2007-02-01 - Köln 2007: Information Day on European ICT Research & Development
Köln 2007: Information Day on European ICT Research &
Development
ICT
Proposers' Day - 1 February, 2007
Köln 2007 was a one day event to help ICT researchers
respond to the calls for proposals under the work programme 2007/2008 of the 7th
Framework Programme for R&D. It was all about networking - meeting other people
with similar or complementary research interests who wish to form project
consortia. Around 3000 people attended, with more participating via this site's
interactive facilities.
This website will remain active to allow participants to
continue exchanging views and making contacts
After a short opening ceremony with speeches from
Dr. Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of
Education and Research and
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, the rest of the day
was organised as an
information fair, with no formal agenda.
Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
With
its strengths in communication equipment, devices, networks and
eServices, Europe is well placed in the world-wide race to define and
develop the network and service infrastructures of the future. These
will generate significant economic opportunities with new classes of
networked applications, whilst reducing operational and capital
expenditures. The current internet, mobile, fixed and broadcasting
networks and the related software service infrastructure will melt into
one interwoven fabric of networks and service technologies in order to
enable another wave of economic growth, access to knowledge and to meet
citizens demands.
Objectives
- Objective 2007.1.7 Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Objective 2007.1.6 New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
- Objective 2007.1.5 Networked Media
- Objective 2007.1.4 Secure, dependable and trusted Infrastructures
- Objective 2007.1.3 ICT in support of the networked enterprise
- Objective 2007.1.1 The Network of the Future
- Objective 2007.1.2 Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering
Objective 2007.1.4 Secure, dependable and trusted Infrastructures
Outcome
- Security and resilience in network infrastructures
- Security and trust in dynamic and reconfigurable service architectures
- Trusted computing infrastructures
- Identity management and privacy enhancing tools
- Research roadmaps, metrics and benchmarks, standardisation
Impact
- ICT users empowered to handle their digital identity and personal data and to protect their privacy
- A strong and competitive ICT security industry in Europe
- Substantially improved security and dependability of networks and service infrastructures
- Wider use of metrics, standards, evaluation and certification methods and best practices
Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget
- Collaborative Projects: 80 M€
- Network of Excellence: 6M€
- Coordination & Support Actions: 4M€
Resources
- Agenda for the Challenge 1 Briefing Area (188 Kb)
- Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures (CORDIS)
- Introduction to the specific Objective (1 Mb)
- Introduction to the specific Objective - short version (409 Kb)
- NESSI - European Technology Platform (936 Kb)
- SecurIST- ICT Trust, Security & Dependability Research strategy beyond 2010 (147 Kb)
- Secure software systems and services (937 Kb)
Relevant Challenge
Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Comments
27 Comments:
(DUct>IS GmbH)
Reliable Infrastructures in Organisations
Secure,
dependable and trusted infrastructures to us means that enterprises
(also authorities etc.) have to be equipped such that different kinds
of attacks, failures, accidents, natural disasters etc. may perhaps
affect the infrastructure, but not to an extent that jeopardizes the
business or service processes depending on this infrastructure(s). A
lot of intelligent strategies are needed to ensure this and to ensure
it at acceptable costs. This is especially true for but not restricted
to ICT infrastructure.
We plan to submit a proposal
for a project which will contribute to this goal via several european
wide information exchange techniques.
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Proposals on identity management/biometrics
AIIA Lab AUTH has participated in 40+ EU funded R&D projects and has 7 books, 550+ publications on digital media.
We
are interested in cooperating in FP7 proposals on identity
management/biometrics, since we have strong expertize on such topics,
notably in
facial biometrics, anthropocentric
(human centered) video analysis, human detection/tracking, human
activity detection/description,
video/image content watermarking/fingerprinting.
Profile and infos can be found in www page http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr.
(Fraunhofer IESE (Institute Experimental Software Engineering))
Secure software engineering
I
am looking for (discussion and project) partners in the area of
developing and evaluating methods and tools for the development of
secure software, as described in Objective 1.4(c) "Trusted computing
infrastructures: Increased security and reliability in the engineering
of software". For more details, please see my profile (click on my name
above).
