and secure the communication protocols and services of the future Internet.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Vulnerability management:
    • Conceptualisng and realising advanced fuzzing methods which are able to reveal vulnerabilities in deep states of protocol engines.
    • Protecting systems against malicious exploitation, the team investigates near real-time risk management approaches to dynamically adapt the exposure of systems to an evaluated threat level so as to minimize the the risk.
    • Creating advanced protection schemes including firewalls and attacker costly counter-measures.
  • Large-scale monitoring
    • Designing distributed monitoring approaches which are able to efficiently collect the necessary information with a minimal cost from within massively distributed environments such as P2P networks or large sensor networks
    • Developing monitoring solutions able to identify malicious behavior, including the use of machine learning techniques for anomaly detection as well as for automated fingerprinting.
  • Network-wide Configuration
    • Investigating both configuration protocols (Netconf) and configuration data models (YANG) which represent in a structured way the configuration parameters of a system.
    • Providing models to build safe configurations of network parameters
    • Studying the properties and improving the performance of configuration protocols
  • Dynamic network co-simulation
    • Designing rich simulation environments which can benefit from the coupling of multiple specific simulation environments dedicated to a precise and efficient simulation of a subset of the overall addressed problem
    • Developing co-simulation environments integrating network simulation and multi-agent systems based environment and actor’s behavior simulators.

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LINK: http://madynes.loria.fr/

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DIONYSOS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The main objectives of the DIONYSOS (Dependability Interoperability and perfOrmance aNalYsiS Of networkS) project are the identification,conception and selection of the most appropriate network architectures of a communication service, as well as the development of computing and mathematical tools for the fulfillment of these tasks. These objectives lead to two types of complementary research fields. Firstly, there are the systems’ qualitative aspects such as the Quality of Service, Quality of Experience and performability evaluation. Secondly, there the system’s quantitative aspects which pertain to the correct dimensioning of these architectures and the associated services .

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SOLUTIONS

  • Research activities are related to:
    • Network performance simulation
    • Analytical and numerical modeling evaluation
    • The Quality of Experience (QoE) of the Internet
    • Interoperability testing of IPv6 equipments
    • Pricing of networks and components
    • Improving the qualitative and quantitative aspects of optical networks
    • Improving the qualitative and quantitative aspects of wireless networks
    • Improving the qualitative and quantitative aspects of Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery Networks

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LINK: http://www.irisa.fr/dionysos/home_html/

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Ctrl-Green: The Autonomous Managment of Green Data Centres

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Ctrl-Green aims to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of autonomous management systems. Autonomous systems are self-managing infrastructures which automatically observe and react to local events.
The project aims to integrate new green metrics and control capabilities into autonomous systems in order to foster a new generation of green data centres.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Implementing energy managment and multiple control loops at different hardware and software levels
  • Utilising new metrics developed by greeen data centres designed to improve efficiency in terms of Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), Carbon Usage Efficiency (CUE), Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE)
  • Including policies for scalability and availability in green autonomous systems
  • Managing the tradeoffs between performance, availability and energy while incorporating the new metrics and capabilities of green data centers.

 

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LINK: http://www.en.ctrlgreen.org/

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3gERP

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The purpose of the 3gERP Project is to establish the academic and market basis for developing a standardised, yet highly flexible and configurable, global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) The project team intends that the developed system will be implemented and maintained at a fraction of the cost of current ERP systems.

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SOLUTIONS

 

  • Identifying differences in requirements for local markets .
  • Locating future trends in international standards for accounting and supply chains
  • Developing speedy and reliable future IT architecture
  • Designing tools and technology for real time business analysis
  • Defining organisational implementation and partnership models

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LINK: http://3gerp.iwvi.uni-koblenz.de/

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MetaCentrum

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

MetaCentrum operates and manages the Czech national grid. The long-term goal of the MetaCentrum project is the operation and coordination of distributed computing and data storage infrastructure in the Czech Republic as a dynamic network of resources across different locations and administrative domains. The developed infrastructure will be part of the pan-European infrastructure built in the framework of the EGI project, while also providing an appropriate support environment and continual expansion of available computational capacities.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a virtual computer which allows effective utilization of installed facilities
  • Supporting research projects across many disciplines
  • Enabling researchers to easily share a range of national resources such as compute, storage, data, instruments

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LINK: http://www.metacentrum.cz/en/

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Network and Traffic Monitoring

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

This activity aims at the development of tools suitable for large scale, systematic and continuous network infrastructure development and traffic monitoring.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Network infrastructure monitoring:
    • Sustaining large scale and continuous long term analysis of network infrastructure states and trends of behaviour
    • Providing both overall views on sets of items as well as detailed information about particular parameters
  • Traffic monitoring:
    • Furnishing a long-term overall view on IPv4 and IPv6 traffic structure and trends as well as a step-by-step microscopic short-term analysis of particular network interactions
    • Targeting for specific analysis the network security area support and incident handling

