Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Role of Molecular Clusters in Atmospheric Particle Formation (MOCAPAF)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Starting Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Finland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1476418.0
EU funding (EUR): 1476418.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Climate change is currently one of the central scientific issues in the world, and the ability to reliably forecast climate is crucial for making political decisions that affect the lives of billions of people. Aerosols remain the dominant uncertainty in predicting radiative forcing and future climate change, and also have adverse effects on human health and visibility. One of the least-well understood aerosol-related processes is nucleation: the formation of new particles from condensable vapours. While nucleation is related primarily to neutral clusters, state-of-the-art experimental methods measure only charged clusters. The main scientific objectives of this project are 1) to understand the chemical composition of charged and especially neutral atmospheric clusters from molecular to multi-nanometre scale, and explain the mechanism by which they nucleate, and 2) to direct current intense instrument development and provide theoretical tools to maximize the information on neutral clusters that can be obtained from experimental results on charged clusters. Our scientific plan consists of a multilevel computational effort to provide formation rates and properties of atmospheric clusters and particles to aerosol dynamic and climate modellers. To capture the properties of the smallest clusters, we need to perform quantum chemical calculations, combined with simulations on cluster formation kinetics. Unfortunately, these methods are computationally far too demanding to describe the entire nucleation process. Thus, we will feed quantum chemical results to classical thermodynamic models, the results of which in turn must be parameterized for efficient use in larger-scale models.

Keywords: particle formation,atmospheric clusters,nucleation
Opportunistic networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future InterneT (ONEFIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Spain,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Poland,United Kingdom,Spain,Serbia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6767834.0
EU funding (EUR): 3965365.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Due to the need of supporting diversified services with vastly expanded use of wireless access, the Future Internet will set the networks under stress for resources. This motivates the quest for efficiency, through technologies that achieve: (i) higher utilization of resources; (ii) lower transmission powers and energy consumption (decisions with “green” footprint); (iii) reductions in the total cost of ownership. OneFIT proposes a solution that achieves these targets, and thus, creates important value-adding opportunities for the user and the wireless industry. The solution comprises: (i) opportunistic networks, which are operator-governed (through the provision of spectrum, policies, information and knowledge, exploited for their creation), temporary, coordinated extensions of the infrastructure that may include network elements, and devices potentially organized in an infrastructure-less manner; (ii) cognitive systems for managing the opportunistic networks (CMONs) and for coordinating the infrastructure (CSCIs); (iii) control channels for the cooperation of the cognitive management systems (C4MS). Scenarios in which efficient business and service offerings are enabled have been defined. These are cases requiring the resolution of congestion situations or the expansion of the coverage of the infrastructure, or involving localized application/service provision. CMON/CSCI functionality and the C4MS will provide the means for determining the suitability, creating, maintaining and releasing opportunistic networks. The SOTA will be progressed in the areas: node/infrastructure discovery, candidate node determination, spectrum opportunity identification/generation, spectrum allocation, routing, QoS control, forced termination handling. Validation will rely on simulation, and on experiments with a powerful hardware platform and social networking and prosumer applications. C4MS standardization and regulation, and overall dissemination/training, activities will be done.

Keywords: cognitive management,control channels for the cooperation of the cognitive management systems,opportunistic networks creation/maintenance,suitability determination,infrastructure coordination
Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence and Semantic Technologies (CUBIST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Belgium,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): 4357196.0
EU funding (EUR): 3029834.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Constantly growing amounts of data, complicated and rapidly changing economic interactions, and an emerging trend of incorporating unstructured data into analytics, brings new challenges to Business Intelligence (BI). Contemporary solutions involve BI users dealing with increasingly complex analyses. According to a 2008 study, the complexity of BI tools is the biggest barrier for success of these systems. Moreover, classical BI solutions have, so far, neglected the meaning of data. Semantic Technologies (STs), deal with this meaning and are capable of dealing with both unstructured and structured data. Having the meaning of data in place, a user can be guided during his work with data. In particular, we foresee FCA (Formal Concept Analysis), which is a well known ST, to be a key element of new hybrid BI system. However, STs have, traditionally, operated on data sets a magnitude smaller than classical BI solutions. They also lack standard BI functionalities such as Online Analytical Processing queries, making it difficult to perform analysis over semantic data. On the other hand, &apos;understanding data&apos; will improve classical methods in BI- CUBIST combines essential features of ST and BI. We envision a system with the following core features: * It supports federation of data from a variety of unstructured and structured sources, * The persistency layer is an Information Warehouse; having a BI enabled triple store in its center, * Semantic information is used to improve BI best practices, * CUBIST enables a user to perform BI operations over semantic data, * Semantic data warehouse is used to realize advance mining techniques known from, in particular FCA. * Novel ways of applying visual analytics in which meaningful diagrammatic representations of the data will be used for representing, navigating through and visually querying the data. CUBIST has three use cases in the fields of market intelligence, computational biology and control centre operations.

