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Computational Symmetry for Geometric Data Analysis and Design (COSYM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1160301.97
EU funding (EUR): 1160301.97
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The analysis and synthesis of complex 3D geometric data sets is of crucial importance in many scientific disciplines (e.g. bio-medicine, material science, mechanical engineering, physics) and industrial applications (e.g. drug design, entertainment, architecture). We are currently witnessing a tremendous increase in the size and complexity of geometric data, largely fueled by significant advances in 3D acquisition and digital production technology. However, existing computational tools are often not suited to handle this complexity. The goal of this project is to explore a fundamentally different way of processing 3D geometry. We will investigate a new generalized model of geometric symmetry as a unifying concept for studying spatial organization in geometric data. This model allows exposing the inherent redundancies in digital 3D data and will enable truly scalable algorithms for analysis, processing, and design of large-scale geometric data sets. The proposed research will address a number of fundamental questions: What is the information content of 3D geometric models? How can we represent, store, and transmit geometric data most efficiently? Can we we use symmetry to repair deficiencies and reduce noise in acquired data? What is the role of symmetry in the design process and how can it be used to reduce complexity? I will investigate these questions with an integrated approach that combines thorough theoretical studies with practical solutions for real-world applications. The proposed research has a strong interdisciplinary component and will consider the same fundamental questions from different perspectives, closely interacting with scientists of various disciplines, as well artists, architects, and designers.

Keywords: symmetry,geometric modeling,shape analysis,computational design
INDENICA - Engineering Virtual Domain-Specific Service Platforms (INDENICA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6067089.0
EU funding (EUR): 3771545.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Service-oriented computing has attracted significant attention over recent years. While this innovative approach provides enormous potential for software development in an open, networked environment, the very different constraints and quality concerns in different domains have so far led to a heterogeneous landscape of service platforms. While a single integrated platform would be highly desirable, the domain-specific constraints in areas like factory automation, business information systems or telecommunication are much too diverse, leading to the need for specialized, domain-specific service platforms. Already now a plethora of different service platforms are available. This fragmentation, however, effectively slows the emergence of a full service ecosystem. In order to fulfill the vision of an integrated platform ecosystem, the various platforms must be made interoperable. The INDENICA project will address these challenges in an explicit and integrated way. It will provide a development method, infrastructure components and tools that support the efficient derivation of specialized, domain-specific service platforms. By deriving these platforms from common infrastructures, we will combine optimal adaptation of the service platform to domain-specific constraints with easy and fast development. At the same time, the resulting platforms will be interoperable by design. This allows integrating arbitrary INDENICA service platforms at any time into a virtual domain-specific service platform. The integrated platforms will act from an application point of view as a single platform, enabling transparent multi-platform deployment and comprehensive QoS management. On the technical side INDENICA will use Product Line Techniques (compositional and generative techniques) to provide an efficient approach for the derivation of the domain-specific platforms. INDENICA results will be systematically validated using an integrated multi-domain use case. This use case integrates components from the relevant areas of the industrial partners and provides a demonstration for the strong integration capabilities of INDENICA platforms.

Keywords: service engineering,platform,paas,saas,virtualization,variability engineering,product line engineering
Linking R&D Strategies, Foresight and Stimulation of EU-Russia Cooperation in Nanoelectronics Technology (EU-RU.NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Germany,France,Italy,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 672920.0
EU funding (EUR): 639432.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

A large number of leading European and Russian scientists led by the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nobel Laureate Professor Zhores Alferov, credited “for basic work on information and communication technology” – the invention of heterotransistor and the first double heterostructure laser diode to achieve continuous wave operation, have come together in this project with the sole purpose of strengthening the EU-Russia cooperation in Nanoelectronics Technology. This is in line with the EU strategy of deepening and broadening the international aspect of its science and technology policy. Cooperation with Russia is an important part of it, and today a great leap forward has taken place by proposing a linkage between EU and Russian strategies for the development of Nanoelectronics Technology – an essential element for keeping European industry competitive at global level. To reach the objective of the EU‐RU.NET Project, the consortium of five EU and five Russian organisations will identify the most urgent and promising fields for cooperation, will set up several working groups of experts, and will support participation of EU and Russia scientists at different events with presentations and organisation of round tables and brokerage events that will bring scientists together to allow discussions and setting of new collaborations. Over ten Pilot Trial Projects carried out in the frame of EU‐RU.NET Project will help Participants identify the bottlenecks of cooperation and propose improvements. A Foresight study for the future of EU-Russia cooperation in Nanoelectronics Technology will be carried out. The Strategy Experts Group will analyse the results and achievements of the Project and will develop roadmaps and propose new actions. Recommendations on linking strategies and strengthening cooperation will be prepared for the EU and Russian officials responsible for the development of Nanoelectronics Technology. Project deliverables will demonstrate to the public the advantages of cooperation between EU and Russia.

