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Formalizing Subjective Interestingness in Exploratory Data Mining (FORSIED)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"The rate at which research labs, enterprises and governments accumulate data is high and fast increasing. Often, these data are collected for no specific purpose, or they turn out to be useful for unanticipated purposes: Companies constantly look for new ways to monetize their customer databases; Governments mine various databases to detect tax fraud; Security agencies mine and cross-associate nu ...
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"Patterns in Big Data: Methods, Applications and Implications" (THINKBIG)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The availability of huge amounts of data has revolutionized many sectors of society, enabling engineers to bypass complex modeling steps, scientists to find shortcuts to new knowledge, and businesses to explore novel business models. For all its success, this field is still very young, and in need of systematic attention. Both risks and opportunities are very significant at this stage. They can b ...
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Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies (QUICS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2018,

"The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the most significant EU legislation concerning surface water management. Programs of Measures are required to ensure water bodies achieve a good ecological status. It is important to predict the impact of interventions on water quality. Man-made and natural processes control surface water quality, these are highly complex with a range of sources, transport a ...
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Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle Changes in the Hydrosphere - for Operational Needs (SWITCH-ON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The project SWITCH-ON addresses water concerns to thoroughly explore and exploit the significant and currently untapped potential of open data. Water information is highly sought after by many kinds of end-users, both within government and business as well as within civil society. Water touches virtually all societal and environmental domains and the knowledge domain is largely multidisciplinary. ...
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Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The overall objectives of the INNWIND.EU project are the high performance innovative design of a beyond-state-of-the-art 10-20MW offshore wind turbine and hardware demonstrators of some of the critical components. These ambitious primary objectives lead to a set of secondary objectives, which are the specific innovations, new concepts, new technologies and proof of concepts at the sub system and t ...
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Aircraft Loads Prediction for Enhanced Simulation (ALPES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

A European Industrial Doctoral (EID) network is proposed to improve the prediction, and also the efficiency in calculation, of aircraft loads. The loads experienced by an aircraft in-flight (due to manoeuvres and gusts) and on the ground (e.g. landing, turning, braking) are the key element in determining the structural sizing and hence its weight. Although the structural design must ensure that ...
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PeRceptually Optimised VIdeo compreSION (PROVISION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Around 50% of the human brain is dedicated to vision processing. This perhaps explains our capacity to be entertained, challenged and informed by visual information. Video technology is now pervasive, with mobile video, terrestrial and satellite HDTV, Blu-ray players, digital cameras, video telephony, multimedia messaging, video conferencing and surveillance all underpinned by efficient signal rep ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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Adaptive Optimal Estimation and Control for Automotive Engine Systems with Approximate Dynamic Programming (AECE)

Start date: Jan 5, 2015, End date: Jan 4, 2017,

"According to the latest global energy policy, more than 630 million vehicles are expected to be added to the Indian, Chinese, US, and EU fleets between 2000 and 2030. This growth increases requirements for fuel economy and necessitates the development of automotive engine management systems using advanced estimation and control approaches. This project is dedicated to study a novel online optimal ...
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Combining Optics and SDN In next Generation data centre Networks (COSIGN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The role of Data Centres (DCs) is vital for the Future Internet. However, DC infrastructures are already stressed by data volumes and service provisioning and consumption trends. Emerging demands cannot be addressed by today's DCs and call for a massive redesign or even transformation of DC architectures.COSIGN proposes a new DC architecture empowered by advanced optical technologies and will demo ...
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Interactive Systems Involving Multi-point Surfaces, Haptics and true-3D displays (INTERACT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The grand challenge of this project is to 1) develop integrated multi-point surfaces that include multiple touch points, multiple haptic feedback on fingers (and tangible objects on the surface) and reconfigurable ‘true-3D’ content for a ‘walk-up and use’ scenario; 2) identify interaction design principles and visualization techniques to support users around such surfaces and 3) demonstrate the ad ...
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Wavelength tunable Advanced Single Photon Sources (WASPS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Quantum communication and computation are emerging fields with the potential to launch new technologies to control, propagate and process information. Amongst candidate systems for transporting quantum information, photons are the most promising as they can both maintain coherence over long distances, and interact strongly with electrons to generate nonlinear effects and allow transfer of informat ...
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PRACTICE: Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud (PRACTICE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The traditional computing paradigm is experiencing a fundamental shift: organizations no longer completely control their own data, but instead hand it to external untrusted parties - cloud service providers, for processing and storage. There currently exist no satisfactory approach to protect data during computation from cloud providers and from other users of the cloud.PRACTICE has assembled the ...
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SELF-HEALING POLYMERS FOR CONCEPTS ON SELF-REPAIRED AERONAUTICAL COMPOSITES (HIPOCRATES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

