AGMLab currently participates in the following EU Framework Projects.
1. SEMbySEM - Services Management By Semantics (In ITEA-II Cluster)
This project will provide an innovative and comprehensive Semantic Services Management System, based on a common open infrastructure, to allow management of tomorrow mixed systems (made of thousands elementary software and hardware components) with facilities to build various ad-hoc dynamic visualisations of the managed systems for information, management and SLA verification purposes. To do so, it will extensively use semantic description with the help of a new standard that it will provide.
This Semantic Services Management System (SSMS) will be built using semantic descriptions of the components it will represent, manage and monitor. Using a specific mechanism to group these components in subsystems and to create multiple synchronized views of the monitored system, the SSMS will allow various business professionals to represent with their own concepts and vocabulary the specific parts of the system they are in charge o, while they being able to totally ignore the behaviour of the parts of the system they are not involved in, they will still be aware of system modifications whose effect would impact their own view.
The result of this project will be used in various IT, Telecommunications and logistics systems of small and large size. Its core software will be open sourced to ensure a large dissemination and promote its concepts. Various use cases from multiple business domains will be demonstrated.
2. SOLIM - Spatial Ontology Language for multimedia Information Modelling (In EUROSTARS Cluster)
The goal of the project is to extend the ontology web language OWL to support effective storage and reasoning on spatial information, and to demonstrate the power of such extension for automatic processing of textual and graphical information
The main result of this project is improved semantic modelling of real word data. This improves the quality of the semantic model (the "understanding") of extracted data by an automated system. The prevention of spatial semantic inconsistencies will directly improve the quality of any system that is currently using ontology based knowledge. Immediate applications are natural language or image based information systems (search engines, matching- or classification systems, news alert systems, image analysis systems etc.)
3. USERVICE - Ubiquitous Service Infrastructure for the Mobile Super Prosumer(In ITEA-II Cluster)
The project researches the turn of mobile users into service super prosumers, this is, producers, providers and consumers of services and their associated contents from the mobile device. These services can be consumed remotely by other users on real time, in a simple way, with only their mobile devices.
The main technical objectives are:
- To give birth to a new type of mobile user-generated services or micro-services, uServices.
- To define a Service Description Language, to permit the fixed-mobile service convergence in a wide sense: one worldwide user-powered content network.
- To design and develop the service infrastructure for instantaneous, on-the-fly service creation, publication, provision and consumption of contents from and to a mobile device, even for non-technical users.
- To investigate in efficient context utilization means, such as automatic context-aware content generation and publication.
- To generate a new set of resources for the discovery, access and distance mobile-to-mobile communication in a very distributed, volatile platform (such as the mobile one, with the service “not-always-on” paradigm) to ease the service retrieval process by building on intelligent, context-dependant filtering mechanisms.
- To promote new types of business models in the mobile infrastructure.
4. ACDC - Adaptive Content Delivery Cluster
With the more and more intensive usage of Internet networks for video content delivery, with the huge growing of multimedia contents including User Generated Contents, as well as with the necessity of multiple content delivery towards several networks and terminals, the classical video processing systems, search tools and content personalization mechanisms have reached the bounds of feasibility and must be rethink.
To answer to these issues the ACDC project proposes to explore two directions;
- The usage of new infrastructures based on Cloud Computing
- The association of these new infrastructures to intensive use of Semantic Technologies
With the introduction of Cloud Computing infrastructures which will allow large scale digital content processing, storage and delivery and which is capable of end-to-end ubiquitous transmission of multimedia content, the value of investing in these new technologies that adapt and personalize contents become more apparent.
The wide variety of multimedia contents served by the ACDC software and service platform poses the following main challenges;
- A semantic challenge in order to locate the desired content based on the user’s interest, preferences and overall context. In order to provide an effective and suitable content delivery the interaction has to be adapted in modality and media to the contextual and device requirements.
- A Video processing challenge in order to process massive real time video contents with high Quality of Service using adaptive load-balancing of the whole structure in the presence of dynamical requests in conjunction with the storage architecture.
- A content Adaptation challenge in order to personalize and adapt the massive contents to the delivery networks and terminals
In order to answer to these issues the ACDC project will be build on the main following pillars;
- Analysis of new services and business models
- Study and implementation of new cloud computing infrastructure and associated content adaptation tools
- Study and implementation of User-awareness Architecture allowing content navigation and content personalization, based on utilization of semantic technologies (e.g. semantic metadata, searches and recommendations).
- Evaluation of results (architectures and new deployed services) based on several field trials.
- These field trials will allow an integration of the complete end-to-end system and a validation of all development tasks based on experimentations on real networks with user panels in charge of evaluation of the overall services.
This ACDC project will gather skilled complementary partners from Industrial, SME’s and Academics domains allowing both commercial exploitation of results as well as international dissemination thanks to publications and contributions to standardisation bodies.