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LINK: http://www.cesnet.cz/research/network-and-traffic-monitoring/?lang=en

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Extension of the National R&D Information Infrastructure in Regions

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The main goal of the Extension of the National R&D Information Infrastructure in Regions (eIGeR) project is the development of a national e-infrastructure for research and development within the Czech Republic which involves all integral components necessary for providing services with high added value.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Increasing the communication infrastructure capacity and extending its functions and characteristics using more powerful network elements
  • Increasing access interface capacity
  • Extending the NGI base by augmenting the MetaCentrum computing power (computing grid operated by the CESNET Association) – acquired computing capacities will be integrated into NGI
  • Building three massive storage sites allowing storing and sharing large volumes of data including their mid- and long-term archiving – these storage sites will become the core of the national integrated data storage system
  • Increasing capacity and augmenting infrastructure for video conference realization

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LINK: http://www.cesnet.cz/projects/eiger/?lang=en

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Preventing Hubness in Music Information Retrieval

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Hubs are data points which persistently appear, unwanted, in the nearest neighbor lists of other data points. This effect is particularly problematic in similarity search algorithms, as the same objects are found over and over again. But it has also adverse effects for the many machine learning algorithms that make use of distance information.

The hubness problem has gained particular attention in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) which is the interdisciplinary science of extracting information from music. The main goal of this project is to conduct an in-depth study of the hubness problem in the context of MIR with the aim of finding ways to avoid or at least attenuate its adverse effects.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Discovering and delineating parameters of audio similarity which are less prone to hubness
  • Transforming audio similarity spaces thereby avoiding the asymmetries that lead to hubness
  • Considering audio similarity spaces as nearest neighbor graphs and using graph theoretic results to avoid hub nodes

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LINK: http://www.ofai.at/research/impml/projects/hubology.html

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Catalunya Connecta

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Catalunya Connecta is a project of the government of Catalonia. The project aims to execute a deployment plan for the development of the government’s electronic communication services.

The plan has already enabled universal access to new telecommunications services to citizens, administrations and the Catalan business, providing coverage of digital terrestrial television services, mobile and broadband, al least in the villages of more than 50 people, and coverage of broadband and mobile telephony to all industrial estates in Catalonia. Ultimately, the project hopes to contribute to making Catalonia an advanced and competitive territory, where citizens, businesses and the Government are fully connected.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Building telecomms antennas to in rural areas to enhance the provision of ICT services and provide businesses with critical communication infrastructure
  • Collaborating with local industry partners such as Ribalta and Sons Ltd  to provide broadband access to various plants

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LINK: http://www.catalunyaconnecta.cat

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GEYSERS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 4, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

The current decoupling between applications and network layers leads to inefficient resource utilisation and over-provisioning, where the network connectivity is not tailored to the cloud dynamics.

The GEYSERS project seeks to address this problem. The project seeks to construct a virtual infrastructure representation layer for optical network and IT resources. It also enables a new business model where the resources of Infrastructure Providers are partitioned and dynamically offered as a service to Virtual Networks Operators.

 

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing a novel architecture that enables infrastructure providers, network operators and application providers to participate in new business scenarios.
  • Offering complex services, with complex attributes, and strict bandwidth requirements economically and efficiently to users and applications
  • Designing an enabler for the integration of Dynamic Optical Network services in Cloud Computing scenarios.
  • Specifying and developing mechanisms that allow infrastructure providers to partition and virtualise their resources (optical network and/or IT), compose specific virtual infrastructures and offer them as a service to Virtual Network Operators
  • Overcoming the current limitations of networks/domain segmentation, and will support dynamic and on-demand changes in the virtual infrastructures.
  • Producing an enhanced Network Control Plane to couple optical network connectivity and IT services automatically and efficiently, and provide them in one single step, dynamically and on-demand

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LINK: http://www.geysers.eu/

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NDIX

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 3, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

NDIX an open platform which seeks to facilitate competition, innovation and the development of new digital services by offering unlimited and secure connectivity between content suppliers and end-users.

As a result, NDIX aims to:

  • Boost competition between suppliers of existing services (like Internet, telephony and hosting/backup)
  • Facilitate the development of new services (for learning, security, healthcare, public services, in the cultural, social, entertainment and creative sectors)
  • Promote investment in new broadband infrastructures.

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KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS

  • Offering flexible and concurrent use of  many different services
  • Creating a critical mass of users for new service development
  • Stimulating innovation

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LINK: www.ndix.net

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