Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools (FAST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5532606.0
EU funding (EUR): 3564151.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project is to create a new a visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of complex front-end gadgets, involving execution of relatively complex business processes that rely on back-end Semantic Web Services. The approach adopted will be user-centric rather than program-centric: instead of first building programs that orchestrate available Semantic Web Services and then try to figure out how to implement interaction with the users at given points of the process execution flow, programmers will start from the front-end gadgets that the user will see and interact with, and then, afterwards, they will visually establish the connection to back-end Web Services going through process execution flows if necessary. The way programmers will visually establish this connection will follow an approach similar to what sequence diagrams in UML look like. The FAST project believes that this new user-oriented approach is feasible and that it will overpass limitations of current business process engines approaches. In this approach, programmers will visually manage and connect front-end gadgets, screen-flow resources and back-end services. It is worth pointing out that the programming tool to be developed will be conceived as a tool that can be compatible with existing and future mash-up platforms. Our goal is not to develop the gadget mash-up platform but a tool that enables to develop mash-up-able gadgets which rely on screen-flow resources and semantic Web Services stored in a catalogue.

Keywords: business process design,bpm,front-end gadget development in web 2.0 / soa architectures,uml
Structural Funds for European Regional Research Advancement (SFERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Hungary,Romania,Spain,Luxembourg,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-11-01
End date: 2009-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1091569.0
EU funding (EUR): 938092.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SFERA is a two-year Support Action (SA) intended to assist European regions on opportunities to make optimum use of structural funds regarding the deployment of ICT networks of the future. In order to combine the ERDF RandD recommendation with the ERDF ICTs access recommendation, SFERA will centre its efforts in the support to Member States and Regions for the utilization of Structural Funds (SF) to develop new opportunities for sustainable growth by means of ICT RandD investments, particularly in the development of satellite and hybrid based broadband networks, which are a very good solutions for fast deployment of ICT access infrastructures in underserved regions, taking into account the current trends for the Network of the Future. Many regions in Europe are entitled a great amount of funds from European Structural Funds (SF). Up to now, these funds have been efficiently spent mainly in the construction of infrastructures: roads, highways, For the new financial period 2007-2013, rules require that promotion of ICTs, Information Society, R+D be priorities for the use of Structural Funds. ERDF regulation states that under the Convergence objective, the first priority is "research and technological development (RandTD), innovation and entrepreneurship...". In addition, under the Regional Competitiveness and Employment objective of the above ERDF regulation, it is prioritized the access to telecommunication services by "promoting access to take up, and efficient use of ICTs by SMEs by supporting access to networks...". Consequenty, SFERA will organize, coordinate and support several conferences, workshops, and seminars to inform regions representatives. SFERA, as a specialist in the relationship between STRUCTURAL FUNDS and FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RandD, will be crucial to connect FP7, European Regions, DG INFSO/DG REGIO and Member States to provide assistance on roadmapping, benchmarking studies, awareness on ICT relevance and specific solutions.

Keywords: structural funds,convergence,rural broadband,satellite communications,ict,underserved rural areas
Memory management technology for adaptive and efficient design of embedded systems (MNEMEE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Netherlands,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4572118.0
EU funding (EUR): 2950000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The theme of intelligent ubiquitous devices will dominate future embedded system designs and speed up the integration of multimedia and communication applications, thus creating very complex, dynamic source code. Today it is increasingly impossible for designers to map applications cost-efficiently to any platform without significant optimization of the initial source code. The MNEMEE project will address this key challenge by introducing an innovative supplementary source-to-source optimization design layer for data management between the state-of-the-art optimizations at the application functionality and the compiler design layer. Novel features include: i) multi-objective explorations that allow trade-offs which designers highly need to rightly position their product in the huge search space, ii) a combination of design-time and run-time techniques to boost the cost-efficiency and performance, and iii) automated optimizations that are applied once to reduce design effort and can handle very complex code. No existing integrated framework allows this and ongoing projects do not address it sufficiently. The key focus of the project is the efficient data access and memory storage of both dynamically and statically allocated data and their assignment on the memory hierarchy. The few existing source-to-source approaches only deal with the static manifest arrays and simple code. In contrast, MNEMEE will deliver all the necessary design methodologies, heuristics and prototype tools to enable the fast exploration of the huge dynamic and static design space. These optimizations and automation support will result in reduced exploration design time by at least a factor of 2, decreased memory footprint and memory bandwidth requirements of 30%, and improved energy and power efficiency by a factor of 2. The project will enable customized solutions for programmable Multi-Processor platforms involving the necessary system trade-offs, while meeting all real-time specifications.

