Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
DEcentralized, cooperative, and privacy-preserving MONitoring for trustworthiness (DEMONS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Austria,Poland,France,Switzerland,Czechia,Greece,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8237250.0
EU funding (EUR): 5346821.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The Internet is not run by a single organization; indeed, this is a key characteristic of the Internet architecture, and a key reason behind its success as a platform for innovation in communications. Instead, the management, safety, and trustworthiness of each domain of the network are the responsibility of that domain; cooperation among these domains is largely done on a personal, and somewhat informal, basis. However, the growing complexity of the network leads to complex, emergent threats that challenge the ability of current cooperative efforts to respond. Large-scale network “accidents”, such as routing failures or software faults on widely distributed endpoints, are not confined within a single domain, and therefore difficult to react to. More troubling, organized criminal enterprises leverage vulnerabilities within the network across multiple domains to build “botnets”, which are essentially large-scale coordinated infrastructures applied to a range of nefarious activities, from sending spam, to extortion scams through denial of service attacks, to the theft of personal financial information. There are societal challenges, as well, as growing awareness of privacy issues leads to unease with the traditional measurement approach of centralized storage and analysis of traffic information. Attempts to further centralize the response to these threats will simply not work. Therefore, network traffic monitoring and measurement must be made effective across domain boundaries in order to meet the challenges of this environment. Cooperative threats and distributed failures call for a distributed, cooperative detection and mitigation infrastructure. Specifically, DEMONS aims to design and demonstrate the operation of a network for cooperative monitoring. We will apply innovative measurement, analysis and data protection techniques across a network of flexible monitoring nodes in multiple domains to accomplish cooperation, resiliency, and scalability in measurement, and confidentiality of measured traffic. DEMONS will significantly advance the ability to detect and respond to large-scale threats while preserving citizens’ right to privacy, thus increasing societal acceptance of the need for “being monitored”. The project will demonstrate the trustworthiness of the proposed network monitoring and management infrastructure in a cooperative operational environment across several major network operators.

Keywords: security,monitoring,network
Internet of Things at Work (IOT@WORK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5890830.0
EU funding (EUR): 3524566.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

IoT@Work will develop the technologies required to enable Internet of Things (IoT)-based applications and processes in the manufacturing domain. The IoT architecture will allow production processes to adapt quickly and easily to new business models and processes. Process and industry automation, however, have strong demands for reliable communication and security guarantees, which the IoT architecture has to incorporate from the start. Today, deployment and commissioning of complex production processes or Internet-enabled applications interacting with production systems still require a time consuming and error-prone manual network configuration process. This is due to the need to maintain a high level of determinism, safety, and security of the production process itself and avoiding both safety-critical failures and costly production interruptions. Furthermore, the traditional concept of a ‘system’s boundary’ does not scale in scenarios where repurposed production systems have to fulfil new goals and adapt aspects like connectivity, dependability, security and privacy. IoT@Work will deliver tools and runtime mechanisms based on IoT technologies to significantly simplify commissioning, operating, and maintaining complex production processes. The contribution of this project will be focused on using self-configuration mechanisms, enabling what we call secure Plug&amp;Work IoT. We want to contribute to the design ideas of the IoT architecture in order to dynamically and securely adapt networks and resources to better fit to “change”, where this change could be due to infrastructure change, failures, or even process adaptations.

Keywords: internet of things (iot) for industry,industrial automation,enabling technologies,plug and work secure networks,iot-enhanced maintenance,machine-to-machine iot.
Beyond CMOS Nanodevices for Adding Functionalities to CMOS (NANOFUNCTION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: France,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Greece,Belgium,Ireland,Spain,Finland,Belgium,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3528006.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The NANOFUNCTION Network of Excellence aims to integrate at the European level the excellent European research laboratories in order to strengthen scientific and technological excellence in the field of novel nanoelectronic materials, devices and circuits for developing new integrated functions and disseminate the results in a wide scientific and industrial community. This proposal will focus on the convergence of Advanced More than Moore devices (Analog-RF-sensors-actuators-biochips-energy harvesters, etc.) for adding functionalities to ICs and Beyond-CMOS nanostructures (nanowires, nanostructured materials, etc.) which could be integrated on CMOS platforms. In particular, the interest of these nanodevices for the development of innovative applications with increased performance in the field of nanosensing, energy harvesting, nanocooling and RF will be thoroughly investigated. This work will be carried out through a network of joint processing, characterisation and modelling platforms. The consortium will work closely with European industry and will feed back data and know-how on devices that deliver the required performance. This interaction will strengthen European integration in nanoelectronics, help in decision-making and ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of nanoelectronics for the next decades. Free keywords: -Beyond CMOS nanodevices -Advanced More than Moore technologies and applications -Innovative functionalities -Nanosensors -Energy harvesting -Nanocooling -Advanced RF materials and devices

