Objective
This project constitutes a framework in which 17 activities regarding Agents and Middleware technology based applications applied in different industrial field will be realised. Under this framework, management and dissemination will be performed centralised to increase effectiveness.
The 71 partners participating in this project will produce the following activities:
-MODA-ML, middleware tools and documents for applications, enhancing the textile/clothing sector with XML;
-MOWGLI, an integration server to manage data flow through medical resources in paper/film-less hospitals;
- GAIANET, an infrastructure that supports the development and exploitation of geospatial applications with distributed workflows;
- STREAMONTHEFLY, is about offering a personalised community radio program with collaborative filtering agents and bandwidth sensitive streaming;
-SYSTEMATECH is focused on adapting an existing management prototype based on mobile agents and intelligent forecasting technologies, now able to manage complex networked systems in a proactive way;
-WINK, the objective of the WINK project will be to validate a combination of two technically promising software platforms which when united will perform automated, efficient data collection and management planning in complex "smart" organizations made up of a network of partners participating in large scale projects who are physically and organizationally remote;
-DISTAL Take-Up, the objectives of the DISTAL Take-Up project are to prove the business case for DISTAL, by trailing, testing and evaluating a service using customised existing software;
- TRANSORG, concerns the middle-ware backbone over which the operation and support applications (OSS) for the telecom industry are built;
-SIMAT, is a trial whose aim is to evaluate the use and the acceptance of secure mobile agent technology by creating Web-enabled services and offering them to an existing community of IT professionals registered to a Web portal called OTLand;
- WAVE, the purpose is to develop new workstations, which can be established in training centres or in companies in order to contribute directly to train welding beginners to the basic gestures;
-MASFIT is a research project of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA), belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigacions Científicas (CSIC), which began in 1996 and is concerned with communicational aspects of multi-agent systems;
- INVATAR, is an integration of intelligent, mobile agent based data management and retrieval technology customised to specific domain rules from the business of the users relayed through realistic real time animated avatars;
-CASSY, uses the intelligent agent technology as an assistant for the normal citizens in their interactions with the e-government systems;
-EXTRAPLANT, whose objectives are to introduce, customise and validate the ProPlanT multi-agent technology in the area of extra-enterprise production planning, supply chain management and optimisation of virtual enterprise operation;
-PENELOPE, is about making available via Internet an automatic planner based on a library of customised agent based models of the plants applied to the textile production process;
-METALWEB, whose objective is to adapt and trial web-computing technology in order to integrate and validate an ASP platform addressing the computing needs of the metal forming sector in general and the sheet stamping sector in particular;
-(E)MOTIONS, whose objective is to expand the use of 3-D captured human motions through a range of innovative applications embedded in a web enabled Application Service Provision platform for different user groups.
The cluster will give a corporate image of all the projects for the dissemination of results and will provide efficient management and monitoring.
Objectives:
As a cluster, the objectives are the following:
- To improve the efficiency on the management and review of the activities;
- To improve the dissemination of the results by:
- Providing an European Dimension;
- Providing the experience in technology promotion of the past HPCN-TTN Network;
- Assessing the quality of the material (homogeneity, message, proof reading, target, layout);
- Increasing the impact of the results of the activities.
As individual projects the main objective is to deploy the 17 trials described in the workplan.
Work description:
The work in the cluster will be performed at three levels:
- Management:
- To perform the management of the activities, including reports collection and production, reviews organization, monitoring and financial management;
- Dissemination:
- To ease the dissemination of the activities by:
+ Providing standards and templates for the material;
+ Assessing the quality of the material;
+ Helping the activity members on the production of success stories for the activities;
+ Creating and mantaining a WWW server for the activities;
- Technical work:
- 17 activities will be deployed during this project. A consortium of several members will carry out each activity. All the activities are focused on the realisations of applications based on agent and middleware technologies.
Milestones:
Milestones:
M1 end of PM2: availability of cluster WWW site (first operative version);
M2 end of PM6: dissemination standards;
M3 quality procedures defined;
M4 end of PM35: complete set of success stories
M5 end of PM36: public final report.
Expected results:
WWW site with the description of all the activities (business oriented);
Extensive dissemination material (demonstrators, flyers, demos) according to activities objectives.
Funding Scheme
ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures
Coordinator
00196 Roma
Italy
Participants (68)
60320 Frankfurt
00139 Roma
16148 Genova
10783 Berlin
00131 Roma
93108 Montreuil
2332 KG Leiden
17005 Girona
01013 Vitoria
20413 Brest
08034 Barcelona
120 00 Praha 2
43004 Tarragona
08800 Vilanova, Barcelona
83038 Montemiletto (Av)
28006 Madrid
92140 Clamart
166 36 Praha 6
67663 Kaiserslautern
63067 Offenbach
EC4M 8SH London
13900 Biella (Bi)
17676 Kallithea
78140 Velizy Villacoublay
1015 Lausanne
164 80 Stockholm
00155 Roma
VLT07 Valletta
75738 Paris Cedex 15
2201 AZ Noordwijk Zh
46100 Mantova
71065 Sindelfingen
13051 Biella (Bi)
31676 Labege
13057 Pollone
08301 Mataro
TW14 0SL Feltham, Middlesex
10090 Cascine Vica Rivoli - To
10121 Torino
69134 Ecully Cedex
1040 Vienna
13107 Quarona
581 83 Linkoeping
61476 Kronberg Im Taunus
3818 NN Amersfoort
1111 Budapest
460 06 Liberec
1013 BG Amsterdam
49084 Osnabrueck
NG7 1QH Lenton, Nottingham
1204 Geneve
20133 Milano
08034 Barcelona
9712 CP Groningen
49304 Melle
13825 Vallemosso
10623 Berlin
13051 Biella (Bi)
30122 Venezia
25121 Brescia
50121 Firenze
41100 Modena
10124 Torino
1211 Geneve 4
1105 AZ Amsterdam
SO17 1BJ Southampton
1090 Wien
13832 Pratrivero-trivero (Biella)
