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Multiscale Spatiotemporal Visualisation: development of an open-source software library for the interactive visualisation of multiscale biomedical data (MSV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,New Zealand,Italy,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1328380.0
EU funding (EUR): 1025320.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, various terms – the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), Integrative Biology, Physiome Research – have been used to describe the trend in biomedical research towards the consideration of systemic processes. These phenomena are commonly observed in living organisms but cannot be explained within a single sub-system but reflect, rather, systemic outcomes that result from the interaction of multiple sub-systems. Traditionally, when confronted by the complexity exhibited in biomedical problems, researchers have been forced to focus purely on individual sub-systems; the most common boundary separating these has been spatiotemporal scale. The current interest in VPH is demanding greater concentration on the study and simulation of biological systems at multiple scales, and multiscale data collection and multiscale modelling have recently become synonymous with integrative research. The many VPH projects that will start to demand multiscale visualisation in the coming years suggests that this area should receive urgent attention. The Multiscale Spatiotemporal Visualisation (MSV) project aims, by international cooperation between the European @neurIST and VPHOP integrated projects, the US National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing (NA-MIC), and the New Zealand-based IUPS Physiome initiative: i) to define an interactive visualisation paradigm for biomedical multiscale data, ii) to validate it on the large collections produced by the VPH projects, and iii) to develop a concrete implementation as an open-source extension to the Visualisation Took Kit (VTK), ready to be incorporated by virtually any biomedical modelling software project.

Keywords: virtual physiological human,vph,multiscale visualisation,international cooperation,vphop,visualisation tool kit,vtk
ACCelerating EGNOS adoPTion in Aviation (ACCEPTA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Not available
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-04-15
End date: 2014-12-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4544346.33
EU funding (EUR): 2508928.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The ACCEPTA Project Concept is the acceleration of the EGNOS adoption in the aviation sector, with a wide-scale real-life adoption of the EGNOS-enabled LPV approaches throughout European airports where the SBAS signal is available and certified, focusing on the Topic’s first objective of the Call. The project will introduce operationally the EGNOS aviation applications in the most promising key niche markets interested in the EGNOS use, namely Regional Airlines and Corporate Aviation. It takes into account the results of previous studies for the introduction of the EGNOS enabled operations to the End Users, but this is not a continuation of past projects, i.e. no more pre-operational flight demonstrations, no more single tests, single aircraft and single airport. It will closely collaborate with SESAR, other FP7 and Eurocontrol related projects in order to not duplicate activities and make better use of available public funds. Special effort will be devoted to the topic’s objective to develop cost benefit analyses and business plans. For this reason, and specially the importance of this topic to the participating airlines and end users, a two-phase project has been defined. Within phase 1, Airlines Business Plans and Cost Benefit Analyses will be developed and customized for these pioneer airlines. In addition, the final selection of European airports/runways where EGNOS-based LPV approaches will be performed. Phase 2 will perform the deployment, aircraft conversions, modifications and certification of the pioneer airlines, as well as the design, development and publication of the selected approach procedures. End users are the main community and decision makers in order to introduce and adopt the usage of the EGNOS system and service in all markets. In aviation, airlines and corporate users, including their associations, constitute the most promising EGNOS end users community, and they are key partners of the project.

Keywords: egnos,aviation,accelerating,adoption
Knowledgable SErvice Robots for Aging (KSERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Austria,Germany,Israel,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3929444.0
EU funding (EUR): 2900000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

We propose research and development of a Knowledgeable Service Robot for Aging (KSERA) that will serve several related purposes for elderly persons in general and those with pulmonary disease in particular. Specifically KSERA provides (1) a mobile assistant to follow and monitor the health and behavior of a senior, (2) useful communication (video, internet) services including needed alerts to caregivers and emergency personnel, and (3) a robot integrated with smart household technology to monitor the environment and advise the senior or caregivers of anomalous or dangerous situations. KSERA aims at an adaptive technical aid that will provide needed and useful services in a pleasant, easy-to-use format via a robot that also acts as a companion and assistant. The problems to be addressed by the research and field trials include: (1) robot mobile behavior, i.e. machine navigation and following a target person through a variable and cluttered environment, (2) ubiquitous monitoring of physiological and behavioral data through direct measurements and interaction with household sensors, and (3) human-robot interaction including new developments in shared environmental processing, affective technology, and adaptable multimodal interfaces. A single robotic device hosting entertainment and communication aids, and at the same time providing an assistant that monitors the environment and the user&apos;s behavior, contributes to the user&apos;s health and quality of life (QoL). It will be designed to use contextual information and adaptive decision making algorithms to continually update the monitoring and mobile behavior for improved interaction with its user and to provide information and support at the right time and place. Real user scenarios and participative design drive the research. Two prototypes will be developed and validated in real end-user environments by qualitative and quantitative validation metrics including measures of safety, user acceptance, care efficiency and QoL.

