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BEYOND-THE-HORIZON
Anticipating Future and Emerging Information Society
Technologies
BEYOND-THE-HORIZON is a Coordination Action
funded by the EC IST Programme in FP6
Future and Emerging Technologies Activity
under contract no. 006662
Keith G Jeffery; ERCIM President
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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ERCIM Members
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ERCIM is a
consortium
of leading research
institutions from
18 European
countries
committed
to information
technology
and applied
mathematics.
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in a Nutshell
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> 12000 researchers in major ICT labs in 18 countries: virtual organisation
– 2 more in process of joining
National nodes for industrial and academic communities: leverage
European W3C Host, centrally and regionally
Working Groups – wide spectrum of subject areas across ICT
Research projects: technology transfer to European industry
– > 100 spin-out companies from ERCIM institutes
Consultancy: advice and assistance
– (especially) to EC
– national governments
Fellowships: European human capital mobility
Dissemination: ERCIM News, Reports
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For further information
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ERCIM Website
ERCIM News
http://www.ercim.org/
Quarterly magazine (free subscription)
ERCIM Office, BP 93, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis
Tel +33 4 92 38 50 10 — Fax +33 4 92 38 50 11— E-mail: [email protected]
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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Looking Back: Technology
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ICT used for industrial services
– Accounting
– Stock control
– Production scheduling
Then for office functions
– Email, calendar, documents
Then for decision support
– Control room
– Management
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Current State: Technology
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Characteristics
– Price/performance
• Moore’s Law for processor
power
• more impressive for
storage systems
– Distributed, connected
– Data-information-knowledge
Used For
– Modelling and simulation
– Business processes
– Knowledge-assisted
decisions
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Future: Working Smarter
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Need not only to excel at R&D but also
Need to turn excellence in ICT R&D into
– Wealth creation (employment, investment)
– Improved quality of life
Innovation value chain
But it starts with excellent R&D
And excellent R&D starts with FET
(Future Emerging Technologies)
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Future: Technology
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ERCIM Strategy Group
– ERCIM Working Groups
ERCIM active participation:
– ISTAG
– Next Generation GRIDs expert group
– Future Emerging Technologies: Beyond The Horizon
coordination action
Which all echo / amplify / build on the ERCIM strategic work
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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Where are we now?
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Almost at end of FP6
– Last calls December 2005
Detailed Planning of FP7
– Likely first calls end-2006
– Likely first funding mid-2007
What is happening
– Consultation on FP7
• EC-managed groups
 ISTAG http://www.cordis.lu/ist/istag.htm
• National representatives
 http://www.ost.gov.uk/ostinternational/fp7/index.html
• Pan-European organisations
 E.g. ERCIM www.ercim.org
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ISTAG
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Grand Challenges Document
– ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/2004_grand_chal
lenges_web_en.pdf
Consolidated Report
– ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/2004_strategic_o
rientations_web_en.pdf
Note : GRIDs document
– ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/2004_grids_web
_en.pdf
– Reflects closely NGG thinking
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ISTAG Grand Challenges 1-4
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1.
The 100% Safe Car: Roadway accidents entail enormous human suffering and
burden European society with tremendous economic costs. Hence, we
envision projects with ICT systems leading the realisation of the 100% safe
automobile for eliminating traffic fatalities almost completely.
2.
The Multilingual Companion: With the enlargement to 25 Member States, the
EU faces a new multi-lingual challenge. We envision grand projects to defeat
the communication barrier between member states by developing a powerful
“multi-lingual companion” that will make multilingual and cross-lingual
information access and communication virtually automatic.
3.
The Service Robot Companion: As the European population ages, spiralling
health-related costs will place an immense burden on European economies.
We envision the development of flexible home-care service robots, which will
help people to care for themselves, improve their comfort of living and likely
entertain them.
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The Self-Monitoring and Self-Repairing Computer: System failures are
extremely costly and all too frequent in today’s complex ICT systems. We
envision a grand challenge to develop self-monitoring and self-repairing
computing systems that will demonstrate the principle of software systems
with greatly improved reliability.
