Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cardiac Origin of Rhythm DISturbances: 3-Dimensional structural investigations (CORDIS3D)

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: France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 111300.0
EU funding (EUR): 111300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Myocardial structure is important in the triggering and maintenance of many cardiac arrhythmias including atrial and ventricular fibrillation. Detailed knowledge of myocardial structure is essential to the understanding of these disorders and in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. This must include the normal and pathological distribution of key functional proteins such as connexins. There are a variety of structural imaging methodologies which can be used to study normal and pathological hearts: high spatial resolution MRI and CT, Diffusion Tensor MRI, three-dimensional volume histology from sections or from tissue block imaging. Furthermore, histological imaging can determine molecular distributions after labelling, which may be by immunohistochemistry, viral transfection or transgenics. In this exchange partnership we will bring together four leading centres with unique and complementary expertise in order to systematically study the structural substrate of propagation and arrhythmia in the normal and failing heart and in heart failure. Arrhythmias studied will be the role of Purkinje Fibres in ventricular fibrillation, pulmonary venous cuff re-entry in atrial fibrillation, the role of structural changes in myocardial infarction in ventricular fibrillation and right ventricular outflow tract ventricular tachycardia. Tissue studied will include hearts from relevant animal disease models, post-mortem/operative human tissues. Disease models studied will include small and large animal (rat/sheep & pig) models of infarction and right heart failure. Rat models have the advantage that the small cardiac size allows high spatial resolution imaging to be carried out of the whole cardiac volume, while the large animal models have structure and electrophysiology generally closer to man. Structural imaging will be accompanied by 3D-electrophysiological recording and computational modelling to enable investigation of the structure function relationship.
Property-based testing of Web services (PROWESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4424115.0
EU funding (EUR): 3389158.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop advanced software engineering technologies suitable for the networked, distributed dimension of software and access to services and data (Objective 1.2). Specifically, we develop approaches to improve quality assurance: the challenge is to reduce time spent on testing, whilst increasing software quality, in order to quickly launch new, or enhancements of existing, web services and internet applications. Testing for the internet software industry brings some unique challenges due to the combination of openness, complexity and evolution present in this domain. These challenges form the heart of our research project. We aim to automate quality assurance, reducing its cost and improving effectiveness, based on properties of the system that should hold. We will develop this property-based testing for web services and internet applications in order to achieve a real improvement of testing efficiency. Property-based testing (PBT) provides a powerful, high-level, approach to testing; rather than focusing on individual test cases to encapsulate the behaviour of a system, in PBT this behaviour is specified by properties, expressed in a logical form. The system is then tested by checking whether it has the required properties for randomly generated data, which may be inputs to functions, sequences of API calls, or other representations of test cases. We will enable PBT to be compositional, and we will simplify creation and understanding of models. We will develop techniques to compare multiple implementations, and to support testing of constantly evolving systems. We will address non-functional requirements such as performance requirements. Finally, we will define software assurance criteria that are compatible with property-based testing to ensure the highest quality assurance. We combine academic expertise in testing, software tools, refactoring, distributed and concurrent systems, together with practical experience from our industrial partners. These companies provide a variety of services and projects to a breath of markets and include tool vendors, consultants and trainers together with software and service developers. Our results will improve our tool vendor’s products, be adopted by our partners within Interoud, and be disseminated by ESL and SP to their customers throughout Europe in a variety of sectors, and used by those customers. This three-pronged strategy will guarantee real impact.

Keywords: testing,property-based testing,erlang,functional programming,software engineering,models
Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet (SMARTENIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Greece,Germany,Germany,Poland,France,Poland,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4506273.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The Internet has seen a strong move to support overlay applications, which demand a coherent and integrated control in the underlying heterogeneous networks in a scalable, resilient, and energy-efficient manner. A tighter integration of network management and overlay service functionality can lead to cross-layer optimization of operations and management, thus, being a promising approach to offer a large business potential in operational perspectives for all players involved. Therefore, SmartenIT (Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet) targets at an incentive-compatible cross-layer network management for providers of overlay-based application (e.g., cloud applications, content delivery, and social networks), network providers, and end-users to ensure a QoE-awareness, by addressing accordingly load and traffic patterns or special application requirements, and exploiting at the same time social awareness (in terms of user relations and interests). Moreover, the energy efficiency with respect to both end-user devices and underlying networking infrastructure is tackled to ensure an operationally efficient management. Incentive-compatible network management mechanisms for improving metrics in all layers and on an inter-domain basis for ISPs and telecommunication providers, serves as the major mechanism to deal with real-life scenarios. Such metrics and mechanisms encompass: 1.Inter-cloud communication through many operators where applications demand for dedicated traffic quality levels. 2.An integrated and energy-aware traffic management considering limited energy resources of mobile devices accessing the cloud. 3.The exploitation of meta-information by network operators for the purpose of socially-aware traffic management. Selected scenarios are ported into test-beds, in which the effectiveness of appropriate traffic management mechanisms, integrated in an innovative architecture, is demonstrated.

