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GreenerBuildings - An Ubiquitous Embedded Systems Framework for Energy-aware Buildings Using Activity and Context Knowledge Project funded by the European Community Making efficient use of energy in buildings is a paramount challenge to conserve energy and reduce greenhouse effects. GreenerBuildings will investigate how buildings can dynamically adapt their operations according to actual use, aiming at substantial energy savings. People spend a great deal of time in buildings, may these be offices, hospitals or commercial buildings. While active indoor, people desire to have comforting lighting and microclimate conditions that adapt to their activity and wishes. With GreenerBuildings we propose to realize an integrated solution that addresses the challenge of energy-aware adaptation from basic (energy harvesting) sensors and actuators, up to the embedded software for coordinating thousands of smart objects with the goals of energy saving and user support. Our vision is that buildings can respond to their actual use and changes in their environment; interact with their occupants through novel ubiquitous sensing and occupant behavior inference techniques and that can transparently adapt a building's function and operation. Iniziativa Software - II edition Project funded by Finmeccanica Iniziativa Software is a collaboration running among Finmeccanica Industries and Academic Organizations. In particular the collaboration between Selex SI and The MiDLab research group is devoted to the monitoring and identification of critical patterns, in order to support the Failure Forecasting and the timely fault management, in complex distributed systems. BLEND - Blending Technologies for Ubiquitous Real-Time Data Access Project funded by the European Community Geo-Political, Sociological and Financial changes induced by Globalization, the surge of the Internet and online-communities, along with the ever-expanding role of the EU, are creating the need for a connected world where the right information is always available at the right time.In the future no system will be isolated, every system will be interconnected systems: a System-of-Systems. As a consequence of this trend, a large number of applications in domains, such as, Air Traffic Management, Maritime Surveillance, Financial Services, e-Services, and Real-Time Internet Applications, are being confronted with new scenarios and operational requirements posing unprecedented challenges with respect to: (i) the scale at which they need to operate, (ii) the ubiquity and multi-modality of data access they need to provide, and (iii) the performance they need to deliver. The shift required for moving from today’s systems to next-generation mission and business critical system-of-systems is very challenging; the BLEND project takes a concrete step toward addressing these challenges in a generic, interoperable, highly effective and efficient manner. The BLEND project targets the problem of real-time data dissemination in a System-of-Systems addressing the challenges due to scalability, and adaption of content, quality of service (QoS) and protocol. DOTS-LCCI - Dependable Off-The-Shelf based middleware systems for Large-scale Complex Critical Infrastructures Project funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' della Ricerca)
CoMiFin - Project funded by the European Community
SM4All - Smart hoMes for All Project funded by the European Community
SOFIA - Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications
eDIANA - Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings
MiNEMA: Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications
MIDAS (IST/2001/37610) Project funded by the European Community MIDAS is funded by the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme in Research and Technological Development(FP5). FP5 is coming to an end, and work has begun to identify new proposals to be funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). FP6 will run for four years, from 2003-2006. The aim of MIDAS is to prepare a roadmap for the development of new project proposals in the area of middleware. It will run for one year, from 1st June 2002 - 31st May 2003. A ubiquitous computing environment will be required to realize the Sixth Framework Programme vision of ambient intelligence; in such an environment processors will be everywhere and will be interconnected by a diverse array of networks, from ad-hoc to the global Internet. Constructing the software infrastructure for the ubiquitous computing environment poses a number of scientific and technical challenges. A fundamental requirement is for middleware architectures capable of supporting services that are composable and adaptable. The objectives of MIDAS are (i) to create a research roadmap for the development of the next generation middleware capable of supporting services that are composable and adaptable within the context of large scale systems where quality of service issues ranging from fault-tolerance, timeliness to security and survivability are of paramount importance; and (ii) to build Europe wide partnerships for creating an integrated project (IP) for future work in this area in the forthcoming FP6. Time in Distributed Systems JOINT CNR/CNRS Project The project analyzes different degrees of synchronization in a distributed system to understand the ordering relations among events generated at different sites in distributed systems. This is a fundamental problem when designing distributed applications. The project compares lazy protocol scheme with aggressive ones. Lazy protocols use only control information attached to messages while aggressive protocols exchange control messages to keep their internal clocks within a certain degree of accuracy. SemanticGov (IST/2006) Project funded by the European Community
To achieve this SemanticGov project aims at capitalizing on the Service Oriented Architectures paradigm, implemented through state-of-the-art Semantic Web Services technology and supported by rigorous and reusable public administration domain analysis and modelling, while being in line with the European Interoperability Framework and the recent work conducted by the EU IDABC Programme. The consortium consists of a complementary set of top-level scientific partners (e.g. University of Innsbruck, DERI Ireland), world-leading industrial companies (e.g. SAP, Capgemini) and user partners capable to take up SemanticGov results (e.g. Ministry of Interior of Greece responsible for eGovernment strategy). This composition secures the successful execution of the project as well as the widest exploitation of its results. As a wider impact, SemanticGov is expected to enhance the administrative capacity of national public administration systems by providing a new paradigm for service provision, and pave the way to the administrative dimension of European unification (aka "Common European Administrative Space") by facilitating the communication amongst EU national administrative systems. ESTEEM - Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in multi-knowledgE EnvironMents Project funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' della Ricerca) The main goal of the ESTEEM project is the design and the implementation of a platform for emergent semantics in multi-knowledge environments, where semantic communities can interoperate according to the P2P paradigm.