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ISTAG Grand Challenges 5-8
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5. The Internet Police Agent: To reap the full benefits of the Internet, we must
maintain its further development and counter criminal and anti-social activities
(SPAM, viruses, worms, fraud, etc.). We envision projects to develop an
automated “police agent” that will be a socially beneficial force within the
Internet environment.
6. The Disease and Treatment Simulator: We envision the development of a
computational platform for simulating the function of a concrete disease. This
simulator will enable medicines to be tested without putting people at risk, and
will accelerate research into damaging diseases such as heart disease and
cancer.
7. The Augmented Personal Memory: The ICT revolution will make it possible to
store virtually every image, film or television program you have ever seen,
every conversation you have ever had or book you have read. We envision a
project that will make it possible for people to create, preserve, sort and
retrieve their own personal vast storehouse of the past, in the form of a
personalised digital life diary and augmented memory assistant.
8. The Pervasive Communication Jacket: Most objects in the house, at work or in
public spaces will soon carry wireless communications technology. We
envision a communications “jacket” that will enable the individual of tomorrow
to exploit these information resources in a natural and beneficial way.
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ISTAG Grand Challenges 9-11
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9. The Personal Everywhere Visualiser: visualisation is key for people to exploit
the information revolution. A grand challenge is to develop a convenient
personal and mobile visualisation system that will work anywhere and with
minimal fuss, thereby enhancing our ability to harness tomorrow’s ICT
capabilities.
10. The Ultra-light Aerial Transport Agent: We envision an unmanned aerial
transport agent for “small scale” logistics – for the transport of small packages
and products from point to point, monitoring of crime, and helping in search
and rescue operations.
11. The Intelligent Retail Store: We envision projects to realise the “intelligent retail
store” – a store in which emerging ICT technologies are integrated in a way
that brings more information and efficiency to both retailers and their
customers alike.
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ISTAG Consolidated Report
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Technology alone is not enough
– Public trust in its use
– Interoperation
– Organisational change
Pervasive
– out of the box and into everything
Mastering Complexity
– Technologies and systems
– Users and needs
– Innovation lifecycle
Experience and Application Research
– Users at all stages of lifecycle
Stimulating long-term lifecycle
– European-scale R&D
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NGG
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Next Generation GRIDs
NGG1: 200301-200306
– Brought together visionary experts
– Defined properties required and research agenda to achieve them
NGG2: 200401-200407
– Updated NGG1 vision in the light of funded projects and evolving
requirements and technology
NGG3 200509-200601
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/pub-report.htm
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GRIDs Vision and Requirements (1)
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a user interacts with the GRIDs environment
intelligently
such that the GRIDs environment proposes a
'deal' to the end-user to satisfy her request
middleware
which the user can then decide to execute –
involving multiple resources of computation,
information, detectors (for new data
collection), interactions with other users
through various communication devices etc.
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GRIDs Vision and Requirements (2)
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interoperation as a seemingly
homogeneous 'surface' over a
range of devices from smart dust
through detectors to embedded
systems (including controllers),
handhelds, laptops, desktops,
departmental servers, corporate
servers and supercomputers.
the 'surface' depends on self-* (selfmanaging, self-repairing, selftuning...) capability across arbitrary
and dynamic collections of (large
numbers of) nodes to give
scalability, performance, reliability,
access, security, privacy and other
features.
