EU Projects
| bIotope - Building and IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Yves Le Traon About the Project The Internet of Things (IoT) brings opportunities for creating new services and products, reducing costs for societies, increasing the service level for the citizens in a number of areas, and changing how services are sold and consumed. Despite these opportunities, current information system architectures create obstacles that must be addressed for leveraging the full potential of IoT. One of the most critical obstacles are the ‘vertical silos’ that shape today’s IoT because they constitute a serious impediment to the creation of cross-domain, cross-platform and cross-organisational applications and services. Those silos also hamper developers from producing new added value across multiple platforms due to the lack of interoperability and openness. bIoTope provides the necessary Standardized Open APIs for enabling horizontal interoperability between silos. Such horizontal interoperability makes it possible to develop Systems of Systems where cross-domain information from platforms, devices and other information sources can be accessed when and as needed. bIoTope-enabled Systems can seamlessly exploit all available information, which makes them smart in the sense that they can take or propose the most appropriate actions depending on the current User’s or Object’s Context/Situation, and even learn from experience. bIoTope capabilities lay the foundation for open innovation ecosystems where companies can innovate both by the creation of new software components for IoT ecosystems, as well as create new Platforms for Connected Smart Objects with minimal investment. Large-scale pilots implemented in smart cities will provide both social, technical and business proofs-of-concept for such IoT ecosystems. This is feasible because the bIoTope consortium combines unique IoT experience, commercial solution providers and end-users, thus ensuring the high quality and efficiency of the results and implementations. |
| MIREL - MIning and REasoning with Legal Texts |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Leon Van der Torre About the Project The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used for querying norms, compliance checking, and decision support. The development of the MIREL framework and tools will be guided by the needs of three industrial partners, and validated by industrial case studies. MIREL promotes mobility and staff exchange between SMEs to academies in order to create an inter-continental interdisciplinary consortium in Law and Artificial Intelligence areas including Natural Language Processing, Computational Ontologies, Argumentation, and Logic & Reasoning. MIREL addresses both conceptual challenges, such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and the complexity of regulatory compliance. It bridges the gap between the community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community working on reasoning methods and formal logic. Moreover, it is the first project of its kind to involve industrial partners in the future development of innovative products and services in legal reasoning and their deployment in the market. The European MIREL partners are key players in the communities of Deontic, AI & Law, and the Semantic Web, communities that have traditionally been strong in Europe. The MIREL consortium brings these scientists together with researchers with expertise traditionally lacking in Europe, such as norm and argument mining (Argentina, Japan and China), description logic for reasoning about legal ontologies (South Africa), natural language semantics of deontic modals (US), and the complexity analysis of regulatory compliance (Australia). |
| CoRaSat - Cognitive Radio for Satellite Communication |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Björn Ottersten (PI) Dr. Symeon Chatzinotas (vice PI) About the Project CoRaSat, COgnitive RAdio for SAtellite Communications, is an European Commission 7th Framework Programme project funded under the ICT Call 8. CoRaSat aims atinvestigating, developing, and demonstratingcognitive radio techniques in satellite communication systems for spectrum sharing. Outcomes of the study will drive the definition of strategic roadmaps to be followed by industry stakeholders, European Institutions, and Governmental actors towards regulatory and standardization groups in order to ensure that the necessary actions are undertaken to open new business perspectives for SatCom through cognitive radio communications in support of the Digital Agenda for Europe. Flexible spectrum utilization is a surging trend for the optimized exploitation of spectrum resources, and the cognitive approach has already demonstrated its potential for terrestrial systems, but not yet in the SatCom domain. However, SatCom are fundamental to achieve the challenging objectives of fast broadband access for everyone by 2020: their inherent large coverage footprint makes them the most suitable access scheme to reach those areas where deployment of wired and wireless networks is not economically viable. CoRaSat puts together these two elements by considering Cognitive Radio approaches for coexistence scenarios in spectrum allocated to any SatCom service. For the first time in SatCom research initiatives, CoRaSat will systematically and thoroughly approach the Cognitive Radio concept considering SatCom peculiarities and characteristics. CoRaSat will identify scenarios and use cases, focusing on broadband applications and considering other services, like interactive broadcasting, narrowband applications, etc., where cognitive radio can improve spectrum exploitation. Technology enablers for the identified scenarios will be developed and demonstrated for specific use cases through analysis, simulation, and testbed implementations. Flexible spectrum usage has potential benefits for SatCom as well as threats;CoRaSat aims at demonstrating that the benefits outnumber the threats and open up new business perspectives Project Partners
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| TREsPASS - Towards Risk Estimation by Probalistic Assessment of Socio-Technical Security |