Keywords: business intelligence,semantic technologies,triple stores,visual analytics,formal concept analysis
An Adaptive Learning System for Reasoning about Stories with Poor Comprehenders and their Educators (TERENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Hungary,Belgium,United Kingdom,Romania,Germany,Spain,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2730828.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Developing the capabilities of children to comprehend written texts is key to their development as young adults. Text comprehension skills and strategies develop enormously from the age of 7-8 until the age of 11, when children develop as independent readers. Nowadays, more and more young children turn out to be poor (text) comprehenders: they demonstrate text comprehension difficulties, related to inference-making skills, despite proficiency in word decoding and other low-level cognitive skills. Though there are several pencil-and-paper reading interventions for improving inference-making skills on text, and specifically addressed to poor comprehenders, the design and development of adaptive learning systems for this purpose are lagging behind. A few adaptive learning systems consider specific inference-making interventions that are pivotal in text comprehension, but such systems are designed for high-school children or university-level students, and with textbooks as reading material. The use of more intelligent adaptive learning systems to custom-tailor such interventions in an adaptive fashion to (hearing and deaf) poor comprehenders has tremendous potential. TERENCE embodies that potential. TERENCE aims at offering innovative usability and evaluation guidelines, refining the current cognitive and pedagogical models concerning story comprehension and inference making, and delivering a showcase intelligent adaptive learning system. The system’s smart games, developed and classified according to the refined models, will ask children to draw inferences about temporal events of stories, in Italian and in English. Moreover, the system will allow teachers to choose and custom-tailor the types of stories and games according to the needs of their learners. The guidelines, the models and the system will be the result of an orchestrated cross-disciplinary effort of European experts in diverse and complementary fields (art and design, computer science, engineering, linguistics, evidence-based medicine, psychology), and with the constant involvement of the end-users (deaf and hearing poor comprehenders, their educators) from schools in Brighton (UK), and in the Veneto area (Italy).

Keywords: adaptive learning system,text comprehension,poor comprehender,deaf children,knowledge representation and reasoning,hci,nlp,constraint programming
Enabling Innovation in the Internet Architecture through Flexible Flow-Processing Extensions (CHANGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Romania,Italy,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5537364.0
EU funding (EUR): 3895086.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The CHANGE project addresses a central problem of today’s Internet: its size and scope make innovation through the introduction of new core network technologies very difficult. The Internet suffers from &quot;ossification&quot;. Even minor changes only happen through the accretion of point solutions that embed knowledge in the network, optimizing today&apos;s applications at the expense of tomorrow&apos;s. The goal of CHANGE is to reinvigorate innovation on the Internet, in order to better support current services and applications and enable those of tomorrow. This will be achieved by introducing a common concept of a flow-processing platform, instantiated at critical points in the network. Although the platform and its interfaces are common, the processing performed must be programmable, allowing the network to evolve and support the needs of rapidly changing applications. Such platforms can be built from commodity hardware – e.g. x86 servers and commodity switching chipsets –, and are both scalable and powerful while retaining the flexibility to quickly introduce processing primitives. These platforms form the basis for CHANGE, but the vision is larger. The goal is an architecture that combines multiple communicating flow processing platforms to provide innovative end-to-end services to applications. Thus, conventional traffic flows can be processed at varying degrees of granularity, and application-specific virtual network overlays can be constructed, without impacting other network services or traffic. The aim is to do this within an architectural framework that allows application developers and network operators to reason about the emergent end-to-end behaviour. To validate the architecture, we will implement and deploy a set of novel and diverse applications and services. A strong, committed consortium of 11 leading partners from industry and academia ensures that CHANGE will deliver the promised results.

Keywords: architecture,innovation,flow processing,platform,applications,commodity hardware,performance
Iterative solution of the QCD perturbative expansion (ITERQCD)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 995300.4
EU funding (EUR): 995300.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Particle physics phenomenology is in a revolutionary phase, due to breakthroughs in understanding the perturbative expansion of gauge theory amplitudes. Latest research hints to the existence of an unknown iterative structure. We aim to solve loop amplitudes at an arbitrary perturbative order in QCD from amplitudes at lower orders and eventually from the leading order. We will obtain accurate theoretical predictions for cross-sections of important LHC processes, leading to a preciser extraction of coupling strengths for new particle interactions that may be discovered at the LHC.

