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We support: FuturICT (The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis-Relief System: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future)
FP7 ICT, FET Flagship Initiative: FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator Goals: The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to. The FuturICT flagship proposal will produce historic breakthroughs and provide powerful new ways to manage challenges that make the modern world so difficult to predict, including the financial crisis. Status: proposal in preparation Funding: EU FP7 ICT, FET Flagship Pilot Duration: 2011 - 2012 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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SAPERE (Self-Aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems)
FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive, Goal 8.5: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems Goals: The objective of SAPERE is the development of a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios. The framework will be grounded on a foundational re-thinking of current service models and of associated infrastructures and algorithms. In particular, getting inspiration from natural ecosystems, the project will demonstrate and experiment the possibility of modelling and deploying services as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices, and of enforcing self-awareness and autonomic behaviours as inherent properties of the ecosystem, rather than as peculiar characteristics of its individuals only. Status: started October 1st, 2010 Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive Duration: 2010 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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HC2 (Human Computer Confluence Research in Action)
FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive, Goal 8.4: Human Computer Confluence Goals: HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. HCC is set to produce profound technological and social impact. It is also a deeply interdisciplinary field, spanning a wide range of areas: from the cognitive sciences to computer science, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence; from traditional sensor and systems engineering to the development of novel means to interact with any type of information and the exploration of new synthetic senses. Status: started October 1st, 2010 Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive Duration: 2010 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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SOCIONICAL (Complex Socio-Technical System in Ambient Intelligence)
FP7 ICT Call-3, FET proactive / Goal 8.4: Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT
Goals: There are a number of projects that acknowledge the tight entanglement between social and technical systems. SOCIONICAL differs from these project in that it jointly deals with complex systems at three levels: (i) Interacting social entities; (ii) Interacting technical entities; (iii) Interacting socio-technical entities. Partners: University of Passau (Coordinator), Beacon Tech Ltd., London School of Economics, ETH Zurich, University of Amsterdam, AGH UST, University of Würzburg, Fraunhofer FIT, SICE, SmartCare Srl, TU München, University of Halle-Wittenberg, CPD Status: started February 1st, 2009 Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-3, FET proactive Duration: 2009 - 2013 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Andreas Riener, Kashif Zia, Katayoun Farrahi |
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OPPORTUNITY (Activity and Context Recognition with Opportunistic Sensor Configurations)
FP7-ICT-2007-C, FET open Goals: The project aims at developing mobile systems to recognize human activity with dynamically varying sensor setups. We refer to such systems as opportunistic, since they take advantage of sensing modalities that just happen to be available, rather than forcing to deploy specific, application dependent sensor systems. Partners: ETH Zurich, UoPassau, IDIAP Status: started February 1st, 2009 Funding: EU FP7 ICT, FET open Duration: 2009 - 2012 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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PANORAMA (Pervasive Adaptation Network for the Organisation of the Research Agenda and the Management of Activities)
FP7 ICT Call-2, FET proactive / Goal 8.3: Pervasive Adaptation Goals: The goal of PANORAMA is to bring together the wide range of researchers in the Pervasive Adaptation field to build a new community of researchers in the Pervasive Adaptation field who can work together on common goals, so ensuring that the research carried out by members of that community is integrated, coordinated and informed. Partners: Napier University, Groupe Des Ecoles Des Telecommunications, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Status: started February 1st, 2008 Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-2, FET proactive Duration: 2007 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Beyond the Horizon (Thematic Group: Pervasive Computing and Communications)
Identify Information-and-Communications-Technology-related research trends and strategic areas that require support. Funding: EU FP 6, IST-FET Duration: 2004 - 2006 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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InterLink (International Cooperation Activities in Future and Emerging ICTs)
InterLink aims at advancing Europe's knowledge in a number of critical S&T areas, at promoting European solutions and knowledge world-wide and at influencing the way research in these areas would evolve internationally. Homepage: interlink.ics.forth.gr Funding: EU FP 6 Duration: 2006 - 2009 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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CoordiNet (Special Interest Group in Coordination (Theory, Methods, Applications))
The Network of Excellence on Coordination will establish Europe as the International scientific leader in Information Society technologies. Funding: to be submitted as a Network of Excellence in FP6, (decision on funding expected in 2004) Duration: 2004 - 2005 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Umedia (European Multimedia Research Initiative)
The UMEDIA consortium aims at establishing a European Network of Excellence (NoE) in Multimedia Technology. Funding: EU FP6 IST Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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CRUISE (CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments)
The Network of Excellence (NoE) CRUISE intends to be a focal point in the planning and coordination of research on communication and application aspects of wireless sensor networking in Europe. Homepage: www.ist-cruise.eu Funding: EU FP 6, IST Duration: 2006 - 2007 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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BISANTE (Broadband Integrated Satellite Network Traffic Evaluation)
User Modelling and Traffic Evaluation for Quality of Service Management in B-ISDN networks Funding: EU ESPRIT IV Duration: 1998 - 2002 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Network Computing (TEMPUS)
