Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Dynamics and COevolution in Multi-Level Strategic INteraction GAmeS (CONGAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3420704.0
EU funding (EUR): 2600000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Many real world systems possess a rich multi-level structure and exhibit complex dynamics that are the result of a web of interwoven interactions among elements with autonomous decision-making capabilities. CONGAS will develop new mathematical models and tools, rooted in game theory, for the analysis, prediction and control of dynamical processes in such complex systems. CONGAS will provide a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of structure and patterns in complex systems, accounting for interactions spanning various scales in time and space, and acting at different structural and aggregation levels. This framework will be built around game theoretical concepts, in particular evolutionary and multi-resolution games, and will include also techniques drawn from graph theory, statistical mechanics, control and optimization theory. Specific attention will be devoted to systems that are prone to intermittency and catastrophic events due to the effect of collective dynamics. The theory developed in the project will be validated by considering three use cases, one on the growth of the Internet, one on business ecosystems and one on viral marketing dynamics in Internet marketplaces. The CONGAS Consortium comprises seven universities and research institution and includes leading scientists in game theory, evolutionary games, complex systems science, network science and data-driven analysis of socio-technical systems.

Keywords: complex systems,dynamical processes,game theory,out of equilibrium dynamics,multi-level structure,evolutionary games,multi-resolution games,emergence,tipping points.
Social Collective Intelligence (SOCIAL-IST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276576.0
EU funding (EUR): 231993.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Social-IST Support Action aims at catalysing interdisciplinary collaborations and at organising consultations of multidisciplinary research communities on the theme of Social Collective Intelligence. The term is used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strenghts of humans and groups in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced information and communication technologies. Social Collective Intelligence systems have the potential to radically change the way we approach and tackle global societal challenges. The Social-IST project will deliver a White Paper on research challenges in Social Collective Intelligence and a Roadmap document for possible future FET initiatives in the field. The proposed Support Action will leverage on a multidisciplinary Scientific Panel with leading scientists in the respective fields, that will be brought together in two highly interactive workshops. Online consultations will be run to gather inputs from the scientific community at large. The results of the Support Action will be presented in a final public event, that will target high-profile representatives from academia and industry, together with European Commission delegates.

Keywords: collective intelligence,advanced ict,multidisciplinary,societal challenges,human problem-solving capabilities
MULTI-valued and parallel molecular logic (MULTI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Israel,Italy,Australia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2487237.0
EU funding (EUR): 1900000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

MULTI replaces the familiar sequential model of computation that uses Boolean variables and combinational gates by logic operations that are executed in parallel on devices that have a built-in many state memory and whose inputs and outputs are multivalued. MULTI seeks to design, simulate and experimentally implement proof of principle devices on the atomic and molecular scale. MULTI refers to the unique novel characteristics of the proposed schemes. We use MULTI-level logic variables as opposed to two valued Boolean variables. We use MULTI-variate circuits that act in parallel so that more than one logic function is evaluated at every stage of the computation thereby aiming for parallel circuits. We use MULTI-state inbuilt memories. New functionalities and ground-breaking characteristics of information processing are provided by the radically post-Boolean MULTI approach. As a final thrust, MULTI will explore a post-Turing model of computation by using continuous variables. In MULTI a single atom, molecule or a supra(bio)molecular assembly acts as a logic element. We aim for new foundational principles and for proof of concept of computing in hardware at the level of laboratory experiments. MULTI plans to take advantage of internal degrees of freedom of atoms or molecules to implement logic operations by electrical addressing in the solid state and/or by optical addressing in solution. The dynamics offers time-resolved response and thereby enables parallelism that can be massive because of the many resolvable states. Internal states of different molecules can be made to communicate thereby providing for concatenation. The other route of MULTI is (bio)chemical recognition that offers exquisite control for implementing many state, optically readable finite state machines. Benefits of MULTI approach are higher information rates for inputs and outputs, enhanced rates of processing due to parallelism and computing in memory and exploration of continuous logic.

Keywords: multivalued logic,continuous logic,parallel logic,finite state machines,computing in hardware,2d echo spectroscopy,electrical spectroscopy,dna machines
Research by Experimentation for Dependability on the Internet of Things (RELYONIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2006959.0
EU funding (EUR): 1449909.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