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NGG1
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NGG1 Properties Required:
– Transparent and reliable
– Open to wide user and provider communities
– Pervasive and ubiquitous
– Secure and provide trust across multiple
administrative domains
– Easy to use and to program
– Persistent
– Based on standards for software and protocols
– Person-centric
– Scalable
– Easy to configure and manage
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Call2 (NGG1) Projects Funded
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GRIDCOORD
Building the ERA
in Grid research
inteliGRID
Grid-based generic enabling
application technologies to
facilitate solution of industrial
problems
SIMDAT
K-WF Grid
Knowledge based
workflow &
collaboration
UniGridS
Extended OGSA
Implementation based
on UNICORE
HPC4U
Fault tolerance,
dependability
for Grid
EU - driven Grid services
architecture for business
and industry
NEXTGRID
Mobile Grid architecture
and services for dynamic
virtual Organisations
AKOGRIMO
European - wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid
research - creating the foundation for the next generation Grids
COREGRID
Semantic Grid
based virtual organisations
OntoGrid
Knowledge Services for
the semantic Grid
DataminingGrid
Datamining
tools & services
Provenance
Provenance for Grids
Figure 1: The Call 2 Projects as a ‘house’
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NGG2 Architecture
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Application A
Application B
Application C
Grids Middleware
Services Needed for A
Grids Middleware
Services Needed for B
Grids Middleware
Services Needed for C
Grids Foundations for
Operating System X
Grids Foundations For
Operating System Y
Grids Operating System
(including Foundations)
Modular and dynamically
loadable
Operating System X
Operating System Y
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Call5 (NGG2) Projects Funded
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Under negotiation
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NGG3
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September 2005 - January 2006
Still under active discussion
Draft report to EC DG INFSO F2 in December
Final Report in January 2006
Key messages
– GRIDs environment layering too complex
– Use SOKU
• Service Oriented Knowledge Utility
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NGG3: SOKU
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Interfaces
Non SOKU
Services
Non SOKU
Non SOKU
Non SOKU
Computing
Infrastructure
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BTH Objectives
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CA : ERCIM: DG INFSO F1 FET
20050101 - 20060630
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The major objectives are:
– to identify advanced strategic areas and challenging longterm goals;
– to analyse their scientific, societal, and industrial impact
and to deliver roadmaps for paving advances in these areas
within a timeframe of fifteen years;
– and to investigate new frontiers for ICT research, to identify
the boundaries with other disciplines, as well as
interrelationships among them and opportunities for crossfertilization.
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Topics
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The chosen strategic topics are:
– Pervasive Computing and
Communications;
– Nanoelectronics and nanotechnology;
– Security, dependability and trust;
– Bio-ICT synergies;
– Intelligent and Cognitive Systems;
– Software Intensive Systems.
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Topics
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Note that
– For the ISTAG grand challenges
– For the NGG architecture
These BTH technologies are necessary to realise the
concepts
– Developing first in the FET environment
– Subsequently applied progressively more
generally in the IST environment
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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Contents
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Beyond the Horizon: The Project
Rationale
Impact
Management
Methodology
Milestones
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Beyond the Horizon: Purpose
To provide input about IST-related emerging trends
and strategic research areas that require support,
through a well-organised, extensive and systematic
consultation of the relevant research community
throughout Europe, involving the main actors and
experts in the related fields.
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Beyond the Horizon: Goals
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To identify advanced strategic areas and challenging
long-term goals
To analyse their scientific, societal and industrial impact
and to deliver roadmaps for advancement over the next
15 years
To investigate new frontiers for ICT research, to identify
the boundaries with other disciplines, as well as
interrelationships and cross-fertilization potential
To assist in cultivating and maintaining European
research excellence
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Beyond the Horizon: Contract
Instrument:
Coordinator:
Start date:
Duration:
Effort:
Total budget:
EC contribution:
Coordination Action
ERCIM EEIG
January 1st, 2005
18 months
52 PM
612.127 €
482.000 €
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Beyond the Horizon: rationale (1/2)
• ICTs: a key factor driving progress towards a global
economy of knowledge in the 21st Century
• ICTs provide new tools for communication throughout
the world and for acquiring knowledge and insight from
information
• ICTs are progressively becoming a foundation for
improving services to citizens in a variety of application
domains, such as health care, government, transportation,
entertainment, and other aspects of everyday life.
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Beyond the Horizon: rationale (2/2)
• The FET Programme aims at stimulating the emergence and
development of new IST-related disciplines and technologies
with significant scientific, industrial, and societal impact
• FET supports long-term, visionary, high-risk research in
advanced strategic areas
• FET is requested to always maintain its focus at the forefront
of scientific and technological research
• The scope of investigation is broadening substantially,
making the identification and fostering of emerging research
challenges more complex.