| Principal investigators: Prof. Sjouke Maw, Prof. Peter Y. A. Ryan About the Project Information security threats to organisations have changed completely over the last decade, due to the complexity and dynamic nature of infrastructures and attacks. Successful attacks cost society billions a year, impacting vital services and the economy. Examples include StuxNet, using infected USB sticks to sabotage nuclear plants, and the DigiNotar attack, using fake digital certificates to spy on website traffic. New attacks cleverly exploit multiple organisational vulnerabilities, involving physical security and human behaviour. Defenders need to make rapid decisions regarding which attacks to block, as both infrastructure and attacker knowledge change rapidly. Current risk management methods provide descriptive tools for assessing threats by systematic brainstorming. Attack opportunities will be identified and prevented only if people can conceive them. In today’s dynamic attack landscape, this process is too slow and exceeds the limits of human imaginative capability. Emerging security risks demand tool support to predict, prioritise, and prevent complex attacks systematically. The TREsPASS project will make this possible, by building an “attack navigator”. This navigator makes it possible to say which attack opportunities are possible, which of them are the most urgent, and which countermeasures are most effective. To this end, the project combines knowledge from technical sciences (how vulnerable are protocols and software), social sciences (how likely are people to succumb to social engineering), and state-of-the-art industry processes and tools. By integrating European expertise on socio-technical security into a widely applicable and standardised framework, TREsPASS will reduce security incidents in Europe, and allow organisations and their customers to make informed decisions about security investments. This increased resilience of European businesses both large and small is vital to safeguarding the social and economic prospects of Europe. |
| ECIAO- EU-China future internet common Activities and Opportunities |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project The EU-China-FIRE Project is a 2 years (Aug. 2013 – Aug. 2015) EU-funded project, facilitating coordination and support to EU-China cooperation on Future Internet Experimental Research (FIRE) and IPv6. China is a very large country pursuing its ICT infrastructure development which could lead to pioneer the implementation of Future Internet advanced technologies as well as being a force to promote large scale IPv6 deployment more critically than EU due to lack of IPv4 resources. Since Europe is investing substantially in Future Internet Research and Experiment (FIRE) and could benefit from exchange and experience from large scale deployment requirements in China, the EU-China FIRE project will explore mutual benefit cooperation activities. In addition to an interactive web portal, two large conferences and workshops will be organised and many public reports will help to increase awareness of benefits of cooperation between EU and China in the area of Future Internet research and experiments. The EU-China FIRE project aims in particular to explore EU-China mutual benefit cooperation activities in:
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| eGlasses - The interactive eyeglasses for mobile, perceptual computing |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project The eGlasses project is focused on development of an open platform in a form of multisensory electronic eyeglasses and on integration and designing of new intelligent interaction methods using the eGlasses platform. This is an initial development on long-term research and technological innovation in perceptual and super-perceptual (e.g. heart rate, temperature) computing. It is an emerging technology that is also focused on creation of mobile, perceptual media. Perceptual media refers to multimedia devices with added perceptual user interface capabilities. These devices integrate human-like perceptual awareness of the environment, with the ability to respond appropriately. It could be realized using automatic perception of an object’s properties and delivering information about the object’s status as a result of reasoning operations. For example, using the eGlasses, it will be possible to control the device, which was recognized in the field of view using the interactive menu, associated with the identified device. Other examples include presentation of a recognized person name, recognition of people with abnormal physiological parameters (alerts at airports), protection against possible head injury, etc. The platform will use already available user-interaction methods, new methods developed in the framework of this project (e.g. a haptic interface) and enabling further extensions to introduce and test next generation user-interaction algorithms. Furthermore, the goal of this project is to propose and evaluate new and intelligent user interactions, which are dedicated for healthcare professionals, people with disabilities or at risk of exclusion, and to create and evaluate behavioural models of mobile users. The main scientific and technological objectives of the project are to design and evaluate:
The result of the project will be the open platform in the form of multisensory electronic multimedia glasses and a set of new methods and algorithms for intelligent user interactions, especially in the context of perceptual media. |
| ReDIRNET- Emergency Responder Data Interoperability Network |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project Over the past 5 years the majority of the REDIRNET consortia have participated in Projects SECRICOM and FREESIC; this has involved partners engaging significantly with a wide range of public safety officers across the EU. A benefit of this engagement has been the recognition that in addition to agency interoperability of communications a pressing need exists for agency interoperability of additional IT systems such as databases, sensor systems and cameras. REDIRNET provides a framework for addressing this need with detailed mapping of user preferences and related legal requirements using innovative technologies. |
| FETCH- Future Education and Training on Computing: how to meet our students where they are |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel |
| SANSA - Shared Access terrestrial - Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas |
| Principal investigators: Prof. Björn Ottersten / Dr. Symeon Chatzinotas About the Project SANSA, Shared Access terrestrial-satellite backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas, is an European Commission Horizon 2020 project funded under the ICT Call 6 “Smart optical and wireless network technologies”. • To increase the mobile backhaul networks capacity in view of the predicted traffic demands
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| STARR - Decision SupporT and self-mAnagement system for stRoke survivoRs |
