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A CLOUD INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK AND PLATFORM FOR USER-CENTRIC, SEMANTICALLY-ENHANCED SERVICE-ORIENTED APPLICATIONS DESIGN, DEPLOYMENT AND DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION (CLOUD4SOA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4138518.0
EU funding (EUR): 2737266.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Cloud4SOA focuses on resolving the interoperability and portability issues that exist in current Clouds infrastructures and on introducing a user-centric approach for applications which are built upon and deployed using Cloud resources. To this end, Cloud4SOA aims to combine three fundamental and complementary computing paradigms, namely Cloud computing, Service Oriented Architectures and lightweight semantics to propose a reference architecture and deploy fully operational prototypes. The 36-month Cloud4SOA project will result in: R1. The Cloud4SOA Cloud Semantic Interoperability Framework, which will provide a set of recommendations and good practices on how to achieve semantic interoperability between different Cloud platforms. R2. The open, generic Cloud4SOA Reference Architecture, which will introduce a scalable, reusable and transferable approach for facilitating the design, deployment and execution of resource intensive SOA services on top of semantically interlinked Clouds. R3. The Cloud4SOA lightweight models for resources and services which will offer the necessary semantics for annotating computing resources and SOA services. R4. The Cloud4SOA platform as a reference implementation based on the Cloud Semantic Interoperability Framework and the Cloud4SOA Reference Architecture. R5. Three showcases which will validate and prove the proposed Cloud4SOA architecture, models and tools. R6. Wide‐scale dissemination and exploitation of the project results to the European academic, scientific and business stakeholders and end‐users organizations through the formulation and active day-to-day support of a broad Community of Practice or Interest Group on Cloud Semantic Interoperability. The goal of this group will be to raise Cloud Interoperability related issues to international standardization bodies (e.g. W3C, OASIS) Led by ATOS, the Cloud4SOA consortium consists of nine (9) partners, from six (6) EU member states, i.e. Spain, Ireland, Greece, Germany, Portugal and Romania.

Keywords: cloud interoperability,scalability,security,user-centricity,semantic-enhancement,semantic cloud
ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY and DESIGN for NANOELECTRONICS (NANO-TEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,Greece,Ireland,Germany,Switzerland,France,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 834124.0
EU funding (EUR): 720000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

NANO-TEC seeks to build a community of academic researchers in nanoelectronics, addressing specifically research in Beyond CMOS from the combined technology and design perspectives. A methodology for continued consultation and analysis of research needs and trends will be developed. The main activity will be a workshop series with invited experts, preceded by a methodology-contents preparation phase and subsequent analysis and documentation, both by the consortium. Apart of determining what is relevant for Beyond CMOS devices and design, benchmarking and a SWT analysis will be performed. An end-of-the-project public dissemination event will present the results of the work of NANO-TEC to stake-holders, including the EC and relevant ETPs. Two elements are crucial here. One is the access to the huge expertise in Europe, albeit fragmented, in the area of Beyond CMOS both in technology and in design. The other is a platform to carry out the work and document it. The former is inherent to the consortium, although non-exclusive, as partners come mainly from institutions which have a tradition of nanofabrication for nanoelectronics research and or are members of national consortia and as such have contacts to leading researcher in Beyond CMOS Nanoelectronics. The latter is part of the long-term community-building aim and is a web-platform that will enable documents and exchanges to take place, as well a be the place where the working groups can evolve into a Specialist Interest Group on the combined ecosystems of technology and design.

Keywords: nanoelectronics,beyond cmos devices and designs,community-building,benchmark,combined design and technology.
BIsmide And Nitride Components for High temperature Operation (BIANCHO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Lithuania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2876450.0
EU funding (EUR): 2189999.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

BIANCHO will develop photonic components designed to significantly reduce power consumption at the component and system level in advanced communication systems, thereby saving significant electricity, and enabling unlimited bandwidth through integration, more optical processing and very high spectral-density photonic transmission. Current telecomm components suffer severely from intrinsic losses. Around 80% of electrical power is wasted in a 1.55?m laser chip as heat. Most systems require thermo-electric coolers and an air-conditioned environment, further increasing the energy budget by over an order of magnitude. The losses are due to Auger recombination in semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers (SOAs), and due to the temperature dependence of the energy gap in electro-absorption modulators (EAMs). Incremental approaches to overcome these problems have reached their limits. We propose a radical change, to manipulate the electronic band structure of novel dilute bismide and dilute nitride alloys of GaAs and InP to eliminate Auger recombination and dramatically reduce the temperature dependence of the energy gap. This allows us to research, develop, test and demonstrate uncooled EAMs, highly efficient uncooled lasers and SOAs. These properties are also highly beneficial for high speed photodiodes as required in transceivers, as will be demonstrated. BIANCHO brings together leading European groups with complementary expertise in epitaxy, device physics, band structure modelling and advanced design and fabrication, in a well focused consortium of exceptionally high quality. The project will strongly emphasise the protection of intellectual property and aggressive dissemination of results to maximize their impact. The team includes a key European component manufacturer (CIP), well connected to European and international network and system operators, providing a clear route to successful exploitation and commercialization of the technology.