A composite aero-structure with self-repair capabilities will offer durability, extend its service life and prolong maintenance protocols leading to lower aircraft operational costs. Despite the extensive research activities in the area of self-healing resins applied to composite materials, the research for aeronautical applications is currently very limited. To this end, the main objective of HIP ...
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A Coordination Action for Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Soft robotics, intended here as the use of soft materials in robotics, is a young research field, going to overcome the basic assumptions of conventional rigid robotics and its solid theories and techniques, developed over the last 50 years. Overcoming these assumptions raises the risks related to the poor applicability of known robotics theories and techniques, as well as the risks related to the ...
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Co-ordinating Research Efforts of the ICT-Energy Community (ICT-Energy)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The goal of this proposal is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in the ICT-ENERGY subject with specific reference to bringing together the existing "Toward Zero-Power ICT" community organized within the ZEROPOWER C.A. and the novel "MINECC" (Minimising energy consumption of computing to the limit) community recently funded under the FET Proactive Call 8 (FP7-ICT-2011-8) Obj ...
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CRIPTO: Cryptography Research Involving Practical and Theoretical Outlooks (CRIPTO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"In this project I will investigate four interrelated topics in cryptography from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Each topic is chosen such that it not only provides a testing ground for more general ideas, but it also is grounded in specific examples which can help guide the general principles. Each topic has the potential to make dramatic advances, both on the subject of cryptograp ...
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Mont-Blanc 2, European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on\nlow-power embedded technology (Mont-Blanc 2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The Mont-Blanc project aims to develop a European Exascale approach leveraging on commodity power-efficient embedded technologies. The project has developed a HPC system software stack on ARM, and will deploy the first integrated ARM-based HPC prototype by 2014, and is also working on a set of 11 scientific applications to be ported and tuned to the prototype system.The rapid progress of Mont-Blan ...
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Gust Load Alleviation techniques assessment on wind tUnnel MOdel of advanced Regional aircraft (GLAMOUR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The aim of Gust Load Alleviation techcniques assessment on wind tUnnel MOdel of advanced Regional aircraft (GLAMOUR) proposal is a technological optimisation and experimental validation through an aero-servo-elastic innovative WT model of gust load alleviation control systems for advanced Green Regional Aircraft. The expected benefits of such technologies are mainly the mitigation of gust load res ...
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Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architect ...
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REliable, Resilient and secUre IoT for sMart city applications (RERUM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

RERUM will develop, evaluate, and trial an architectural framework for dependable, reliable, and secure networks of heterogeneous smart objects supporting innovative Smart City applications. The framework will be based on the concept of "security and privacy by design", addressing the most critical factors for the success of Smart City applications.The technical approach aims to enable tighter int ...
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Enhancing Social Interaction with an AlterEgo Artificial Agent (AlterEgo)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Description AlterEgo: Humanoid robotics and Virtual Reality to improve social interactions The objective of AlterEgo is the creation of an interactive cognitive architecture, implementable in various artificial agents, allowing a continuous interaction with patients suffering from social disorders ...
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REconfiguration of CONtrol in Flight for Integral Global Upset REcovery (RECONFIGURE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Commercial aircraft fault tolerant control (FTC) strategies in the flight control system (FCS) are based on fail-safe approaches whereby a nominal control law is switched first to a robust solution and then if necessary to a direct law controlling the actuators surfaces. Each component of the control law set is designed off-line and has a different level of robustness and performance. The reasons ...
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Scalable and efficienT oRchestrAtion of Ethernet services Using Software-defined and flexible optical networkS-EU (STRAUSS-EU)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

The STRAUSS project aims to define a highly efficient and global (multi-domain) optical infrastructure for Ethernet transport, covering heterogeneous transport and network control plane technologies, enabling an Ethernet ecosystem. It will design, implement and evaluate, via large-scale demonstrations, an advanced optical Ethernet transport architecture. The proposed architecture leverages on soft ...
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New inter-scale techniques for damage analysis of novel composite architectures (InterCom)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The aim of the proposed research is to develop novel methods of multi-scale analysis for complex architectures obtained with various manufacturing techniques, such as 3D braiding/ weaving, tufting, automatic tow placement, and embroidery. The common feature of these structures is the absence of representative building block at the yarn level. Hence, these composites are not materials in the tradit ...
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Low latency and high throughput dynamic network\ninfrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects (LIGHTNESS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of high performance data centre interconnects through the introduction of innovative photonic switching and transmission inside data centres. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will ...
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Convergence of wireless Optical Network and iT rEsources iN supporT of cloud services (CONTENT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