| Principal investigators: Prof. Björn Ottersten / Dr. Djamila Aouada About the Project Stroke a leading cause of death and disability, with an estimated total cost of €65 billion per year in Europe. Even though preventive measures are in place to reduce the incidence of stroke, the number of persons having a stroke in Europe is likely to increase from 1.1 million/year in 2000 to more than 1.5 million/year in 2025 because of the increasing ageing population. Secondary stroke carries with it a greater risk than first-ever stroke for death and disability. Also, as mortality from first strokes has decreased recently, the number of people at risk for a secondary stroke has increased, with an associated increase in healthcare costs. In order to reduce these stroke statistics and the associated cost, the self-management of stroke risk factors is particularly suitable and necessary for the following reasons: 1) risk factors for stroke are well-known, and 2) 90% of strokes or secondary stroke events are preventable if the risk factors are managed appropriately. The Decision SupporT and self-mAnagement system for stRoke survivoRs (STARR) project and the system developed in it are targeting the self-management of stroke risk factors. Based on existing computational predictive models of stroke risk, we will develop a modular, affordable, and easy-to-use system, which will inform stroke survivors about the relation between their daily activities (e.g., medication intake, physical and cognitive exercises, diet, social contacts) and the risk of having a secondary stroke. This will lead to better prevention and a reduction of the number of secondary stroke events, as well as to a more efficient participation of patients in medical decision-making. A multidisciplinary consortium has been built for achieving the objectives of this ambitious project, involving stroke survivors’ associations, healthcare actors, sensing and human-machine interfaces experts. The consortium also comprises 3 European companies which will exploit the results of the project after its end. |
| Flysec - Fly faster through an innovative and robust risk-based SECurity tunnel |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project FLYSEC is an ambitious research and innovation project that aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative, integrated, end-to-end airport security process for passengers, airports and airlines. FLYSEC ́s primary goal is to enable a guided and streamlined procedure from the landside to airside and into the boarding gates, while offering an operationally validated innovative concept for end-to-end aviation security. The project will gather excellence and expertise from Industry, SMEs, Research and Academia including stakeholders and end-users such as major airport operators. FLYSEC ambition is based on a well-structured work plan that includes: • Innovative processes facilitating risk-based screening • Deployment and integration of new technologies and repurposing existing solutions towards a risk-based security paradigm shift • Improvement of passenger facilitation and customer service, bringing security as a real service in the airport of tomorrow • Achieving measurable throughput improvement and a whole new level of Quality of Service. On the technical side, FLYSEC achieves its ambitious goals by integrating new technologies on video surveillance, intelligent remote image processing and biometrics combined with big data analysis, open-source intelligence and crowdsourcing. Repurposing existing technologies is also one of FLYSEC ́s objectives, such as mobile application technologies for improved passenger experience and positive boarding applications (i.e. services to facilitate boarding and landside/airside way finding) as well as RFID for carry-on luggage tracking and quick unattended luggage handling. FLYSEC aims to implement a seamless risk-based security process combining the aforementioned technologies with behavioral analysis and innovative cognitive algorithms. A key aspect in the design of FLYSEC risk-based security is applying ethical-by-design patterns, maximizing the efficiency of security controls through passenger differentiation ranging from “unknown” to “trusted”, while remaining ethical and fair in the process. Policy, regulatory and standardization aspects will also be examined in the context of FLYSEC innovative security concept. FLYSEC involves technologies from different Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), including in-project prototype development, as well as adaptation and extension of more mature solutions or re-purposing of commercial products. FLYSEC will validate the operational value of the provided solution through pilot test in real operational environment. |
| TARGET - Training Augmented Reality Generalized Environment Toolkit |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project The global competition for highly skilled people has led to increasing acceptance by organizations, as a key business strategy, of the need to retain and re-train their existing staff through some kind of tailored competence development that reduces the lead-time for a learner to achieve target productivity: the “time-to-competence” (TTC). Today, the main route to shorten TTC is a bespoke (hand-crafted) face-to-face or blended course, which tends to be resource-intensive (expensive to create and deliver). The main aim of the TARGET Project is to research, analyse, and develop a new genre of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) environment that supports rapid competence development of individuals, namely knowledge workers within the domains of living labs (innovation) and project management. The TARGET aims will be realized through the following specific objectives: a) Conceptual Framework, corresponding to the functional blueprint of TARGET In the end, the main aim is to provide individuals and enterprises with a new learning environment that is more effective than what is available today. |
| Privacy Flag - Enabling Crowd-sourcing based privacy protection for smartphone applications, websites and Internet of Things deployments |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project Personal data have become merchandisable asset encouraging various stakeholders to collect such data and trade them without the end-user awareness and acceptance. The European Union has taken the lead in adapting the legal framework to better protect the citizens’ rights and interests. However, the extent of the Internet and smart phone applications, the fact that data can be retrieved without the owner knowledge and the vast majority of those applications are developed from outside the EU jurisdiction, strongly limit the possibility to effectively impose a privacy-protection framework globally with a conventional approach. Moreover, privacy norms are perceived as complex by many citizens. The Privacy Flag project will research and combine the potential of crowdsourcing, ICT technologies and legal expertise to protect citizens’ privacy when visiting websites, using smartphone applications, or living in a smart city. It will enable citizens to monitor and control their privacy with a user friendly solution made available as a smart phone application, a web browser add-on, and a public website,- all connected to a shared knowledge database. It will benefit from the outcomes of over several related research projects, in order to provide a new paradigm of privacy protection combining “endo-protection” with locally deployed privacy enablers protecting the citizens privacy from unwanted external access to their data, and “exo-protection” with a distributed and crowd-sourced monitoring framework able to provide a collective protection framework together with increased citizen awareness and implicit pressures on companies to improve their privacy compliance.