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Beyond the Horizon: potential impact (1/2)
• Research community
– Consensus building and mobilization
– Formation of research networks
– Interdisciplinary research
• Policy developments
– Contribution to enhancing EU’s reactivity to
emerging scientific and technological challenges
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Beyond the Horizon: potential impact (2/2)
• Industry
– increasing awareness of IST-related basic research
as a contribution towards ensuring the long-term
competitiveness of European industry
– increasing industry awareness of new trends,
challenges and visions in IST-related research
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Project Coordination
Scientific Steering
Committee
Advisory Board
Jessica Michel,
ERCIM Office, Admin
Emma Lière,
ERCIM Office
Dimitris Plexousakis,
FORTH, Scientific
Coordination
Margherita Antona,
Virtual Communities
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Project management (2/3)
Scientific Steering Committee Members:
Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and
Technology-Hellas (FORTH), and Univ. of Crete, GR
Prof. Stefan Jähnichen
Technical University of Berlin, DE
Prof. Keith Jeffery (Chair)
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC),
UK; ERCIM President
Prof. Jean-Eric Pin
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), FR
Prof. Arne Sølvberg
The Norwegian Institute of Technology, NO
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Methodology
• Open method of consultation and coordination
• Continuous working group methodology, combined
with major brainstorming workshops, in the form of a
foresight exercise
• Collaborative workspace to support online
communities
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Milestones
M0 Deployment of the Online Community Infrastructure –
April 2005
M1 Completion of all TG workshops – 12 Oct 2005
M2 Coordinators’ Meeting – 13 Oct 2005
M3 Plenary Workshop – 11-12 Dec 2005
M4 TG Final Reports – February 2006
M5 Final Project Report – March 2006
M6 Dissemination Workshop for Policy Makers – April 2006
M7 Session at High-Level Conference – March-June 2006
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Milestones
M0 Deployment of the Online Community Infrastructure –
April 2005
M1 Completion of all TG workshops – 12 Oct 2005
M2 Coordinators’ Meeting – 13 Oct 2005
M3 Plenary Workshop – 11-12 Dec 2005
We are here
M4 TG Final Reports – February 2006
M5 Final Project Report – March 2006
M6 Dissemination Workshop for Policy Makers – April 2006
M7 Session at High-Level Conference – March-June 2006
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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Thematic Areas
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Pervasive Computing and Communications
Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology
Security, Dependability and Trust
Bio-ICT Synergies
Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
Software Intensive Systems
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Pervasive Computing and Communications (1/2)
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User-centric provision of services aiming at
enhancing the quality of life by seamlessly offering
ubiquitous access to relevant information and
services to the individual, anywhere and at any time,
through the synergistic combination of intelligent,
context-aware interfaces, and ubiquitous computing
and networking
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Pervasive Computing and Communications (2/2)
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Research issues
– Design of pervasive computing systems
– Analysis, modelling and reasoning about systems
behaviour
– Control of systems and environments
– Adaptation to changing context
– In-depth understanding of potential and limits
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Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology (1/2)
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Combining “top-down” semiconductor platforms
with “bottom-up” developments in materials,
physics, chemistry and biology
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Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology (2/2)
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Research issues
– new system architectures
– combination and interfacing of diverse materials,
functions, devices and information carriers
– cost-effective fabrication techniques
– methods and tools to model, manipulate, fabricate
and characterise nano-objects
– paradigms to exchange information with single atoms
or molecules
– methods and tools to master giga-complexity of
future ICT architectures
– further investigation of newly discovered physical
phenomena or properties of matter at the meso-scale
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Security, Dependability and Trust (1/2)
• Increased risks stemming from
– growing autonomy and mobility of technologies
and systems
– increasing size and complexity
– increased heterogeneity
– inherent interdependencies
– system failure may lead to loss of financial
resources, and even loss of human lives
– even if a technological infrastructure is secure and
dependable, users will not necessarily trust
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Security, Dependability and Trust (2/2)
• Research issues
– real-time detection and response to threats, and
proactive measures
– social and ethical issues, for example concerning
the acceptable trade-off between level of risk and
privacy
– dependability of industrial-scale software with less
development risk than today
– dependable evolution of dependable systems
– novel methods for trust creation and management.
