Projects
Important note: the projects below are recommended for funding to the national research funding organisations of CHIST-ERA by the Call Steering Committee of CHIST-ERA. The actual funding of the projects depends on the successful completion of contracts negotiation at the national level.
Autonomic Software Engineering for online cultural experiences
This project is about exploiting the predominance of social networking using autonomic software agents to enrich, encourage and enliven engagement with online cultural artefacts such as from a museum or a gallery. With the current problems in the European financial debt, many cultural institutions are planning to shorten the length that visitors can physically enter. In the UK for example we have heard of plans that the British Museum will close earlier and possibly shut down completely for one day a week because of the massive cuts in funding that were presented in the UK Chancellors speech detailing reduction...
Beyond Autonomic Systems - the Challenge of Consciousness (2010)
Collaborative Annotation of multi-MOdal, multI-Lingual and multi-mEdia documents
Human activity is constantly generating large volumes of heterogeneous data, in particular via the Web. These data can be collected and explored to gain new insights in social sciences, linguistics, economics, behavioural studies as well as artificial intelligence and computer sciences.
In this regard, 3M (multimodal, multimedia, multilingual) data could be seen as a paradigm of sharing an object of study, human data, between many scientific domains. But, to be really useful, these data should be annotated, and available in very large amounts. Annotated data is useful for computer sciences which process human...
From Data to New Knowledge (2011)
Composing Quantum Channels
The power of information theory – classical as well as quantum – originates in the abstraction of information from its physical carrier. On this level of discussion, every process, every time evolution and every operation is described by a quantum channel – an input-output relation abstracting from the microscopic origin of the physical dynamics. Quantum channels are therefore central objects and basic building blocks in quantum information theory. The composition of quantum channels is a very natural operation arising in most physical situations. Sequential composition arises, for instance, when two quantum...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing
Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing represents a new paradigm for quantum information processing: the goal is to design protocols to solve relevant information tasks without relying on any assumption on the devices used in the protocol. For instance, protocols for device-independent key distribution aim at establishing a secret key between two honest users whose security is independent of the devices used in the distribution. Contrary to standard quantum information protocols, which are based on entanglement, the main resource for device-independent quantum information processing is quantum non-...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Energy harvesting Communication netwoRks: OPtimization and demonStration
“Anytime, anywhere, anything” has been the recent catch-phrase used by technology evangelists promising untethered wireless data flow not only among people, but also among devices of any imaginable sort. Trillions of autonomous devices are foreseen in this promise. While wireless sensor networks solve the wiring problem, we would still need to recharge or replace hundreds of batteries every day or supply the network infrastructure (e.g. base stations in the cellular world) with an ever increasing amount of power. Harvesting available ambient energy, such as solar, thermal or electromagnetic, to power wireless...
Green ICT, towards Zero Power ICT (2011)
GreenEr Mobile Systems by Cross LAyer Integrated energy Management
Personal computing currently faces a rapid trend from desktop machines towards mobile services, accessed via tablets, smartphones and similar terminal devices. With respect to computing power, today´s handheld devices are similar to Cray-2 supercomputers from the 1980s. Due to higher computational load (e.g. via multimedia apps) and the variety of radio interfaces (such as WiFi, 3G, and LTE), modern terminals are getting increasingly energy hungry. For instance, a single UMTS upload or a video recording process on today´s smartphones may consume as much as 1.5 Watts, i.e. roughly 50% of the maximal device power...
Green ICT, towards Zero Power ICT (2011)
High Performance Coherent Quantum Communications
Coherent optics has been known since the 1960’s to be, in principle, the best tool to achieve very high bandwidths and bit rates in optical communication. While the development of fiber optical amplifiers in the 1980’s has reduced the need for developing such a technology, the advent of quantum information sciences has triggered a renewed interest in using coherent optics to realize high-rate quantum communication systems. The present project is focused on coherent quantum communication as a way to combine the intrinsically very high rates achievable by homodyne or heterodyne detection with the fundamental...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Multimedia And User Credibility Knowledge Extraction
Web3.0 has already appeared in the public vocabulary over 5 years ago. While its definition remains unclear, what has become clear in the last half decade is that the web has become a support for social media. Directly from cameras, phones, tablets or computers, users are pushing multimedia data towards their peers and the world at large. MUCKE addresses this stream of multimedia social data with new and reliable knowledge extraction models designed for multilingual and multimodal data shared on social networks. It departs from current knowledge extraction models, which are mainly quantitative, by giving a high...
From Data to New Knowledge (2011)
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