(Hochschule für Wirtschaft HSW Luzern)
Information Security Management
We are interested to join an project. We can offer experiance in
> Information Security Management (Focus organisation not technics)
> Information Security Process
> Information Security Policies / Standards
> Information Security Awareness
> IT Forensics
> IT-Audit / -Assessment / -Expertise / -Penetration
> Public Key Infrastructure
> Secure Web Application Development
> Managed Security
(CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group - CONSEN coop SCE)
MeshID=SemanticMesh for working-living on trusted MeshUp
During
ISI GAM-2 , CONSEN presented the proposal MeshID (SemanticMesh) as
basic and simple (multidisciplinary bottom-up) approach to strength the
identity, privacy and casting of individual users (persons-groups) as
FP7 call-1 cluster of 3 proposals of ICT for Trust, Business and
Inclusion ACAAL raised on: Security and trust in dynamic and
reconfigurable service architectures; Trusted computing infrastructures
and Identity management and privacy enhancing tools.
MeshID is based on:
- ULICA Unique Local Identification
- Public and Private Information (PAPI) standard, OpenID, MicroFormat applied to Mashups (merging on web),
but extended to Broadband, Broadcast, Satellite, Wireless, Mobile nets (pls. See PostIP)
-
Meshup technology to merge contents, applications, ... , devices,
licenses, countries regulations, protocols, standards, nets for
creating and supplying new and innovative Information Services to the
Society.
The request of the users is: On the NET we want.....
- Only Have One Profile to update, define access, preferences, foreground and control our privacy (i.e. email)
- Syndicate All profiles, Label our contributions with our local rich media content and unique signature
- Only Sign-on one to locate, identify, authenticate, authorize and characterize
-
Only one switch-off/on to dis/connect on holidays, define our security
channel, risk messaging, everywhere in an unique personal device
(mobile)
We seek
- competences to define SoA
- ETPs, Industries to create a EU mainstream, Critical Mass
- partners to cooperate in a sustainable, social responsible exploitation of results.
(National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE))
Security and Cryptography
TUBITAK UEKAE specializes in cryptography, IT and network Security
We can offer experience in the fields:
-
security and cryptography design in all levels (ciphering algorithms,
authentication protocols, lightweight cryptography, etc)
- identity management (an on going government project in identity management)
- security risk assessment
- security evaluation
- assessment of security standards
(Betaface.com)
Face detection and recognition technology
We
are looking for strategic partners and research organizations to form
project consortia for further development and applications of face
detection & recognition technology, and creating new human-machine
interfaces.
Further info can be found on www page http://www.betaface.com
(SINTEF)
Secure Software Engineering
Security
must be an inherent property in both software and services. The
greatest challenge is to weave in security throughout the complete
development lifecycle, and to close the gap between software
engineering and security engineering. We wish to submit a proposal
related to secure software engineering (ICT-2007.1.4c), and would like
to discuss the idea with other interested parties in Köln.
Click on my profile to get in touch.
(TQS - Tecnología y Calidad de Software)
Comparative evaluation methodology for ICT infrastructure security
We
are looking for consortium partners to put together a project oriented
towards the development of a comparative evaluation methodology for
security characteristics of dynamic ICT infrastructures, incorporating
metrics and benchmarking.
(PowerDsine)
Reliable & 'Always-On' Physical Layer
Hello.
We are looking to partner in FP7 with projects that aim at offering a trusted & reliable physical layer.
We
are offering a system using Ethernet & Power-over-Ethernet for
wiring residential areas, which will allow a single power point for all
devices connecting to the network.
This, with a simple back-up mechanism, will lay the infrastrucutre to a 100% relaible system, a network which is 'always-on'.
Please contact me for further details.
(ETRA Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.)
Identity management and privacy in complex realtime systems
ETRA is a high tech industrial group forming part of ACS, the 2nd largest Construction Corporation in Europe.
With
1600 employees and a turnover of 160M€, ETRA is a market leader in the
fields of technology, mobility and public services. ETRA’s activities
include:
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Access control systems, including e-Id, privacy, biometrics, multiapplication smartcards, etc.
• Energy management systems, public lighting control, etc.
• Satellite-related applications.
• Location based personalised services.
• Complex Distributed Real Time control systems, Grid.
• Intelligent Agents, Semantic Web, Ontologies, SOA, Web Services.
• Interoperability of complex heterogeneous systems.
• In general, any system or application area where it is crucial…
o the safety or quality of life of individuals or
o the efficiency of organisations.
FP7
plays a key role within ETRA’s innovation strategy. In fact, the
success record of the company includes more than 40 projects –half of
them led by ETRA- in FP3, 4, 5 and 6. These figures clearly indicate
the commitment and expertise that the Company has in EU research.