Keywords: nanoelectronics technology,russia,cooperation,foresight,roadmap
eMobility NetWorld (EMOBILITY NETWORLD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,France,Portugal,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1180607.0
EU funding (EUR): 881234.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Society is becoming confident that it can address the Grand Challenges of the 21st century: It can address global warming by taking decisive action, can invent and deploy innovative transport systems to reduce traffic problems and will be able to solve the issues associated with the ageing population. Smart applications enabled by advanced communication networks will be a centrepiece of many solutions offering the hope of a better world. Communication networks have catalysed tremendous economic development in the emerging countries of the world advanced, ubiquitous communication networks will now also spark a new wave of innovation and employment in the developed world the Future Internet. The eMobility NetWorld project will establish a dialogue, building on the successful eMobility Platform, to identify the research needed on Future Internet issues to enable it to support smart applications needed by society. Connecting and communicating the value of the prioritised research topics to the needs of society is what the eMobility NetWorld project is all about. Technology related priorities will be captured in the Strategic Research Agenda. The key messages regarding the value of the proposed research to society will be identified and then professionally packaged as multi-media presentations. The messages will be addressed to key decision makers in Europe and in the international arena in both industry and politics through conferences, specific workshops and meetings, via an interactive web site and through the annual Future Network &amp; Mobile Summit, which is sponsored by the project. The result will be a broad consensus on priorities, resulting in coordination of research activities and increased awareness of the priorities by key decision makers. eMobility NetWorld will be undertaken by a consortium of experienced industry and academic participants with an effort of 62 person-months, requiring a Commission contribution under 1 M Euro, at a funding rate of 76 per cent.

Keywords: future internet,applications,ict,communications networks,strategic research agenda
Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Estonia,Spain,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4699399.0
EU funding (EUR): 3243937.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Interoperation between electronic services is one of the most challenging and pressing issues in today’s increasingly globalized and de-centralized economy. Our proposal tackles this challenge with a unified research program based on two key notions: “interoperation hubs”, that enable flexible, scalable support for service collaborations in an open network, and “dynamic artifacts”, that provide an approach to modeling and deploying business processes that simplifies the management of “hand-offs” of data and process between different services and organizations. The research has three streams: (a) scientific, to develop the new notion of artifact-centric interoperation hub, and a surrounding framework of service coordination, views, evolution, verification, and process mining based on formal and empirical techniques and tools; (b) technology, to develop a substantial prototype for creating and operating these hubs, that integrates the techniques and tools devised by the scientific research stream; and (c) validation, to demonstrate and test the results of the research. The ACSI research program will simplify the creation and maintenance of service collaboration environments as follows: 1. At least 40% reduction, over conventional techniques, in the design and deployment of environments that support large numbers of service collaborations with similar goals 2. At least 20% reduction, over conventional techniques, in the costs of on-boarding into, and maintaining, service collaborations 3. At least 30% reduction in on-going manual activity needed to support typical service collaborations 4. At least 90% of data transformation in service collaborations will be automated ACSI's consortium combines world-class researchers in all of the key technical areas needed for this research, including experts on artifact-centric business processes, verification, data integration and ontologies, process mining, services architectures, and business process management.

Keywords: artifact-centric,interoperation-hub,service collaboration,process-mining,verification,ontology
Adaptive Learning via Intuitive/Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional systems (ALICE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2377371.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Despite a great potential and some initial successes, e-learning systems do not yet have the impact that many believe is possible. Moreover, the gap seems to be increasing because of the greater expectations of the current generation (Digital Natives) who have grown up with modern technology. There are also more general problems. In particular, an over-emphasis on cost effectiveness has meant that content is often not as strong as it needs to be and this deficiency has contributed to a lack of user engagement and some high attrition rates. Studies have consistently highlighted the important relationship between engagement and learning, with students who are highly motivated being more likely to engage in the learning process. ALICE aims at building an innovative adaptive environment for e-learning combining personalization, collaboration and simulation aspects within an affective/emotional based approach able to contribute to the overcoming of the quoted limitations of current e-learning systems and content. In other words the proposed environment will be interactive, challenging and context aware while enabling learners’ demand of empowerment, social identity, and authentic learning experience. The defined system will be able to effectively involve learners in educational, cultural and informative activities in two specific contexts: university instruction (with particular emphasis on scientific topics) and training about emergency and civil defence (as for example the behaviour to take at a personal and collective level when the treat of a big risk shows up e.g. a natural event like earthquake, or a fraudulent one like terrorist attack). The ALICE starting point will be an already existing e-Learning platform named IWT developed exploiting experiences and know-how gained in several EC projects. ALICE results will be experimented with real users in real learning and training settings in order to evaluate the impact of the offered innovative features.