Keywords: source-to-source optimization,embedded systems,memory mapping,adaptive,memory management,trade-offs,mpsoc,design space exploration,pre-compiler,multimedia,wireless,memory hierarchy
DEXterous and autonomous dual-arm/hand robotic manipulation with sMART sensory-motor skills: A bridge from natural to artificial cognition (DEXMART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8124253.0
EU funding (EUR): 6300000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The DEXMART project is focused on artificial systems reproducing smart sensory-motor human skills, which operate in unstructured real-world environments. The emphasis is on manipulation capabilities achieved by dexterous and autonomous, and also human aware dual-arm/hand robotic systems. The goal is to allow a dual-arm robot including two multi-fingered redundant hands to grasp and manipulate the same objects used by human beings. The objects shall be allowed to have different shape, dimension and weight. The manipulation will take place in an unsupervised, robust and dependable manner so as to allow the robot to safely cooperate with humans for the execution of given tasks. The robotic system has to possess the ability to autonomously decide between different manipulation options. It has to properly and quickly react to unexpected situations and events as well as understand changes in the behaviour of humans cooperating with it. Moreover, in order to act in a changing scenario, the robot should be able to acquire knowledge by learning new action sequences so as to create a consistent and comprehensive manipulation knowledge base through an actual reasoning process. The possibility to exploit the high power-to-weight ratio of smart materials and structures will be explored aimed at the design of new hand components (finger, thumb, wrist) and sensors that will pave the way for the next generation of dexterous robotic hands.

Keywords: dexterous manipulation,dual-arm/hand robots,observation and learning,sensory-motor skills
COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises (COIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Finland,Slovenia,Spain,Austria,Austria,Spain,Norway,Germany,Germany,Spain,Romania,Czechia,Lithuania,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Hungary,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16118535.0
EU funding (EUR): 11159654.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

“By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditional supply chains to the most advanced and dynamic business ecosystems.” The mission of the COIN IP is to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the above 2020 vision, starting from notable existing research results in the field of Enterprise Interoperability (made available by the Enterprise Interoperability DG INFSO D4 Cluster and specifically by the projects ATHENA, INTEROP, ABILITIES, SATINE, TRUSTCOM) and Enterprise Collaboration (made available by projects ECOLEAD, DBE, E4 and ECOSPACE). In particular, a COIN business-pervasive open-source service platform will be able to expose, integrate, compose and mash-up in a secure and adaptive way existing and innovative to-be-developed Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration services, by applying intelligent maturity models, business rules and self-adaptive decision-support guidelines to guarantee the best combination of the needed services in dependence of the business context, as industrial sector and domain, size of the companies involved, openness and dynamics of collaboration. This way, the Information Technology vision of Software as a Service (SaaS) will find its implementation in the field of interoperability among collaborative enterprises, supporting collaborative business forms, from supply chains to business ecosystems, like a utility, the Interoperability Service Utility (ISU). The COIN project will finally develop an original business model based on the SaaS-U (Software as a Service-Utility) paradigm on the base of the open-source COIN service platform.

Keywords: enterprise collaboration,enterprise interoperability,enterprise networks,sme networks
Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies (SMOOTHIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Greece,Cyprus,Poland,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4373608.0
EU funding (EUR): 2997121.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The use of mechanisms based on incentives for controlling and managing network traffic of overlay applications in the Internet is still in its early stages. Initial results have shown that such mechanisms do have the important property of scalability with respect to the number of players (i.e. providers, consumers, or peers), and lead to a more efficient network operation. In managing the traffic created and routed through their networks today’s ISPs (Internet Service Provider), who may be in more general terms service providers on the basis of the IP, employ methodologies suitable for traditional traffic/service profiles. In the near future most network traffic will follow paths that form logical network overlays at the service layer, such as Virtual Private Networks, Network Management System overlays, or distributed collaboration overlays. As the structure of overlays determines the traffic flows in ISP networks, it is highly efficient for an ISP to influence overlay configuration based on information on their structure. Overlay types have to be managed to (a) maximize the benefit for multiple operators/ISPs involved, independently of an underlying topology and (b) to be operated autonomously to increase the capability to withstand faults, and balancing the load in the network. SmoothIt supports self-configuration due to its decentralized nature and its dependence on economic methods (incentives). Traffic management over the whole network emerges through local interaction and cooperation, which in effect makes the system self-organizing: (1) New theory of Economic Traffic Management (ETM) based on incentives and pricing (2) New decentralized network control and management mechanisms for overlay services in Internet-based multi-domain networks (3) Enhanced and tailored security, accounting, and QoS mechanisms and mapping functions for overlay services (4) Solving the information asymmetry problem, by combined optimization of overlays and traffic through ETM.