EG4M Project funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' della Ricerca)
Resist Network Of Excellence funded by the European Community
EU-Publi.com (IST/2001/35217) Project funded by the European Community The EU-PUBLI.COM project aims at implementing a "secure Intranet" that can interconnect at the application level the ISs of public administrations across several European countries. We call this network Unitary European Network (UEN). Besides providing the essential interconnection services (e-mail, file transfer, etc.) to administrations by supplying them with basic interoperability tools, the project aims at defining an Unitary European Network Architecture as a whole, by bringing together the collection of distributed, autonomous systems of each administration into a common Cooperative Architecture. In turn, this will make it possible to develop new and reengineer the existing global European administrative processes by making more effective use of the information made available by each individual system. MAIS Project funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' della Ricerca) The current trend in the communication world suggests that an information system should offer continuous access to all information sources, from all locations, through various kind of devices (PCs, laptops, palmtops, cellular phones, TV sets, etc.). Moreover, users are interested in a wider and wider variety of services enabling access to any kind of data, also with transactional properties and complex interaction (home-banking, e-business, online reservation, mobile information systems, etc.). Then the problem to allow accesses to services from current user location and through different telecommunication networks with a given level of QoS arises. The goal of the MAIS project is the development of models, methods and tools to implement a Multichannel Adaptive Information System able to provide services with respect to different types of networks and access devices. Then the main problems faced will be (i) adaptivity, which provides flexibility even in presence of a variety of technological platform and user requirements and (ii) transactionality, which provides security and reliability also in presence of failure or service unavailability. In particular will be developed an enabling platform to build distributed information systems with the above specified features. Then the platform should enable the execution of the services also on terminal devices, that may consequently work in the systems as server, also in condition of network fault, with distributed mechanisms of service composition. A seamless behaviuor of the system should be also enabled, in order to perform the service on several terminals, adapting as far as possible the service to the device type and communication channel features; service execution on the user side should also be performed with transactional protocol. IS-MANET The IS-MANET project aims at realizing an infrastructure for the interconnection of MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks) via satellite links. This infrastructure will be used to realize a prototype of an application for the management of environmental emergencies by "Protezione Civile". This application field presents a context in which the fluid and reconfigurable communication infrastructure provided by MANETs becomes fundamental. The project aims at developing innovative solutions at each system level; at application level, showing the powerful characteristics of MANETs; at the software architecture level developing advanced solutions for middleware and new design methodologies adapted to peer-to-peer environments; finally, at the communication support layer, the project will face the problems related to message routing on MANETs. Software infrastructure for ad-hoc networking Project funded by MIUR ("Fondo speciale enti di ricerca") The project goals is to develop innovative solutions for ad-hoc networking from applications to network infrastructures. From applications viewpoint, we want to show the MANET potentiality in a few hostile contexts. Then we want to provide advanced middleware platforms and software methodologies to support such ad-hoc networking. One of our aims is to show that these solutions can be employed even in wired networks. From the networking viewpoint we investigate innovative routing and end-to-end TCP protocol for mobile ad hoc networking. DaQuinCIS: Methodologies and tools for data quality in cooperative information systems Project funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' della Ricerca) which involves three Italian universities: University of Rome "La Sapienza", Politecnico di Milano, University of Milan "Bicocca". Even though there are techniques and methodology to improve data quality within a single autonomous system, up to now, there does not exist any proposal that defines an integrated framework to improve data quality in cooperative environments. The study of such an integrated framework that answers previous question is the main target of this project. The framework includes:
