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Future Internet Assembly

Aalborg, 10-11 May 2012

 


Preparations for the next Future Internet Assembly in Aalborg are in full speed right now.

From the high response on the call for ideas in the Google moderator, the Steering Committee has selected the following topics:
- Societal View on Smart Cities
- Smart City Applications and Services
- Smart City and Big Data
- Smart City Infrastructure
- IoT and FI Architectures
- IoT Applications and Business Models
- Open Platforms for Innovation
- Novel Networking and Relationship with Applications
- Interoperability between Clouds at Several Layers
- Impact of HTML 5
- Games, Networks and Clouds: What are the Requirements?
- Standardisation

If you submitted a proposal under the name AILab, Thierry, ejennings, TV please contact the other session organisers under your topic, in order to be part of the Programme Committee.

For a full overview of the outcome of the selection process, see here.
Registration will be open soon.
 


 FIRE Demonstration evening on 10 May 2012 in Aalborg

Given the success of the FIA Demonstration evening in Poznan (see pictures and more at the FIRE website: bit.ly/sYY1R9), FIRE STATION is planning to help organise a similar type of hands-on demonstration evening – Hands-on FIRE! -, including guided tours for specific groups of people (targeting in particular the Member States representatives present at the event). This will take place on Thursday 10 May, 2012. All FIRE projects have been invited to participate, by submitting a demonstration proposal highlighting the requirements in terms of space and connectivity. FIRE STATION will man the FIRE booth at the event and help with the guided tours.
 

Calls

Future Internet Assembly Book 2012: Call for papers!

Spring of 2012 will see the 9th FIA conference in Aalborg, Denmark. As with prior Spring FIAs, the community is editing a book, which aggregates both representative results achieved in the Future Internet domain and the possibilities of what can be expected in a medium or short term.

FIA Book 2012 Topics:

• Future Internet foundations cover core cross-domain technical and horizontal topics. Chapters within this section will include architectural questions; mobile Internet, cloud computing, socio-economic questions; trust and identity; search and discovery; and experiments and experimental design.
• Future Internet technical areas are those technical domains, which are associated to the Future Internet, mainly but not limited to networks, services, Internet of Things, content, and cross-area questions.
• Future Internet application areas comprise out of user areas and communities, where the Future Internet can boost their innovation capabilities. These chapters within this section cover smart cities, smart energy, smart health, smart enterprises, smart environment, smart transportation, logistics and mobility, smart manufacturing, smart agriculture, and tourism.
• Future Internet infrastructures cover experimentation and results in real infrastructures within the FI domain.

Important Dates
13/2/2012 – Full section submissions
2/3/2012 – Notification on acceptance
26/3/2012 – Camera-ready copies due
21/4/2012 – Book publishing (tentative)
 


Are you feeling artistic? Draw a diagram depicting the Future Internet Landscape and win the contest!

The contest launched for FIA Poznan is still running! (cfr article in the previous edition)
You can use the candidate figure received as an example to generate some additional ideas to update this or provide alternative figures to enter the contest.


FIA Landscape according FIA Steering Committee member Didier Bourse of Alcatel-Lucent

Deadline
The entries will be accepted up to close of business on 30th March 2012. Please email your entries to Infso-future-internet@ec.europa.eu. The entries will be judged by the Steering committee of FIA and the winner will be notified by close of business on 13th April 2012.
The prize
The winner will receive a free registration to FIA Aalborg, Denmark being held on 10-11th May 2012 and the opportunity to present their diagram in the closing plenary of FIA Aalborg.

More details here!
 


 Call for participation in the FIA Steering Committee

The success of Future Internet Assembly is based on the importance of the topics it addresses, the foresight it shows for spotting trends and the visibility and impact of the many European and national Future Internet actions. It lives with the fast pace of the technologies it deals with. The Steering Committee plays an important role in the strategic decision making of the FIA, it chooses the topics of the FIA events and stirs the working groups. For a full description of all tasks, see here. The composition of the current Steering Committee may be found in this page. In view of the upcoming research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 we expect the Steering Committee and FIA in general to become a key platform for shaping the Future Internet activities under Horizon 2020.
If you would like to be part of the FIA Steering Committee, please send a message to infso-future-internet@ec.europa.eu before 28 February with a short explanation why you would like to be part also outlining any relevant experience and/or knowledge. In particular, we would like to see some ideas on how the FIA can remain interesting and relevant. We will select a number of candidates, taking into account the coverage of the different areas of the future internet, balance industry/academia, country, female/male, etc. We will report on the outcome of this renewal of the FIA Steering Board in the coming newsletters, as well would we expect the new Steering Board to be presented at FIA Aalborg.
 