Keywords: network and economic management,information asymmetry,overlay network,provider/customer aspects
Smart freight transport in urban areas (SMARTFREIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Ireland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3044211.0
EU funding (EUR): 2200000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Goods distribution is important for businesses and the life of a city. However, the efficiency as well as the environmental impacts is negatively influenced by traffic congestion, scarcity of loading areas, sub-optimal delivery routes and too little use of return loads. The transport of dangerous goods is also a safety risk. This project will make urban freight transport more efficient, environmentally friendly and safe through smarter use of the distribution networks and improved delivery and return-load systems. The basic idea is to integrate urban traffic management systems with freight management and onboard systems. This project will try to create a win-win situation, where both city authorities and freight operators will gain. ICT will enable a co-operation between traffic and freight management operations, as a step towards an integrated urban transport system. Freight transport will be monitored and controlled through open ICT services. Traffic management measures will be tailored towards individual vehicles by means of onboard units and a wireless communication infrastructure based on CALM (the ISO framework for heterogeneous communication in mobile environments). Individual routing and control depending on the individual vehicle profile, type of cargo and traffic situation will be possible. Freight operations will benefit from access to real travel time and traffic status information. Onboard units, sensors and smart tags using CALM MAIL (enabling DSRC communication with battery-powered units) and the wireless infrastructure will enable monitoring of goods transport, loading and unloading. An architecture will specify open solutions applicable to European cities. This will be achieved by obtaining user viewpoints addressing concepts, logical relations, open ICT services and preferred technical solutions. Test sites will evaluate the technical solutions, through real and simulated application of the concepts for urban traffic and transport in cities.

Keywords: freight distribution,traffic management of individual vehicles,cargo monitoring,calm,calm mail
Trilogy: Re-Architecting the Internet. An Hourglass Control Architecture for the Internet, Supporting Extremes of Commercial, Social and Technical Control (TRILOGY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Finland,Greece,Spain,Belgium,Germany,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9115722.0
EU funding (EUR): 5816339.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

This Trilogy proposal is for a 3-year Integrated Project targeting Challenge 1 of the 7th Framework Programme: “Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures”. The project scope lies entirely within Objective 1.1, “The Network of the Future”. The aim of the project is to develop new solutions for the control architecture of the Internet that remove the known and emerging technical deficiencies while avoiding prejudging commercial and social outcomes for the different players. The focus is the generic control functions of the Internet – the neck of the hour-glass, but for control: * Reachability: The main focus is the problem of inter-domain routing, including policy control but also integrating filtering at trust boundaries (e.g. firewalls, NATs). Key issues include multihoming, scalability and fast convergence. * Resource control: The main focus is how to deliver effective and efficient control of sharing of resource. Key issues include how to share resources fairly and stop cheating, high speed congestion control and load balancing (traffic engineering). But further, all this must be under: * Social and Commercial Control: the architecture will permit conflicting outcomes to coexist and evolve and will not embed assumptions that unreasonably favour certain types of industry player: “designed for tussle”. Our objective is bold: to re-architect the world’s ICT infrastructure. In order to be credible, we will have to deliver a coherent set of changes solving technical and commercial problems together: a unified control architecture for the Internet that can be adapted in a scalable, dynamic, autonomous and robust manner to local operational and business requirements. Overall the project delivers: * new technical and economic concepts, architecture and protocols; * simulation, prototyping, strategic analysis and dissemination work, especially standardisation at the IETF. The focus moves from the first to the second over the project’s lifetime.

Keywords: internet architecture,routing,resource control,tussle,protocols,standards,ietf
Investigation of Si wafer damage in manufacturing processes (SIDAM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Germany,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2647698.0
EU funding (EUR): 2049997.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Wafer handling in semiconductor manufacturing introduces microcracks at the wafer edge. During thermal processing, some of these grow into slip bands; on rapid thermal processing some of these grow into cracks, shattering the wafer and disrupting manufacture. Dense slip bands also lead to yield loss by locally increasing diffusion rates. Breakage losses alone were of the order of €2.5M p.a. for a single fab line at the 90 nm node. Microcracks and slip bands are visible through X-ray Diffraction Imaging (XRDI); but it is unknown which of the many defects imaged are those that will result in yield loss and breakage. We aim to discover how to derive quantitative, predictive information from XRDI, enabling a breakthrough metrology of wafer inspection. The project will comprise quantification of the XRDI images, modelling of the stresses introduced by the controlled defects, modelling the influence of thermal gradients in RTA upon the defects, and experimental confirmation of the conclusions. The outcome of this research will offer a competitive advantage at several levels to those members of the European Semiconductor Industry who agree to join the Industrial Advisory Board. European wafer manufacturers will have early access to a technique that reveals the nature of the defects in the wafers and their relevance to semiconductor device fabrication. This could provide Europe with a competitive advantage in the development of both 450mm and thin silicon wafers. European wafer and equipment manufacturers will have early access to a unique and specifically developed body of open knowledge to aid them in the evaluation of risk of breakage during their processes. They will have a choice of access to off-line characterization of defects by XRDI at ANKA or an in-line wafer inspection tool commercialized by Bede plc. The knowledge and tools developed will contribute to maintaining Europe’s leading position in semiconductor x-ray metrology.

Keywords: silicon wafer damage x-ray imaging