Keywords: green networks,low-energy photonic components,novel dilute nitride & bismide materials and devices
Monolithic InP-based Dual Polarization QPSK Integrated Receiver and Transmitter for CoHerent 100-400Gb Ethernet (MIRTHE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Germany,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5001978.0
EU funding (EUR): 3250000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

MIRTHE targets new multilevel-modulation all-monolithic integrated TX and RX Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) able to achieve 100-400 Gb/s aggregated speed on a single wavelength. This project is motivated by: - the reduction of cost and power consumption of 100Gb/s transmission equipment, - the need of future-proof component technologies for next generation terabit networks. Chips will be packaged and driven at 28 and then 56 GBauds to realize first PIC-to-PIC Terabit range transmissions. The innovation introduced by the monolithic integration of RX and TX with novel vector EAM-based sources should bring a real breakthrough in cost, size and consumption of Terabit components. The specific objectives are: - Demonstration and mastering of a monolithic integration technology of InP-based TX and RX chips suitable for handling 100Gb/s QPSK-type modulation formats, - Demonstration of a future-proof approach by enhancing the bit rate to 200 Gb/s and providing concepts up to 400 Gb/s on a single fiber and wavelength, - Module packaging of the TX and RX PICs with driving electronics, - Demonstration of PIC to PIC transmission at 100 and 200 Gb/s, - Simulations at the device and system levels to identify capabilities and limitations and to contribute to specifications. The innovations claimed are: - Small size TX chips suitable for multi-level coding (QPSK, QAM), based on phase switching in EAM-based PICs, - Fully integrated RX chips demultiplexing both polarizations of the incoming light signal (DP-QPSK), - Evaluation and prototype fabrication of novel monolithic coherent receiver types, applying multiport approaches, - Demonstration of low-power low-footprint multi-level coding TX and RX, - Coplanar coherent receiver package with gain-controlled linear electrical amplifiers. - Demonstration of 200 – 400 Gb/s capability of InP-based TX and RX PICs - Integrated approach for photonic circuit numerical modelling and design.

Keywords: photonic integrated circuits,telecommunication,high bitrate transmitter and receiver,100-400gb ethernet
A Highly Scalable Transactional Multi-Tier Platform as a Service (CUMULONIMBO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Greece,Canada,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4716089.0
EU funding (EUR): 2987047.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The next generation of Platforms as a Service (PaaS) for cloud providers demand consistency, availability, and simpler programming abstractions, such as transactional consistency. Obtaining these three properties simultaneously is, however, a significant challenge. In CumuloNimbo, we propose to achieve this goal by building a stackable and modular execution platform that can be installed as a service and provides the same degree of consistency as current service-oriented platforms, however, at much higher, Internet-level, scale. Current PaaS systems sacrifice data consistency for scalability, thus increasing the complexity of building applications on top of such platforms when strong consistency guarantees are necessary. Providing such guarantees at the application level requires hiring highly-skilled programmers, which is often costly and prohibitive, especially for SMEs. As a result, many newly developed applications are unable to guarantee consistency appropriately, which quickly becomes visible to end users as flaws in the application. CumuloNimbo will develop a new Platform as a Service that will provide high scalability, at the 100+ service-nodes level, without sacrificing data consistency and simple programming abstractions. The targeted PaaS will be a transactional multi-tier software stack for cloud computing providing the same functionality to current, software multi-tier stacks, such as Java EE. Providing scalability without sacrificing consistency is a major breakthrough that will enable European stakeholders in service platforms to position in the cloud computing market with a competitive advantage.

Keywords: platform as a service,scalability,multi-tier service platforms,transactions
MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications (MEDIEVAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Portugal,Germany,Spain,France,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5369788.0
EU funding (EUR): 3470885.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Video is a major challenge for the future Internet. This traffic type is foreseen to account for close to 90 percent of consumer traffic already by 2012. However, the current Internet, and in particular the mobile Internet, was not designed with video requirements in mind and, as a consequence, its architecture is very inefficient when handling video traffic. It is the vision of this consortium that, as video is going to represent the majority of the traffic, the future Internet architecture should be tailored to efficiently support the requirements of this traffic type. Specific enhancements for video should be introduced at all layers of the protocol stack where needed, ideally supporting an incremental deployment. Following the above vision, the main goal of the current proposal is to evolve the Internet architecture for efficient video traffic support. The proposed architecture will follow a cross-layer design that, by exploiting the interaction between layers, can raise performance to values unattainable with individual developments. The following key issues will be addressed by the architecture: i) enhanced wireless access support to optimise video performance, ii) novel IP mobility architecture adapted to the requirements of video traffic, iii) transport optimisations for video distribution and iv) network-aware video services that interact with the underlying layers. The technology developed by the project will be designed taking into account the requirements of network operators for commercial deployment, and will aim at improving the Quality of Experience by users as well as reducing the associated costs for operators. Standardization and early incremental testing are considered key success factors for MEDIEVAL. The consortium is well balanced and combines the integrated perspectives of three mobile operators, a major manufacturer and an innovative video technology company, in addition to leading academic partners and research institutes.