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Bio-ICT Synergies (1/2)
• Convergence of ICT with bio and life sciences, but
also with cognitive science and nanotechnology
– Large-scale functional genomics and proteomics
– Modelling the development of behaviour in plants
and animals
– Modelling of the function of organs and their
simulation.
– Theoretical modelling of the brain and mind
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Bio-ICT Synergies (2/2)
• Research issues
– Develop methods for maintenance and
interoperability of biological data, and for the
semantic organisation of biological knowledge
– Develop methods for visualising biological data
– Increase the reliability of bioinformatics
predictions
– Develop advanced bio-inspired computational
paradigms.
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Intelligent and Cognitive Systems (1/2)
• Intelligent systems that perceive, reason, understand
and learn
– extracting meaning from huge data flows
– autonomous operation
– natural interaction with the world and with human
users
– (self-) adaptation to changing situations and
contexts, including users’ preferences and needs.
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Intelligent and Cognitive Systems (2/2)
• Research issues
– Complex adaptive systems consisting of collections
of simple, often heterogeneous, entities exhibiting
collective behaviour and functionality through high
connectivity
– Introspective reasoning
– Emotional and affective computing
– Mixed realities
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Software-Intensive Systems (1/2)
• Society’s dependence on software-intensive systems is
increasing to the point where a growing range of
products and services from all sectors of economic
activity, but also our daily lives, depend on softwareintensive systems
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Software-Intensive Systems (2/2)
• Research issues
– Develop practically useful and theoretically wellfounded methods and tools for engineering complex
software-intensive systems, supporting the entire
software life cycle
• modelling data and processes
• building adequate system architectures
• ensuring reliability, dependability and compliance
• supporting interoperability
• managing change and enhancing usability
– Service-Oriented Computing: services as fundamental
elements for developing distributed applications
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Thematic Group Workshop goals
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Share ideas!!
Form appropriate sub-groups
Begin addressing “key questions”
Continue discussions online
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Key questions: Within thematic groups
• What is the socio-economic context?
• What are the scientific and technological
challenges?
• What are the driving factors in development and
technology application?
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Timeline: Individual workshops
June 11-13: Intelligent and Cognitive Systems, Zurich
June 21-22: Security, Dependability and Trust, Paris; follow-up
in October
June 28-29: Bio-ICT Synergies, Sophia Antipolis
July 27-28: Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vienna
September 9-10: Software Intensive Systems, Koblenz
October 11-12: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology, Brussels
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Timeline: Coordinators’ Meeting
Date:
Venue:
Paticipants:
Objective:
October 13
EC in Brussels
BTH Scientific Steering Committee
FET coordinators and
BTH TG Leaders (and/or a deputy representative)
FET presents expected project outcomes;
ERCIM presents view of the action and overall plan;
and TG Leaders present progress to date
To arrive at mutual agreement on the way forward; concrete roadmap
for the remaining 8 months of the project.
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Plenary Workshop
Date:
Venue:
Participants:
Program:
December 12-13
Brussels
ALL TG Leaders and the maximum
number of TG participants
Introductory session (ERCIM President,
FET, etc.)
Plenary session on Modalities for FET projects in
FP7 (type of projects, evaluation criteria, etc.)
Plenary session on results from the 6 TGs (Leaders)
2-3 Parallel sessions on new inter-disciplinary areas
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On-line communities infrastructure
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Portal’s functionality
Each Thematic Group Area includes:
• Documents area
– documents for collaboration or sharing between the
members can be uploaded, downloaded or viewed
• Resources
– resources relevant for each Thematic Group are available
through: keyword search, browsing by resource category
(e.g., publication, event, etc) or by topic
• Message Board
– a tool for asynchronous communication between the
members of a Thematic Group
• Chat
– a synchronous communication tool among TG members
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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TG1 Pervasive Computing and Communications
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TG1 Pervasive Computing and Communications
1. Societal Artifacts: ‘… will have to form up to “goal tribes”, i.e.
ensembles of possibly complementing competencies, to act in a
sensitive, proactive, and responsive way according to the perceived
and anticipated needs, habits, and emotions of the users. …’
2. Evolvable Systems: ‘…systems to grow from their origin driven by their
goals…’, ‘In order to cope with the continuously changing contexts,
conditions, and purpose of their use, system must become selfconfiguring, self-healing, self-optimizing and selfprotecting, both from a
hardware as well as an software point of view.’
