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Consultation – Your opinion on efficient handling of data overflow

A public consultation and workshop has just been launched. The purpose is to get impulses and a broad understanding of main technology and user trends and barriers. The results of this consultation will be considered in the preparation of related future research agenda, and will be taken into account for the next Work Programme, covering the 2011-2012 period of the Framework Programme 7, the European Commission's largest instrument for research and development funding.

Your opinions, and those of others, will help us better understand the practical problems and opportunities in the field of Intelligent Information Management and identify future research needs and directions.


Public consultation

The European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media – Technologies for Information Management, would like to learn your opinion on the following questions.

Your submissions will contribute to shaping the new Work Programme which will drive ICT calls and operations in 2011-2012 and beyond.

You are invited to participate in this public consultation by answering the below questionnaire, or by sending the URLs to strategy paper and presentation.

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We are interested in your personal, professional opinion. In other words, we do not expect you to contribute the views of a company, an industry sector or a country. The question to you is: what kinds of programming, storage, operations ideas or services do you think have the potential to become as important in 2015 as current large scale data processing paradigms are today? And what can realistically be done to get the best people in Europe to collaborate on these ideas in the funding context of Framework Programme 7?


You are invited to submit your contribution to issues structured along the concrete dimensions specified as follows:


Please note that the fields marked with an asterisk (*) below are mandatory.

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1) Data and data types


a. What volumes of data are we dealing with today? What is the growth rate? Where can we expect to be in 2015? (contribution to the consultation): (max. 3000 characters)"


b. What types or data can we deal with intelligently due to their inherent structure (geospatial, temporal, social or knowledge graphs, 3D, sensor streams …)?
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2) Industries, communities


a. Who is producing these data and why? Could they do it better? How?
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b. Who is consuming these data and why? Could they do it better? How?
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c. What industrial sectors in Europe could become more competitive if they became much better at managing data?
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d. Is the regulation landscape imposing constraints (privacy, compliance ...) that don't have today good tool support?
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e. What are the main practical problem identified for individuals and organizations? Please give examples and tell us about the main obstacles and barriers.
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3) Services, software stacks, protocols, standards, benchmarks


a. What combinations of components are needed to deal with these problems?
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b. What data exchange and processing mechanisms will be needed to work across platforms and programming languages?
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c. What data environments are today so wastefully messy that they would benefit from the development of standards?
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d. What kind of performance is expected or required of these systems? Who will measure it reliably? How?
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4) Usability and training


a. How difficult will it be for a developer of average competence to deploy components whose core is based on rather deep computer science? Do we all need to understand Monads and Continuations? What can be done to make it ever easier?
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b. How is a developer of average skills going to learn about these new advanced tools? How can we plan for excellent documentation and training, community mentoring, exchange of good practices, etc... across all EU countries?
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5) Challenges


a. What should be, in this domain, the equivalent of the Netflix challenge, Ansari X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize, etc. ... ?
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b. What should one do to set up such a challenge, administer, and monitor it?
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Send your message to the INFSO.E2 mailbox, with the mention 'Consultation on Efficient handling of data overflow' in the subject field.

Deadline for contribution is the 30 November 2009.



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