Computational tools and industrial applications of complexity

Objective

The objective of the project is to develop new powerful and robust analytical and numerical algorithms for the analysis, prediction and control of complex systems of different types and to produce relevant software for industrial applications.

Complexity, self-organisation, chaos and resonances are key features of all realistic systems. These features demand new computational tools for information processing in unstable systems. The project will demonstrate the practical use of these new tools to complex systems by addressing seven industrial applications.

The envisaged applications include advanced analysis of electrocardiograms, in-vivo imaging of human skin tissues for the diagnosis of burns and skin cancer, new quantum nanoelectronic devices, simulation of turbulent flow, control methods for the management of information systems and plants, and use of remote sensing images for agriculture and environmental monitoring.

The consortium will exploit the results of the project by licensing the software to industrial end users and by the development of an optical coherence tomography product which will meet dermatological requirements for the treatment of burns, tumours and melanoma and market needs for estimating the diffusion of cosmetics within the skin.

The project is a joint collaboration among the participants listed below together with a network of collaborators from the International Solvay Institutes from Europe and Russia.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• medical and health sciences › clinical medicine › oncology › skin cancer › melanoma
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › remote sensing
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › data processing

Programme(s)

• FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 6.4 - HPCN Embedded Systems

Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie Fondes Par E. Solvay

Address

Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50
1050 Brussels
Belgium

Participants (4)

Lynton Lasers Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Greenheysbusiness Centre, Pancroft Way 10
M15 6JJ Manchester

Parsytec Computer Gmbh

Germany

Address

Auf Der Huels 183
52068 Aachen

Siemens AG

Germany

Address

Otto-hahn-ring 6
81739 München

Siemens-Elema Ab

Sweden

Address

171 95 Solna