Transcript European Network of Excellence in AI Planning PLANET II: I-PLANS campaign Tim Grant Atos Origin Nederland / University of Pretoria, RSA [email protected] / [email protected] Ulm, 20-21 Feb 03 I-PLANS.

European Network
of Excellence in
AI Planning
PLANET II:
I-PLANS campaign
Tim Grant
Atos Origin Nederland / University of Pretoria, RSA
[email protected] / [email protected]
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http://www.planet-noe.org
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Overview
• Goal:
– To propose plan of campaign for I-PLANS
• Structure:
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FP6 objectives, scope, themes & instruments
P&S in thematic priority areas
P&S-related EoIs
PLANET EoIs
Critical success factors
Plan of campaign
Personal note
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• IST: 1.1.2 in EoIs database
• Objective - direct contribution to:
– The knowledge society & e-Europe Action Plan
– Medium- & long-term RTD on future technologies
integrating computers & networks into everyday
environment
– Placing the individual at the centre
• Budget:
– 3.625 billion euros
• Appropriate instruments:
– NoE, IP, STREP, CA, SSA
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• IST thematic areas:
– Applied IST research addressing:
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Trust & security
Ambient intelligence, e-inclusion
E-business, e-government, e-work systems, e-learning
Complex problem-solving
– Communication, computing & SW technologies:
• Communication & network technologies
• SW technologies
– Components & microsystems:
• Micro, nano & optoelectronics
• Micro- & nanotechnologies, microsystems, displays
– Knowledge & interface technologies:
• Knowledge technologies & digital content
• Intelligent interfaces & surfaces
– IST future & emerging technologies
• New IST-related science & technology fields
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• IST Call 1:
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Published: 17 Dec 02
Closing date: 24 Apr 03
Budget: 1070 million euros
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2.3.1.1 Pushing the limits of CMOS
2.3.1.2 Micro & nano systems
2.3.1.3 Broadband for all
2.3.1.4 Mobile & wireless systems beyond 3G
2.3.1.5 Towards a global dependency & security framework
2.3.1.6 Multimodal interfaces
2.3.1.7 Semantic-based knowledge systems
2.3.1.8 Networked audio-visual systems & home platforms
2.3.1.9 Networked businesses & governments
2.3.1.10 eSafety of road & air transport
2.3.1.11 eHealth
2.3.1.12 Technology-enhanced learning & access to cultural heritage
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• IST Call 2:
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Published: 17 Jun 03
Closing date: 15 Oct 03
Budget: 525 million euros
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2.3.2.1 Advanced displays
2.3.2.2 Optical, opto-electronic, photonic functional components
2.3.2.3 Embedded systems
2.3.2.4 Open development platforms for software & services
2.3.2.5 Cognitive systems
2.3.2.6 Applications & services for mobile user & worker
2.3.2.7 Cross-media content for leisure & entertainment
2.3.2.8 GRID-based systems & solving complex problems
2.3.2.9 Improving risk management
2.3.2.10 eInclusion
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• 2.3.2.1 Advanced displays (25 M€)
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• To develop, demonstrate & prepare for industrialisation
emerging display technologies related to organic
materials, lightweight near-to-the-eye information
terminals and large-size displays for the consumer
• 2.3.2.2 Optical, opto-electronic, photonic
functional components (45 M€)
– Objective:
• To develop advanced materials, micro- and nano-scale
photonic structures & devices, solid-state sources and to
realise optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEIC)
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• 2.3.2.3 Embedded systems (50 M€)
– Objective:
• To develop the next generation of technologies & tools
for modelling, design, implementation and operation of
HW/SW systems embedded in intelligent devices
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• Middleware & platforms for building Networked
Embedded Systems
• Concepts, methods & tools for system design
• Advanced Controls for real-time systems emphasising:
– Hybrid systems theories
– Networked autonomous & fault-adaptive control
– Reasoning, behaviour, global performance & robustness
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• 2.3.2.4 Open development platforms for software &
services (55 M€)
– Objective:
• To build open development & run-time environments for SW &
services providing the next generation of methodologies,
interoperable middleware & tools to support developers through
all phases of SW life-cycle in the production of networked &
distributed SW systems & services, embedded SW, & valueadded services
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High-level methods & concepts
Open & modular development environments
Light/agile methodologies & adaptive workflow
Open platforms, middleware & languages
– Priority to projects with strong industrial users, SW & service
suppliers, and academic research partners
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• 2.3.2.5 Cognitive systems (25 M€)
– Objective:
• To construct physically-instantiated or embodied systems that
can perceive, understand, and interact with their environment,
and evolve in order to achieve human-like performance in
activities requiring context-(situation & task) specific knowledge
– Focus:
• Methodologies and construction of robust & adaptive cognitive
systems
– Main target is interdisciplinarity, i.e. to carefully consider
integration of different disciplines including computer vision,
natural language understanding, robotics, AI, mathematics &
cognitive neuroscience.
