Chemomentum

The Chemomentum project will provide Grid-based solutions for workflow-centric complex applications, such as risk assessment, toxicity prediction and drug design. It will focus on tools for dealing with data and knowledge in an efficient and reliable manner. The Chemomentum software will enable users to assess the knowledge stored in the system in terms of applicability, range of validity and reliability, and will make easy to use this knowledge for predictive and decision-making purposes.

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COIN

COIN – Collaboration and Interoperability in Networked Enterprises
“By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European 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 (and made available by the whole Enterprise Interoperability DG INFSO D4 Cluster and specifically by the projects ATHENA, INTEROP, ABILITIES, SATINE, TRUSTCOM) and Enterprise Collaboration (and made available by the 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 in order to guarantee the best combination of the needed services depending on business context, as industrial sector and domain, size of the companies involved, openness and dynamics of collaboration. In 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 the various collaborative business forms, from supply chains to business ecosystems, and becoming for them like a utility, a commodity, the so-called 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 where the open-source COIN service platform will be able to integrate both free-of-charge and chargeable, open and proprietary services depending on the case and business policies.

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Ecospace

By 2012 every Professional in Europe will be empowered for seamless dynamic and creative collaboration across teams, organizations and communities through a personalized collaborative working environment. ECOSPACE contributes to this vision through 4 main objectives: the definition of innovative work paradigms through the analysis of eProfessionals, the designing and development of an open standard service-oriented architecture for complementary and alike systems, a collaborating upper ware and services to enable seamless and instant collaboration among workers in group forming networks, beyond organizational boundaries, the creation of new tools that simplify the complexity of collaboration in dynamic work environments and which enable users for creative and knowledge intensive tasks.

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GEMOM

The core scientific focus of GEMOM is the significant and measurable increase in end-to-end intelligence, security and resilience of complex information systems.
The primary objective of GEMOM is to research, develop and deploy a prototype of a messaging platform that is evolutionary, self-organizing, self healing, scalable and secure.
GEMOM will be resilient and able to use redundant modules (hot-swap or switchover) instantly without information loss. These resilience features will allow specialist independent system actors, viz. watch-dogs, security and situation monitors, routers, and other optimisers, to remove or replace compromised nodes instantly from the broader network instantly without compromising higher level functionality.

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HERMES

HERMES (Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging)
provides an integrated approach to cognitive care covering the domain of cognitive support and training. This is achieved through an advanced, integrated, assistive technology that combines the functional skills of the elderly to reduce age-related decline of cognitive capabilities and assist the user where necessary.
Based on intelligent audio and visual processing and reasoning, the project results in a combination of home-based and mobile devices that complement each other’s functionality to support the user’s cognitive state and prevent cognitive decline. HERMES addresses the following aspects associated with cognitive support, care and wellbeing:

• Advanced activity reminding to assist the user in performing everyday tasks and to support independent living. Modeled after human associative memory, activities are automatically deduced from the captured information using advanced speech recognition and processing algorithms.
• Facilitation of episodic memory through the capture of content in audio and image including when, where, who, and what of a moment, including additional contextual information.
• Cognitive training through games with important moments.
• Conversation support on the grounds of interactive reminiscence based on the recordings of important moments.
• Mobility support to address the needs of the user outside the house with cognitive support when and where needed.

HERMES aims specifically at supporting the decline in (declarative memory) capabilities by using other functional cognitive skills and training these, thereby reducing the need for active care and support and substantially increasing the ability to cope with everyday life and to live independently.

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IKS

IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers
IKS is an Integrating Project part-funded by the European Commission. It started in January 2009 and will provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems. Moving hundreds of SMEs towards reaping benefits from the Semantic Web.
IKS creates a technology platform for semantically enabled content and knowledge management, targeted at small to medium CMS technology providers. The objective is to provide an easy-to-use knowledge and content management framework which raises the semantic capability of European software houses that are active in developing intelligent content solutions for customers. The first and most prominent research issue for IKS is the question: "What needs to be programmed so that end users can directly interact with knowledge?"

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ISAAC

ISAAC stands for Integrated e-Services for Advanced Access to Heritage in Cultural Tourist Destinations (EU project contract number FP6-IST-2006-035130). Its mission is to promote the diversity and wealth of European cultural heritage by increasing the interest of tourists and citizens in visiting and experiencing European cultural tourist destinations and their beauties virtualy and in reality.
The project specific aim is to develop a novel user-friendly and user-relevant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Platform, which offers rich and integrated electronic services and contents beneficial to different categories of users such as tourists, local residents, decision-makers and managers before, during and after a real visit of cultural sites and objects in urban tourist destinations.
As result, ISAAC will support the building of a multi-stakeholder community of private and public stakeholders - destination and business managers, IT providers, citizens and tourists - for experiencing and managing European cultural heritage in tourist localities. This will also help building the European identity by creating awareness and empathy for local heritage and amenities.
The Consortium team comprises of fourteen European institutions that collectively employ a wide spectrum of expertise in digital heritage, culture, tourism, and urban research, development, and policy, required by its multidisciplinary nature. Together they also reflect the needs and interests of the main stakeholder groups - city and destination decision-makers, tourism and heritage managers, tourists and the citizens.