Keywords: video content delivery,mobile wireless internet,lte advanced,wlan,multi- mode terminals,personal broadcasting
IT[t] Simply Works (ITSY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 131760.0
EU funding (EUR): 117000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The primary goal of the proposed effort is to generate a set of innovative research topics on the notion of simplicity as a driving paradigm in ICT development, maintenance and use. We believe that the philosophy of simplicity is strategically important, yet poorly understood, and rarely systematically applied. Instead, design principles attempt to focus on increased functionality within thinly disguised complexity, often at the expense of life cycle costs and total cost of ownership issues (e.g., training, system malfunctions, system upgrades). Often designers are unaware of the tradeoffs and impacts. With the increased use of ICT in such socially critical areas such as healthcare, society can no longer afford systems that do not perform as specified. We believe that an understanding of simplicity is the key. Simplicity is foundational, its essence fundamental to many desired characteristics of ICT systems such as reliability, usability and trust. Thus, we believe that knowledge gained through research on simplicity can provide the EU a sustainable competitive advantage. To gain this knowledge we must ask the right questions, we must develop the proper research directions. To do so, the IT Simply Works team will organise a set of multidisciplinary experts to assist in surveying key research communities about their understandings and vision of the philosophy of simplicity. Only through such a multidisciplinary approach can we hope to achieve a basic and yet thorough understanding of the important issues to be addressed. The results of this effort will be presented in a final report elaborating the vision of simplicity in ICT and proposing topics, initiatives and modalities for future-directed foundational research and its transformation for benefitting Europe&apos;s citizens, businesses, industry and governments.

Keywords: simplicity as a paradigm,software/system mass construction,it maturity,reliability,less is more paradigm
Human Computer Confluence Research in Action (HC2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 577561.0
EU funding (EUR): 490000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. The horizontal character of HCC makes it a fascinating and fertile interdisciplinary field, but it can also compromise its growth, with researchers scattered across disciplines and groups worldwide. A coordination activity promoting discipline connect, identity building and integration while defining future research, education and policy directions is needed at the regional, national, European and international level. The goals of HC2 are: 1) to stimulate, structure and support the research community, promoting identity building, 2) to consolidate research agendas with special attention to the interdisciplinary aspects of HCC, producing useful visions and roadmaps to support future research 3) enhance the Public Understanding of HCC and foster the early contact of researchers with high-tech SMEs and other industry players 4) establish guidelines for the definition of new educational curricula to prepare the next generation of HCC researchers.

Keywords: human computer confluence
Active support and reaL-time coordination based on Event pRocessing in open source software developmenT (ALERT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Slovenia,Greece,France,Serbia,Germany,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4019841.0
EU funding (EUR): 2948856.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In order to participate effectively in the development activities, FLOSS community members need to understand who is working on what in the community and how their work affects other community members. Current approaches focus on managing information integration, but not active interaction (coordination) between information sources and sinks. The aim of the ALERT project is to develop methods and tools that improve FLOSS coordination by maintaining awareness of community activities through real-time, personalized, context-aware notification. ALERT will create an active collaboration platform, i.e. a virtual actor would interact with other developers, process and recognize various kinds of interactions, suggest actions on the basis of these and remember and bring past interactions into the developers’ attention, thus enabling developers to work better together. ALERT aims to: - Efficient modeling of the more reactive coordination in FLOSS development that will improve the awareness of the group work and the responsiveness of individuals; - Efficient management of the awareness of team members that will enable interesting parties to be notified based on their interest/expertise as soon as something relevant happens without overloading them, interfering with and slowing down their work. - Efficient management of information relevant for FLOSS teams, including the semantic integration of information and its flow between all stakeholders that will support better understanding of the situations which a developer should react on. - Personalized and task-based access to information, by allowing developers to focus on activities to be performed to achieve a specific shared task and/or by including information about the presence and activities of other developers in the FLOSS. - Pilot, evaluate and impact the ALERT system in three important FLOSS communities (OW2, KDE and Morfeo) and disseminate the results in other FLOSS and relevant research communities.

Keywords: knowledge extraction,user modelling,complex event processing