Keywords: -beyond cmos nanodevices -advanced more than moore technologies and applications -innovative functionalities -nanosensors -energy harvesting -nanocooling -advanced rf materials and devices
Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles (ASCENS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,Belgium,Switzerland,Germany,Ireland,Czechia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7936263.0
EU funding (EUR): 5890000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Future software-intensive systems, such as sensor networks, power grids, satellite and robot swarms, will generally exhibit a number of characteristic features: * Massive numbers of nodes, nodes with complex behavior, or complex interactions between nodes. * Operation in open and non-deterministic environments with variable network topology. * Need for adaptation, e.g., to changing environments and requirements. We call this future generation of software-intensive systems ensembles. The potentially huge impact - both positive and negative - of ensembles means that we need to understand ways to reliably and predictably model, design, and program them. Although there is a lot of research in this area, so far no theoretically well-founded technique for building ensembles exists. The goal of the ASCENS project is to develop such a method and to demonstrate its feasibility in three important application domains: robot swarms, cloud computing and e-mobility.

Keywords: ensembles,autonomic systems,self-awareness
User-centric Wireless Local-Loop (ULOOP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Portugal,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Italy,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6293142.0
EU funding (EUR): 4076247.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The flexibility inherent to wireless technologies is giving rise to new types of access networks and allowing the Internet to expand in a user-centric way. This is particularly relevant if one considers that wireless technologies such as Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) currently complement Internet access broadband technologies, forming the last hop to the end-userr. This fact becomes even more significant due to the dense deployment of Wi-FI Access Points that is common today in urban environments. Due to such density, a relevant aspect that can be worked upon is leveraging such “wireless local-loop” by developing networking mechanisms that allow adequate resource management and a future Internet architecture to scale in an autonomic way. Such wireless local-loop could then reach rates closer to the ones provided by current access technologies. A way to overcome the limitation of today’s broadband access technologies is to expand the backbone infrastructure reach by means of low-cost wireless technologies that embody a multi-operator model, i.e., a local-loop based upon what a specific community of individuals (end-users) is willing to share, backed up by specific cooperation incentives and “good behaviour” rules. The purpose of this project is therefore to explore the potential of having a wireless local-loop based upon a user-centric (community) model extending the reach of a high debit, multi-access broadband backbone from different perspectives (technical and business models, as well as the expected telecommunications market and legislation impact). Our expectations are to show that such model can be beneficial both from an end-user and from an access provider perspective, given that it allows expanding high debit reach in a seamless, cooperative, and low-cost manner, enabling the operators to focus on service rather than on pipes.

Keywords: user-centric,wi-fi,open access broadband,cooperation
Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services (CONTRAIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Slovenia,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11472403.0
EU funding (EUR): 8304110.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In the future of corporate IT, companies will rely on highly dynamic distributed IT infrastructures. Federation models are envisioned where a given organisation will be both a Cloud provider during periods when its IT infrastructure is not used at its maximal capacity, and a Cloud customer in periods of peak activity. The main contribution of CONTRAIL will be the development of an integrated approach to virtualization, offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), services for federating IaaS Clouds, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of federated Clouds. This service stack will be part of the CONTRAIL open source system, facilitating industrial up-take of Cloud computing. The main outputs of CONTRAIL are a collection of infrastructure services offering network, computation and storage as a service; services to federate IaaS Clouds; a set of high level services and runtime environments for typical Cloud applications, including efficient map/reduce, scalable service-oriented application hosting, and automatic workflow execution; and a set of applications and use cases from the domains of e-business, e-science, telecommunication and media using and demonstrating the CONTRAIL system. CONTRAIL leverages the open source XtreemOS system, developed in the successful XtreemOS European integrated project and which was designed for large scale dynamic infrastructures. XtreemOS integrates services for data, application, security and community management that can be adapted to provide a unified solution for building private, public and federated Cloud infrastructures. CONTRAIL has core virtualization technology integrated with its high-level services and its Cloud management facilities. This unique approach of covering "the whole Cloud" from the core infrastructure, via federation mechanisms, to management services, enables the construction of transparent, trusted and reliable Cloud platforms with operations governed by service level agreements.

Keywords: virtualised infrastructure,cloud federation,trustworthy network infrastructure,user-centric identity management,large scale dynamic distributed systems,open source.
Future Internet Research and Experimentation SupporT AcTION (FIRESTATION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Germany,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Finland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1712299.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