Establish Network Technologies and develop related case studies: Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM, Internet Protocols. Run-time support for Web-based collaboration. Funding: EU Tempus Duration: 1998 - 1999 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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DISPLAYS (Pervasive Display Systems)
FFG Call: Research Studios Austria Goals: The objective is the development of a highly-innovative framework for the networked, decentralized operation of heterogeneous, long-lived and adaptive DISPLAY services. Partners: EPAMEDIA, CocaCola Österreich, Enterprise Sports Promotion, Geodan Salzburg, OÖ. Theater und Orchester GmbH Folder: [pdf, 295kb] Status: started December 1st, 2008 Funding: FFG Call: Research Studios Austria Duration: 2008 - 2011 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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PowerIT (IT for Implicit Interaction based Energy Management)
FFG Call: FIT-IT Embedded Systems & Semiconductors, 2nd Call Goals: This project will investigate on potentials to reduce energy inefficiency by the development of methods and solutions based on implicit user interaction. Methodologically, it will attempt to exploit opportunistic sensor configurations to establish context information, in order to avoid standby losses of electronic equipment, machines and appliances. It will develop policies for an automatic (or implicit) switching of stand-by modes of such devices, based on the recognized or anticipated situation (rather then forcing users to explicitly switch among those modes). Clearly, such a solution is highly reliant to a reliable and robust recognition of user activities, and user situations (or contexts). Therefore, this project will also develop system architectures for energy managament, together with the methods and algorithms involved in context recognition and activity tracking. Partners: Energie AG Status: started June 1st, 2011 Funding: FFG FIT-IT Embedded Systems & Semiconductors Duration: 2011 - 2014 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Gerold Hölzl |
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Power Saver (Implicit activity-based energy management)
FFG Call: Neue Energien 2020 (klima+energie fonds) Goals: The PowerSaver research project proposes a power management solution based on sensors for activity and context recognition, in order to avoid standby losses of electronic equipment, machines and appliances. It builds on an automatic (or implicit) switching of stand-by modes of these devices, based on the recognized or anticipated situation (rather then forcing users to explicitly switch among those modes). Partners: Energie AG Status: started December 1st, 2008 Funding: FFG Call: Neue Energien 2020 Duration: 2008 - 2011 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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SPECTACLES - Autonomous Wearable Displays
SPECTACLES project aims at creating a autonomous computing platform that is integrated into the frame structure of glasses. The system includes components for communication, interaction and sensing to support different applicatoin areas. Funding: bm:vit FIT-IT Embedded Systems Duration: 2005 - 2008 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Simon Vogl |
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Wireless Campus (Establishing wireless networking infrastructure at the university campus)
Wireless Campus concentrates on establishing wireless networking infrastructure for the whole university campus. Funding: BMBWK Duration: 2002 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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MobiLearn (Media informatics any-time any-where)
This nationally funded research project provides a platform for electronically supported learning- and teaching-processes in tertiary education facilities. Funding: BMBWK, Neue Medien in der Lehre Duration: 2002 - 2004 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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JKU Learning Networks
This nationally funded research project investigates ICT support for context-aware learning in mobile teams at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Funding: eLearning Offensive JKU Duration: 2004 - 2005 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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FIT-IT Advisory Group Embedded Systems (Recommendation for a national scientific advance research programme)
The Embedded Systems action of BMVIT is dedicated to integrating disciplines into a research programme that carries computer, physical, chemical and biological sciences and engineering from the laboratory bench to the Austrian information technology production line, and industrial insight from the production line to the bench. Funding: BMVIT Duration: 2001 - 2002 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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VRIO - Virtual Reality I/O
Speech recognition unit for natural interaction with immersive and pervasive multi-user cooperative environments Funding: Industry Duration: 2002 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Parallel Simulation Techniques
Development and implementation of simulation model partitioning techniques for parallel execution (Meiko CS-2) Funding: BMWF/British Council Academic Research Collaboration Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Parallel Simulation of Very Large Office Workflow Models
Simulation of workflow models of complex business organizations with more than 106 objects of work, 103 agents and 102 organizational units. Funding: Jubiläumsfondprojekt Nr. 5069, Oesterreichische Nationalbank Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Distributed Simulation of Petri Nets
Design and implementation of a distributed simulation engine for Petri nets on distributed (Intel iPSC/860, Transputer) and shared memory (Sequent Balance) machines. Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 613.525/2-26/90, (Austrian Center for Parallel Computation) Initialförderung Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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CAPSE (Computer Aided Parallel Software Engineering)
Tools supporting performance oriented parallel program development with focus on model based performance prediction. Funding: R&D project, public funding Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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MATCH (Modelling and Analysis of Time Constrained and Hierarchical Systems)
Applicability of parallel and distributed discrete event simulation techniques to timed Petri net models. Workflow modelling using high level nets. Tools for the rapid prototyping of parallel and distributed applications. Responsible for the Chapter Funding: EU - Human Capital and Mobility Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Distributed Simulation on High Performance Parallel Computer Architectures
Distributed Discrete Event Simulation of Timed Petri Nets (CM-5) Funding: Scientific-Technical Cooperation Austria–Italy Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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PAPS (Performance Analysis of Parallel Systems)