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• 2.3.2.6 Applications & services for mobile user &
worker (60 M€)
– Objective:
• To foster the emergence of innovative applications & services
for the mobile user & worker and to support use & development
of new work methods & collaborative work environments …
mobile, wireless technologies … convergence of fixed & mobile
– Focus:
• Integration of technologies into wide range of innovative mobile
& multimodal applications & services:
– Intelligent, adaptive & self-configuring services
– Novel workplace designs & methods of work organisation
• Addressing major hurdles for deployment of applications &
services for mobile user
– Openness & interoperability … location-based services (Galileo)
– Interoperability of services & roaming across networks
– Priorities: integrated & multidisciplinary approaches
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• 2.3.2.7 Cross-media content for leisure &
entertainment (55 M€)
– Objective:
• To improve full digital content chain, covering creation,
acquisition, management & production, through effective
multimedia technologies enabling multi-channel, crossplatform access to media, entertainment & leisure …
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• 2.3.2.8 GRID-based systems for solving complex
problems (45 M€)
– Objective:
• To expand the potential of the Grid & peer-to-peer approaches
to solving complex problems which cannot be solved with
current technologies in application fields such as industrial
design, engineering & manufacturing, health, genomics & drug
design, environment, critical infrastructures, energy, business &
finance, and new media
– Focus:
• Architecture, design & development of next generation Grid
• Enabling application technologies for solution of complex
problems, including tools & environments for modelling,
simulation, data-mining, visualisation, process control, remote
operation; collaborative working in dynamic virtual
organisations
– Priority: multidisciplinary, international collaboration
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• 2.3.2.9 Improving risk management (30 M€)
– Objective:
• To develop open platforms, integrated systems & components for
improved risk management, civil secuirty applications and
environmental management. … foster emergence of European infostructure & service platforms … should contribute to GMES action plan
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• Research on key IST technologies:
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Robust and/or low-cost smart sensors
Advanced modelling & simulation
Decision support & visualisation tools
Grid technology
Integrated system to prevent & manage emergencies
Integrate data from earth observation (satellites e.g. GMES)
• Research on new concepts to enhance civil security:
– Prevention & management of industrial & terrorist threats
• Research to help development of European info-structure:
– Harmonisation & standardisation of ontologies & meta-data architectures
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• 2.3.2.10 eInclusion (30 M€)
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• To promote eInclusion as a core horizontal building-block
in the establishment of the Information Society to ensure
equal access and participation for all in Europe
• To develop intelligent systems that empower persons
with disabilities and ageing citizens to play a full role in
society and increase their autonomy
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FP6 instruments (1)
• Integrated Project (IP):
– Multi-partner projects to support objective-driven
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At any point in the research spectrum
Single project may span large parts of spectrum
Must contain a research component
May contain technological development & demonstration
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• Perhaps contains a training component
– Primary deliverable is generating knowledge to
implement the thematic priorities
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FP6 instruments (2)
• Integrated Project (IP) (continued):
– Integration can be:
• Vertical: “value-chain” of stakeholders
• Horizontal: range of multidisciplinary activities
• Activity: from fundamental to applied research, incl. takeup, protection & dissemination of knowledge, training, etc
• Sectoral: actors from private & public sector research
organisations, esp. academia & industry, incl. SMEs
