Project description
Identifying new research topics, Assessing emerging global SIdentifying new research topics, Assessing emerging global trends in ICT for future FET Proactive initiatives
The primary goal of the proposed effort is to generate a set of innovative research topics on thenotion of simplicity as a driving paradigm in ICT development, maintenance and use. We believethat the philosophy of simplicity is strategically important, yet poorly understood, and rarelysystematically applied. Instead, design principles attempt to focus on increased functionality withinthinly disguised complexity, often at the expense of life cycle costs and total cost of ownershipissues (e.g. training, system malfunctions, system upgrades). Often designers are unaware of thetradeoffs and impacts. With the increased use of ICT in such socially critical areas such ashealthcare, society can no longer afford systems that do not perform as specified. We believe that an understanding of simplicity is the key. Simplicity is foundational, its essence fundamental to many desired characteristics of ICT systems such as reliability, usability and trust. Thus, we believe that knowledge gained through research on simplicity can provide the EU a sustainable competitive advantage. To gain this knowledge we must ask the right questions, we must develop the proper research directions. To do so, the IT Simply Works team will organise a set of multidisciplinary experts to assist in surveying key research communities about their understandings and vision of the philosophy of simplicity. Only through such a multidisciplinary approach can we hope to achieve a basic and yet thorough understanding of the important issues to be addressed. The results of this effort will be presented in a final report elaborating the vision of simplicity in ICT and proposing topics, initiatives and modalities for future-directed foundational research and its transformation for benefitting Europe's citizens, businesses, industry and governments.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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FP7-ICT-2009-5
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Coordinator
14469 Potsdam
Germany
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