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Lightweight Verification of Software (LIVESOFT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2013-CoG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999320.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999320.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

As illustrated through the advent of cloud computing, cyberphysical systems, or the Internet of Things, more and more applications are inherently distributed. At the same time, programming distributed systems is notoriously hard. Programmers have to deal with asynchrony and have to cater for partial failures -- the possibility that certain communication(s), processes, or hosts fail while others remain operational. These failures can have drastic consequences such as the missing to react to critical events or inconsistent states respectively. Limitations on existing hardware infrastructure necessitate subtle assumptions on system and failure models though to achieve efficient yet complex algorithmic solutions, whose implementation is prone to delicate defects. Existing techniques for engineering reliable distributed systems software require much effort (e.g., program annotations in the form of invariants) thus discouraging many developers from their use; other techniques require developers to explicitly run specific tools (e.g., model checkers) which are thus easily left out and still can not achieve complete validation. LiveSoft investigates static techniques to verify a subset of relevant and failure-prone aspects of distributed software --- interaction between components --- in a way which is lightweight and can be integrated with compilation. Our techniques will be able to sieve out many important defects upfront by pushing software reliability into the software design process. To that end LiveSoft proposes protocol types which leverage experiences with session types yet focus on fault-tolerant distributed systems by emphasizing asynchrony, failure handling and recovery, protocol composition, security, and parameterization. A main challenge is to support different system and failure models including emerging hardware trends such as hardware transactional memory and non-volatile memory rather than hardwiring speicific notions of (a)synchrony and failures.

Keywords: type,type system,distributed,software,cloud,protocol,verification,failure
Photon-Spin Entanglement in Hybrid Cluster State Architectures (PHOENICS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2013-CoG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1739499.0
EU funding (EUR): 1739499.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The last decade has witnessed quantum mechanics and information science merge for the debut of experimental quantum information processing. Despite the number of promising physical systems as candidates for quantum bits, scalability via a brute force approach faces serious technical obstacles. Developing distributed quantum networks is possibly the answer to the stringent demand of controllable interaction between high quality qubits. In these systems, the requirements are on the stationary qubits – they need to be both isolated and accessible. The requirements on the flying qubits are that they need to be of reproducibly high quality, identical, and also they need to be able to interface well with the stationary qubits. We propose to realize an operational distributed solid-state quantum network relying on confined spins in quantum dots as qubits connected via a shared optical interconnection net used via single photons as flying qubits. Key milestones include high fidelity distant spin entanglement generation, implementation of spin entanglement purification, and formation of spin-photon hybrid cluster states in order to perform one-way quantum computation protocols with incorporated memory. Significant efforts will be devoted in tandem for the grand challenge of efficient in/out coupling of light in these systems with initial investigations suggest efficiencies approaching unity can be achieved within the proposed timeline.
Accelerating Neuromuscular Treatment Selection (ANTES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neuromuscular disorders (NMDs) affect an estimated 300.000 people in Europe and no therapies are available for these highly incapacitating and lethal disorders. In the last few years, this status quo has shifted dramatically with the appearance of new RNA therapies targeting several of these disorders. Several clinical trials are currently underway but future development is being slowed due to several motives, mainly related to the requirement of personalised approaches for rarer mutations and to technical difficulties to evaluate the effects of these new therapies on relevant biological outcome measures. I have been awarded a fellowship to develop a platform to streamline drug development for NMDs by combining several resources: immortalized control and patients’ cells, specific antibodies and new imaging techniques to be able to measure immunostained cultured cells directly in plate format. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) will be the first NMD that will benefit from this approach. Several therapeutic approaches aim to restore dystrophin expression in DMD: gene therapy, stem cell therapy, nonsense mutation read-through and redirection of splicing with antisense oligonucleotides (AOs). A reliable quantitative method to measure dystrophin in cell culture is not yet available and this project will develop such system, which will not only speed up development of new AOs targeting less common mutations, but also be the stepping stone that we will use to expand the platform not only to find treatments to other NMDs, but also possibly as a diagnostic tool for some of them.

Keywords: neuromuscular disorders dystrophin duchenne muscular dystrophy rna therapy
Global to Local Impacts of Flow over Orography (GLIMFLO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Developing accurate forecasts for weather, climate and meteorological natural hazards has become a priority due to the ensuing savings in human lives and property damage. Mountain waves affect the atmosphere over a wide range of scales, causing severe local weather phenomena such as downslope windstorms, lee-wave rotors and clear-air turbulence, which are also important aviation hazards. However, the triggering mechanisms controlling these phenomena are still largely unknown, and methods used to model them operationally have a weak physical basis. My research will bridge the conceptual gap currently existing between our understanding of such phenomena at low and high amplitude, via a combination of theory and numerical simulations. I will assess the triggering mechanisms and controlling parameters of downslope windstorms, lee-wave rotors and clear-air turbulence. At larger scales, the drag force associated with mountain waves decelerates the atmospheric circulation, and must be parametrized in global weather and climate models, leading to temperature errors in excess of 10K in the polar stratosphere if omitted. Substantial imbalances in the modelled angular momentum budget of the Earth suggest that the impact of vertical wind shear on mountain wave drag, currently neglected in drag parametrizations in all global forecast models, should be included. I have developed the theory necessary to do this. Through partnerships with the UK Met Office and ECMWF, I will perform high-resolution verification of drag parametrizations that take wind shear into account, implement them, and test their impact on forecast skill. My appointment to the University of Reading as a Lecturer (in one of the top Meteorology departments in Europe) provides optimal conditions to increase the impact of my research, interact with highly skilled colleagues and maintain, as well as enhance, my collaborations abroad, giving me the opportunity to become a leading specialist in Mountain Meteorology.

