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Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems (SAPERE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Austria,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): 3026880.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of SAPERE is the development of a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios. The framework will be grounded on a foundational re-thinking of current service models and of associated infrastructures and algorithms. In particular, getting inspiration from natural ecosystems, the project will demonstrate and experiment the possibility of modelling and deploying services as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices, and of enforcing self-awareness and autonomic behaviours as inherent properties of the ecosystem, rather than as peculiar characteristics of its individuals only. The specific objectives that will be pursued in a tightly orchestrated way by the proposal, each contributing to the overall definition of the integrated SAPERE framework, include: • Defining an innovative model for service and data components in the ecosystem, based on a simple concept of self-aware components and a general nature-inspired interaction model; • Studying and experimenting decentralized self-* algorithms to enforce various forms of spatial self-organization, self-composition, and self-management for data and services in the ecosystem; • Studying and experimenting solutions to support advanced management of data and situation identification, to inject advanced forms of present- and future-awareness in the ecosystem; • Implementing an innovative, lightweight and modular infrastructure for the deployment and execution of services, and for the management of contextual data items. The effectiveness of the proposed solutions and of the overall SAPERE framework will be experienced and evaluated in selected use cases in the area of “adaptive and decentralized pervasive services”.

Keywords: pervasive computing self-organization self-adaptation middleware
Molecular Biomimetics and Magnets Biomineralization: Towards Swimming Nanorobots (MB2)

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: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1485000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1485000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nature not only provides inspiration for designing new materials but also teaches us how to use interparticle and external forces to structure and assemble these building blocks into functional entities. Magnetotactic bacteria and their chain of magnetosome represent a striking example of such an accomplishment where a simple living organism precisely tune the properties of inorganics that in turn guide the cell movement thereby providing an energetic advantage vs. the non-magnetotactic counterparts. In this project, we will develop a bio-inspired research based on magnetotactic bacteria. We will combine the recent developments of nanoscale engineering in the chemical science and the latest advances in molecular biology to create a novel methodology enabling first, the understanding of the control of biological determinants over single inorganic building blocks at the nanoscale and over highly-organized hierarchical structures, and second, the use of these biomacromolecules to construct new functional materials. We will use phage display to genetically select peptides specifically binding to magnetite and look for homology within the available genomes of the different strains of magnetotactic bacteria in order to detect promising biological determinants. We will screen the identified compounds by our in-house developed high-throughput technique based on force microscopy. On the one hand, the effect of the high potential biological determinant on the properties of magnetic nanoparticles will be tested under physiological conditions in biomimetic reactor. On the other hand, we will use the knowledge gained from the binding capacities of the peptides to functionalize magnetite nanoparticles and assemble them in order to eventually form a swimming nanorobots that can be directed by an external magnetic field while transporting beads.

Keywords: magnetotactic bacteria,biomineralization,molecular biomimetics,nanomagnetism,self-assembly,nanorobots,multifunctional materials
Semidefinite Programming with Applications in Statistical Learning (SIPA)

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: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1148460.0
EU funding (EUR): 1148460.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Interior point algorithms and a dramatic growth in computing power have revolutionized optimization in the last two decades. Highly nonlinear problems which were previously thought intractable are now routinely solved at reasonable scales. Semidefinite programs (i.e. linear programs on the cone of positive semidefinite matrices) are a perfect example of this trend: reasonably large, highly nonlinear but convex eigenvalue optimization problems are now solved efficiently by reliable numerical packages. This in turn means that a wide array of new applications for semidefinite programming have been discovered, mimicking the early development of linear programming. To cite only a few examples, semidefinite programs have been used to solve collaborative filtering problems (e.g. make personalized movie recommendations), approximate the solution of combinatorial programs, optimize the mixing rate of Markov chains over networks, infer dependence patterns from multivariate time series or produce optimal kernels in classification problems. These new applications also come with radically different algorithmic requirements. While interior point methods solve relatively small problems with a high precision, most recent applications of semidefinite programming in statistical learning for example form very large-scale problems with comparatively low precision targets, programs for which current algorithms cannot form even a single iteration. This proposal seeks to break this limit on problem size by deriving reliable first-order algorithms for solving large-scale semidefinite programs with a significantly lower cost per iteration, using for example subsampling techniques to considerably reduce the cost of forming gradients. Beyond these algorithmic challenges, the proposed research will focus heavily on applications of convex programming to statistical learning and signal processing theory where optimization and duality results quantify the statistical performance of coding or variable selection algorithms for example. Finally, another central goal of this work will be to produce efficient, customized algorithms for some key problems arising in machine learning and statistics.

