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Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures

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Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering
The overriding objective of IRMOS is to enable 'real-time' interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure...

The primary objective of IRMOS is to enable 'real-time' interaction between people and applications by developing, integrating and validating an adequate Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) which today still remains insufficient and faulty for the rapid growth and provision of many interactive real-time applications. Hence, today's SOI lack Real-Time (RT) capabilities, dependability and resilience and fail to keep pace with European businesses and individuals who are becoming increasingly agile.

 

IRMOS aims to avoid issues such as the purchase of expensive and dedicated hardware or the usage of general-purpose resources as a compromise in order to ensure good interactivity levels and performance. These are often the results of soft real-time applications that are traditionally developed without any real-time methodology or run-time support

 

Instead, the project provides:

* A real-time framework as a single infrastructure with real-time attributes at all levels (network, processing, storage, application, workflow and business). IRMOS will support the development and deployment of real time applications in a distributed, managed, secure and cost effective way. This infrastructure will be demonstrated in sectors with major economic and social importance such as: Digital Film production, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and interactive Real-time e-Learning.

* A platform that gives Quality of Service Guarantees and is able to participate in Service Level Agreement (SLA).

* The span of organisational boundaries which makes the infrastructure cross-organisational.

* Provision of inter-organisation confidence, meaning that interactive real-time applications will be delivered in a predictable, reliable and efficient way.

* Specification languages, toolkits and standards compliant interfaces that accompany the infrastructure in order to ensure the widest possible take-up in applications involving complex value chains and real time needs, for example in security, safety and emergency response scenarios.

* New business and technology solutions. The aforementioned framework allows for business processes automation by providing services that enable the quick and efficient assembly of businesses without the need for protracted manual negotiations or service provisioning by using the IRMOS services.

* Motivation for SMEs to advance their business models and gain market accessibility.

 

The vision of IRMOS is to advance the business models of real-time applications combined to the benefits of SOAs with stringent performance, reliability and temporal constraints. The project will increase the competitiveness of those involved through dramatically lower cost implementation. Thenceforward, instead of costly investment in dedicated infrastructure, it will be possible for European businesses to make full use of commodity resources by using a flexible service oriented approach that achieves guaranteed Quality of Service.

IRMOS will design, develop, integrate and validate a Service Oriented Infrastructure that enables a broad range of interactive real-time applications. It will support the development and deployment of real time applications in a distributed, managed, secure and cost effective way. The infrastructure will be demonstrated in sectors with major economic and social importance by focusing on film production, virtual and augmented reality, and interactive collaborative learning. The infrastructure will be accompanied by specification languages, toolkits and standards compliant interfaces to ensure the widest possible take-up in applications involving complex value chains and real time needs, for example in security, safety and emergency response scenarios.
Today's Service Oriented Infrastructures (consisting of networks, computer systems, applications and their combination) there is no provision for Quality of Service assurances and so they are insufficient for the rapid construction and provision of many interactive real-time applications, they also lack dependability and resilience. This prevents business at all levels, especially SMEs, from capitilising on the business models and services that have so much potential to emerge in this area. Whilst European business and individuals are becoming increasingly agile, today's Service Oriented Infrastructures are simply failing to keep pace.
The IRMOS vision is motivated by combining the benefits of SOAs with the ability to support real-time applications with stringent performance, reliability and temporal constraints. We will allow real time applications to be exploited far more effectively and with dramatically lower costs. Instead of costly investment in dedicated infrastructure, it will be possible for European businesses to make full use of commodity resources by using a flexible service oriented approach that achieves guaranteed Quality of Service.

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FP7-ICT-2007-1
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CP - Collaborative project (generic)

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SEAGATE SYSTEMS UK LIMITED
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South East (England) Hampshire and Isle of Wight South Hampshire
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 1 032 221,00

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