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Common Highways Agency Rijkswaterstaat Model (CHARM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal Actions
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4626565.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Over the past four years, Rijkswaterstaat, the Highways Agency and the Roads and Traffic Agency have worked together to share knowledge and approaches to solving common problems. This relationship is embedded in a joint Memorandum of Agreement. The organisations are very similar and share many of the same problems and challenges in managing their Strategic Road Network (SRN). Each organisation faces issues in addressing rising cost of ownership of traffic management systems due to end-of-life traffic technology systems which have strong vendor lock-in. Neither organisation can solve its problems by purchasing existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions in the traffic technology market because the traffic technology market has been slow to adopt a COTS approach. It is only via aggregated demand of the leading SRN operators that the market can be expanded and costs reduced. Both organisations wish to decouple the technology solutions from the business requirements so that the business is free to implement new operating models and realise significant efficiency savings. Without embarking on this programme, the HA will experience accelerated technology maintenance costs, reduced reliability, an inability to cost effectively meet the demands of Traffic Management Directorate (TMD) arising from the implementation of the Future Operating Model (FOM), and jeopardise TMD’s programme of efficiency savings. Without this programme RWS will experience a lack of business flexibility. The CHARM programme has two primary objectives: • To establish and validate a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) process in the participating countries • To use that process to identify new technologies and services to address the challenge of providing a Traffic Management System. By the completion of this programme it is proposed to have a fully documented PCP process, capable of being run across multiple European countries

Keywords: public sector,new technologies and services,traffic management services,commercial off the shelf,reduced cost of ownership,flexible and adaptable,increased reliability..
MATHEmatics of Multi-level Anticipatory Complex Systems (MATHEMACS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Sweden,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3335758.0
EU funding (EUR): 2552916.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The MATHEMACS project aims to develop a mathematical theory of complex multi-level systems and their dynamics. In addition to considering systems with respect to a given level structure, as is natural in certain applications or dictated by available data, the project has the unique goal of identifying additional meaningful levels for understanding multi-level systems. This is done through a general formulation based on the mathematical tools of information and dynamical systems theories. To ensure that the theoretical framework is at the same time practically applicable, three key application areas are represented within the project, namely neurobiology, human communication, and economics. These areas not only provide us with some of the best-known epitomes of complex multi-level systems, but also constitute a challenging test bed for validating the generality of the theory since they span a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. Furthermore, they have an important common aspect; namely, their complexity and self-organizational character is partly due to the anticipatory and predictive actions of their constituent units. The MATHEMACS project contends that the concepts of anticipation and prediction are particularly relevant for multi-level systems since they often involve different levels. Thus, as a further unique feature, the project includes the mathematical representation and modeling of anticipation in its agenda for understanding complex multi-level systems. For validating the theory on large heterogeneous data sets, the project has a specific component with exclusive access to a wide range of data from human movement patterns to complex urban environments. In this way, MATHEMACS provides a complete and well-rounded approach to lay the foundations of a mathematical theory of the dynamics of complex multi-level systems.

Keywords: scale level information theory dynamics aggregation coarse-graining mean field hypergraph anticipation prediction delay neural dynamics language communication self-organization financial market
Coordination Action for the early implementation of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) 'More Years – Better Lives – the Challenges and Opportunities of Demographic Change' (J-AGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Italy,Finland,Sweden,Türkiye,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1877392.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496339.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

J-AGE, the Coordination Action for the early implementation of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) 'More Years – Better Lives – the Challenges and Opportunities of Demographic Change', will support and foster the overall management of the JPI, the development of the Strategic Research Agenda and its implementation through joint activities between Member States, the mapping of relevant national programmes and a complementary foresight activity. Furthermore, the work plan will include dissemination and information exchange with scientific and societal stakeholders, policy makers and research funders as well as an evaluation and monitoring exercise. Ultimately, the project and the JPI seek to strengthen the base of multi-disciplinary and holistic ageing research in Europe and to provide scientific evidence for policy responses to demographic change.

Keywords: demographic change,ageing society,joint programming initiative,jpi
Non-Invasive Optical Biopsy for Cancer Assessment using ultra high resolution Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (CAREIOCA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,France,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4075420.0
EU funding (EUR): 3099481.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Along the cancer care workflow, existing preoperative and intraoperative procedures such as the identification of small tumourous areas or the precise resection of tumors show significant fail rates, due to the inability of current imaging techniques to perform a reliable in situ diagnosis. Moreover the complete pathological diagnosis, often based on histology slides preparation, is usually only available after a few days. For these reasons a significant number of patients need to undergo secondary biopsy or surgery. The CAReIOCA project aims at providing pathologists and/or surgeons novel non-invasive optical imaging at the cellular scale for fast cancer assessment. By providing images approaching the level of information of histology slides during localization, biopsy and resection procedures in real or near-real time, the technique is expected to significantly improve cancer care. The project will combine latest advances in CMOS technology and “optical biopsy” techniques to overcome the current technical limitations of an unequalled performance non-invasive tissue imaging technique: Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT). The key technological achievement of the project will consist of the development of a specific high-performance CMOS smart camera, and will lead to the development, clinical adaptation and pre-clinical validation of a novel optical biopsy probe, exhibiting in-depth imaging capabilities and a record 3D resolution. The technique will provide a fast and reliable method to visualize pathological or suspicious areas, and corresponding microstructures, in real-time. In particular, it will enable pre-operative diagnosis, biopsy guidance, as well as intra-operative, large-scale surgical margin assessment. These applications are expected to significantly reduce reoperation rates of corresponding procedures. In this view, pre-clinical validation on Oral and Breast Cancer will be performed.