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TG1 Pervasive Computing and Communications
3. Future Aware Behaviour: ‘…research must go beyond the current state
of the art in context-awareness and become future-aware in the sense
that the system has a certain anticipation of future contexts of its use.
The system must be able to foresee its near and far future, and the
future of its environment respectively.’
4. Human-Computer Confluence: ‘post-tangible user interfaces’, ‘several
users with different information’, ‘how to orchestrate private and public
displays’, ‘Recent advances also brought input and output technology
closer to the human, even connecting it directly with the human sensory
and neural system in terms of in-body interaction and intelligent
prosthetics.’
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TG2 Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies
More of Moore, More than Moore, Beyond Moore
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TG2 Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies
1. Cooperative research on “System-ability” of emerging ICT technologies and
devices: ‘investment in multi-disciplinary teams of nano-technology researchers
and system architects to drive device research into realistic avenues that can
lead to economically-justifiable nano-electronic systems for the future.’
2. Exploring the interfacing of nano-scale biology with nano-electronics: ‘research
leading to new technologies for the integration of biological and non-biological
components should represent an important component of the FP7 program. By
its very nature, this is an area where top-down lithographic and bottom-up selforganizing principles come together. Such hybrid bio-electronic systems’
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TG2 Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies
3. Future interconnects for heterogenous system integration: ‘Open questions
include the viability of self-assembly, usability of a canonical set of functions and
regular layouts for general regular, modular, scaleable and reusable interconnect
schemes, and whether or not the brain (high connectivity etc) is a good model
for future IT systems.
To overcome constraints of a single clock, there is a move to asynchronous, onchip internet-like networks. Challenges here occur, because key parameters
such as latency, energy consumption, abundancy of wires and pins and
deterministic wiring are different from the standard internet.’
4. Post-CMOS memory, storage and logic: ‘Emphasis should be placed on bottomup technologies that have the potential to integrate with silicon, or offer clear
advantages in the post-CMOS era. The issue of nano to macro
interfacing/communication is absolutely crucial and may have to be solved
before these devices can be incorporated into higher-level architectures.’
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5.
Nanoelectromechnical systems (NEMS): ‘initiative aimed at developing probe
array technology and NEMS, with emphasis on multidisciplinary teams of
chemists, physicists, engineers and life scientists’
6.
Quantum Information Processing: ‘bridging the IST and NMP thematic
activities, aimed at Engineered Quantum Coherent Systems, using solid-state
micro/nanotechnology and materials science to build coherent systems on a
chip. This includes building novel or complex nano-based input-output devices
connecting the outside world with individual solid state, atomic or hybrid
quantum processors.’
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TG3 Security, Dependability and Trust
1. Ambient trustworthiness. The mass diffusion of digital systems must be endorsed with builtin mechanisms for enhancing trust and confidence on their usage. Common security
mechanisms mainly based on boundaries and firewall protection mechanisms do not scale
w.r.t. new complex systems. We should imagine different mechanisms as the one proposed
by using analogies with bio-living world, e.g., immune and selfhealing systems. Security
must be considered as an autonomic aspect of any ICT based system. This will definitely
require new cognitive techniques and semantics models to understand self from non-self
and managing the complexity of ambients where human/devices may jointly run and
interact. Concepts and technology from Artificial Intelligence will be useful.
2.
Trust models. Lack of trust either on the cyber-infrastructure (due to frequent attacks) or the
difficulties to model trust relationships among different entities (both human and digital ones)
is one of the main barriers for the establishment of a real Information Society. As soon as
the future ICT systems will involve billions of devices, the capability of managing trust
relationships that foster cooperation is crucial. The understanding on how trust emerges and
evolves as well as of related notions as reputation formation, monitoring and evolution are
mandatory. Trustworthiness of the information origin is crucial to model trust on reputation.