Call for FIA Results

The European Future Internet Assembly also known as FIA, is an open and technical collaboration between projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. Currently FIA brings together around 150 research projects that are part of Challenge 1 of the ICT programme of FP7. The FIA aims to deliver the following types of results:

  • FIA Books
  • Definition and design of Future Internet
  • A critical assessment of the user/service capabilities of possible architectural models addressed by the Community
  • Pre-normative Principles, Concepts Design and Recommendations of key system component and their interfaces
  • Functional and non-functional specifications, design and integration of systems, platforms and components
  • Open source solutions
  • Evaluations of existing solutions
  • Catalogue feasible open solutions and experiments for wide scale use
  • Roadmaps
  • White papers
  • Scenarios
  • Contribution to standards
  • etc.

Since the beginning of the FIA in Bled in 2008, many engineering, scientific, and socio-economic results have been developed. It is time to take stock and to systematically present the results of the FIA on the portal www.future-internet.eu. Therefore the Steering Committee asks each FIA project or FIA Working Group to send their key results (short description and link to a longer description of the result) and a classification in one of the categories mentioned above and any other tag that people would use to search for this result. Send this by mail to infso-future-internet@ec.europa.eu before 28 February 2012.
 


 Call for FIA Working groups

Future Internet Assembly is mostly known for its conferences, but in between conferences, collaboration among projects and individuals is encouraged through FIA Working Groups with membership from multiple FP7 project teams and multiple domains.

Each project is expected to contribute to at least one technical WG. Current working groups are:
• Roadmapping
• (Pre-)Standardisation
• International Collaboration
• FI Architectures
• Management and Service-aware Networking Architectures
• Linked Open Data
• Enterprises
• Real World Internet
• Trust and Security
• Services
• Future Content Networks
• Socio Economics
• FIA Book.

It is time to take stock of the work done by existing working groups. Can they please send a short overview of the results they have achieved? See the issue above, call for FIA results.

In addition, it is time to review the functioning of each working group. Is the initial goal achieved or is additional work necessary? If so, what is the plan for the remaining work? Therefore the Steering Committee asks that each working group sends a short email to infso-future-internet@ec.europa.eu before 31st March 2012 with the following information:

  • Working group wants to continue.
    • If yes, an updated terms of Reference of the working group (rational, scope, activities, results, work plan for the coming period, how people can get involved) needs to be published on an open web site here.
       
  • Working group is ready and does not want to continue.
    • The open website should clearly contain the results of the work and it should be indicated that this group is no longer active.
       
  • A new working group wants to start.
    • Send the terms of reference containing terms rational, scope, activities, expected results, work plan for the coming period, how people can get involved to the Steering Committee and they will advice on how to proceed.
      Special attention will be given to WGs, which cover: Synergistic, systemic and architectural aspects across projects and cross-domain boundaries.
      New concepts enabling better incorporation, integration and usage of the communication-centric, information-centric, resource-centric, content–centric, service/computation- centric, context-centric faces of future internet.

The output of the WGs will be published as pre-normative specification of the Future Internet. Contributing projects will be explicitly acknowledged and encouraged to contribute as part of they work program.
 
FI-WARE open call is coming up!

FI-WARE is the cornerstone of the Future Internet PPP programme, a joint action by European industry and the European Commission. FI-WARE will deliver a novel service infrastructure, building upon elements - called generic enablers - which offer reusable and commonly shared functions making it easier to develop future Internet applications in multiple sectors. This infrastructure will bring significant improvements in the performance, reliability and production costs linked to Internet applications – building a true foundation for the future Internet.
The project will develop open specifications of these generic enablers, together with a reference implementation of each enabler for testing. This way, it is aimed to develop specifications that influence future Internet standards.
The FI-WARE project reserved over Euro 12 million for additional and specific activities/tasks associated with implementations of additional Generic Enablers. These implementations are to be contributed by new beneficiaries that will join the FI-WARE consortium via open calls for proposals:

- The first call will open in January 2012 with a deadline during 3rd week of March 2012 and a budget of Euro 2 million.
- The second call will open in April 2012 and will have a budget of Euro 7-8 million
- The third call will open in January 2013 and will consume the remaining budget.

For more information, download the presentation given during the Future Internet Week in Poznan. Stay tuned and follow FI-WARE and the open call!
 