Keywords: optical coherence tomography,high-speed cmos,surgical margins,core needle biopsy,non-invasive diagnosis,digital pathology
Distributed MILS for Dependable Information and Communication Infrastructures (D-MILS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3842243.0
EU funding (EUR): 2850000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Modern critical systems bear great responsibilities and face escalating challenges. Distributed systems for critical applications are costly and time-consuming to develop and to certify. Since there is little automated support for early assurance that a system faithfully implements its architectural design and satisfies its requirements, qualification testing and certification processes often reveal deficiencies that require costly late changes. MILS provides compositional system construction and assurance, leveraging individually developed and assured components to predict and assure the properties of composite systems. By providing a modular high-assurance platform and a framework for the certification of systems built on that platform. MILS reduces the cost and time for development, certification, and maintenance of dependable systems. Distributed MILS relies on extensions to a MILS separation kernel and the addition of a MILS network subsystem using a hardware-based, time-triggered Ethernet “backplane”. It will be possible, for the first time, for an application architecture to seamlessly span multiple computer systems, with scalable deterministic operation over a set of nodes, opening many new practical application areas for MILS. Automated assistance, as being developed and applied in this project, is indispensable for the development and verification of dependable distributed systems. System architects, developers, integrators, installers, operators, and particularly the organizations and populations that depend on critical systems, will benefit from the resulting assurances that many of the sources of errors that lead to added cost and dangerous failures of critical systems can be eliminated. Results of the Distributed MILS project will establish a common framework for critical system construction and certification, encouraging innovation among component and service suppliers, and leading to improved dependability while reducing the cost to develop, certify and deploy trustworthy critical systems in the EU.

Keywords: assurance,verification,security policy architecture,declarative languages
Distributed computing, storage and radio resource allocation over cooperative femtocells (TROPIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,Czechia,France,Spain,Indonesia,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4581171.0
EU funding (EUR): 3390000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Femtocell networks are currently seen as a new communication paradigm for the ever increasing ubiquitous wireless traffic demands. Being pervasive by nature, its proximity to the subscriber opens a new world of possibilities for the development of applications. Among them, cloud computing services demanded by smartphones could be moved from large server farms to HeNBs, provided that these are equipped with computational and storage resources, thus improving user experience on latency and download/upload speed. TROPIC addresses this scenario by exploiting advanced MP2MP communications schemes, innovative virtualization procedures, and a cross-layer approach to the allocation of resources understood in a wide sense: radio, computational/storage capacity and energy. TROPIC work programme includes the definition and characterization of the system level building blocks and their required interfaces for the implementation of a full system emulator and the development of a proof of concept platform.

Keywords: femtocell networks,cloud computing,resource allocation,advanced mp2mp communication,lte standardisation
Model and Inference Driven, Automated testing of Services architectures (MIDAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,France,Italy,Germany,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4302444.0
EU funding (EUR): 3293000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The subject of this proposal is a three year project whose objective is an integrated framework for SOA testing automation that will be available as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) on a cloud infrastructure. The framework spans all the testing activities: test generation, execution, evaluation, planning and scheduling, on the functional, interaction, fault tolerance, security and usage-based testing aspects. The focus is on SOA testing, i.e. on black box testing of single services and on grey-box testing of services architectures. The test execution environment will be based on a distributed TTCN-3 runtime environment. The testing methods and technologies that are investigated and prototyped in the project are beyond the state of the art, particularly on model-based testing, model checking of choreographies for sound interaction test scenarios, fuzzing for security testing, usage-based testing, probabilistic inference reasoning about test evaluation, planning and scheduling. After the specification of the framework architecture and of the detailed interfaces between its components, the project activity will follow best practices such as: (a) agile and concurrent component research and prototyping (b) incremental integration and short testing/debugging cycle of the platform. An important project objective is the pilot application of the MIDAS framework to two real-world services architectures, in the domains of healthcare and supply chain management. Another important activity is a research about the economic impact of the inadequate (SOA) testing infrastructure. Amongst dissemination activities, it should be noticed the partners participation to European and international standard bodies, organizations and projects (ETSI, CEN, OMG, HL7, IHE) in order to promote the MIDAS results and approach. The MIDAS partners are universities, research centers and small and medium size innovative enterprises and for-no-profit organizations.