• Financial: public & private funding
– Participation:
• Minimum of 3 participants, from 3 different Member or
Associated States
– Value:
• Up to many tens of millions of euros
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FP6 instruments (3)
• Network of Excellence (NoE):
– Multi-partner projects aimed at strengthening scientific &
technical excellence
– Joint programme of activities aimed at creating durable
integration of research capacities of partners:
• Institutions have to invest seriously in structural change
aiming at integration of their research capacities
• Requires commitment at all levels of decision-making in
institutions, incl. top management, supervising & financing
bodies
– Main result:
• Durable restructuring and reshaping of the way research is
carried out in Europe in a given area
– Size:
• Up to several hundreds of researchers
• Several millions to tens of millions of euros
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FP6 instruments (4)
• Specific Targeted Research & Specific
Targeted Innovation Projects (STREP/STIP):
– Multi-partner research, demonstration or
innovation projects:
• STREP: implementing thematic priority areas
• STIP: exploring, validating & disseminating new
innovation concepts at European level
– To support research, technological development &
demonstration or innovation activities of more
limited scope than IPs:
• Hundreds of thousands to few millions of euros
– Min. 3 participants from 3 different Member or
Associated States
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FP6 instruments (5)
• Coordination Action (CA):
– Multi-partner actions
– To promote & support networking & coordination
of research & innovation activities
– Cover definition, organisation & management of
joint or common initiatives
– Minimum of 3 participants from 3 different Member
of Associate States
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FP6 instruments (6)
• Specific Support Action (SSA):
– More limited in scope
– To contribute actively to implementation of work
programme activities, analysis & dissemination of
results, or preparation of future activities
– Can be proposed by one or more participants
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Existing PLANET links
• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems NoE (Ruth)
• AgentLink NoE (Ruth/Alfredo)
• Agent Cities project (Daniel):
– Cities of agents (eg finding restaurants)
– Web services
• ESA (Tim & Amedeo):
– PLANET as Competence Network
– EU/ESA Strategy for Space (AeroSpace area)
• Workflow Management Coalition (Daniel)
• Scheduling (Ruth)
• Other FP5 NoEs (eg KE, OntoWeb, Euron)?
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I-PLANS EoI (1)
• I-PLANS:
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Title: European NoE in Intelligent P&S
Instrument: NoE
In EoI database; downloadable document
Thematic areas:
• 1.1.2 I: Applied IST research
• 1.1.2 v: IST future & emerging technologies
• 1.1.3 iii: Nanotechnologies - New production processes &
devices
• 1.1.4 i: Aeronautics
• 1.1.4 ii: Space
– Contact: Susanne Biundo -> Tim Grant
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Plan of campaign
• Consortium formation:
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Orientation
Non-Disclosure Agreement (by end March 2003)
Workshare negotiations
Memorandum of Understanding (by end April 2003)
Lobbying, pre-registration, & pre-proposal check
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Bid/No-Bid decision after Call 2 issued (by end April 2003)
Decide technical approach (co-location/workshop vital)
Work Breakdown Structure
Write technical proposal
Estimation & risk analysis
Project planning & write management proposal
Proposal integration & approval
Proposal dispatch (by 15 October 2003 at latest)
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I-PLANS way ahead
• (All) To email Tim by end February with links outside
P&S community
• (Tim) To distribute short vision statements for each of
surviving Call 2 thematic areas by end February
• (All) To email Tim by mid-March with:
– Which thematic area(s) interested in
– What role/contribution to thematic area(s)
– Details of node’s contact person:
• Name, email, telephone/mobile, availability to end Oct 03
• (Tim & Susanne) Visit EC for pre-proposal check
• (Tim) Contact potential non-PLANET participants
Tim’s details:
[email protected]
(mobile) +31 655 821 083 / (office) +31 30 299 4555
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