Keywords: assitive technology robotics human robot interaction proactive robot behaviour ubiquitous monitoring adaptive decision making end-user test ethics safety end-user satisfaction
Innovative LBS for social/public dimension (INCLUSION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-02-16
End date: 2012-04-15
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1711740.8
EU funding (EUR): 1034983.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the INCLUSION proposal is to provide the Target Users (motor impaired people) with the possibility to experience end-to-end systems and pre-operative products able to guarantee their mobility in secure and safe conditions. Everyone tests every day the difficulty to come in office or find a front office or a counter service. Disabled people feel these difficulties even more. Even a simple tour throughout the city can become for disabled citizens a big problem in terms of autonomy, safety, decrease of human relations and quality of life. For this reason particular attention will be paid during the beginning phase of the INCLUSION project to understand and identify the user needs and, consequently, to translate them into mission requirements. Specifically, for people having a motor disability, the real possibility to move is often subject to the presence of obstacles or barriers or to the difficulty to identify with reliability an a-priori accessible route. As a matter of fact, people on wheelchair move only in limited environments, typically near their home. The use of GPS signal only is not sufficient to guarantee the required positioning performance, because of its relatively poor standalone accuracy, its fading in urban scenarios and its unavailability inside buildings. The INCLUSION project will lead to the definition, design, implementation and testing of a set of applications and products matching the needs of people on wheelchair. The INCLUSION solution shall strongly foresee the need of a “secure and safe” information provision where the positions shall be guaranteed and the user shall be informed if data do not respect the integrity parameter defined by the application. For this reason the EGNOS, EDAS platforms and other innovative GNSS features will be widely adopted, experimented and promoted in the INCLUSION proposal also for increasing the understanding of such technologies within this particular target users community.

Keywords: gnss,lbs,motor impaired people,galileo,egnos,edas,a-gnss,network-dgnss
Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction (ALIZ-E)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10655017.0
EU funding (EUR): 8287000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of ALIZ-E is to develop methods for developing and testing interactive, mobile robots which will be able to interact with human users over extended periods of time, i.e. a possibly non-continuous succession of interactions which can refer back to, and build forth on, previous experiences.To achieve this aim, ALIZ-E will address three related issues in developing interactive robots capable of self-sustaining medium- to long-term autonomous operation in real-world indoor environments. One, ALIZ-E will address how long-term experience can be acquired, to ground actions and interactions across time. Two, ALIZ-E will address how a system can deal robustly with inevitable differences in quality in perceiving and understanding a user and her environment. To this end, novel methods for adaptively controlling how a system invokes and adaptively balances a hybrid ensemble of processing and behaviours. Third, ALIZ-E will address how a system can adapt its interaction based on how user behaviour changes over time and contexts.To demonstrate and evaluate scientific methods, ALIZ-E will instantiate and evaluate these methods in working systems that interact with hospitalized children undergoing diabetes treatment. Long-term interaction in this context means interactions over a period of up to 5 days (possibly longer). Choosing this scenario, ALIZ-E makes it possible to bring existing extensive experience in conducting clinical trials of IT technology to the field of cognitive systems and human-robot interaction, to help develop novel methods for evaluating interactive robots at system-level.The theory and practice of ALIZ-E will impact on theoretical cognitive systems research (eg. memory, long-term affective interaction), implementation (eg. adaptive deployment of processing and behaviour for robust interaction, cloud computing for cognitive systems, speech processing for young users) and commercial applications of these technologies.

Keywords: long-term human-robot interaction,affective interaction,adaptive strategies,therapeutic applications of hri,cognitive theory,situated multi-modal dialogue
Open Collaboration in Policy Modelling (OCOPOMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3187040.0
EU funding (EUR): 2519000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

OCOPOMO addresses two levels of scientific and technological advancements: 1) Socio-political: to formulate, model, evaluate and monitor social and economic policies of governments, which are supported by 2) Scientific and technological innovations: drawing together lessons and practical techniques from complexity science, agent based social simulation, foresight scenario analysis and advanced ICT for e-participation. OCOPOMO develops an integrated IT platform for efficient policy development by integrating formal policy modelling, scenario generation, and open collaboration supporting engagement of wide stakeholder groups in social and economic policy areas of two pilots. The project builds on methods and tools of policy modelling and scenario-based foresight and integrates them into a platform of open collaboration among key stakeholders (policy analysts, policy operators, wider interest groups of specific policy domains, etc.) using e-participation tools. The outcomes of OCOPOMO are: a) IT solutions (e-governance toolbox) supporting the engagement and open collaboration of participating stakeholders in collaborative scenario-development and in reflexive discussions about resulting formal policy models; b) A general model of macroeconomic relations deduced as much as possible from data available at national and European level, and enriched with the commonalities deduced in the two pilot policy areas; c) Two policy analyses related to the strategic economic and social development policies in regions in Italy and Slovakia. The policy analyses will be based on both formal simulation models and narrative scenarios; The policy analyses are generated with the precision and clarity of formal models and rich contextual narrative scenarios resulting from the combination of scenario-based foresight and formal policy modelling. The e-governance ICT toolbox facilitates the policy creation, analysis, modelling and evaluation in a comprehensive way.