Tools for Performance Oriented Parallel Program Development. Funding: FWF Research Grant No. S5303-PHY, (Austrian Center for Parallel Computation) Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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MONIT (Measurement and Monitoring of Parallel Processing Systems)
Event Driven Software Monitoring of Parallel Programs executing on Distributed Memory Machines. Funding: BMWF Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Performance Analysis of Parallel Systems and their Workload (Central European Initiative (CEI-): Work Package 3:)
Development of Workload Modelling Methods for Parallel Systems Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 308.926/1-IV/3/93 Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Parallel Visual Programming (Central European Initiative (CEI-): Work Package 6:)
Parallel Visual Programming: Requirements AnalysisDevelopment of Visual Programming Tools. Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 308.926/1-IV/3/93 Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Distributed Simulation of Multiagent Systems
Funding: British Council Duration: 1998 - 1999 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Computer Aided Instruction
Development of courseware in the authoring system AUTOOL Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 52.979/1-6/86 Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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FACT (Flexible Autonomic Context Technologies)
This industrial research project with Siemens AG Germany aims at developing systems which are able to manage themselves and adapt to their environment. Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2007 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Autonomic Peer Systems
This industrial research project with Siemens AG Germany provides a basis for situated spontaneous interaction of mobile devices in decentralized ad-hoc scenarios. Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2001 - 2007 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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TA Cube (Telekom Austria Cube)
Aims at creating a protoype of a universal remote control for aonDigitalTV in cooperation with the Research Studios Austria and the Telekom Austria. Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2006 - 2007 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Peter Halbmayer, Simon Vogl |
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Digital Aura
"Digital Aura" proposes a "spontaneous interaction" thought model, in which things start to interact once they reach physical proximity to each other Duration: 2004 - 2004 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Digi Scope
With DigiScope, the user is handling a holographic display tablet just like a six degrees of freedom window that opens a view into the virtual world. The tablet is an optical see-through display which allows for a very natural viewing and scene inspection. Duration: 2003 - 2003 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Context Framework for Mobile Devices
This industrial research project with Siemens AG Germany deals with the encapsulation of heterogeneous context information in a generic framework for mobile context-aware applications. Funding: Industrial Cooperation, Adaptivity is a key issue when dealing with mobile devices and multimedia data. Duration: 2001 - 2007 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Digital Graffiti
Digital Graffiti are messages that can be placed at any location in the real world and addressed to any recipients who are not only identified by (phone) numbers. They specify their visibility by time and are only perceivable in a given context. Duration: 2003 - 2005 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Wolfgang Narzt |
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INSTAR (Information and Navigation Through Augmented Reality)
The Johannes Kepler University of Linz, the Future Lab of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and Siemens Munich are developing an innovative approach for future car navigation systems. Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2001 - 2006 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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WebWall (Communication via shared public displays)
WebWall is a framework that enables anonymous n:n communication via shared public displays. By employing a strict separation of I/O technologies from the underlying framework architecture, the system enables access for a range of devices (GSM, Web, eMail) Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2001 - 2002 Contact: Alois Ferscha, Simon Vogl |
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Web Concept Vienna City Marathon (Web Based Community Information Systems)
Web Based Community Information Systems Funding: Industry Duration: 1999 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha, Dominik Hochreiter |
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Real-time Notification Services (A generic architecture for Notification Services)
Framework for SMS-Services all sorts of SMS based interactions among cellular network operators and their subscribers. Funding: Industrial Cooperation Duration: 2000 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha, Dominik Hochreiter |
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RIPE (Research Institute for Pervasive Computing)
The Research Institute for Pervasive Computing, enabled and funded by the Upper Austrian Government, will act as an applied research center involving the Institute for Pervasive Comupting and the IT related Upper Austrian industry. Funding: Upper Austrian Government Duration: 2003 - still in progress Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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ACCELERATOR Gmunden
Concept and Feasibility Study for a center for IT Leadership Funding: Government Duration: 2000 - 2002 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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COOPERATE (Distributed Multiuser Cooperative Work Environments (Reference Project))
COOPERATE investigates new ways of cooperative work and aims at providing know how and infrastructures for multimedia enhanced distributed multi user cooperative work environments. Funding: Industrial PartnersFunding: BMWV Duration: 1998 - 1999 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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VROEIG (Initiative “Virtuelle Realität” für die Österreichische Informationsgesellschaft)
Evaluation of Economical, Cultural, Social and Political Impacts of Virtual Reality Technology on the Austrian Information Society Funding: BMWV Duration: 1997 - 1998 Contact: Alois Ferscha |
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Pervasive Computing (Forschungsschwerpunkt Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Linz)
New challenges and paradigms for the interaction among users and mobile and embedded computing devices. Funding: BMBWK, UMF 2002 Duration: 2002 - 2004 Contact: Alois Ferscha |