Keywords: semidefinite programming,convex optimization,complexity,machine learning,compressed sensing.
Multi-platform remote sensing of isotopologues for investigating the cycle of atmospheric water (MUSICA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: Germany,Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

MUSICA aims to understand the atmospheric water cycle and its interplay with climate change applying unique long-term high quality and global remote sensing observations of tropospheric stable water vapour isotopologues. It is well established that water in its various forms plays a dominant role in nearly all aspects of the Earth s climate system. Understanding the full cycle of evaporation, cloud formation, and precipitation is of highest scientific priority for predicting climate change. The ratio of the isotopologues (e.g. HD16O/H216O) is affected by evaporation, condensation, and cloud processes, and offers a unique opportunity for investigating how water moves through the troposphere. Incorporating isotopologues in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCM) and comparing the isotopologue simulations to observations has the potential to test the models ability of reproducing the global atmospheric water cycle and its interplay with climate change. So far this research field has not been explored due to the lack of consistent, long-term, high-quality, and area-wide observational data. MUSICA will for the first time combine long-term ground- and space-based remote sensing measurements in a consistent manner, and will generate novel tropospheric HD16O/H216O data, taking benefit from both the high and well documented quality of the ground-based observations and the wide geographical coverage of the space-based observations. This unique observational data set will allow a new dimension of water cycle research. MUSICA will collaborate with the Stable Water Isotope Intercomparison Group (SWING) in order to improve current state-of-the-art water isotope AGCMs. MUSICA will investigate and improve the understanding of tropospheric water vapour sources and transport pathways, and empirically assess how well climate feedbacks are captured by current climate models and thereby it will constrain a major uncertainty of climate projections.

Keywords: isotopologue observations,combined remote sensing,water cycle research,climate change,climate models
Understanding the Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene as Quantum Conductors (NANO-GRAPHENE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: France,France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1041240.0
EU funding (EUR): 1041240.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In low-dimensional systems the strength of electronic interactions is enhanced, which can give rise to fascinating phenomena such as charge fractionalization, spin-charge separation and fractional or non-Abelian statistics. Furthermore, the effects of disorder and external factors (such as the substrate, the leads, magnetic fields, or the coupling with a gate or an STM tip), are much stronger in low-dimensional systems than in three-dimensional systems, and can greatly alter their properties. The first goal of this project is to find experimental signatures of the exotic phenomena caused by interactions, both in carbon nanotubes, and in regular and graphene fractional quantum Hall systems. The second goal is to understand how the interplay between disorder, interactions and external factors impacts the physics and the possible technological use of nanotubes and graphene in electronic nanodevices. To achieve these goals I intend to calculate theoretically quantities measurable by electronic transport, such as the conductance and the noise, in particular the noise at high-frequencies, as well as quantities measurable by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), such as the local density of states (LDOS). Furthermore I intend to analyze and explain the recently developed STM experiments on graphene, and to propose new STM measurements that will elucidate the physics of graphene in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Some of the theoretical techniques that I plan to use are the perturbative non-equilibrium Keldysh formalism, conformal field theory and the Bethe ansatz, the T-matrix approximation, the Born approximation and numerical methods such as ab-initio and recursive Green's functions.

Keywords: graphene,carbon nanotubes,scanning tunneling microscopy,shot noise
Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems (NESSOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Switzerland,France,Belgium,Germany,Norway,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5247432.0
EU funding (EUR): 3800000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems (NESSoS) aims at constituting and integrating a long lasting research community on engineering secure software-based services and systems. The NESSoS engineering of secure software services is based on the principle of addressing security concerns from the very beginning in system analysis and design, thus contributing to reduce the amount of system and service vulnerabilities and enabling the systematic treatment of security needs through the engineering process. In light of the unique security requirements the Future Internet will expose, new results will be achieved by means of an integrated research, as to improve the necessary assurance level and to address risk and cost during the software development cycle in order to prioritize and manage investments. NESSoS will integrate the research labs involved; NESSoS will re-address, integrate, harmonize and foster the research activities in the necessary areas, and will increase and spread the research excellence. NESSoS will also impact training and education activities in Europe to grow a new generation of skilled researchers and practitioners in the area. NESSoS will collaborate with industrial stakeholders to improve the industry best practices and support a rapid growth of software-based service systems in the Future Internet. The research excellence of NESSoS will contribute to increase the trustworthiness of the Future Internet by improving the overall security of software services and systems. This will support European competitiveness in this vital area.

Keywords: secure service engineering,future internet,software assurance
Novel multimodal endoscopic probes for simultaneous PET/ultrasound imaging for image-guided interventions (ENDOTOFPET-US)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,France,France,Portugal,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10453976.76
EU funding (EUR): 5516001.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

In the frame of this project it is proposed to define and build a bi-modal PET-US (Positron Emission Tomography and Ultrasound) endoscopic probe combining in a miniaturized system a fully digital, 200ps time resolution Time of Flight PET detector head (TOF-PET) coupled to a commercial ultrasound (US) assisted biopsy endoscope and to launch the first steps of clinical validation. The project addresses and combines several objectives of the topics Health 2010.1.2-1, such as novel multimodality imaging tools, including a single photon (quantum) counting PET detector head for the purpose of identifying and quantifying morphologic and functional markers and of developing new biomarkers of tumoral processes at the preclinical and clinical levels. Moreover the endoscopic approach, combined with an unprecedented PET timing resolution will allow more sensitive, more precise, lower radiation dose and less invasive imaging and intervention on small internal structures and lesions.

