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The FIPA Liaison with Projects provides a link to major projects working around FIPA Agent technology. Detailed information on the following projects is available:
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Project Name
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AGENTCITIES.RTD
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Start Date
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July 1, 2001
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Duration
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24 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 2000-28385
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Partners
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Motorola, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, British Telecommunications Plc, Popnet Agentscape Ag, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz Gmbh, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Communication Technologies, The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Aegis, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Fujitsu, ADETTI
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Outline
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The Agentcities vision is: An ambient proactive environment where heterogeneous autonomous and increasingly intelligent systems representing businesses, services and individuals are able to interact with each other in a peer to peer manner and enable flexible and dynamic composition of services. Knowledge, information and service sharing is effectively available to users and organisations. When new pertinent or innovative services are available they are immediately offered to the appropriate user. Services are automatically discovered and integrated at the right level of interaction. Ontology, security, reputation and trust services in the environment should further enrich the range of businesses and private interactions possible between agent peers. Furthermore, the environment should be open to allow new services and systems to be connected and integrated semantically by coming on-line automatically. The Agentcities project constitutes the first project of its kind for the purpose of setting up a world wide network of always running FIPA platforms, to be used as a testbed for standard validation as well as for standard-based agent services deployment. Each Agentcities platform will support services modelled for a single real-world city or place. Services deployed in the testbed will initially centre on information and transaction services for real-world objects such as bars, restaurants, hotels, travel infrastructure, theatres etc. Agent-based applications will be able to access these services world-wide using federated directory services (DFs) and FIPA communication services. The set of services deployed in the network can then be used as building blocks to construct new agent services.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.agentcities.org/EURTD/
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Project Name
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AGENTCITIES.NET
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Start Date
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November 1, 2001
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Duration
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18 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 2000-28384
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Partners
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz Gmbh, Motorola, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, British Telecommunications Plc, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Outline
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Agentcities.NET will create an open dynamic service environment based on Agent technology by supporting users wishing to deploy agent platforms and services that connect to an extensible Internet based testbed. The project will also enable technology transfer by bringing together key players from related industries (potential users of the technology) and those developing testbed infrastructure and services - potential technology providers but also early take up users - with the testbed as a focal point for collaborative work. The trial will open to encourage Europe-wide participation and has over 40 pre-registered contributors. Concretely, the trial will involve a set of coordinated "actions", designed to support these activities: information days, a deployment support program, a competition, student exchange support and focused working groups. The project will work closely with an associated project Agentcities.RTD (Proposal number IST-2000-28385) which will develop a backbone of 14 Agent platforms worldwide. This project will build on the Agentcities.RTD effort to enable other users to extend and exploit the initial backbone.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.agentcities.org/EUNET/
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Project Name
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AGENTLINK II
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Start Date
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August 1, 2000
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Duration
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36 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999-29003
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Partners
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University of Southampton
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Outline
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AgentLink-II will act as the focal point for European R&D activity for the area of agent-based computing.
The long-term objective of AgentLink-II is to put Europe at the leading edge of international competitiveness in the area of agent-based computing. The medium term goals of AgentLink-II are to gain competitive advantage for European Industry by promoting and raising awareness of agent systems technology, to facilitate improvement in the standard, profile, and industrial relevance of European research in the area of agent-based computer systems, to promote excellence of teaching and training in the area of agent-based systems, to provide a widely known, high-quality European forum in which current issues, problems, and solutions in the research and development of agent-based computer systems may be debated and resolved.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.agentlink.org/
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Project Name
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Art.Live (formerly ALIVE)
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Start Date
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January 1, 2000
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Duration
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24 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999-10942
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Partners
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Université Catholique de Louvain, EPFL, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, Philips France S.A.S., Fastcom Technology S.a., Association pour le Developpement de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche en Systematique Appliquee, ADETTI, Casterman Edition S.A.
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Outline
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The goal of the project is to develop an architecture and a set of tools, both generic and application dependent, for the enhancement of narrative spaces. This will be achieved in testing the two aspects of this goal: telepresence (inclusion of real objects into virtual worlds) and augmented reality (inclusion of artificial object into real worlds).