Keywords: collider phenomenology,perturbative methods
Highly-complex and networked control systems (HYCON2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: France,France,France,France,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Sweden,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4942479.0
EU funding (EUR): 3900000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

ICT developments both enable and also enforce large-scale, highly-connected systems in society and industry. Knowledge to cope with these emerging systems is lacking. HYCON2 will stimulate and establish the long-term integration of the European research community, leading institutions and industry in the strategic field of control of complex, large-scale, and networked dynamical systems. It will interconnect scattered groups to create critical mass and complementarity, and will provide the necessary visibility and communication with the European industries. HYCON2 will assess and coordinate basic and applied research, from fundamental analytical properties of complex systems to control design methodologies with networking, self-organizing and system-wide coordination. HYCON2 has identified several applications domains to motivate, integrate, and evaluate research in networked control. These domains are ground and aerospace transportation, electrical power networks, process industries, and biological and medical systems. Benchmarking will serve as a tool for testing and evaluating the technologies developed in HYCON2 and for stimulating and enforcing excellence by the identification and adoption of best practices. In particular, two show-case applications corresponding to real-world problems have been selected in order to demonstrate the applicability of networked control and the need for research in control. As no substantial technological breakthrough can be achieved without preparing the proper cultural background, a further important objective of HYCON2 is to spread and disseminate excellence through multi-disciplinary education at the graduate and undergraduate level. The proposed research, integration and dissemination program will make Europe both the prominent scientific and the industrial leader in the area of highly complex and networked control systems, therefore posing Europe in an extraordinary position to exploit their impact in economy and society.

Keywords: control of large-scale networked systems,networked control,system-wide coordination and control,self-organizing systems and control,ground &aerospace vehicles,process industries,tool integration
Self Orchestrating CommunIty ambiEnT IntelligEnce Spaces (SOCIETIES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia,Greece,Portugal,Israel,France,Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15379321.0
EU funding (EUR): 10598177.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Pervasive systems aim to seamlessly and unobtrusively enable individual users to interact with devices, networks and services in their vicinity. Until now their focus has been on the individual rather than on communities of users. This neglects an important part of human behaviour; socialising, and might partly explain the slow take-up of pervasiveness in commercial products. Social computing, on the other hand, has enjoyed meteoric success in bringing people together online. Products in this area, however, do not integrate well with any but a few of the many devices and services to which their users have access. The time is ripe for these two paradigms to converge. The vision of SOCIETIES is to develop a complete integrated solution via a Community Smart Space (CSS) which extends pervasive systems beyond the individual to dynamic communities of users. CSSs will embrace online community services, such as Social Networking, and thus offer new and powerful ways of working, communicating and socialising. The goal of SOCIETIES is to radically improve the utility of future Internet services by merging social computing and pervasive computing through the design, implementation and evaluation of an open, scalable service architecture and platform for self-orchestrating Community Smart Spaces. This will be achieved through four key objectives: -To facilitate the creation, organisation, management and communication of communities via Community Smart Spaces, where pervasive computing is integrated with social computing communities -To provide an enhanced user experience - both for individuals and entire user communities - based on proactive smart space behaviour and dynamic sharing of community resources across geographic boundaries -To design and prototype a robust open and scalable system for self-orchestrating Community Smart Spaces -To evaluate, through strong involvement of end-users, the usefulness and acceptance of the developed CSS software via three user trials

Keywords: smart spaces,pervasive computing,context awareness,discovery,composition,personalisation,social computing
UniverSelf (UNIVERSELF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Spain,Germany,France,Finland,Greece,Netherlands,Japan,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16401544.0
EU funding (EUR): 10459257.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The internet of today is fragmented into loosely interacting domains. Future Networks will be pervasive: people, machines and the surrounding spaces will form decentralized and dynamic networks of networks of as-yet unseen scales. Future Networks will challenge Service and Network Operators to find the right ways to embed intelligence into networks in order to ensure their autonomic management and control. UniverSelf will consolidate autonomic methods of the future Internet for business-driven, service and network management into a novel Unified Management Framework (UMF) evolving through cognition. This UMF will remove the roadblocks of the original Internet design and of its later patchwork growth; it will seamlessly unite the control and management planes by enabling self-organisation of the former and empowering the latter with cognition. This will advance the routine management tasks by people to the level of governance of the entire network and service ecosystem. Innovative aspects of UniverSelf are: the dynamic and architecture-agnostic federation of intelligence; its network embodiment for optimum efficiency; technology maturation; processes for building confidence and trust. UniverSelf will convince Service and Network Operators that autonomicity becomes real when worked simultaneously from the two viewpoints - concept federation and network embedding. UniverSelf will adopt a use-case driven approach to develop high added value, innovative and cost efficient solutions that will serve both the EU economy and its Citizens, who will benefit in terms of QoE/QoS. The competitiveness of the European ICT industry will be significantly enhanced (creation of new business opportunities, reduced time-to-market); standards bodies (ITU-T, ETSI and IETF) will benefit from UniverSelf’s rigorously studied inputs; Service and Network Operators will gain in terms of both Opex and Capex savings via reduction of human effort and mistakes, via resources optimization.

Keywords: fixed-mobile,service-system unified self-management,empowerment,deployment,certification