FIRE STATION provides the globally known FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative with an active hub that matches, guides and co-ordinates demand for - and offering of - experimentation facilities in the context of future networks and services. The heterogeneous and modular field of Future Internet Research and Experimentation with its national and international stakeholder groups requires information sharing, cohesion building, community building and a preferential point of contact to co-ordinate and promote the FIRE approach with respect to the following main requirements: 1) Facilities need synchronization, resource optimization, and common efforts in order to offer customers the best possible service and ensure their sustainability beyond project life times. 2) Researchers need correct and timely knowledge about the available resources, easy access, high usability and appropriate tools to run and monitor their experiments. FIRE STATION implements a FIRE Office and a FIRE Architecture Board that both build upon the FIRE co-ordination results that have already been obtained. The FIRE Office serves as the preferential point of contact and the mediator when either looking for the right experimental resources or new customers for the facilities. The FIRE Architecture Board involves all FIRE facility builders to jointly decide on the strategy and means to co-ordinate and facilitate the development of FIRE facility offerings to support the evolving needs of the customers. FIRE STATION increases the global collaboration between relevant stakeholders, promotes experimentally-driven approach in future internet research and intensifies the usage experimental facilities, ultimately speeding up the development process of new systems and services. FIRE STATION also actively promotes experimentally driven research and the usage of experimental test facilities in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: experimentation,testbed,future internet,experimentally-driven reserach,federation
Entanglement from Semiconductor Nanostructures (ENSENA)

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: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1259725.85
EU funding (EUR): 1259725.85
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At the interface between quantum optics and semiconductors we find a rich field of investigation with huge potential for quantum information processing communication technologies. Entanglement is one of the most fascinating concepts in quantum physics research as well as an important resource for quantum information processing. This project will develop novel sources of entangled photon pairs with semiconductor nanostructures. In particular, we will use the scattering of microcavity exciton-polaritons as an extremely strong optical nonlinearity for the generation of entanglement with properties that are difficult to achieve with the traditional methods. Further we will work with individual semiconductor quantum dots to create controlled single entangled pairs and explore the interfacing of quantum dots to flying qubits. The long term vision of this research is to create integrated sources of entanglement that can be combined with laser sources, passive optical elements, and even detectors in order to realize the quantum optics lab on a chip.

Keywords: entanglement,quantum dots,quantum wells,polaritons,excitons
Cooperative Networking for High Capacity Transport Architectures (CONECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2894521.0
EU funding (EUR): 1937349.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

CONECT proposes a holistic network design approach that drastically enhances performance in wireless networks by unlocking the hidden potential of the broadcast wireless medium. Information and communication theory, and protocol design engineering are used as the foundations for developing provably optimal cooperative information forwarding strategies, from multi-signal fusion to packet relay and node reciprocation. As a result, close to optimal end-to-end throughput is achieved while energy consumption is significantly reduced and other performance metrics like delay can be controlled. Wireless information transport is currently realized under the highly suboptimal assumptions of point-to-point communication and strict signal separation. Recent network information theory advances suggest approaches for constructive exploitation of the multiplicity of signals arriving at a wireless node, traditionally considered as harmful interference. Building on this foundation, CONECT will develop an architecture that exploits these principles all the way from the physical communication substrate to cooperative packet level access and forwarding, to application level information exchange. Many-to-many information exchange modes like multicasting and any-casting will particularly benefit from this approach as the broadcast effect inherently amplifies the multicast transport capability. That constitutes a significant advance from more traditional approaches where interference is treated as a foe. A concrete experimentation plan will validate the design choices and at the same time provide real-world feedback for fine-tuning of the architecture. It will be based on the OPENAIRINTERFACE test-bed for flexible radio network design and the NITOS test-bed for cooperative wireless access and transport. A video multicast application will provide the basic evaluation scenario. NITOS, being an ONELAB test-bed, will provide the link to federation with the Planetlab-Europe infrastructure.

Keywords: cooperative communication networks,multicasting,energy efficiency
Periods in Algebraic Geometry and Physics (PAGAP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1068540.0
EU funding (EUR): 1068540.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Periods are the integrals of algebraic differential forms over domains defined by polynomial inequalities, and are ubiquitous in mathematics and physics. One of the simplest classes of periods are given by multiple zeta values, which are the periods of moduli spaces M_{0,n} of curves of genus zero. They have recently undergone a huge revival of interest, and occur in number theory, the theory of mixed Tate motives, knot invariants, quantum groups, deformation quantization and many more branches of mathematics and physics. Remarkably, it has been observed experimentally that Feynman amplitudes in quantum field theories typically evaluate numerically to multiple zeta values and polylogarithms (which are the iterated integrals on M_{0,n}), and a huge amount of effort is presently devoted to computations of such amplitudes in order to provide predictions for particle collider experiments. A deeper understanding of the reason for the appearance of the same mathematical objects in algebraic geometry and physics is essential to streamline these computations, and ultimately tackle the outstanding problems in particle physics. The proposal has two parts: firstly to undertake a systematic study of the periods and iterated integrals on higher genus moduli spaces M_{g,n} and related varieties, and secondly to relate these fundamental mathematical objects to quantum field theories, bringing to bear modern techniques from algebraic geometry, Hodge theory, and motives to this emerging interdisciplinary area. Part of this would involve the implementation (with the assistance of future postdoc. team members) of an algorithm for the evaluation of Feynman diagrams which is due to the author and goes several orders beyond what has previously been possible, in order eventually to deduce concrete predictions for the Large Hadron Collider.

Keywords: periods,multiple zeta values,moduli spaces,polylogarithms,hodge theory quantum field theory,feynman integrals,perturbation theory