Keywords: bayesian,black-box,bpmn,choreography,cloud,eclipse,fuzzing,grey-box,hssp,mda,model-based,ocl,paas,service,soa,test,testing,ttcn-3,uml,usage-based,verification,validation,wsdl
Integrated Intelligent Learning Environment for Reading and Writing (ILEARNRW)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Malta,United Kingdom,Romania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2326601.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to contribute towards a move away of traditional assistive software which uses a computer simply as an alternative to pen and paper and develop next generation learning software which uses a computer to facilitate the learning process for children with dyslexia and/or dysorthographia. The ILearnRW learning environment will demonstrate the following features: 1. User modeling. A profile for each learner should be built. The profile should include, among others, the type of dyslexia and the errors the user is most likely to make. 2. Teaching strategies. The interaction of a learning system with a child should be based on a teaching strategy that supports the individual user in fulfilling her specific learning goals. 3. Classification of learning material. Content classification must be a major component in any content management system. To think about it, a tutor helping a child to learn reading/writing always selects appropriate learning material based on the child’s needs and capabilities. 4. Personalized content presentation. If we know the errors the user is likely to make, we can enrich the text presentation with visual cues by combining highlighting, text-reformatting and word segmentation. In addition, the type of dyslexia should also influence the presentation. 5. Engaging learning activities. High degree of learner engagement is sought in any learning activity. To achieve this goal, we integrate learning activities into serious games. A creative game scenario, coupled with a positive reinforcement mechanism, will extend child’s engagement. 6. Evaluation of learning. When a game is coupled with a game usage logging mechanism, data collected related to the user’s actions may lead to a quantitative assessment of learning. 7. On-line resource bank. Coherent collections of data which support specific teaching strategies should be accessible to learners and educators. The ILearnRW environment will support the English and Greek languages

Keywords: technology-enhanced learning,educational technologies,adaptive personalized educational content presentation,engaging learning,serious games,universal access to learning.
Coupling effects in magnetic patterned nanostructures (COEF-MAGNANO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,France,Spain,Türkiye,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 323400.0
EU funding (EUR): 323400.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The scientific objective of this programme is to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of magnetically coupled systems of reduced dimensionality. Spin configuration, magnetic and electrical properties of patterned nanostructures will be investigated in three kinds of magnetically coupled materials: antiferromagnetic / ferromagnetic (AF/FM), very thin multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and superconducting / ferromagnetic (SC/FM) bilayers. Thin films will be patterned constraining lateral dimensions in the range of 50 nm to 200 microns. These dimensions are comparable to typical magnetic length scales as domain wall width and spin diffusion length, thus novel phenomena and spin configurations are expected as the size of these elements becomes smaller. Coupling interactions in patterned magnetic systems have attracted much attention due to both still open challenging issues in nanomagnetism and the technological implications in spintronics devices, storage media, biological sensor, and logic units. Four Work packages reveal the challenges and objectives of this proposal. The effect of magnetic coupling in: i) the formation of a vortex state in dots with an in-depth magnetic profile (FeF2/FeNi), ii) competing anisotropy nanostructures (IrMn/FeCo), iii) the domain configuration in YBaCuO/FM hybrid heterostructures, and iv) the stability of Co/CoFeB nanoelements with perpendicular anisotropy, will be systematically investigated. The proposed exchange scheme will train young and experienced researchers from eleven high-class research centers in state-of-the-art nanofabrication and characterization techniques. The success of this project is only possible combining capacities and facilities from all partners.

Keywords: p211 magnetism,p208 superconductivity,p212 nanophysics,p210 spintronics
Asymptotics of Operator Semigroups (AOS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,France,Germany,Poland,Czechia,France,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 109200.0
EU funding (EUR): 109200.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The theory of asymptotic behaviour of operator semigroups is a comparatively new field serving as a common denominator for many other areas of mathematics, such as for instance the theory of partial differential equations, complex analysis, harmonic analysis and topology. The primary interest in the study of asymptotic properties of strongly continuous operator semi-groups comes from the fact that such semigroups solve abstract Cauchy problems which are often models for various phenomena arising in natural sciences, engineering and economics. Knowledge of the asymptotics of semigroups allows one to determine the character of long-time evolution of these phenomena. Despite an obvious importance, the asymptotic theory of one-parameter strongly continuous operator semigroups was for a very long time a collection of scattered facts rather than an organized area of research. The interest increased in the 1980s and the theory has witnessed a dramatic development over the past thirty years. Still there is a number of notorious open problems that have been left open. These missing blocks prevent the theory from being complete, slow down the development of the theory and discourage specialists from related fields to engage into the theory. The goal of the project is to give new impetus to the theory of asymptotic behavior of operator semigroups. To this aim we plan to extend and unify various aspects of the asymptotic theory of operator semigroups: stability, hyperbolicity, rigidity, boundedness, relations to Fredholm property, to work out new methods and to solve several long-standing open problems thus giving the theory its final shape. We intend to create an international forum that enables and promotes a multi- and cross- disciplinary exchange of ideas, methods and tools under the common umbrella of asymptotic theory of operator semigroups. Thus we expect that, moreover, a wide range of modern analysis will benefit from the project.

Keywords: operator semigroup,stability,rates of decay,resolvent,hyperbolicity,multiplier,witten index,trace class,power bounded,cayley transform,blum-hanson property,rigidity,recurrence,mixing