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iSURF

iSURF - An Interoperability Service Utility for Collaborative Supply Chain Planning across Multiple Domains Supported by RFID Devices
Nowadays the competitive and demanding world of business requires new networked applications and services capable of interoperation across different business domains and organizations of all sizes. iSURF project will provide an intelligent collaborative supply chain planning network that will:

• Realize a knowledge-oriented and inter-enterprise collaboration environment in which the knowledge of multiple trading partners will be exploited in the planning and fulfillment of customer demand in the supply chain.
• Develop a Semantic Interoperability Service Utility for achieving the semantic reconciliation of the planning and forecasting business documents exchanged between the companies according to different standards.
• Provide an open source smart product infrastructure for SMEs in order to enhance their capabilities of gathering product information through RFID devices, filtering and aggregating the collected data and putting them into a business context.
• Enable the definition and execution of inter-enterprise collaboration across wide variety of business domains through the Service Oriented Collaborative Supply Chain Planning Process Definition and Execution Platform.
• Wrap the existing legacy applications with semantically enriched web services to solve technical interoperability problems during interaction with the underlying legacy business processes.
• Facilitate establishing transitory supply chain planning collaborations in case of exceptions. Dynamic visibility information will enable the European SMEs to be more agile, sustainable and responsive to the changes in the supply chain dynamics.
• Provide a Global Data Synchronization Service Utility in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of master data used in the supply chain by developing standards based open platform for SMEs.
• Ensure the security of real time visible data gathered through RFID devices, the planning and forecasting messages exchanged across enterprises.

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iTACITUS

Itacitus is a European research project funded under the Sixth Framework Program for information technologies society, aiming to explore ways in which information technology can be employed to encourage cultural tourism.
iTacitus will explore ways of using augmented reality to provide compelling experiences in cultural heritage sites. For example Superimposed Environments (3D objects are placed into the scene on the spot in order to overlay the real scene), Annotated Landscape (abstract context sensitive information overlay showing images, texts and videos about a certain spots) and Spatial Acoustic Overlays (virtually transporting a place placing spatial audio clips in the surroundings).
iTacitus also aims to develop an interactive itinerary planning tool where the process is enjoyable rather than overwhelming since mundane issues like travel and finding things which match your interests are handled by the system automatically, also by delivering contextual information (users location, interests and history) to the visitors mobile device.

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NEXES

NEXES - Supporting Healthier and Independent Living for Chronic Patients and Elderly
NEXES grew from the need to unfold pilot experiences for integrated and innovative healthcare services. It is aimed at citizens at risk and with chronic illnesses. The main objective of the project is to evaluate the potential of generalising these services in the healthcare system. It will address the following activities:

• Evolution from pilots to services
• Controlled deployment, integration and validation of services
• Identification of strategies suitable for the success of extensive and sustainable deployment of services

NEXES pilots will be deployed in 3 areas (central Norway, Athens and Catalonia) and will address 4 types of innovative services for patients suffering of cardiac and chronic respiratory diseases:

• Wellbeing and physical training – Orientated at the chronically ill who are clinically stable with a wide spectrum of seriousness. The objective is to empower the role of the patient by increasing physical activity and preventing conventional type interactions (visits) with the healthcare system
• Care for fragile patients – Addressed to unstable chronic patients, often with diverse co morbidities, who have a high risk of presenting episodes of decompensation that will require unscheduled hospitalisations.
• Home hospitalisation and early discharge – Technological support to increase the quality and effectiveness of these types of programmes
• Diagnostic and treatment support – Technological support aimed at transferring more diagnostic potential and treatment monitoring to the family and homecare doctor

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NoTube

NoTube – Making television more personal

NoTube is the first project to focus on TV content as a medium for personalized interaction.

The core objectives of this project are targeted at putting the TV viewer back in the driver’s seat by developing semantics-based and context aware tools and services for
(1) personalized content selection,
(2) packaging of content with additional information (e.g. relevant Web info on program subjects), and
(3) social interaction in/consumer communities.

To realize this vision the NoTube project will deliver a service-oriented architecture with four corner stones:
(1) novel deployment of existing methods for information integration in the combined TV-Internet environment;
(2) extensions of existing user and context modeling techniques to meet the demands of the distributed world;
(3) development of novel reasoning services for personalized content recommendation; and
(4) integration of community-oriented software and social interaction tools, such as chat channels.