By embracing vast quantities of wireless sensors and actuators, the Future Internet will reach into the real world and provide online access to the state of things and places. The resulting Internet of Things (IoT) is deemed to enable applications of utmost societal value including smart cities, smart grids, and smart healthcare. However, most of these applications pose strict dependability requirements on IoT performance: sensor data and actuation commands must be delivered reliably and timely while batteries powering devices must last for a given time in the order of years. Failure to meet these requirements may result in risks for humans and infrastructures, insufficient user satisfaction, and high costs. Existing IoT solutions do not provide dependable performance. A major reason for this is that embedded wireless sensors and actuators are deeply affected by their often hostile environment. Radio interference from other wireless equipment and electrical appliances impairs communication, temperature and humidity variations affect battery capacity and electronics. RELYonIT will close this gap by providing a systematic framework and toolchain to enable dependable IoT applications by taking into account all relevant environmental properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols. Environment-aware IoT protocols will be developed and automatically configured to meet application-specific dependability requirements. Analyzing and modeling environmental properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols requires experimentation on a large number of different platforms under widely varying environmental conditions. To this end, RELYonIT will not only exploit the scale and diversity of the existing FIRE IoT facilities WISEBED and SmartSantander, but will extend them to allow repetition of an experiment under identical environmental conditions to enable a systematic study of how IoT performance is affected by relevant parameters.

Keywords: future internet,internet of things (iot),dependability,networking protocols,experimentally-driven research,wireless sensor networks,fire
Holistic Approaches for Integrity of ICT-Systems (HINT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,France,France,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5103893.0
EU funding (EUR): 3350000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The security of modern ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems relies fundamentally on the integrity of hardware components. This is the case for user identification and authentication as in smartcards, e-Id, e-Passports, e-health devices or for the integrity checking of computers and mobile systems as in trusted computing and TPMs. But it is also the case for telecommunication infrastructure as e.g. for servers or routers to support cloud computing. Unfortunately, attacks on hardware devices keep on improving. Physical attacks, giving access to internal information, side channel attacks, using passive observations of execution time, power consumption or electro-magnetic radiations, or fault injection attacks using power glitches, light, laser and electro-magnetic perturbations are ‘proven’ ways of retrieving secrets. Today security circuits are protected to a certain level against these attacks, but an absolute protection (Tamper resistance) is unrealistic and the need of extra barriers arises. New security challenges arise: counterfeiting of hardware components is dramatically increasing (some studies indicate from 5 to 20 % of counterfeited components on the market) and the threat of Trojans or hidden functions in Integrated Circuits is moving from theoretical to real. The HINT project addresses these new challenges by proposing the development of novel integrity technologies to guarantee that a system is a genuine, non-modified one including the hardware components. Innovative hardware authentication and integrity checking technologies, based on PUF (Physically Unclonable Functions) and on Physical measurements (Side Channel Analysis) will be developed to offer an extra security barrier based on paradigms complementary to cryptography. The approach is related to the Trusted Computing one, but the major difference is the addition of hardware authentication and hardware integrity checking features to the software integrity checking chain.

Keywords: hardware integrity,physically unclonable functions,robust hardware integrity anchors,holistic integrity checking
Better Understanding of Bugs for Improved Environment (BUGSIE)

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: Italy,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71400.0
EU funding (EUR): 71400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Nezara viridula, a member of the stink bug complex, is cosmopolitan in distribution as it occurs throughout tropical and subtropical regions of Europe, Asia, Africa the Americans and Australasia. This species is extremely polyphagous attacking several plants species, and most of them are economic species. Non-selective insecticides belonging to carbamates, such as monocrotophos, metamidophos, chlorpyrifos, and endosulfan, are currently used to control N. viridula populations. However, it is well known that the massive use of insecticides of this kind not only increases production costs, but can also generate pest-resistant populations by selective pressure. In the view of above, recently the European Parliament established a framework for Community action encouraging the development of alternative eco-sustainable approaches or techniques (Directive 2009/128/EC). Among them, biological control utilizing native natural enemies is expected to become a more important control tactic in the near future. Among natural enemies, parasitoids attacking the hosts at the egg stage are often favoured for biocontrol deployment because they kill the pest before its crop-feeding stage and thus have a high potential for preventing damage. However, biological control programmes using egg-parasitoids have had very variable success rates, as in the case of Trissolcus basalis, the main egg parasitoid of N. viridula that has been extensively used against this pest with inconsistent results. The key to improving success of T. basalis against N. viridula is to collect a good understanding of its biology, behaviour and ecology. The proposed work is consistent with increasing global recognition that agro-ecology has to be the approach for future farming. It therefore supports the conclusions and recommendations of the United Nations. The project brings together internationally recognized groups in biological control of insect pests aiming to address the common problem of food security.