Keywords: downslope windstorms,lee-wave rotors,clear-air turbulence,natural hazards,environmental modelling,gravity wave drag parameterization
Graphene-enabled on-chip supercontinuum light sources (GRAPHENICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Poland,Austria,Canada
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-C, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1184805.0
EU funding (EUR): 923409.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

To pave the way towards the widespread application of on-chip mid-infrared(MIR)-pumped nonlinear supercontinuum light sources, we want to introduce a paradigm shift in integrated nonlinear optics. Rather than relying on non-standard waveguide designs, large waveguide footprints, bulky MIR pump lasers and/or limited spectral coverage in strategies that could never comply with the requirements for widespread deployment, we target a major advance based on novel material physics and device design, eliminating these issues. Our goal is to develop a near-infrared(NIR)- and MIR-emitting, ultra-compact on-chip supercontinuum light source by exploiting practically unexplored optical nonlinearities of standard silicon waveguides covered with graphene. This groundbreaking dual-band source will be realized by cascading two devices which are based on graphene-covered standard silicon waveguides, and which enable for the first time broadband self-phase modulation in the MIR and power-efficient second harmonic generation in the NIR within an ultra-compact chip footprint. To ensure that the entire supercontinuum device including the pump laser is compact, we will in addition develop a novel, small-sized, and practical modelocked MIR Tm-Ho fiber laser to pump the supercontinuum generation. These breakthroughs carry a highly novel and foundational character, and fit very well within the framework of the FET Open FP7-ICT-2013-C call. Since the partners involved in this project have both the knowledge and the equipment to model, design, fabricate and pump graphene-based nonlinear optical devices, our consortium holds all necessary skills required to successfully carry out this “high-gain/high-risk” project. In doing so, we will lay the foundations for graphene-on-silicon-based nonlinear photonic integrated circuits, and at the same time pave the way to the extensive use of on-chip supercontinuum light sources in real-life applications.

Keywords: integrated nonlinear optics,supercontinuum generation,graphene-covered silicon waveguides,second- and third-order nonlinearity,standard waveguide design,mid-infrared modelocked fiber pump laser
Non-genetic mechanisms of intrinsic antimicrobial resistance (NONANTIRES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NONANTIRES is a groundbreaking project to discover alternative ways for controlling the problem of infection treatment failures due to multidrug antimicrobial resistance. Specifically, my efforts will focus on Gram-negative bacterial opportunistic pathogens that exhibit pan-antibiotic, intrinsic resistance. My team has recently uncovered a novel resistance mechanism based on a cooperative behaviour of bacterial populations that show a heterogeneous response to antibiotics. Highly antibiotic resistant cells in low proportion within a heterogeneous population protect the majority of less resistant cells, as well as less resistant cells of other species. Protection depends on augmented production and release of bacterial molecules that diffuse to the medium and mediate increased antibiotic resistance. My team has obtained proof of principle that inhibiting the synthesis pathways for these molecules confers reduced bacterial resistance to bactericidal antibiotics. NONANTIRES's vision is to establish the molecular mechanism of protection and discover new molecules that will act as antibiotic adjuvants, ultimately providing better therapeutic solutions for combatting multidrug resistant microbes

Keywords: polyamines,membrane proteins,ycei,antibiotic resistance,antimicrobial peptides,outer membrane,gram-negative bacteria,cystic fibrosis,burkholderia cepacia,oxidation,heteroresistance
Nano Photonic Optical Link (NAPOLI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 72916.67
EU funding (EUR): 72916.67
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In today’s ware house sized computers the interconnection of individual processing cores is limiting the total system performance. Interconnects already take up about 50% of the systems power consumption and this value increases with system complexity. Optical interconnects are nowadays employed for rack-to-rack communication to overcome this “interconnect bottleneck” by reducing space requirements and power consumption. In the future, such optical technologies must penetrate deeper in the system design and be applied for chip-to-chip, or even on-chip interconnection to sustain the exponential growth of computer performance. New approaches are needed to meet the extreme requirements in integration density, power consumption and cost for optical interconnects in future high performance computers. By exploring the limits of miniaturization and energy efficiency in integrated active optical components we want to demonstrate a compact optical link and assess the potential of nanophotonic technology for integrated optical chip-to-chip or even on-chip interconnects. We will employ metallo-dielectric cavities to shrink the footprint of devices, which in turn will increase operation speed, reduce power consumption and allow efficient cooling of the highly integrated devices through the metal surfaces. We will develop a first waveguide coupled nanolaser, demonstrate optical detectors with record small footprint and demonstrate for the first time an optical interconnect that satisfies the requirements of future computing systems with respect to transmission density, power consumption and device size. The acquired techniques will directly contribute to the development of a photonic technology platform. Such innovations in photonic technology are essential to overcome the interconnect bottleneck and enable next generation computing technology.

