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| Long-Term Research | Technologies for Business Processes |
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The objective of the domain is to help all sectors of industry exploit the opportunities offered by advanced computing and networking systems to add higher levels of intelligence, reach larger throughputs or ensure shorter response times in their products, processes or services.
In order to improve the ability of industry to decide on and deliver appropriate solutions, work is needed to develop applications and to foster and accelerate their take-up.
All activities must be driven by user requirements and oriented towards development of concrete applications and later marketing of added-value in products or services. This applies to all levels of development - from the applications themselves, through systems and sub-systems, to architectures and platforms.
An integral part of the work is the dovetailing of high performance computing and networking into traditional technologies and the transparent integration of new applications within existing infrastructures, working practices and mindsets of potential adopters.
All aspects of industrial activity, in both the goods and services sectors, are concerned; however, new types of applications and the involvement of non-traditional and emerging markets are encouraged. A priority is to establish the necessary vertical relationships in the value-added chain between user and supplier.
The domain addresses "HPCN at large". Applications may exploit parallel systems and distributed and heterogeneous infrastructures, including high performance workstation or PC clusters and heterogeneous architectures with multiple processors. The use of standard, "off-the-shelf" building blocks enables application builders to concentrate their efforts on delivering added-value to the user.
Advanced networking services have become an integral part of these systems and infrastructures, enabling, not only applications which allow sharing and provide interactive use of remote resources, but also applications which support interaction between concurrent activities in geographically dispersed locations.
R&D areas
Projects are expected to undertake R&D as identified by applications requirements and supporting the transition to an operational environment and to the industrialisation of the results.
Objectives
To exploit the potential and expand the application of simulation using high performance computing and advanced networking services.
To integrate simulation into the design and engineering process and to make it transparent and easier to use in working practices.
To demonstrate that simulation in design and engineering allows to reduce development cost and time, to predict performance and behaviour, to optimise products and processes and, ultimately, to build "digital mock-ups".
To enlarge the scope of simulation, beyond design and engineering, to manufacturing, and also to non-traditional sectors and to societal services, e.g. in applications for health care, transport, and the environment.
Objectives
To integrate distributed or parallel real-time embedded systems in a wide range of products and processes and to demonstrate these in operational conditions.
To add functionality, usability, intelligence and value to systems through analysis of large volumes of data in real time for pattern recognition, data fusion, decision making, monitoring and action. Application requirements often call for heterogeneous multi-processor architectures and increasingly exploit high-bandwidth networks or wireless communications.
To demonstrate the use of real-time embedded systems in a wide range of applications and to increase confidence in the technology.
To pioneer new applications in growth areas, such as those in media, telecommunication services, building automation and large service systems (energy, transport, water, environment, etc.).
To reduce development time and cost and to reduce cost-of-ownership through the use of high-level development tools and an increased use of open standard components and subsystems (hardware and software).
Objectives
To expand the application and promote the wide adoption of high performance computing and advanced networking services in information management and decision support. Activities that cut across the tasks below are encouraged.
To add value to information management and decision support systems - since high performance computing and advanced networking services help achieve not only higher levels of sophistication in support for existing processes but also entirely new processes - industrial, commercial, administrative, or societal.
To build confidence in improved or new applications by illustrating their true business value and their compatibility, integration and use within existing infrastructures and working practices.
To improve, on the one hand, the availability, access, sharing, manageability and usability of information and services, and, on the other hand, to increase profitability of industry by enhancing the efficiency and quality of its processes, while keeping them flexible, and by managing risks.
Objectives
To contribute further to the objectives set out for the other R&D areas by developing applications enabled by the use of advanced networking services between geographically dispersed locations.
To experiment (in real-scale) with and build confidence in applications of advanced networking services, going beyond local area networks, focusing on the use of high performance networking services (metropolitan or wide area), broadcasting services and/or wireless mobile communication services.
To extract requirements for innovative use of applications, e.g. in the context of the virtual enterprise and the provision of new services for the citizen. The impact on working practices should be assessed so as to contribute to a better understanding of future practices in electronic commerce and virtual mobility.
Objectives
To improve the usability of applications requiring high performance computing and advanced networking resources by enhancing and expanding their software and system technology base.
To increase scalability in applications performance on a wide range of computing platforms.
To facilitate the reusability of software components and objects, and improve the development and deployment process.
Projects are expected to promote partnerships between developers, exploiters and users, and to encourage the international take-up of developments including the participation in standardisation activities.
6.31Application Development Environments. This covers work on application development techniques such as design and coding tools, libraries, compilers, debuggers and programming languages. Priority will be given to emerging solutions for the development of both commercial or technical applications including object-based techniques and tools that support portability.
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6.32Deployment and Execution Environments. This covers work on resource management including performance analysis and monitoring, as well as software for communication layers. Priority will be given to techniques for the deployment of commercial or technical applications on clusters and distributed heterogeneous systems.
