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CALL 6
Key Action IV
Introduction and Action Lines:
IV.1.2, IV.2.1, IV.2.2, IV.2.4
Brussels, 16. Jan 2001
Colette MaloneyEuropean Commission
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• Interdisciplinary work (IV.1)
• Computing and Networking (IV.2)
• Software Engineering
• Simulation, Visualisation
• Mobile Communications
• Interfaces
• Microsystems and Subsystems
• Microelectronics & Optoelectronics
Key Action IV - Scope
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• Interoperable device, network and service infrastructures
• Service engineering, provisioning, access and management
• Distributed, networks of embedded systems (sensors, processors, actuators,..)
• Subsystems and components with increased integration & performance, optimised power consumption & cost
• Objectives: Affordability, Usability, Interoperability
Key Action IV - Context
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IV.1.2 Multiservice networks - middleware for seamless access to services
Issue: generic requirements on infrastructures and technologies for seamless service delivery
Aim: make service access independent of underlying network, user location and terminal
Scope:fixed, mobile, wireless, satellite networks
signalling, mobility management, QoS, link-optimisation
bandwidth + resource optimisation
adaptive and ad-hoc networks (self-aware, self-organising)
protocol interworking, inter-networking handover
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Issue: sharing in real-time of processing, memory, data, graphics environment,… among multiple users of
an application with distributed access
Aim: middleware supporting the development of real-time distributed applications
Scope:solutions (h/w, s/w, architectures...) should be non-proprietary and open (in the sense of being interoperable)
IV.2.1 Real-time distributed systems (i)
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Issue: vision systems with the capability of perceiving and interacting with their environment
Aim: to develop robust cognitive vision systems...
Scope:behavioural-modelling of 3-D environments
complex shape & deformable object representation
memory organisation, attention, incremental learning representation of knowledge and its integration with image analysis architectures
integration: feedback, model-based integration, task-oriented integration, multi-cue integration
IV.2.1 Real-time distributed systems (ii)
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Issue: control of distributed systems including networks, embedded sensors, actuators, applications...
Aim: to develop novel strategies and platforms for real-time control of complex systems in uncertain environments
Scope:reasoning, control & optimisation under uncertainty
time-critical operations, multiple distributed processes
- composable design & implementation
- robust, probabilistic control strategies
model-based-, task-oriented-, meta-level- integration
IV.2.1 Real-time distributed systems (iii)
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Issue: seamless interoperability among heterogeneous networks
Aim: improve capacity of networks to interoperate and support advanced (interactive, nomadic,..)
services and applications
Scope: network gateways and protocols
integration: fixed/mobile, hybrid fibre/cable
interoperability: access/core, home/access
QoS support, Service Level Agreements, accounting
IV.2.2 Network and services interoperability, interworking and management (i)
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Issue: flexible control over networks and network services
Aim: dynamic optimisation of network resources to assure service transparency in a multi-domain context
Scope: active network management
harmonised approach to network management
dynamic reconfiguration of network elements for service deployment and support
IV.2.2 Network and services interoperability, interworking and management (ii)
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Juxtaposition : IV.1.2 and IV.2.2
Context: Heterogeneity and the need for interoperability
IV.1.2 Services + applications (interworking, transparency)
IV.2.2Networks (interoperability, management)
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Trials• to adapt leading edge methodologies and technologies for
use in industry and service organisations• driven by technology supplier in collaboration with user
Best Practice• to promote the exploitation of established methodologies
and technologies in industry and service organisations to improve efficiency of operation
• driven by technology user
IV.2.4 Computing, Communication and Networks - Take-up measures
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Topics: agents
middleware
vision and/or control
Examples: exploit agent technologies in new services / applications
use of middleware in integration with legacy applications
integration of vision and/or control systems in networked industrial environments
New clusters: agents and middleware
IV.2.4 Computing, Communication and Networks - Take-up measures
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Action Line Focus Contact
IV.1.2 Seamless service access [email protected]
IV.2.1 Distributed applications [email protected]
Cognitive vision systems [email protected]
Advanced control systems [email protected]
IV.2.2 Network interoperability [email protected]
Active network technologies [email protected]
IV.2.4 Agents, middleware and [email protected] and
vision, control (take-up) [email protected]
Contact points for open ALs