Keywords: optical interconnect,photonic integration,nanophotonics,laser,optical detector
SESAME - Software Defined Wireless Backhaul for Small Cells (SESAME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The forecasted traffic growth in mobile networks is one of the biggest challenges faced by the mobile industry. In addition, declining average revenues per user (ARPUs) and rising costs of ownership increase the difficulties for service providers to fulfill this upcoming demand. Densifying mobile networks by means of adding small cells, which have a limited footprint but high data rates, is seen as the most promising way to cope with this increasing demand. However, one of the biggest challenges to be solved for a successful deployment of such small cells is the question of backhauling, especially when in many cases the backhaul network is expected to be wireless. In SESAME, we plan to study how such a small cell wireless backhaul should be designed. In particular, we propose to apply software defined networking (SDN) techniques to the design of the wireless backhaul, which should allow service providers to: i) have a common management framework for a potentially heterogeneous backhaul network, ii) allow a flexible and dynamic deployment of network services running on top of the backhaul network, and iii) enable new business models such as those involving the sharing of the backhaul network among different service providers, hence reducing capital and operational expenditures. The work methodology followed in SESAME will be an experimental research approach, where the designed concepts and protocols will be evaluated by means of simulations and prototyping. SESAME will potentially impact relevant European and international stakeholders in the software defined networking and in the wireless backhaul arenas. Dissemination and exploitation of the results by means of publications, standard contributions and further collaborations with interested industrial partners is one of the main goals of the project. Finally, the experience of the researcher and of the host institution should guarantee a successful execution of the project.

Keywords: small cells,wireless backhaul,software defined networking,openflow
Food security, Agriculture, Climate Change ERA-NET plus (FACCE ERA NET PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FACCE ERA NET PLUS (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Cyprus,Czechia,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Norway,Romania,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2013-RTD, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12135852.25
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the FACCE-ERA-NET+ Action is to organise, implement and fund a joint call for transnational research projects on the topic of climate change adaptation, which is a core research theme of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE–JPI) and thus to contribute to the delivery of the FACCE–JPI Strategic Research Agenda. It will thereby also contribute to the overall EU objective of building the European Research Area through enhanced cooperation and coordination of national research programmes. This FACCE-ERA-NET+ Action, in providing the means for a joint call, will be one of the actions of the JPI aimed at aligning research programming among its members over the long term so as to increase the efficiency of research funding, cover gaps, avoid duplications and provide high-level innovative research in Europe. It will contribute to the goal of FACCE–JPI to organise multiple simultaneous joint actions toward the achievement of its goals. The participating countries of FACCE – JPI have agreed that climate change adaptation is a research priority and the majority have committed funding to this ERA-NET Plus action. The ERA-NET Plus instrument is particularly adapted for the JPI as it provides additional incentive to participating countries to engage financially on a core theme of high interest at national and regional levels throughout Europe.

Keywords: joint call,programme alignement,trans-national projects,climate change,adaptation,agriculture,food security,innovative research
Intelligent Automated Methods for Monitoring Agriculture with Remote Sensing (IAM4MARS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Remote sensing images have been a significant information source for many different applications, especially for monitoring agricultural and environmental resources. Yet knowledge extraction from them is often performed by domain experts using heavily interactive computer-aided photo-interpretations due to lack of powerful automated methods. Improved spatial/spectral resolution in recent years provides details for precise monitoring, in expense of making the problem even more complicated. For monitoring agriculture in Europe, we will innovatively propose an unsupervised automated method (with limited interaction) based on advanced similarity criteria utilizing spectral/spatial characteristics and on manifold learning techniques for clustering large data sets of very-high resolution images. This will provide a fast and accurate approach for assessment of agricultural systems at the community level, which is currently done by expert image analysis. In addition, the research addressed here (novel similarity criteria harnessing different types of information and hybrid clustering), which will certainly contribute to the EU’s research excellence in remote-sensing and data mining, are expected to be advantageous for other remote-sensing applications, and also for clustering other large data sets. This will lead to interdisciplinary applications of the proposed study resulting in greater applicability beyond agricultural monitoring (which has already a broad application area encompassing whole EU, concerning about 9 million farmers and 140 million reference parcels). The CIG will integrate Dr. Taşdemir, an early career researcher with postdoctoral experience at EC Joint Research Centre (where he received the best young scientist award) and a PhD from Rice University, USA (where he received an award for contributions to graduate life), to establish his lab at Antalya International University, for research training and attracting talented individuals in the remote-sensing.

Keywords: agriculture monitoring,remote-sensing image,very high resolution,pixel-based clustering,spectral clustering,similarity criteria,object-based image analysis,land parcel identification systems