The work in the project is steered by three visionary use cases, namely:
a) personalized semantic news;
b) personalized TV guide with adaptive advertising;
c) Internet TV in the Social Web.

The overall result of this project will be twofold:

• Architecture, Services and Models for Personalized Access of TV Content.
• Three showcase implementations that demonstrate the use of this architecture to realize challenging use cases with different combinations of NoTube services and models.

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Open Garments

The overall objective of Open Garments is the Manufacturing Service Provider (MSP) Business Model enabling individual garments. This model will enable a new way of design, production and sales of consumer designed and configured garments, based on the provision of individualised services and products to customers and partners. This will lead to new product designs, to a much more customer satisfaction, and to an improvement of the stability and competitiveness of SMEs. Applying this the European Textile and Clothing Industry will be able to create and provide individual garments with a very high degree of customisation in terms of fit, fashion and function at a comparable price in typically 72 hours. The idea is to empower the consumer as designer, producer and retailer for individual garments by

1. taking the creativity and the willingness of consumers by means of web-based virtual communities of individuals,
2. adopting and integrating (mainly) existing digital technologies for design and production of individual garments in a framework of Open Innovation and (a new concept of) Open Manufacturing,
3. turning this into a new MSP concept for SMEs with an appropriate business model and tools, which coordinates, supports and manages the Open Innovation community and the Open Manufacturing network.

The MSP business model will be developed, implemented and tested in real industrial environments.

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SHIELDS

SHIELDS is a FP7 project about model-based detection and elimination of software vulnerabilities. The project consortium will conduct research and development on models for software vulnerabilities and security countermeasures and develop a repository where such models can be stored, at the same time it will extend and adapt security and development tools to make use of this repository.
The main objective of SHIELDS is to bridge the gap between security experts and software developers and thereby reduce the occurrence of security vulnerabilities. The project will:

• Make it easier and faster for security experts to make information about identified security vulnerabilities known to the developer community, in a directly accessible form using well-known design and development tools;
• Help individual developers to detect and remove security vulnerabilities within used development tools;
• Increase awareness amongst developers about known security vulnerabilities;
• Help software development organizations to verify (internally and to their customers) that they have successfully reduced security vulnerabilities in their products.

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SOA4ALL

SOA4All aims at realizing a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology: the main objective of the project is to provide a comprehensive framework that integrates complementary and evolutionary technical advances (i.e., SOA, context management, Web principles, Web 2.0 and Semantic Web) into a coherent and domain-independent service delivery platform

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SORMA

SORMA deals with the development of methods and tools for an efficient market-based allocation of resources, through a self-organizing resource management system, using market-driven models supported by Grid infrastructures. Addressed topics include open Grid markets, economics-driven Grid middleware and intelligent tools. Brokerage of resources over the Grid will benefit Grid consumers, resource owners, outsourcing providers, and new intermediaries.

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TEAM

TEAM project addresses the need for a knowledge sharing software environment, supporting in that way advanced capabilities in the distributed engineering and management of software systems. In particular, it strives for a decentralized, personalized, context-sensitive and semantic-based framework for sharing knowledge about software implementation that is seamlessly integrated into a software development environment (IDE). The concept is generally enough to be principally applied on every phase of the software development process and in every environment. Its distributed and decentralized realization ensures the robustness and simplifies the maintenance of the communication channels.

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TIPSS

The main focus of the FP7 European research and development project TIPSS (Tools for Innovative Product-Service-Systems for Global Tool and Die Networks) is to support the role of toolmakers changing from producers to producing service-providers being managers of global business networks.
The operational availability of both injection molding machines and injection moulds can be improved significantly on the basis of so-called "smart tools". Smart tools are injection moulds equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology that delivers real-time data from the production process. The on-line analysis of gathered data enables an optimized mix of both condition-based and preventive maintenance services, which directly leads to an increase of the overall operational availability of the production cell.
With this project European toolmakers are given tools to improve their local and global performance. These tools allow the synchronization between their tool development design with the customers' product development processes by means of a continuous simultaneous engineering. The time-to-market of the final product can thus be shortened. Secondly this project shall enable European toolmakers to build global cooperation networks and make them capable of linking them to cross-country product development and production networks.

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WearIT@Work

WearIT@work will prove the applicability of computer systems integrated to clothes, the so-called wearables, in various industrial environments.
These novel computer systems will support their users or groups of users in an unobtrusive way e.g. wearing them as a computer-belt. This will allow them to perform their primary task without distracting their attention enabling computer applications in novel fields.

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