Keywords: biologic marker,functional marker,biomarker,pet,positron emission tomography,time of flight,endoscopy,endosonography,dose reduction,minimally invasive surgery
String Cosmology and Observational Signatures (STRINGCOSMOS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1146240.0
EU funding (EUR): 1146240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The big bang and its immediate aftermath remain one of the great mysteries in science, and it is likely that only an inter-disciplinary approach using both fundamental particle physics and cosmology will get us closer to understanding the origin of our universe. Currently the most promising framework for a theory of all particles and forces is string theory; however, it has been notoriously difficult to address cosmological issues within the theory. Only in the last few years has it been possible to construct stringy inflationary models as well as radically new string-inspired models, such as the cyclic universe. This research project proposes to explore string cosmology by focusing on the characteristic elements of string theoretic models: string dynamics (typically leading to non-canonical kinetic terms and many relevant light fields), brane dynamics (inter-brane forces, their motion, collision and eventual stabilization), holographic approaches (in particular attempts at understanding the big bang using the AdS/CFT correspondence), violations of the null energy condition (ubiquitous in string cosmology, but not much explored to date) and intersecting brane constructions. These characteristic elements are equally relevant for both inflation and the cyclic universe, and they will therefore be used to identify distinct observational signatures of the string theoretic cosmological models, for example with regard to gravitational waves or the statistics of primordial temperature fluctuations in the cosmic radiation left over from the big bang. Combined with the upcoming precision cosmological data from ground and satellite experiments, this research has the potential to significantly enhance our knowledge of both fundamental theory and cosmology and, therefore, to shed light on the question of the origin and fate of our universe.

Keywords: big bang,string theory,early universe
ACcess To Micro-Optics Expertise, Services and Technologies (ACTMOST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Poland,France,Finland,Belgium,Norway,Germany,Germany,France,Poland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1844112.0
EU funding (EUR): 1200000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Micro-optics holds tremendous potential for SMEs and large companies to develop competitive products and to boost product innovation. Micro-optics however continuously requires advanced knowledge as well as a complex technology supply chain, which are very often not affordable. This project targets to pro-actively provide companies with timely, cost-effective, investment-free Access to a unique “one-stop-shop” European Centre To Micro-Optics Expertise, Services and Technologies “ACTMOST”. The access of predominantly SMEs to leading edge technology and knowledge provided by the ACTMOST partners will be realized by them through focused collaborations in so called user projects and through hands-on training of industry staff in highly advanced laboratories of the ACTMOST research institutions. ACTMOST also targets to develop a business model which would enable continuation of SME and company support without public funding. As such ACTMOST intends to be a major driving force to sustainably support European industry in keeping a leading position in micro-optic and micro-photonic enhanced products, thus strengthening the competitiveness of Europe and creating new jobs.

Keywords: micro-optics,optical design and technology support,access center,hands-on training
Legal Technical Framework for Privacy Preserving Data Management (ENDORSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Netherlands,Austria,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3676730.0
EU funding (EUR): 2749992.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Privacy and data protection are of concern to many stakeholders, including the data subjects (end-users), the data controllers (organisations) as well as legislative bodies, data protection agencies, consumer rights organisations and human rights advocates. End-users require assurances that their personal data is being fairly and correctly collected and managed for purposes for which they, ideally, have given explicit consent and is done so in a transparent manner. Organisations collecting personal data need to ensure that the data management practices employed are in compliance with legal requirements and not subject to misuse by its employees. These data protection requirements introduce an overhead (both financial and operational). For european SMEs, the need to ensure compliance can lead to a disproportionate cost when compared to core activities, inhibiting growth and opportunities in competitive global markets. What can help is an open source toolset which allows organisations to ensure that their personal data management policies are compliant with the appropriate legislation. ENDORSE will bring together a consortium of data protection legal experts, academic computer science partners, software implementors and interested industry players. The project will produce a privacy rule definition language which will be used to express the appropriate European directives together with national legislative implementations. The language and these legislative instances along with the toolset to create legally compliant privacy policies will be released as open source. A set of open source technology adapters will take these policies as input and produce access control specifications for deployment in the organisations infrastructure. Two industry players will perform trials using this toolset, a large multi-national insurance organisation and a start-up web based organisation providing voice and video communications services.

Keywords: data protection,privacy,compliance,certification,legislation,trust