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6.33Tools for Fully Distributed and Concurrent Systems. This covers development and deployment tools for metacomputing applications and Web-enabled data-intensive and/or numeric-intensive computing applications. Priority will be given to work that improves performance management and operations management of applications and systems.
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Humanitarian Demining - area 6
Objectives
To research, develop, integrate, demonstrate and validate advanced equipment contributing to the solution of the worldwide anti-personal landmine (APL) problem, where drastic improvements of humanitarian demining operations are required in terms of speed, cost and safety.
To complement ongoing national projects in the EU member states with activities clearly oriented towards humanitarian demining. Operational steps to be supported include minefield survey, area reduction, and close-in detection and marking of individual mines for clearance. This action will concentrate on the development of cost-efficient handheld or vehicle-based detection systems, where the most important breakthroughs are expected. The handheld systems support clearance in difficult environments (villages, woods, uneven terrain, etc.), whereas the vehicle-based systems support clearance in open areas or the verification of the absence of mines in large fractions of suspected mined zones.
Major limitations of current humanitarian mine detectors are their very high false-alarm rates, their limitations in detecting small non-metal and low-metal APL and their reduced performance in non-co-operative environments (e.g. ferrous soils.) A promising solution to overcome these limitations will be to apply fusion of data or information on mutisensor outputs. An important concern for humanitarian demining equipment is its cost. Lower costs could be reached by using or even recycling off-the-shelf components and by looking for synergies with other industrial developments.
The work must be performed in close co-operation with end-users of the equipment in order to ensure the developments are consistent with practical operational procedures in the context of humanitarian demining. Consortia should identify a limited set of scenarii for which the developments are intended. All projects must include actions to validate the systems in realistic conditions in the field, including all relevant operational factors. These tests, performed in close co-operation with end-users, would lead to establishing the benefits in terms of speed, cost and safety with respect to the chosen scenarii and enable the promotion of results. Furthermore, all projects must include the benchmarking of the resulting systems at the test and validation facilities of the JRC
Projects will be encouraged to develop synergies in order to maximise their complementarities and to ensure they jointly cover a majority of the priorities of humanitarian demining operations.
6.34Improved Single-Sensor Hand-Held APL Detectors.Projects should aim at the improvement of existing detectors (e.g. metal detector, surface penetrating radar) in terms of their detection/false-alarm rates, cost and weight. This work is also likely to contribute to the longer-term aim of integration with other types of sensors. Results should be short-term (12-18 months).
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6.35Multi-Sensor Man-Portable APL Detectors.Projects should aim at integrating 2 or 3 sensors on a portable mine detection system, in order to reach demonstrable advances in terms of speed, cost and safety of operation. These are likely to include "traditional sensors", such as metal detectors, surface penetrating radar, or thermal infrared sensors, and may integrate an advanced sensor based on other physical properties of landmines (smell, chemical composition, etc. ). These activities should be short-to-medium term (18-24 months).
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6.36Multi-Sensor Vehicle-Based APL Detection Systems.Projects should aim at integrating 3 or more sensors on a vehicle-based platform to reach substantial improvements in operational costs for selected scenarii. These activities are expected to be medium-term (24 to 36 months).
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Preparatory, support and transfer activities
Preparatory, support and transfer activities are expected to concurrently complement R&D Themes to employ several parallel measures from user requirements definition and analysis, through solution and implementation, to transfer, installation, demonstration and training in an operational environment. Actions may tackle one or more of these phases; they may target one or more application areas, including multi-site application experiments and assessments of the impact on new working practices; and they may pursue one or more of the following objectives:
The target is to bring HPCN to new application domains, to new industrial and commercial sectors, and to new users, in particular SMEs.
Preparatory, Support and Transfer activities will be organised as clusters. A cluster is an application-specific or industry sector-specific set of actions where each action may be carried out on a regional, national or European level.
Objectives
To demonstrate the use of HPCN technologies and advanced networking services. The target is to bridge the gap between suppliers and potential users and to lower the risk of early adopters.
To promote and transfer best practice in the use of HPCN to achieve measurable improvements in business processes, operation and working modalities in industry.
To disseminate the results (e.g. the lessons learned and the user benefits obtained) across national borders and across industrial sectors.
6.23Demonstrations of the Use of HPCN Technologies and Services This possibly includes porting, setting up of facilities and field tests. Actions are expected to tackle real requirements from industrial users (Detailed specifications for applicants are available on request).
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6.24Best Practice Actions to adopt, transfer and ensure take-up of mature and proven HPCN applications and practices in new environments under real working conditions. This could include re-engineering, installation, acceptance testing, operations, maintenance and training. Actions are expected to bring industrial users together with the necessary technology providers and experts. In particular, technology transfer from large enterprises to SMEs is addressed. (detailed specifications for applicants are available on request)
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