Security-based trust as well as trust-based security are two emerging areas of interest. A
deeper understanding of trust needs the involvement of several expertise and research
expertise from several fields as economy and sociology.
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3.
Security with scarce resources. Security systems must be scaled down in order to be
inserted in small devices (even at nano-scale) that enable ubiquitous and pervasive
computing and communication. Tiny devices will definitely have specific requirements as
energy consumption, computation power, and so forth. Efficient, flexible and scalable lowcost cryptographic protocols and mechanisms must be developed and combined in order
to ease trust and confidence on the Ambient intelligence space as well as ensure privacy
protection.
4.
Quantum technology for security. Nature can provide us a lot of resources to secure our
information and communication systems. The possibility provided by quantum Physics to
offer secret bits of information among authenticated distant partners is a Beyond-theHorizon: proposed research programmes 3 key tool for securing communications. Although
this is not the whole story in security, it is a building block of many applications and
protection mechanisms. Similarly, the current Quantum technology offers truly random
numbers that may be already used in system. Security would definitely benefit their
exploitation. There is an increasing need of exchanging of experience and knowledge
among different fields, e.g. security, physics and engineering in order to fully understand
and exploit the potentialities of Quantum Physics for security.
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5.
Cryptology beyond Quantum Computing. Quantum Physics and quantum computer may
also represent a major threat for current cryptographic algorithms and mechanisms. A
deeper understanding of future impact of these technologies on the current cryptotechniques is mandatory. We should study the assumptions on which Quantum Computers
(QC) may act and their consequences on current methods, as well as the development of
new QC resisting techniques.
6.
Assessability. Assessing and proving the trustworthiness of a complex system is a main
issue. During the last years many techniques have been developed, especially in the
dependability community. Yet, the scale of new ICT systems and the kind of threats and
assumptions on their operational environment (not last the human factor) pose new
challenges and the need for an assessability discipline is even more impelling. Different
metrics, modelling tools and observability mechanisms are needed. The capability of
measuring the tolerance to attacks is crucial in new systems that due to their logical and
physical diffusion are likely constantly under possible “attack”.
7.
Verifiable security. The objective of the Grand Challenge is to develop a discipline of
software security based on the development of methods, tools, and repositories for highlevel verifiably secure programming. We advocate an approach based on verifiable security
mathematical proofs showing compliance to policies (expressing safety, security, or
functionality constraints) and sufficiently verifiable. Verifiable security is complementary to
trust models, which focuses on interactions between agents and presupposes that software
is correct and secure, and to cryptography, which focuses on establishing security goals.
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TG4 Bio-ICT Synergies
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1.
New Modelling Paradigms is concerned with developing new computational
modelling paradigms that can be used for modelling biological systems,
specifically bridging among models of different aspects, different levels of
granularity or different levels of abstraction of biological systems. These
modelling paradigms would need to be such that they can capture the salient
aspects of the systems they model, e.g., by being able to bridge discrete and
continuous modelling, by combining different timescales of model dynamics, or
by combining different abstraction levels. These models could be applied to
capture complex systems like atom-molecule-cell-tissue-organism, or atommolecule-neuron-neurocolumn-cortex-brain models. They should be formulated
such that they can be used as paradigms for other domains than the biological
one. The Programme includes issues of coupling between the model and the
system being modelled
2.
Bio-Inspired Strategies of Growth, Adaptation and Evolution focuses on
processes of change in biological models and derives new algorithmic or
physical approaches to Beyond-the-Horizon: proposed research programmes 4
realise change in artificial systems. Change can be approached as growth, as
adaptation, as learning, as evolution, and so on. Each of these work at different
time scales and can have implications at the 'logical' as well as at the 'physical'
level. Understanding and exploiting for instance growing materials or evolvable
hardware, as well as aspects of self-organisation would fit under this theme.
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3. Bio-ICT Artifacts concentrates on building artificial components that can be used
to augment, complement or replace natural capabilities of biological systems.
Classical examples would include artificial retinas or physiologically coupled
artificial limbs. The range of capacities is extended however beyond perception
and action, and could include for instance memory, resistance to bacteria and
viruses. The Bio-ICT interface is thus not necessarily acting at the
sensing/actuator level, but can also interface directly in metabolic processes
('cyber-drugs').