Keywords: open collaboration platform,policy modelling,policy simulation,policy visualisation,integrated toolbox for governance,scenario-based foresight
High Performance Computing Technologies for Smart Distribution Network Operation (HIPERDNO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Israel,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Germany,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6523691.0
EU funding (EUR): 4380060.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Future electricity distribution networks with mass deployment of network equipment sensors and instrumentation, millions of smart meters, small-scale embedded generation, and responsive load will generate vast amounts of data requiring near to real-time analysis. So-called cloud and grid computing will enable scalable data mining, feature extraction, and near to real-time state estimation. These and other HPC tools and techniques have been recently developed to cost-effectively solve large scale computational challenges in areas such as genomics, biomedicine, particle physics and other major scientific and engineering fields that require similarly scalable communications, computation and data analysis. Based on such recent success it is the aim of this proposal to develop a new generation of distribution network management systems that exploit novel near to real-time HPC solutions with inherent security and intelligent communications for smart distribution network operation and management. Cost effective scalable HPC solutions will be developed and initially demonstrated for realistic distribution network data traffic and management scenarios via off-line field trials involving several distribution network owners and operators.

Keywords: high performance computing,smart distribution networks,state estimation,distribution management systems,feature extraction,data mining
Format-Agnostic SCript-based INterAcTive Experience (FASCINATE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,Italy,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14154920.0
EU funding (EUR): 9354199.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

FascinatE will create an innovative end-to-end system and associated standards for future immersive and interactive TV services. It will allow users to navigate around an ultra-high resolution video panorama, showing a live or recorded event, with matching accompanying audio. The output will be adapted to their particular device, covering anything from a mobile handset to an immersive panoramic display with surround sound, delivering a true personalized multi-screen experience. At the production side, this requires new scene capturing systems, using multiple microphones and cameras with different fields-of-view and frame rates. These various video signals, together with metadata describing their relative alignment, constitute a novel layered scene representation. From this, any particular portion can be rendered at any desired resolution. This represents a paradigm shift in production technology, from today’s format-specific view of an area selected by a cameraman to a format-agnostic representation of the whole scene. This approach is considered to be a more intelligent and future-proof alternative to other approaches, which just increase the resolution of the pictures (e.g. to 8k). Script metadata will describe shot framing as suggested by the supervising director. Rule-based systems will frame these regions in a subjectively-appealing manner, taking into account knowledge of how to adapt them to different display sizes, as well as the personal preferences and interactions of the user. Intelligent network components will tailor the transmitted data to suit the screen size and selected view for each terminal. For low-power devices, the component itself will render the desired view, whereas for powerful devices, better performance will be achieved through selectively transmitting portions of the relevant scene layers. At the user terminal, novel interaction methods will allow viewers to choose either a script-driven view or to freely explore the scene themselves

Keywords: format-agnostic,omnidirectional,live events,interactive,immersive
Plasmon Resonance for IMproving the Absorption of solar cells (PRIMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Sweden,United Kingdom,Australia,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3304334.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The demand for affordable renewable energy is increasing steadily. Electricity generation by photovoltaic cells is one of the main players in this field, but is hampered by its still relatively high cost compared with other sources of energy. Within this project we investigate promising nanotechnology - based strategies to enhance the performance and/or reduce the cost of different solar cell technologies. Specifically we examine the use of metal nanostructures to enhance the optical absorption of light into different types of solar cells, including crystalline Si, high performance III-V, organic and dye-sensitized solar cells. The enhanced absorption can ultimately lead to thinner and therefore less expensive solar cells due to the use of less material. One of the remaining issues in this field, that of better physical insight in the possible plasmonic enhancement mechanisms, will be studied in detail using calculations and experiments on structures with different degrees of complexity. In parallel, we investigate the manufacturability of these nanostructures and the ease of integrating them into existing process flows for solar cells. This will allow us to examine industrially relevant structures, integrate them into solar cells and test their performance. The performance will be bench-marked and assessed by solar cell companies that are participating in the project. European science traditionally is a leader in both the fields of photovoltaics and nanoplasmonics and this project helps to maintain Europe's strong position. Moreover it provides the participating industrial partners with a competitive advantage, which should create employment and sustainable economic growth in Europe, while simultaneously contributing to a reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases.

Keywords: photovoltaics,plasmonics,nanophotonics,plasmon enhanced solar cells,nanostructures,nanoparticles