The Network of the Future : an essential infrastructure for our society

Please watch our video demonstration of SOCIETIES Intelligent Community Orchestration. For more, please visit our project website: www.ict-societies.eu or read our online innovations magazine

Source: ICT-Societies  
 2013-06-14 - 11:27   

Breukelen, June 3rd. To evaluate and secure the project results, T-Systems MMS have conducted iterative tests of the OMELETTE Live Environment with expert users and more than 60 end users, so far. Following initial expert usability studies, a comparative study of Chinese and German users was carried out at the end of last year in Shenzhen (CN) and Dresden (DE) in cooperation with the project partner HUAWEI. Its goal was to measure the benefit and user satisfaction of the toolsets created within the OMELETTE project, e.g., automatic composition, pattern-based recommendation, inter-widget communication and its visualization, telco integration and mobile use. Therefore, end users' performance in tasks from both leisure and business context were measured with the help of 'hard metrics', like time, but also questionnaires. The results clearly underlined the necessity of end user development, and user embraced the way OMELETTE provides both support mechanisms as well as new possibilites of application and telco integration.Since the beginning of this year, development has focused on eliminating the remaining problems, on polishing the user experience and realizing new use cases that have become apparent. This lead to the most recent iteration of the evaluation studies. They involved additional 26 participants and were carried out in cooperation with the project partner TIE Kinetix (NL) during the last month. The new iteration also involved a direct comparison of existing tools for First-Line-Support at TIE with an OMELETTE-based version, underlining the feasible integration with real-world systems at TIE and the benefits of an integrated experience. The results of the latter study are currently being processed.

Source: OMELETTE  
 2013-06-03 - 09:07   

The SOCIETIES project has published its 1.0 open source release of the SOCIETIES platform supporting the concept of ambient intelligence communities and various features including context management, learning, personalisation of 3rd party services, social network integration, community management and privacy protection. The release includes a Java Spring Virgo application server, Android HTML5 client application and [...]

Source: ICT-Societies  
 2013-05-22 - 10:55   

Mark Roddy (TSSG) SOCIETIES WP8 (User Trials) Manager was interviewed by the Finesce project at FIA Dublin 2013. You can watch the video here.

Source: ICT-Societies  
 2013-05-14 - 10:22   

The SOCIETIES project completed a joint workshop with the PROSE project at FIA Dublin.  The SOCIETIES presentations focused on passing on some of the knowledge gained while using Open source forges, and the problems and solutions found. SOCIETIES is using Github as its repository of choice, however Bruno Jean-Bart ( from TRIALOG) outlined some of the [...]

Source: ICT-Societies  
 2013-05-13 - 10:07   

Dublin, May 5th. OMELETTE is present at FIA 2013 in Dublin from May 8th to May 10th. OMELETTE has its own booth where it is shown how to enable web-based communication and collaboration at the speed of a click. Moreover, the OMELETTE Live Widget Mashup Environment is being demonstrated for the Flood Management real-life scenario.

Source: OMELETTE  
 2013-05-08 - 09:50   

Collaborative Platforms for Sustainable Logistics and Transportation at IEEE DEST 2013 conference: Frédérick Bénaben from PLAY is co-chair for the track: Collaborative Platforms for Sustainable Logistics and Transportation at IEEE DEST conference this year. Abstract: Across application domains, organizations and enterprises (such as Small-Medium Enterprises) gain their strengths from flexible market orientation, agile value chains and cluster-based innovation capacity. The changing global (business) environment challenges all organizations to aim for agility and performance-driven management through process-focused thinking. These challenges reach far beyond the business world, affecting for example the formation and coordination of emergency teams in case of environmental disasters. […] We are looking for papers that address medium-scale/large-scale and medium-term/long-term challenges for collaboration in the domain of logistics, including risk-management scenarios (e.g. after the occurrence of an environmental disaster), and that indicate/demonstrate potential solutions.

Source: PLAY  
 2013-04-30 - 09:34   

Testing mobile applications and Open Source forges This joint Pre FIA workshop is focused on improving the quality of open source software, sustaining the community using it, and how to enable to further exploitation. In session 1, we tackle the issue of developing and testing mobile source software.  The SOCIETIES project presents some of our experience in [...]

Source: ICT-Societies  
 2013-04-29 - 15:57   

We are presenting a tutorial at DEBS 2013 conference on: Personal Big Data Management in Cyber-physical Systems Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) represent engineered systems where functionalities and salient characteristics emerge from the networked interaction of computational and physical components. Example CPSs include automobiles, aircraft, air traffic control, power grids, oil refineries, medical devices, patient monitoring, and smart structures. One of the main challenges for these systems is the real-time processing of various signals coming from different sensor-based subsystems. In this tutorial we 1) present how these challenges, mainly related to the Internet of Things and Big Data processing, can be interpreted in the context of the Event Processing Grand Challenge, a roadmap for the EP community established at Event Processing Dagstuhl Seminar 2010, 2) elaborate on current efforts in developing an event-driven platform that supports the above mentioned requirements and 3) present examples from three real-life scenarios (remote patient monitoring, adaptive augmented reality museum experience, and collaborative software development).

Source: PLAY  
 2013-04-25 - 15:53   

We are organizing a Special Session at PRO-VE’13 conference this year titled: Event-Driven Collaborative Network Abstract: Supervision of events, emitted by connected devices (of any type), may be used to support lifecycle of collaborative networks (CN). This workshop will try to focus on the links between events, objects and CN: how Internet of Things (IoT) could facilitate collaboration thanks to events. Event gathering is a way to (i) detect opportunity or necessity of collaboration (between individuals and/or organisations), (ii) collect relevant knowledge to define the way collaborative networks should behave, (iii) perform monitoring, orchestration or choreography of collaborative behaviours and (iv) ensure efficient feedback while dismantling collaborative networks.Many technical and scientific issues are associated with this subject: publish / subscribe and distribution of events, semantic treatment of events, scalability and big data, social and trust, governance and choreography, etc.Articles submitted to this workshop should present event-based environments. Articles should focus on one (or several) of these stages of CN lifecycle and should also consider some of the technical or scientific issues presented above. Concrete use-cases should also be considered as far as they provide concrete vision of the usefulness of such environments.

Source: PLAY  
 2013-04-25 - 15:51