Past events

FUTURE INTERNET WEEK in Poznan, October 2011 - feedback

Hundreds of delegates – top researchers in Future Internet architectures, services and applications from across Europe and beyond – met up at the Future Internet Week in Poznan, Poland. Over the past three years FIA has left no stone unturned during its discussions of how the Future Internet should be built, how it should work and what it should offer society in the coming decades.
This edition's key note speech of Professor Bolesław Szymański described some of the dynamics of social networks, both on and offline. He argued that technological networks can change the way human interact and also their opinions. His research has shown how a minority of people highly committed to a particular opinion can rapidly sway the opinions of a large majority ‘sitting on the fence’. The Internet has given a large, global platform to such influencers. For a complete report of FIA Poznan, read the report here.
 
BIC Annual Forum

The EU FP7 BIC project from DG INFSO Unit F5 Trust and Security held its first Annual Forum on 29th November 2011 in Brussels. The main goal of the BIC Co-ordination Action project is to engender co-operation between Trust and Security researchers in the EU with their peers in emerging countries, namely Brazil, India and South Africa and provide continuity with already established collaborations in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea and Australia. The purpose of the BIC annual forum was discussion and agreement on technological challenges/gaps of common interest amongst the countries and agree on a strategy to work at an international level towards delivering on cooperation towards solving these joint technological challenges. The full report for the annual forum can be found here.
 
Inaugural meeting of the Internet of Things International Forum

IoT sans frontieres, "The Internet of Things without borders", is the motto of the Internet of Things International Forum, which held its first meeting in Berlin on November 23rd and 24th, 2011. 100+ representatives of industrial, academic, and governmental organisations from 24 countries in 5 continents gathered in Berlin to share their expertise, views, and interests in the IoT domain over the 2 days. Participants represented not only the IoT domain, but also users of the IoT, such as the automotive and energy industries, civil engineers and even arts and design organisations. Discussions covered topics ranging from overall visions of the IoT, to regional initiatives across the globe, and Working Group sessions on Societal, Economic, Legislation and Governance, and Technology aspects of the IoT, and will be taken forward into new collaborative activities promoted by the Forum. The next meeting of the IoT International Forum is planned around June 2012, and will be publicised via the Forum website and other channels. Further information about the Forum, and how you can get involved, is available on the website, and many of the presentations from the event, including brief wrap up documents are available here. The Forum is being launched by the Internet of Things Initiative, CASAGRAS2, CATR, and Wuxi SensingNet, with the financial support of the European Commission, and will transition to an independent self-supporting organisation during 2012.
 

Upcoming Events

Workshop Smart Cities and the Future Internet, Brussels 25th January

FIREBALL would like to invite stakeholders to participate to the Workshop Smart Cities and the Future Internet which will take place in Brussels on 25 January 2012. We believe you as active in the area of FIRE-Open user driven innovation (LivingLabs)-Smart Cities will benefit from this workshop. FIREBALL is about bringing the communities together to find synergies and win-win-win situations. In this one-day workshop invited speakers from EUROCITIES, FIRE (Future Internet Research & Experimentation), the Smart City Portfolio CIP projects and ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs), European Commission will present views and results to open up the discussion on shaping the future ‘Smart Cities’ agenda, starting from the needs of the cities, their citizens and partner organisations. In addition the workshop will create new linkages and enhance cooperation between different constituencies interested in Smart City development in order to help formulate policies for future problem solving and strategic actions.
The participation of this workshop is on invitation only and free of charge, but interested person are encourage to contact us at latest on January 11 2012!
Organization Contacts: Michael Nilsson (FIREBALL coordinator) Michael.nilsson@cdt.ltu.se
Adrian Slatcher (Eurocities network) A.Slatcher@manchesterdda.com
The event is organised as a cooperation between FIREBALL, EUROCITIES and FIRE together with different projects in the area of Smart Cities including Cities, Future Internet Research and Open innovation ecosystems such as Living labs.
 


 Registration for CSP EU Forum 2012 is NOW OPEN !

Effectsplus is organising with European Commission Trust and Security Unit of DG INFSO a European conference on Cyber Security and Privacy, to be held at the Science & Conference Center "The Dahlem Cube”, Seminaris Campus Hotel, Berlin on the 24th and 25th April 2012.