(L-1 Identity Solutions AG, Bochum, Germany)
User Authenication
User
authentication is an important security feature of secure and trusted
infrastructures. L-1 Identity Solutions offers world leading biometric
based (face, finger, iris) technologies that identify or verify the
identity of a person. These technologies are proven to operate under
real world conditions in large scale applications.
We
are interested in cooperating in proposals where we can bring in our
biometric expertise and technology, especially in the face recognition
domain.
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
http://www.mit.bme.hu/searchlab/
We
seek for partners to form research consortia in the area of security
both in ICT and Security themes within FP7, focusing primarily on
intelligent video surveillance, remote identification, biometrics,
gesture recognition, ambient intelligence and human-computer
interaction. We also have solid expertise in taking the responsibity of
security testing and security auditing software developments in
EU-funded projects, in digital rights management solutions and software
copy protection related issues, and have a team specialised in security
of embedded systems like mobile handsets.
(University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest)
AAA procedures for hybrid interoperable wireless networks
The AAA procedures are a common approach to ensure a certain level of security in the wireless access networks.
The
development of interoperable hybrid networks based on enabling a Media
Independent Hendover (MIH) between wireless networks impose the
development of convergend AAA procedures.
We are interested to collaborate in development such type of approach, as well in similar proposals.
Please contact me via e-mail at ofratu@elcom.pub.ro .
(The university of Oulu)
security research
We are interested in the following topics:
Development
of Painlessly Adaptable Methods for Secure-System Design, meaning that
sec systems design methods designed to support their easy integration
with all types of IS and software development methods, not just a few.
Existing Secure-System Design methods do not fare well with this
criterion. We are working with these methods.
Development
of company-specific security policies.Copy/paste security polices don’t
work - companies are different, so they have different security
requirement. Wrong requirement means protection in wrong places. In the
existing sec literature, little is known as to how good sec policies
are developed, which pay attention to organizations’ unique security
and business needs. We have studied this empirically, and are
interested in working further on this.
How
employees’ compliance with IS security policies can be improved. After
the policies are in place in organizations, do the employees comply
with these polices? They don’t, placing their organizations’ assets and
business in serious danger. While all and sundry talks on compliance,
there is limited works that can uphold with scientific empirical tests,
which is important since companies are looking at research
(methods&tools) that are really proven to work in practice. Since
employees’ compliance with sec policies is psychological phenomena, we
apply psychology to develop these tried-and- tested methods&tools.
Business
value of information security investments. Top management wants to have
hard evidence on whether their investments on sec are worth of all the
costs. We have been developed instruments to measure sec investments in
practice.
Our research is published in top journals
and conferences, and is of utmost practical value. We are constantly
funded by companies. Join us in making research that really matters for
organizations and is publishable in top journals!
(Interactive Technology, Software and Media Association, INDIA)
Indian Participation in this Challenge
We,
the Indian NCP network, are representing the Indian R&D community
in this event. We would like to look at opportunities within this
objective, wherein Indian organizations can collaborate, participate,
contribute to the overall goals of projects. We will be available in
the pavilions, for further discussions, as we are also carrying with
us, Indian interests for potential proposals and collaborations. I am
the coordinator for this initiative: surbhi@itsmaindia.org . you may
also see our project website: http://www.inciteproject.org
(IHP microelectronics)
Wireless service platform in public transportation
Project idea: Wireless service platform in public transportation
The
objective of the project is the development of a wireless service
infrastructure in trains or busses. Passengers should be able to use
their mobile phones, PDAs or laptops to connect to a train network
wirelessly. This network spans the whole train and has got access
points where devices connect to. The high data rate train backbone
network could be based on wires or, preferrably, a mm-wave wireless
communication link. Wireless connection is intended also for bridging
between coaches.
Via the network passengers should
be provided access to information about their journey (current delay,
connecting trains, etc.), query new connections, make requests that
connecting trains wait for them, call a taxi at their destination,
download city maps etc. Additionally, there could be services for
peer-to-peer or group communication within the train, for instance by
text or voice chat. On-line games and internet access are other
attractive applications.
Within the scope of the
project, a high-performance wireless backbone link providing QoS for
voice and video traffic should be designed and demonstrate. On top of
the network, a service platform for secure communication, including
peer-to-peer and group communication, shall be developed. This platform
shall also support micropayment.