Keywords: adaptive e-learning,affective and emotional approaches,collaborative learning,simulation,seriuous games,assessment,storytelling
PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects (PLANET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6819750.0
EU funding (EUR): 4900000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Efficient deployment and management has been identified as one of the main problems for the acceptance of new technologies based on Cooperating Objects (COs). The goal of PLANET is to provide an integrated planning and maintenance platform that enables the deployment, operation and maintenance of heterogeneous networked COs in an efficient way. The main objective of the project particularly emphasizes the capability of the platform to support deployment and operation strategies for large-scale systems composed of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles cooperating with wireless sensor/actuator networks. PLANET addresses the design methodology and development of the platform as well as the algorithms required to support the deployment and maintenance of heterogeneous systems with mobile and static nodes. The most challenging algorithms that will form the core functionality of the PLANET platform are: optimal planning to achieve optimal coverage; network-centric, cooperative sensing/actuation; cooperative transportation and retrieval of nodes; data muling techniques; secure, non-intrusive monitoring of the network for failures and possible threats; synthetic network simulation; user interface algorithms for the efficient usage of the platform by non-experts. All of these have to be solved in the presence of rather adverse conditions (high mobility, ad-hoc and dynamic resource changes, etc.) and taking into account the QoS requirements of the applications. The PLANET platform will be validated in two scenarios: An environmental and wildlife monitoring application deployed in the Doñana Biological Reserve (Spain); and the management of a highly automated airfield which could be used as the operating base of unmanned vehicles for the previous application. Both scenarios, although complementary, have very different requirements regarding the QoS needed from the system and, thus, enable the PLANET platform to show its adaptation and self-organization capabilities in diverse settings.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks,cooperating objects,deployment,real-world experiments,integrating platform
Magnetic Nanowires for High Density Non Volatile Memories (MAGWIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3142852.0
EU funding (EUR): 2200000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Fast, high capacity, low form factor and low power non-volatile memories are a crucial enabler of today’s ICT. They are already an important part of all electronic systems, representing a growing market segment, and should increase their importance in the future en route towards the “Storage everywhere” society. The market today is divided between Flash NAND and hard disk, which both face severe limitations for the mid term future (2012-2014). The recent discovery that domain walls (DWs) can be moved under a small current without any magnetic field opens a perspective for a paradigm shift in mass storage design. This project aims at demonstrating the disruptive concept of the &quot;storage track memory&quot;, which proposes to store information in DW sequences moving synchronously under current in patterned magnetic tracks. It reproduces the successful data sector memory organization of a hard disk in a solid state device with no mechanically moving parts. Our project aims at investigating the potential of a race track storage device beyond the 32nm technology node by proposing innovative solutions in the fields of materials, DW spin structure engineering, fabrication processes, architecture and CMOS integration. Our ultimate goal is to implement the integrated race track memory device in the standard CMOS 45nm technology node to fully benefit from the cost/scalability economics reflected by Moore’s law. In the EU, pioneering work has been done and key expertise is available but scattered in different academic laboratories of different countries. This project gathers four leading academic experts, a major semiconductor manufacturer and a PVD equipment manufacturer for the Magnetic Storage Market. This project is expected to generate a strong impact in terms of European IPR and mass-storage applications beyond the limits of NAND Flash technology. It will be an essential step in the development of all future ICT applications and in particular for mobile devices.

Keywords: spin electronics,domain walls,high density non volatile memories,mass storage
Family Matters: Intergenerational Influences on Fertility (FAMMAT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799998.0
EU funding (EUR): 799998.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Why do people have children? Why do they have the number of children they do? These questions are of fundamental importance, but we do not yet have satisfactory answers. I propose to bring an interdisciplinary perspective, involving demography, evolutionary biology, anthropology and psychology, to bear on this topic. The aim is to test the hypothesis that intergenerational influences are important determinants of fertility, from fertility intentions to timing of births to number of children. The theoretical rationale derives from a hypothesis emerging from evolutionary biology that humans are cooperative breeders : mothers need help from others to raise children, because human children are too costly for mothers to raise alone. The support of relatives, particularly intergenerational support, is thus vital to women in determining how many children they have. If so, there is a major gap in our understanding of fertility, since such influences have not been systematically studied. This aim will be achieved using rigorous, empirical methods to analyse data from all world regions, and to use novel methods for collecting new data on fertility. The key to this project is its holistic comparative nature. The ultimate goal will be a novel comparative analysis of data from the full gamut of human societies, from small-scale traditional societies through historical populations to contemporary nations surveyed through large-scale surveys. This will allow us to go beyond simply documenting kin influences, and to understand why particular kin matter under which circumstances. Such a comparative approach has not been used before but is vital if we are to fully understand why fertility varies. This will significantly advance understanding of fertility, and promote interdisciplinary research.

Keywords: fertility,intergenerational,kin,evolutionary demography,anthropology,quantitative,comparative