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TG5 Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
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1.
Mind-body co-evolution: Traditionally, in evolutionary robotics, the robot
morphology is given and only the “design” of the control architecture is left to
evolution, whereas in natural systems, the two aspect, morphology and
(neural) control co-evolve in permanent interaction with the environment. In
order to maximally exploit the power of evolution, controllers and robot
morphologies have to evolve simultaneously. This process, ultimately, requires
materials that can grow.
2.
Materials and growth technologies: Through growth biological organisms can
form highly complex morphological structures starting from a single cell, and it
is the permanent dynamical interaction of their body with the physical
environment during this growth process, which enables the different levels of
their “minds” to develop.
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3.
Morphological computation: Classical artificial intelligence and cognitive
science are founded on the notion of abstract symbol manipulation. Embodied
agents, however, are fundamentally different from symbol-oriented computers:
their bodies directly perform processes essential to the agent’s successful
operation. Such processes performed by morphological and material properties
of a system in order to facilitate or to support control tasks. Examples are facet
distributions in insect eyes, stiffness properties of muscletendon systems, and
deformability of tissue on finger tips. Generally, the term is used to designate
any process based on the shape of the entities involved (e.g. molecules, or
modules of a robot) that might be interpreted as a computation.
4.
Design for emergence The challenge here is to “design for emergence”: How
can we design purposive agents without destroying the emergent nature of
their behaviour? If we program purpose into the system, we may not learn very
much about purpose itself, we just get out of the system what we program into
it. Moreover, if we do not allow for emergence, we will not see any interesting
behavior of the system evolving. It will also be difficult to specify purpose –
whose categories should this specification be based on: the human
designer’s/observer’s, or the artifact’s?
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TG6 Software-Intensive Systems
1.
Engineering Adaptive Software-Intensive Systems: ‘Instead of taking a topdown approach, where the whole knowledge is designed integrated, with a
pure a-priori effort, we propose a bottom-up approach where the different
knowledge parts are kept distinct and designed independently. The key idea is
to consider diversity as a feature which must be maintained and exploited and
not as a defect that must be cancelled or absorbed in some general ”universallooking” schema. People, organizations, communities, populations, cultures
build diverse representations of the world for a reason, and this reason lies in
the local context. It is hard to say what context exactly is. However it can be
safely stated that context has many dimensions: time, space, contingent
goals, short term or long term goals, personal or community bias,
environmental conditions, ..., and so on.’
2.
Managing Diversity in Knowledge by Adaptation: ‘The challenge is to develop
design methods and tools that enable effective design by harnessing,
controlling and using the effects of emergent knowledge properties. This leads
to the proposal of developing adaptive and, when necessary, self-adaptive
knowledge systems and to the proposal of developing new methods, theories,
tools and systems for knowledge engineering and management,…’
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3. Eternal Software-Intensive Systems: ‘The challenge that we have identified is to
(re-) organize today’s decentralized and software-intensive systems such that
they can survive in an constantly changing world. Literally, they have to run
forever and must become “eternal” systems whose content and functionality can
be passed from one generation to the other. We define “eternal softwareintensive systems” as software systems which can survive changes in their
execution environment without (or with as little as possible) human intervention
regarding their code base. Changes include e.g., new usage patterns (selfoptimization), functionality upgrades (that can be added without reverse
engineering the running software), new versions of libraries or of the embedding
operating system (discovery and exploitation of improved functionality) and
hardware replacements (portability and network context).’
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Agenda
1. Background - ERCIM
2. Background – the Technological Imperative
3. Background - EC - FP6 and FP7
4. The BTH proposal and project
5. The 6 thematic groups and their work
6. Preliminary conclusions / recommendations for
FP7 workprogramme
7. Conclusions
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CONCLUSION
ERCIM is coordinating and leveraging – through
its institutes – the academic and industrial
communities throughout Europe to define the
workprogramme for FET in FP7
There is still time for you to be involved
Project Leader: Dimitris Plexousakis
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