The project fits
well into Challenge 1: "Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service
Infrastructures" of the ICT programme in FP7. Specifically, the
objectives ICT-2007.1.2: "Service and Software Architectures,
Infrastructures and Engineering" and ICT-2007.1.4: "Secure, dependable
and trusted Infrastructures" are addressed.
Contact: Daniel Dietterle, dietterle@ihp-microelectronics.com, +49 (0)335 5625-698
(Technische Universität Dresden)
Resilience in optical networks
Unlike
electronic transport networks, photonic networks basically transmit
information in the analogue domain, leading to effects like
non-linearities and transients from power control and switching
operations. Thus, the feasibility and performance assessments of
schemes for routing and wavelength allocation (RWA) as well as traffic
grooming should take into account physical layer impairments. For RWA,
certain approaches for incorporating physical layer constraints already
have been proposed. The efforts have to be continued and extended to
traffic grooming algorithms in the MPLS layer (leading e.g. to
different decisions when to change the virtual topology by requesting a
new optical path).
Transport networks have to
implement powerful resilience mechanisms. Whereas algorithms for
protection and restorationon the optical and MPLS layer already have
been investigated in detail, quantitative assessments of the resulting
availability for certain optical or MPLS paths (apart from e.g. knowing
of a 1:n protection) are not yet available. Quantitative availability
figures would allow the network operators to offer new services e.g.
with differentiated survivability. In order to be of practical use,
availability assessments have to be performed for single layers as well
as for cases of combined protection / restoration in optical and MPLS
layer.
(University of Paderborn)
Competence offer and predestinated application area
The
CIK has – apart from the industrial area - a close cooperation with SAR
institutions, especially the Fire brigade of Dortmund, to implement
mobile information and knowl-edge based systems close to the user.
Our main competences are in
- Mobile Information Management
- Telematics
- Process and Product Quality
- Knowledge based Analysis
- Ontology based Engineering
- Usability and System Evaluation
Please contact us by email, fax or phone or visit our website at http://www-cik.uni-paderborn.de
We are looking forward to get in contact with you.
(TES Cluster / e-secure transactions)
TES Competitiveness Cluster : Ready to go
The
French TES Competitiveness Cluster, specialised in e-secure
transactions, is on the point of becoming the key player in Secure
Electronic Transactions in Europe and throughout the world.
Relying
on Normandy's remarkable wealth of competence, throughout a breeding
ground of university structures and the vitality of the local and
national economic fabric woven by its small to medium-sized companies,
the TES Cluster's policy focuses on three main domains:
- financial transactions;
- secure electronic content exchange;
- digital identity.
Its
mission is to stimulate the emergence of innovative projects, to
encourage improved relationships between research centres and training
institutions and to provide a variety of highly value-added services in
the marketing and legal fields.
The TES Cluster is
involved in the development of NFC (Near Field Communication)
technologies and usage and has initiated, in particular, France's first
study and test project for mobile contactless payment solutions led by
five major partners from the telecommunications and banking sectors.
The TES Cluster is currently supporting two projects in the field of « secure, dependable and trusted Infrastructures »:
Biotyful, the regeneration of a cryptographic key using biometric data,
without resorting to the storage of personal and potentially sensitive
information.
Albatros, the development of an autonomous smart card with an integrated display screen.
We
are currently looking for European partners to ensure the success of
other projects in this field. Please feel free to contact us and,
together, we can explore our future collaboration opportunities.
(University of Camerino)
Development of identity management
We
are interested to discuss a project for the development of identity
management, and related tools, to assure identity interoperability in
different scenarios (e-Government, e-Healt, e-Business, etc.). We
already have experience, on national projects, in the field of identity
management systems based on smartcards and we are able to test some
different approaches in real scenarios.
For
instance, we are involved in TECUT (http://www.tecut.it) plan and
development. TECUT is a framework able to delivery 522 on-line
e-Government services to Italian citizens uniforming a lot of
heterogeneous information systems. In particular, the authentication on
the framework is possible with some different levels: via weak and
strong authentication, via the use of a smartcard for the digital
signature or via the regional card “Raffaello”. About the Raffaello’s
card (http://cartaraffaello.regione.marche.it) we are involved in the
diffusion of a regional services card (NSC standard).