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| ProLeMas - Processing Legal Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems |
| Principal investigator: Livio Robaldo About the Project Existing technologies usually represent norms as formal rules involving deontic operators. Such a rule-based representation of norms is not suitable to handle real data. Norms emerge from laws via an interpretation process. The methodology of Normative Multi-agent Systems (NorMas) by prof. Boella and prof. van der Torre has been conceived to overcome these limits. Nevertheless, the current formalization of NorMas features two main limitations. Firstly, its models are based on deontic logic such as input/output logic. Deontic logic is typically propositional, i.e. its basic components are propositions connected by modal operators. A proposition basically refers to a whole sentence. On the other hand, natural language semantics includes a wide range of fine-grained intra-sentence linguistic phenomena: named entities, scope-sensitive operators, etc. It is then necessary to move beyond the propositional level, i.e. to enhance the expressivity of NorMas fit to formalize the meaning of the phrases constituting the sentences (noun phrases, verbal phrases, named entities, etc.). Secondly, NorMas has never been implemented and tested on real legal text. Currently, NorMas is only a promising logical theory, but it is time to see how it behaves on real data, in order to make it suitable for commercial applications. Drawing from my past experience in natural language semantics, parsing, and corpora building, I propose a project for extending NorMas in that sense, leading to ProLeMAS: (Processing Legal language in normative Multi-Agent Systems), a new logic for normative reasoning in multi-agent systems. In particular, the present project aims at (1) filling the gap between the current formalization of NorMas and the richness of natural language semantics (2) Implementing a pipeline from legal text to ProLeMAS formulae, passing through parsing and reasoning.” |
| F-INTEROP - FIRE + online interoperability and performance test tools to support emerging technologies from research to standardization and market launch: an accelerator to develop standards and innovations |
| Principal investigator: Prof. Thomas Engel About the Project F-Interop will develop and provide remotely accessible tools to support and accelerate standardisation processes and products developments by offsetting several cost and time barriers. It will research and develop a new FIRE experimental platform to support the development of new technologies and standards, from their genesis to the market for: online interoperability tests and validation tools, remote compliance and conformance tests, scalability tests, Quality of Service (QoS) tests, SDN/NFV interoperability tools, Online privacy test tools, energy efficiency tools. F-Interop gathers standardisation partners together with 3 FIRE federations /FED4FIRE, IoTLab, OneLab) to build a common experimental platform as a service. Following an end-user driven methodology, it will directly address the needs of 3 emerging standards: one M2M led by ETSI , 6TiSCH (IETF) chaired by our INRIA partner, Web of Things WG led by W3C, our advisory board member. The open call will extend the platform to standardisation activities, as well as to additional tools extensions and SME product validations. F-Interop will provide online interoperability tools enabling research and development teams to test their products development and implementations at any time, without having to wait until the next face-to-face interop meeting an online platform for standards compliance and labeling to be used by the IPv6 Forum Ready Logo Program and other similar labeling bodies, including ETSI, IETF, and W3C. enable SME to accelerate interoperability and the development of their products and services extend FIRE testbeds and bring them closer to the market To achieve this ambitious objective, F-Interop gathers a formidable combination of leading industry experts from standardisation bodies, research centres, FIRE testbeds and SME's from Europe and Japan. The F-Interop Ecosystem will enable sustainable impact, commercial uptake and synergies at EU level.
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