FET-Proactive

FP7: FET Proactive Intiative: ICT forever yours (ICT-FY)

NEWS

• 1st International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS-WS 11)
  May 3, 2011 in Budapest (HU)
  Satellite event of the fet¹¹ Conference oganised by the "ICT forever yours" community. Sponsored by the European Coordination Action EternalS: Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge
• Project home pages / Project Factsheets

WHAT IS ICT FOREVER YOURS ?

Objective ICT-2007.8.6: Fet proactive: ICT Forever yours
(Extract from Work programme text)

Rationale:

The mass diffusion of digital systems and their pervasiveness in our everyday lives increases our expectations on the dependability, security and longevity of these systems. This requires new built-in mechanisms for enhancing confidence in their usage, for protecting them from malicious intents and for preserving them from the threat of ageing, in the context of highly decentralised and incremental development and deployment practices.

Target outcome:

Projects should focus on one or several of the following:

• Eternal Systems: to develop a theoretical and practical framework for extremely long-lived systems, requiring minimal intervention and management to thrive in spite of changes in usage, host device, network context or data- and data protection formats. Systems should be future proof, able to preserve and update their original functionality in a machine-independent way, and ultimately by being self-sustaining and evolving.
• Knowledge, diversity and time: New approaches for eternal and reliable access to knowledge assets, in which knowledge parts are produced locally, but exploited globally, and are endowed with a sense of time and context to make them robust against ageing, diversity of use and evolving semantics.
• Secure and dependable software: methods and tools for high-level verifiably secure and dependable programming, and new metrics to aid assessability of the security and dependability of highly distributed and heterogeneous software or of ambient systems.

Expected impact:

The research should contribute to systems that are more versatile in their interaction with modules, systems and services in their environment: adapting to change in the environment with minimal intervention, harnessing dispersed and dynamic content by exchanging knowledge at a semantic level that is robust against diversity of origin and use, preserving and even changing original functionality and properties over time, providing security to their environment through verifiably secure programming models, and offering assessable security of systems in the context of their environment.

In addition, the selected Coordination Action(s) should support the consolidation of associated research communities, their visibility, the coordination of research agendas and, where appropriate, the coordination of national or regional research programmes or activities. Finally, the initiative also encourages international cooperation in foundational research on topics described above.

LEAFLET ICT CALL 3 - ICT-FY ( 400KB)

Background documents

Reports from the 'Beyond the horizon' project were used as information sources when writing this FET Initiative; in particular the two reports from the working groups on 'Security, Dependability and Trust' (Security, Dependability and Trust) and 'Software Intensive Systems' ( Software Intensive Systems).

EVENTS

• CALL 3 FET INFORMATION EVENT was held on 24 January 2008 in Brussels
  including specific session on "ICT forever yours"

PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE "ICT FOREVER YOURS" INITIATIVE

• LIVING KNOWLEDGE (IP)
  Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time
  Project Home page - Project Factsheet ( )
• HATS (IP)
  Highly Adaptable and Trustworhty Software using Formal Models
  Project Home page
• CONNECT (IP)
  Emergent Connectors for Eternal Software Intensive Networked Systems
  Project Home page - Project Factsheet ( )
• SECURECHANGE
  Security Engineering for lifelong Evolvable Systems
  Project Home page - Project Factsheet ( )

RELATED INITIATIVES /PROJECTS

This initiative is partially related to two past FET proactive initiatives: 'Situated and Autonomic Communications' and 'Global Computing'.

TIMETABLE

• Call 3 launched 4 December 2007
• Information Event: 24 January 2008 Brussels
• Deadline for submission of proposals : 8 April 2008
• Evaluation: May - June 2008
• Negotiations: Autumn 2008
• Start of projects : Dec 2008 - Jan-Febr 2009