Objective
Information Systems like the physical Internet, the World Wide Web, telephone networks mobile ad-hoc networks, or peer-to-peer networks have reached a level that puts them beyond our ability to deploy them, manage them, and keep them functioning correctly through traditional techniques. Reasons for this are their sheer size with millions of users and interconnected devices and their dynamics; they evolve dynamically over time, i.e. components change or are removed or inserted permanently.
For these systems, we have to abandon the goal of global optimality. Rather we have to concentrate our efforts on seeking self-regulating and self-repairing mechanisms that are decentralized, scalable, and that are able to adapt to changes in their environments and maintain the system in states corresponding to acceptable behaviour, avoiding those that are undesirable or unstable. The goal of this project is to develop methods, techniques and tools to cope with challenges imposed by such systems, in an interdisciplinary effort of Computer Science, Physics, Biology, and Economy.
The objectives we have identified and want to address are:
To understand the structure, self organisation and dynamics of large scale information systems,
To provide methods, techniques and tools for controlling and optimizing such systems,
To apply methods from market mechanism and game theory in order to understand and to organize the competition for resources like bandwidth, computing power, data etc,
To demonstrate the capabilities of our methods, techniques and tools in two application areas of high scientific and economic impact:
- A management platform for telecommunication transport networks that integrates the wide range of current and future data formats and services, and
- A decentralized, self-organizing Web search engine based on a peer-to-peer architecture, resulting in higher quality answers to search requests than current centralized search engines.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics game theory
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet world wide web
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33098 PADERBORN
Germany
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Participants (21)
40126 BOLOGNA
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LONDON
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PARIS CEDEX 16
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00196 ROMA
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1015 LAUSANNE
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8092 ZUERICH
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80539 MUENCHEN
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50-370 WROCLAW
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26221 PATRAS
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BERLIN
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1331 FORNEBU
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TOWN
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MILANO
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00185 ROMA
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76131 KARLSRUHE
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08034 BARCELONA
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08002 BARCELONA
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91405 ORSAY
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1678 NICOSIA
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121 16 PRAHA 2
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