Keywords: v101,v201,v301,v403,v410
Industry-Driven Elastic and Adaptive Lambda Infrastructure for Service and Transport Networks (IDEALIST)

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,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12515004.0
EU funding (EUR): 7993000.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Traffic demand is increasing dramatically, year on year, with typical growth figures of up to 60% for Internet based traffic. Such traffic increase is impacting on both network costs and power consumption. Moreover, traffic is not only increasing but becoming much more dynamic, both in time and direction. For these reasons, transport network evolution from current DWDM systems towards elastic optical networks, based on flexgrid transmission and switching technologies, could significantly increase both transport network scalability and flexibility. Further benefits come from multilayer interworking mechanisms enabling electronic switching technologies (IP/MPLS, OTN, etc) to directly control the bandwidth of the Bandwidth Variable Transponders (BVT) for optical bandwidth optimization purposes. This then defines the key objective behind IDEALIST: To research in detail a cost and power efficient transport network architecture able to carry a wide range of signal bandwidths, each of which will be varying in real time in direction and magnitude, and some of which will be extremely large and possibly exceeding 1Tb/s. The network architecture proposed by IDEALIST is based on four technical pillars: • Transport systems enabling flexible transmission and switching beyond 400Gbps per channel. • Control plane architecture for multilayer and multidomain elastic optical networks. • Dynamic network resources allocation at both IP and elastic optical layers • Multilayer network optimization tools enabling both off-line planning and on-line network re-optimization in elastic optical networks. The intention is that the IDEALIST network architecture will be easily industrialised. Therefore, feasibility studies and experimental implementation and demonstration of prototypes will be key activities, as well. IDEALIST will also feed the collaboration with other Projects and the submission of contributions to ITU-T, OIF, IETF, thus reinforcing European position in standardization bodies.

Keywords: photonics,elastic,flexgrid,core,gmpls,otn,control plane,management,costs and power optimization,scalability,multilayer,multidomain,standardization.
ECO2Clouds: Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud Sourcing (ECO2CLOUDS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1868297.0
EU funding (EUR): 1420000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Ecological implications of the rapid proliferation of cloud-based IT infrastructures form an important gap in the current state of the art in both research and practice. Addressing this gap is vital for sustainable future developments in cloud computing. ECO2Clouds will investigate strategies that can ensure not only effective application deployment on the cloud infrastructure but also reduce the resultant energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The need for novel deployment strategies becomes more evident when an application spans multiple clouds. Cloud providers operate under different regulatory frameworks and cost structures in relation to environmental policies and energy value-chains. In addition, optimising the way key assets such as application logic and databases are deployed is constrained by a set of non-functional requirements such as quality, privacy and cross-platform, service-level agreements. To date, little is known about how to incorporate carbon emissions and energy consumption into application development and deployment decision models. ECO2Clouds will provide a timely, challenging and highly innovative approach to cloud computing service delivery, which will tackle the following issues: -Develop cloud application programming interface extensions and mechanisms to collect eco-metrics at infrastructure and VM level, and quantify the environmental impact of execution at infrastructure and application level -Investigate the key environment, quality and cost parameters needed so as to underpin a holistic approach to multi-cloud application deployment -Develop evaluation mechanisms and optimization algorithms to assess different parameter configurations and their influence in energy-efficient cloud sourcing and application-deployment strategies -Integrate the carbon-aware mechanisms into FIRE facility BonFIRE so as to test, validate and optimize the eco-metrics, models and algorithms developed and improve the FIRE offering.

Keywords: cloud,cloud-sourcing,federated cloud,eco-awareness,carbon-aware,fire,experimentation,energy efficiency,deployment optimisation
Community set-up and networking for the reMIXing of online MEDIA fragments (MEDIAMIXER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Greece,France,Slovenia,France,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998343.0
EU funding (EUR): 743476.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

While we have already established, traditional markets for complete videos, e.g. in stock footage portals, media libraries or TV archives, where entire videos may be found and also purchased for re-use in new media production situations, these markets do not permit the easy purchase or sale of smaller fragments of AV materials. The MediaMixer CA will address this deficit by showing the vision of a media fragment market (the MediaMixer) to the European media production, library, TV archive, news production, e-learning and UGC portal industries. We will demonstrate the achievable benefits enabled by the creation, repurposing and reuse of digital contents across borders on the Web, where media fragments are intelligent digital objects, identified and classified at a highly granular degree, integrated with knowledge management, and connected at Web-scale. The objective of MediaMixer is to set up and sustain a community of video producers, hosters, and redistributors who will be supported in the adoption of semantic multimedia technology in their systems and workflows to build a European market for media fragment re-purposing and re-selling. Networking with the community will ensure that research results and technology development truly meets the industry requirements and reflects real world use cases. Demonstrators in media production, news reporting and e-learning will highlight the technology value, with a wider impact achieved through the support of media industry experts and associations to present these results to their members. A number of events will be organised to network the industry members with the research experts of MediaMixer and facilitate technology transfer (by information days and training), and an online portal will drive the geographically distributed community and act as a central access point to tools, materials, use cases, demos and presentations.

Keywords: media libraries media industry industry cooperation semantic media technology media fragements media rights management media reselling media data markets media asset management industry outreach