Keywords: incentive compatible network management mechanisms,economic traffic management,better control of heterogeneous networks,energy efficiency,qoe-awareness
Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy Software (ARTIST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,France,Germany,Austria,Italy,Greece,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9690258.0
EU funding (EUR): 6953705.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Successful software has to evolve to keep it compatible and up to date. Up to 90% of software cost is spent on maintenance and of this 75% is spent on the development of new features for staying competitive. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interlaced with true paradigm shifts. We are currently experiencing one of these paradigm shifts, as remarked by the European Commission: “The speed of change in Internet technologies continues to be impressive. Software is becoming more and more pervasive: it runs on the devices that we use every day ...[opening] a new world of possible applications” cf. Cloud computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering, European Union, 2011 (doi:10.2759/47598). Accordingly, more and more traditional software vendors notice the need to transform their current business and technology model in order to remain competitive. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is seen as the most promising way to achieve this change. However, this transition from Software-off-the-shelf (often residing as legacy applications) to SaaS is a tremendous challenge comprising business, application and technical issues. Having an automated, vendor, technology and hardware independent way to migrate an application would permit the software to evolve easily even in case of transition to new paradigms. ARTIST proposes a software migration approach covering the premigration and postmigration phases. The premigration phase analyzes the technical and non-technical consequences of migrations, supporting the decision-making process on how a migration should be done. The migration phase itself is based on Model Driven Engineering techniques to automate the reverse engineering of the legacy applications to platform independent models. These models are the input for the forward engineering process to generate and deploy modernized applications and to support future migrations. In the postmigration phase, the modernized applications are certified with respect to the stated goals of the premigration phase. ARTIST will reduce the risk, time and cost of migrating legacy software. It will lower the barriers for companies (with existing software) wanting to take advantage of the latest technologies and business models, particularly when considering the current benefits of Cloud Computing and SaaS.

Keywords: modernisation,evolution,legacy,reverse engineering,software transformations,metamodeling,cloud business model,migration assessment,cloud requirements,mdre,soa,soaml,feasibility analysis
Living Photonics: Monitoring light propagation through cells (LIPHOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Ireland,United Kingdom,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): 4175431.0
EU funding (EUR): 3200000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

LIPHOS is focused on the development of completely innovative biophotonic diagnosis tools, which are for the first time implemented using cells as constituent material. Here, and unlike existing systems, light remains confined in a waveguide whose core is uniquely composed by cells, giving rise to the “Living photonics” concept. In this context, cells play a two-fold role: i) they form the biomaterial with higher refractive index than the surrounding media, thus defining the waveguide; ii) they are interrogated by the light coupled into them, acting as reporter elements and exhibiting a specific spectral response. The advantage of this configuration is the highly-efficient cell-light interaction, making it possible to diagnose diseases by measuring and comparing their photonic fingerprint (PIN). This key parameter, newly introduced in LIPHOS, consists of the spectral response of the living photonics and includes the different inherent or acquired bands and peaks (scattering, absorbance and/or fluorescence) directly related to the cell culture under study. This is highly specific, since healthy and non-healthy cell cultures present different PINs. This ground-breaking method will give rise to a powerful analytical tool, which could be applied to study and diagnose a disease at cell culture level. The ultimate aim of the LIPHOS project is the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). This target will be addressed firstly by measuring adherent cell layers cultured under controlled conditions and representing disease or healthy states. At a later stage, the LIPHOS concept will undergo pre-clinical validation as a diagnostic tool for CVD, using arterial segments obtained from patients with known endothelial dysfunction. LIPHOS provides a realistic, yet innovative and game-changing opportunity of reducing the impact of CVD in society and in the global economy, as well as providing huge market possibilities to the companies involved.

Keywords: living photonics,biophotonics,cells,waveguide
Fully integrated real time multi-wavelength photoacoustics for early disease detection (FULLPHASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,France,France,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11381918.0
EU funding (EUR): 7100000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Healthcare at affordable cost is a major challenge with the aging population and the prevalence of chronic disease, supporting the need for early diagnosis and optimal treatment monitoring already at the level of the General Practitioner. Within this context, research on diagnostic imaging has recently gone hand in hand with the notion that the combination of various modalities is the key step towards improved diagnostic accuracy. Ultrasound (US) is promising for point-of-care imaging because, of its real-time display, high temporal and spatial resolution, low cost and safe of use. However, it falls short in terms of functional imaging. On the other hand optical techniques provide high contrast by the pronounced optical absorption variations in tissue and functional imaging when probing spectral features, but optical scattering limits the resolution of purely optical methods. Photoacoustic imaging (PA) shows optical absorption at ultrasound resolution via thermo-elastically generated ultrasound. The objective of FULLPHASE is the transition of PA imaging from a lab-based technique to a low-cost portable multi wavelength combined PA and US system. In order to reach that goal, the FULLPHASE partners offer specific expertise over complementary backgrounds in diode laser technology, laser beam shaping, ultrasound imaging technology, and system integration. The impact of the FULLPHASE system will be shown in oncology, rheumatology and cardio vascular disease. The ultrasound technology market is currently dominated by few large companies mainly located in the US, Europe and Asia. The FULLPHASE low cost portable PA and US medical system for early disease detection that will be commercialised by ESAOTE Europe will give the involved research institutes and the industrial partner’s access to new know-how and new markets. It will stimulate the implementation of a new imaging concept that will create a change in health care delivery.

