Project description Pervasive adaptation Show the project objective Hide the project objective The emerging information society is widely expected to experience massive embedding of both fixed and portable devices into our local physical spaces, with more and more devices having the capacity to initiate, store and communicate information and content in all aspects of life. This results in significant challenges for communication and information provision, based on required scalability, heterogeneity, re-configurability and dynamicity. The "Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation" project (SOCIALNETS) proposes a radical re-think for this ICT challenge by significantly departing from the traditional engineering notion of communication network. Instead, SOCIALNETS seeks to embed in devices the key characteristics that enable humans to adapt and exhibit agility beyond any other species. A human-centric approach to communication is developed by establishing social network of relations between fixed and mobile devices, as defined by the human user and their particular actions and behaviour with respect to each other and technology in the environment. Social networks are intimately connected with the human and are the basis for the SOCIALNETS paradigm. The project seeks to understand, model and exploit these structures using an interdisciplinary approach involving social anthropology, complex systems, network engineering and computer science. Relations between devices can be inherently flexible, based on casual interactions, using social models of trust and security, and without the need for "always-on" connectivity. Furthermore, such relations build into social networks with desirable and inclusive properties that can be exploited for communication and knowledge acquisition for large numbers of devices. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessocial sciencessociologyanthropologysocial anthropology Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.8.2 - Pervasive adaptation Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact Roger M. Whitaker Prof. Coordinator CARDIFF UNIVERSITY Address Newport road 30 36 CF24 0DE Cardiff United Kingdom See on map Region Wales East Wales Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nick Bodycombe (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 405 753,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EURECOM GIE France EU contribution € 272 492,00 Address Route des chappes 450 campus sophia antipolis 06410 Biot See on map Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Alpes-Maritimes Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Catherine BETRANCOURT (Mrs) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON Greece EU contribution € 292 038,00 Address 6 christou lada str 10561 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Efi Kafetzi (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 362 523,00 Address Piazzale aldo moro 7 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Andrea Passarella (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO Portugal EU contribution € 173 766,00 Address Campus universitário de santiago 3810-193 Aveiro See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Aveiro Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jose Mendes (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom EU contribution € 383 813,00 Address Trinity lane the old schools CB2 1TN Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dawn Barker (Mrs) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD United Kingdom EU contribution € 259 614,00 Address Wellington square university offices OX1 2JD Oxford See on map Region South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Victoria Kingsman (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