The definition of the integrated methodology is an ambitious objective, that implies the integration of competence from different research areas: databases, distributed systems and information systems. This methodology should define a long-term reference (extendible in the next years) that allows to place the contribution of the three research units with respect to the project phases. Moreover, the integrated methodology should lead to the definition of an ad-hoc distributed architecture which includes (i) the definition of the representation models for data quality information that flows between different organizations and (ii) the design of a middleware that offers services to the single organizations for the transmission of data and their quality degree, for the localization of data with high quality and for the consistency of replicated data. In cooperative information systems, data replication is one of the key issues. Many organizations can keep the same data under heterogeneous representations. There exists then a non-trivial problem of data alignment (consistency) and data updating. IRL - Interoperable Replication Logic Project funded by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" The Interoperable Replication Logic (IRL) architecture is a Fault Tolerant CORBA compliant infrastructure exploiting a three-tier approach to replicate stateful CORBA objects. IRL is interoperable, as clients and server replicas lay on standard ORBs implementing only the IIOP protocol. |
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Large scale Complex Critical Infrastructures (LCCIs), such as water and power supply plants, and transport infrastructures (e.g., airports and seaports), play a key role into several fundamental human activities.
CoMiFin is an EU project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), started in September 2008 and continuing for 30 months. The research area is Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), focussing on the Critical Financial Infrastructure (CFI).
Embedded systems are specialized computers used in larger systems or machines to control equipments such as automobiles, home appliances, communication, control and office machines. Such pervasivity is particularly evident in immersive realities, i.e., scenarios in which invisible embedded systems need to continuously interact with human users, in order to provide continuous sensed information and to react to service requests from the users themselves.
SOFIA envisions that the ongoing digital convergence will fundamentally change the way embedded systems are used to construct not only physical devices and but also services. SOFIA believes that the digital convergence has still a huge unleashed potential for consumers, industry and research but it requires a common understanding of the information exchanged between embedded systems through heterogeneous systems and communication technologies. Central to SOFIA project is the notion of smart environment. A smart environment is an ecosystem of interacting objects - e.g. sensors, devices, appliances and embedded systems in general - that have the capability to self-organize, to provide services and manipulate/publish complex data.
eDIANA addresses the need of achieving energy efficiency in buildings through innovative solutions based on embedded systems. The main goal of eDIANA is to enable sustainable urban life through rationalization in the use of resources while increasing comfort in urban environments by means of embedded intelligence and integration technologies.
MiNEMA is an European Science Foundation (ESF) Scientific Programme aiming to bring together European groups from different communities working on middleware for mobile environment. The programme intends to foster the definition and implementation of widely recognized middleware abstractions for new and emerging mobile applications.
SemanticGov aims at building the infrastructure (software, models, services, etc) necessary for enabling the offering of semantic web services by public administration (PA), Through this cutting edge infrastructure, SemanticGov will address longstanding challenges faced by public administrations such as achieving interoperability amongst PA agencies both within a country as well as amongst countries, easing the discovery of PA services by its customers, facilitating the execution of complex services often involving multiple PA agencies in interworkflows. More importantly, this infrastructure will exploit SemanticGov as an enabler for total reengineering of PA service provision and propose a paradigm shift of today's modus operandi.
The goal of eG4M project is to investigate new methodologies for supporting Mediterranean countries in establishing and consolidating eGovernment. The project concentrates on extending the eGovernment reference model (e-Model) and to issue an eGovernment methodology, that provides extensive guidelines for IT plans.
ReSIST network is addressing the development of integrated interdisciplinary frameworks and related technologies for the provision of resilience, dependability and security in complex interconnected and heterogeneous communication networks and information infrastructures that underpin our economy and society.