Funding Opportunities
Participants: Denis Conan(Denis.Conan@it-sudparis.eu), Angelo Corsaro ( angelo.corsaro@prismtech.com ), Christian Carmine Esposito ( christian.esposito@unina.it ), Pascal Felber ( pascal.felber@unine.ch ), Hein Meling ( hein.meling@uis.no ), Eric Jul (eric@diku.dk), Roman Vitenberg ( romanvi@ifi.uio.no ), Frank Eliassen ( frank@ifi.uio.no )
Guiding Questions
The key question that this group addressed were:
1. What are our research interest, and how we could work together. 2. What are the funding opportunities available in the context of the next FP7 call.
References
- FP7 Call
Amenities
Summary of breakout session discussion
The list of research areas that were discussed as possibilities for FP7 projects were the following:
- Dependability in Pub/Sub {AC, CE, PF, RV, LC, DC, HM}
- Ultra-Large-Scale Pub/Sub { All }
- Security in Pub/Sub {AC, EJ, PF}
- Ambience Intelligence {CE, FE, RV, DC}
- Streaming Data-Bases {AC, PF}
- Pub/Sub integration in Programming Languages {AC, PF, HM}
- Adaptive Systems and applications {AC, EJ, FE, RV, LC, DC}
- Context Adaptation {CE, FE, RV, DC}
- Auto-Configuration/reconfiguration {EJ, HM}
Based on a first analysis of the next call, it seems that the following objectives might be project theme might be on target.
Architectures and technologies for an Internet of Things (Objective ICT-2009.1.3: Internet of Things and Enterprise environments
- Architectures and technologies using open protocols, which enable novel Internet-based applications including – but not restricted to – business/enterprise scenarios. They should use information generated at the periphery of the network from the virtual and physical worlds with aggregation of those, and allow action on the physical world. Physical world event information are generated by tags, sensors, actuators and wireless devices. Related processes and applications may be object- or location-centric and cover management capabilities of various classes of events, such as real world events (sensor based), behavioural/people events, or business events. For business scenarios, traceability networks correlated with logistics and order or billing flows are of particular importance.
- Optimised technologies covering distribution of intelligence between the edge network and the more centralised business/process information system. This includes service discovery systems as well as scalable, secure, open middleware necessary to put real world data into the context of various Internet applications with event processing, separation and filtering. Of particular importance are the integration and interoperability with the mainstream business/process management platforms and tools and the necessary management of varying data ownership across the edge device/object life cycle.
A possible project for this Objective might be:
Data distribution in Ultra-Large Scale (Mission Critical) Systems The research areas that would be relevant in this context are:
1. Scalable Data Dissemination Protocols
2. Scalable Discovery Protocols
3. Scalable Content Routing
4. Content/Context Adaptation
5. Auto Configuration and Self-Healing (applied to the overlay)
6. Coping with dynamism on the edge and in the core of the system.
Objective ICT-2009.1.2: Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation
Target outcomes a) Service Architectures and Platforms for the Future Internet
- Service front ends enabling communities of networked users easily to compose, configure, share and use services and providing device and context aware service adaptations. They facilitate the development of, search for and interaction with services, cover the service life cycle and take account of social network users having different levels of expertise.
- Open, scalable, dependable service platforms, architectures, and specific platform components, enabling automatic service description, discovery, composition, and negotiation with a multiplicity of reusable services, which may be mobile, multi-device, multi-modal, multi-context or nomadic. Evolution and interoperability of service platforms are also needed, and scale and complexity in dynamic, distributed heterogeneous environments, including open service networks, should be addressed. System management functionalities such as Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, Quality of Service (QoS), access rights and customer charging have to be supported, as should semantic interoperability and access to service repositories. Full account should be taken of the convergence of IT/telecom/content systems and opportunities for breaking down the barriers between the web telecommunication and hybrid services.
Report by Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute on Ultra Large Scale System (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/ , http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/files/ULS_Book2006.pdf) Paper on free flight (http://www2.nlr.nl/public/hosted-sites/freeflight/downloads/hessd99.doc)