We
are interested in becoming a partner of FP7 proposal that considers
this as one of the problems. Email: francesco.deangelis@unicam.it
Link: www.cs.unicam.it/francesco.deangelis/Brochure.pdf
(University of Camerino)
Development of identity management
We
are interested to discuss a project for the development of identity
management, and related tools, to assure identity interoperability in
different scenarios (e-Government, e-Healt, e-Business, etc.). We
already have experience, on national projects, in the field of identity
management systems based on smartcards and we are able to test some
different approaches in real scenarios.
For
instance, we are involved in TECUT (http://www.tecut.it) plan and
development. TECUT is a framework able to delivery 522 on-line
e-Government services to Italian citizens uniforming a lot of
heterogeneous information systems. In particular, the authentication on
the framework is possible with some different levels: via weak and
strong authentication, via the use of a smartcard for the digital
signature or via the regional card “Raffaello”. About the Raffaello’s
card (http://cartaraffaello.regione.marche.it) we are involved in the
diffusion of a regional services card (NSC standard).
We are interested in becoming a partner of FP7 proposal that considers this as one of the problems.
Email: francesco.deangelis@unicam.it
Link: www.cs.unicam.it/francesco.deangelis/Brochure.pdf
(NOVINEX Innovation and Research Exploitation Agency)
Dissmenitaion and exploitation of project results
We
are specialized in dissemination and exploitation of project results;
thus we can contribute to FP7 projects in creating entire project web
site, logo and graphical design; dissemination of project achievements
including complete graphical identity, presentations, posters,
brochures; coordination of project publications and representation at
international events.
We facilitate exploitation
of innovative and promising results by comprehensive impact analysis of
planned achievements, monitoring the progress in project results
development, assessment of market potential and drawing up business
plan for selected project results.
(Telefonica I+D)
Paneuropean Identity Federation (PAN_ID)
Standards
and solutions in the Federated Identity Management area are
continuously evolving, but there is still a gap between those and mass
deployment in terms of real usable services. There's a need to prove
that Identity Management technology can be actually deployed in a
pan-European context addressing scenarios where citizens, companies and
Public Administration demand robust, secure and useful solutions, and
Federation Identity Management could be the suitable paradigm to
respond to this kind of EU digital Identity Management needs
This
project aims at investigating and developing solutions that make
current Federated Identity Management technology suitable for wide
adoption in private and public service scenarios in a pan-European
context, focusing on
- TRUST: addressing strict
security requirements from the industry and public Administrations
(e.g. stronger authentication mechanisms), and end-user concerns and
legislation related to user data privacy
-
USABILITY: providing tools for simplifying service development,
deployment and administration, and addressing end-user friendliness
-
ADDED VALUE: covering a wide range of scenarios (eGovernment, eHealth,
education, eCommerce...), multi-platform and multi-access solutions
(fixed access, WLAN, 3G, applicability to IMS), and new, innovative
solutions (identity roaming, delegation of authority...)
-
LONG-TERM EVOLUTION: showing that Federated Identity Management is more
than hype, providing a long-term evolution path through a number of
standardization bodies and industry consortiums seeking
interoperability and convergence (Liberty, WS-Federation...)
We
are seeking partners that would be interested in any of the aspects of
the project. Please email me for any comments or more information about
the proposal. I will be available at the booth for 1.4 proposal.
(Vienna University of Technology)
Integration of Dependability and Security
We
think security and dependability are integrated tasks: Security may be
increased with dependability means (e.g. recovery during trust
negotiation), but that may in turn also expose new vulnerabilities.
Consequently, we would like to contribute our dependability expertise
to security and trust projects. We publish actively in the respective
research communities and we have potential company partners at hand as
well:
* Dependable software engineering
* Closing the dependability-gap of service-oriented systems
* Adaptive systems
* Ultra large scale systems
* Infrastructure and middleware for dependable systems and service
* Architectures for dependable systems
* Trading and balancing of QoS and dependablity properties
We are currently running several FP6 projects, some of them as co-ordinator.
Details http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/kmg/
(Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Security Engineering
We
are interested to join or coordinate a project to which we can
contribute with our expertise in security engineering,
security-preserving composition and refinement of processes, automatic
design and analysis of security protocols, security in ad-hoc networks,
trust managements.
(Faculty of organization and informatics)
Biometric&security
I
whish to participate to FP7 project activities in field of biometric
and security. Please e-mail me at miroslav.baca@foi.hr, all information
aobout me you will find at
http://www.foi.hr/nastavnici/baca.miroslav/index.html