CONTENT will focus on developing next generation high capacity end-to-end, heterogeneous infrastructure technologies to support the network of the future. The model proposed will be based on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) paradigm and provide a technology platform interconnecting geographically distributed IT resources that can support a variety of Cloud services. This platform will includ ...
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Morphing Enabling Technologies for Propulsion System Nacelles (MorphElle)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Flightpath 2050 and the recently unveiled Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) have elaborated CO2-emissions and external noise targets according to chronologically aligned waypoints. For propulsion and power systems the projected cumulative impact of previous Framework Programmes compare favourably to the 2035 target given in the SRIA document. However, if one extends the comparative e ...
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SYSTEMS THINKING FOR COMPREHENSIVE CITY EFFICIENT ENERGY PLANNING (STEEP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The partners of the project are 3 cities with similar characteristics, experience and policies in specific sustainable use and production of energy and very ambitious carbon and energy reduction targets, aligned with Europe’s targets. In each city, initiatives to reduce energy inefficiency are already in place; however each of them has been aimed at a specific sector objective, while overlooking t ...
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Improving the eXperience of musicians and spectators with digital Musical Instruments using 3D interfaces and mixed-reality technologies (IXMI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Art and science intersect often and in many ways. In particular, new technologies are hacked for the purpose of building musical instruments. As a result, more and more novel digital musical instruments come out of laboratories and companies and are used in public performances. However, the variety and quality of chosen interfaces, sound synthesis methods and mappings between gestures and sounds o ...
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European Exascale Software Initiative 2\nTowards exascale roadmap implementation (EESI2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) is commonly recognized a key strategic element both in research and industry for an improvement of the understanding of complex phenomena. The constant growth of generated data - Big Data - and computing capabilities of extreme systems lead to a new generation of computers composed of millions of heterogeneous cores which will provide Exaflop performance ...
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Experimental Subsonic Investigation of a Complete Aircraft Propulsion system Installation and Architecture power plant optimization (ESICAPIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

The proposed project tackles a CfP from the JTI-GRA ITD. Is focuses on the experimental optimization of a regional aircraft configuration and a subsequent optimization of take-off/ landing configuration. The regional aircraft has a wing designed for natural laminar flow, fuselage-mounted engines and a T-tail. Open configurational questions that are addressed tackle wing-tip devices and their perfo ...
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Improving risk assessment in environmental decision making through robust uncertainty estimation (IMPROVE)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Close to three quarters of Europeans think that the EU should propose additional measures to address water problems in Europe. Increasing impacts of human-induced changes on our climate and our landscape threaten important freshwater-related ecosystem services and functions, while the pressure to water security for society increases. Uncertainty in environmental model predictions limits the value ...
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Novel Air Vehicles Configurations: From Fluttering Wings to Morphing Flight (NOVEMOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The aim of the NOVEMOR (NOvel Air VEhicle Configurations: From Fluttering Wings to MORphing Flight) research project is to investigate novel air vehicle configurations with new lifting concepts and morphing wing solutions to enable cost-effective air transportation. A multidisciplinary analysis and design optimization environment developed in an earlier EU Project (SIMSAC) will be used and improve ...
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Quantum Optics in Wavelength Scale Structures (QUOWSS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

In this project I will investigate the interaction between quantum light and matter in optical structures that are at or below the wavelength scale. Such devices could provide unprecedented performance in the storage of data, the switching of light and the generation of light of tailored properties. I will address this topic through the study of 2-level systems (quantum dots, N-V centres, atoms), ...
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on-Demand System Reliability (DeSyRe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

DeSyRe will perform research on the design of future reliable Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). These are systems that guarantee continuous and correct operation in the existence of different types of faults. It is a well known fact that various systems are extremely sensitive to faults. Typical examples are medical (i.e. implantable cardiac pacemakers) or automotive systems (i.e. vehicle stability control) ...
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VISION ADVANCED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESEARCH (VISIONAIR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

VISIONAIR is a project of creation of a European infrastructure that should be a unique, visible and attractive entry towards high level visualisation facilities. These facilities must be open to the access of a wide set of research communities. By integrating existing facilities, it will create a world-class research infrastructure enabling to conduct frontier research. This integration will prov ...
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Nano-Electro-Mechanical Integration And Computation (NEMIAC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description NEMIAC aims to replace CMOS switches with a new digital logic technology based on nano-electromechanical (NEM) switches, which can be integrated with CMOS processing to provide low power processors.The first fully electronic vacuum tube based computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) consumed 200 kW of po ...
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Composites under Fatigue: Temperature and Humidity Related Environmental Ageing Damage (CF-THREAD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

This projects aims at substantially improving the understanding of the role played by environmental factors on the long term hydric fatigue endurance of fibre reinforced composites. This will be achieved by an extensive experimental campaign and the development of physically robust finite element based modelling techniques. The will allow predicting the onset of fatigue induced damage in laminates ...
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Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between BRazil and Europe - EU (FIBRE-EU)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

In the last two decades networks, and especially the Internet, have become part of the critical infrastructure of governments, businesses, homes and schools. The current Internet architecture, designed about 30 years ago, has suffered many extensions in recent years, to include new functionalities, which were unforeseen in the original design. Many network experts now consider it is necessary to u ...
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