FET socially intelligence

TodayÔÇÖs communication infrastructure is more and more based on the Internet, resulting from a long evolution. The large legacy of deployed infrastructures, however, limits the Internet's capacity to absorb innovation and to cope with new requirements. Within Challenge 1 "Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructures" of the ICT theme of the Cooperation Programme under FP7, under Call 2 the Commission is calling for proposals on Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities". Work under this objective has two related dimensions:

Experimentally-driven long term research on new paradigms and advanced networking approaches for the future internet: Many networking researchers around the world have identified emerging limitations of the current Internet architecture and agree that it is time for research to take a long term view and to reconsider the basic architecture of the Internet, to see if any improvement can be identified, even if it does not appear to be backward-compatible at a first glance. To be effective and to produce applicable results, this long-term, fundamental research in new communication and networking paradigms has to be tested, at least as a proof-of-concept, in large scale environments, so as to assess the feasibility of the new concepts, verify their large scale effects (not only at technological level, but also as for their foreseeable implications on users, society and economy) and derive further requirements, orientations and inputs for the long-term research. This kind of experimentally-driven approach avoids that the long-term research will remain at the level of paperwork and will hopefully allow exploring significant improvements over the current Internet.

Interconnected testbeds on networks and services: In the long term, it is envisaged that the interconnected testbeds supported in Call 2 of Objective 1.6 will evolve from gradually federated testbeds towards becoming a sustainable, dynamic, and integrated large scale experimentation facility supporting academia, research centres and industry in their research on networks and services. The interconnected testbed activities under Objective 1.6 are open to any relevant European projects within other Objectives of FP7, as well as national, regional or multinational initiatives, to allow usage of the facilities or to federate their testbed within the facility.

Objective 1.6 on "New paradigms and experimental facilities" is complementary to other objectives in Challenge 1 and in particular to the third focus on "Technologies and systems architectures for the Future Internet" of Objective 1.1 ÔÇ£The Network of the FutureÔÇØ. The activities under Objective 1.6 do not start from scratch but build on the "Situated and Autonomic Communications" Initiative and other Internet-related research projects funded under Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), several testbed projects launched as Research Networking Testbeds under FP6, as well as many other research projects addressing important aspects of the future Internet under the FP6 IST Strategic Objectives "Broadband for all", and "Mobile and Wireless Systems and Platforms beyond 3G", several of them containing a testbed dimension.

Call 3: FP7-ICT-2007-3
IST-2007.8.4 Science of Complex Systems for socially intelligent ICT
IST-2007.8.5 Embodied Intelligence
IST-2007.8.6 ICT forever yours
The following themes are likely to be among pro-active
initiatives for funding in 2009-2010:
Massive ICT systems. The objective is to research,
demonstrate and validate new computing
architectures and algorithms that will allow
designing, programming and managing future
high-performance ICT components with up to one
Tera (10 12 ) devices integrated in a single chip.
Human-computer confluence. To investigate an
invisible, implicit, embodied or even implanted
interaction between humans and system
components, for natural interaction (including
communication) in surrounding environments,
themselves augmented with pervasive and
ubiquitous infrastructures and services.
QIPC and other quantum technologies. To
overcome major scientific, technological and
theoretical challenges for quantum technology to
deliver on its promise to radically outperform its
classical counterpart not only in terms of
processing speed, capacity and communication
security, but also, in the ability to solve classes of
practical problems which currently cannot be
solved. This initiative also invites the exploration
of a wider range of non-classical implementations
of ICT. More generally, it will be important to
strengthen international collaboration on
foundational research in this area where Europe
has established itself firmly at the leading edge.