The CSP EU Forum 2012 aims to strengthen the links between policies, industry and research in order that we can more effectively meet the needs for trust and security in our networked information society. CSP EU Forum will serve as a venue for learning about state-of-the-art in security and privacy research, and EU Research and Innovation strategies going into 2012 and beyond, giving delegates the opportunity to network with experts in the field. We will facilitate this learning experience by providing Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations and panel discussions over two days. The high-level plenary session will be an opportunity to hear perspectives and challenges from a wide range of leading technology experts.
General Enquiries, please email: info@cspforum.eu
 


8th TridentCom, 11-13 June - Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

The goal is to bring together technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government all around the world to discuss experimental research infrastructures of the Future Internet. Apart from presentations, TridentCom 2012 will feature a rich variety of other activities such as tutorials, workshops, panels and demonstrations in order to enhance the visibility of innovative mechanisms and practices in the field as well as to strengthen the interaction and the communication in the community of research testbeds.
 

Reports

Inspiring the Internet of Things – Comic book containing 15 IoT scenarios and over 25 IoT Concepts
 

CeFIMs Interim Roadmap Completed

CeFIMS has completed its first interim roadmap towards an ERA-NET+ on the Future Internet. This document draws on all the work carried out by the project in its first 12 months of operation. The roadmap presents a preliminary analysis of the current landscape in European Future Internet research, and sets out a vision of a future involving enhanced cooperation among key Future Internet stakeholders.

The current landscape section covers:
• state-of-the-art in Future Internet research
• stakeholders involvement
• existing collaboration instruments
• relevant activity levels of Member States
• policy context.

The vision of the future section describes:
• modalities of an ERA-NET+
• barriers and challenges
• potential thematic content and approaches that Member States and the EC may have in common
The roadmap also outlines the next steps to advance an ERA-NET+ on the Future Internet. Click here to access the roadmap.
 


 Trust in Digital Life - SRA

Trust in Digital Life Consortium is finalizing the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRA) for Trustworthy ICT.
The SRA addresses central challenges of trust in digital life towards a vibrant future economy that protects privacy and other basic related human rights of citizens in society. The relevant timeframe is horizon 2020 of the European Union.
The SRA describes different viewpoints and approaches for investigating the future for trustworthy ICT solutions, i.e. achieving a trust paradigm shift including transparency and ‘payment' seen from a business challenge, as well as while identifying user driven needs and enforcement by law and regulations.
The SRA document provides a research and innovation project funnel with research and deployment projects. It will be handed over to the European Commission in a joint conference of EEMA and TDL in Biel, Switzerland 27 and 28 March 2012 as a token of the commitment to the goals of Digital Agenda from TDL Consortium. Find out more about Trust in Digital Life Community on the web!
 


FIRE Roadmap – Part I & II Published

The first report provides a uniform description of the FIRE facilities including a short description of the current operational offering and use conditions. This reports objective is to give the potential experimenter an idea about the experimenting possibilities before contacting the facility directly. Request for federated use of FIRE facilities could be directed either to the involved facilities or to the FIRE office contact (at)ct-fire.eu for an analysis of the feasibility of proposed experiments. D3.4: Common roadmap of FIRE test facilities – First version.
The second version of the FIRE Roadmap Report extends the original overview of the available FIRE facilities by giving the information on newly launched Call 7 FIRE projects: CONFINE, EXPERIMEDIA and OpenLab. It indicates, similarly as in the FIRE Roadmap Report - Part I, the conditions of usage and timelines for the availability of the FIRE experimental facilities. D3.5: FIRE Roadmap Report I - Part II.
 

Other news

Trilogy wins third running of Future Internet Award

The third running of the Future Internet Award has been won by the Trilogy project. The announcement was made by Megan Richards, Director for Converged Networks & Services at the European Commission, during the closing plenary of Poznan’s FIA event.
Picking up the Award on behalf of the Trilogy consortium, Phil Eardley from BT (UK) said, “It is an honour both to be selected as the winning entry, and to have had worked with so many brilliant people on the Trilogy project.” The project is funded by the EU and has developed a long-term solution to Internet traffic congestion.
Trilogy received the Future Internet Award for its outstanding contribution to the Internet architecture and protocols, which could help provide Europeans with faster, more reliable Internet connections. Judges’ comments from the adjudication process included:
• “Trilogy is devoted to propose and to evaluate key control functions of the Internet. The project’s results include architecture, protocols, simulations, prototypes and standardisation at the IETF.”
• “…the scale of dissemination should be noticed. A lot of effort on standardising results of the project at the IETF should have impact on better traffic management by the network and end-to-end quality of service…”
• “There’s a good balance between academics and industrials, very open through IETF and other collaborations, has included working test beds of their new protocols.”
Trilogy was a three-year €9.2 million project, which finished its work in March 2011. It brought together researchers and companies from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, UK and the US to find methods of managing traffic so that congestion at choke points of the network is minimised, thus resulting in better quality connections for Internet users. The EU contributed €5.9 million in ICT research funding.
 
 
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