Keywords: early disease detection,treatment monitoring,point-of-care diagnosis,functional imaging,high sensitivity,selectivity,depth of penetration,photoacoustics,ultrasound,high power diode laser
Universal Quality Assurance & Control Services for Internet Applications with Volatile Requirements and Contexts (U-QASAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Norway,Finland,Luxembourg,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4045804.0
EU funding (EUR): 2810999.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of U-QASAR is to create a flexible Quality Assurance, Control and Measurement Methodology to quantify the quality of the Internet-related software development projects and the resulting products. The methodology will be supported by an Internet solution composed of several knowledge services based on open standards that will be able to self-adapt to fast changes in scope and requirements, so as to provide an accurate measurement of the quality at any time. The U-QASAR Internet Services will monitor the different stages of the software development process, interoperating with the existing applications and systems to provide quantitative information about the quality of each process, the project as a whole and the resulting products. Data obtained in real-time by the U-QASAR monitoring services will be used indistinctively by software engineers, designers, developers, testers and managers alike for different purposes. In that sense software engineers, developers and testers will be able to rapidly correct inadequate trends in design, development and testing, project managers will be able to schedule deliveries with the agreed level of quality and principals will be able to forecast the cost and quality of future projects. This will introduce a high level of automation in the Software Quality Management (SQM) process avoiding the traditional problems of data gathering and analysis in traditional measurement and SQM processes (e.g. Difficulty in demonstrating the completeness, accuracy and integrity of data…). U-QASAR methodology and platform will be assessed in 2 opposed business cases in order to validate the results in different conditions. The first business case will belong to a large software company developing large Internet projects in RUP methodology. The second business case will belong to a SME developing complex projects in Agile methodologies.

Keywords: software quality assurance & control software quality measurement software metrics models software engineering service oriented architectures knowledge modelling ontologies
Strategic Research Roadmap for European Web Security (STREWS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Ireland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1204190.0
EU funding (EUR): 789873.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The Web platform is a hotbed of innovation that will affect deployment of technologies and applications for the next decade, and will influence the security and privacy that European users and service providers can achieve. The STREWS project will link European security and trust related research and devel- opment with ongoing standards and development work for the Web in IETF and W3C. The project will develop a technical state of practice document for Web Security as a basis for case studies on selected Web security topics. A roadmap for future research and standardization in the Web security field will provide guidance for ongoing and future research. Over the course of the project, STREWS will reach out to European industry and projects, and organize a series of workshops to collect broad input into its roadmapping and case study work, and to create a European Web security community across academia and practice.

Keywords: web platform security standards research roadmap
multi-LAyer SpAtiotemporal Generalized NEtworks (LASAGNE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2733858.0
EU funding (EUR): 2075000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Thanks to modern ICT, a new generation of large data sets of social, biological, and man-made systems are now available. Many more will be produced at an ever–increasing rate in the near future. Such data contain high precision and integrated information on the nature and the evolution -in space and time- of the state of each single component, together with information on different types of interactions between them. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to extract meaningful information from this new generation of high-integrated data, since current network theory provides not much more than a static description of single, independent networks. The aim of this project is to provide a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analyzing and modeling these dynamic and multi-layer networks in terms of multi-graphs embedded in space and time. To do this, we will treat time, space and the nature of interactions not as additional dimensions of the problem, but as natural, inherent components of the very same generalized network (GNE) description. The first goal of the project is to devise novel metrics and models, able to capture the interactions between different layers and across different spatio-temporal scales. The second goal is to understand the combined role of spatial distance, time and inter-layer interactions on the dynamics of processes running on GNEs, and on the emergence of collective behaviors, such as synchronization. The third goal is to investigate cases where GNEs are co-evolving with the processes they facilitate. The theory will be validated on real-world applications involving large and heterogeneous data sets of brain networks, on- and off-line social systems, healthcare systems, and transportation flows in cities. Our project will provide new quantitative opportunities in different fields, ranging from the prediction of pathologies to the diffusion of ideas and trends in societies, and for the management of socio-technological systems.

Keywords: theory of complex systems,networks,time-varying graphs,co-evolution,multiplex networks