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Contact/URL
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http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/PROJECTS/art.live/
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Project Name
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Canadian GAIN (Global Agents Integration Network)
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Start Date
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May, 2001
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Duration
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TBD
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Funding Agency
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NSERC (National Science and Engineering Resource of Canada). (There is an additional pending application with the NSERC Research Network to support the research of all Nodes.)
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Partners
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17 Canadian Universities and over 30 Canadian research institutes.
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Outline
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The Canadian GAIN is a research network joining 17 Canadian Universities and over 30 companies and research institutes across the country, with the declared goal of making Canada a key actor in the international Agentcities Task Force effort. Aiming to create and deploy integration standards for the new generation of global collaborative enterprises, the Canadian GAIN is the greatest endeavor in Canada in the area of web-based software built with the latest advances in agent technology to enable distributed collaborative environments.
The object of Canadian GAIN is to leverage the collaborative research among the Nodes enabling their joint effort in developing, deploying and implementing the merging virtual enterprise paradigm coined as Holonic Enterprise. [The Holonic Enterprise (HE) is an emerging collaborative software paradigm which integrates into a unified, versatile model several paradigms (among which the web-centric and virtual enterprise paradigms, the holonic systems and multi-agent paradigms and the novel business model of co-opetition) that have emerged as a result of the tremendous shift in the business dynamics on the global market enabled by the Internet and communication network technologies.] Building on the latest international research results and standards the Canadian GAIN Nodes put together interdisciplinary expertise (in holonic and multi-agent systems, communication networks, global enterprise business and workflow management, intelligent manufacturing, e-health, education) to develop web-enabling technologies for global collaboration in a dynamic distributed environment.
This objective can be addressed only by the creation of an enabling networking infrastructure connecting several distributed noted that wrk cooperatively. As a first step in accomplishing its objective, the Canadian GAIN will host the first FIPA meeting in Canada (May 6-10,2002) join with the Agentcities Task Force in Vancouver. leaders of the HMS Consortium will attend as well. On this occasion, the Milestone and Research Targets of the Canadian GAIN will be refined and adapted o the international research context. Continuous liaising with the Agentcities Task Force will ensure continuous adaptation of our goals to the international dynamics..
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Contact/URL
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http://isg.enme.ucalgary.ca/People/Ulieru/Default.htm
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Project Name
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COMMA
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Start Date
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February 1, 2000
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Duration
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24 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999012217
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Partners
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Atos Integration SA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Universita degli Studi di Parma, CSELT - Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.a, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovations- gesellschaft Mbh
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Outline
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The main objective of the project is to implement and trial a Corporate Memory Management framework based on Agent technology. Knowledge Management is becoming increasingly important for a correct, efficient and effective exploitation of the Know How available to an enterprise.The project will assess two scenarios with real end users: insertion of new employees in the company, detection of technology movements and diffusion among employees. The main innovative aspect of the project will stem from he seamless integration of several technologies: a multi-agent system, Enterprise models and User models, based on ontology, machine learning techniques, exploitation of XML standards.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.si.fr.atosorigin.com/sophia/comma/Htm/HomePage.htm
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Project Name
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CRUMPET
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Start Date
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October 1, 2000
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Duration
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24 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999 20147
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Partners
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Emorphia, European Media Laboratory (EML), GMD, Nortel Networks, Portugal Telecom, Queen Mary College (University of London), Sonera and the University of Helsinki
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Outline
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The overall aim of the CRUMPET project is to implement, validate, and trial tourism-related value-added services for nomadic users (across mobile and fixed networks). In particular the use of agent technology will be evaluated (in terms of user-acceptability, performance and best-practice) as a suitable approach for the fast creation of robust, scalable, seamlessly accessible nomadic services. The implementation will be based on FIPA-OS; a standards-compliant open source agent framework, extended to support nomadic applications, devices and networks.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.ist-crumpet.org/
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Project Name
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FACTS
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Start Date
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March 9, 1998
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Duration
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Finished
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Funding Agency
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EU - ACTS 1997-AC317
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Partners
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British Telecommunications. Alcatel BELL, Broadcom, Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, mbh, Instituto Trentino di Cultura, NHK, Nortel, KPN, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Telia, CNET, CSELT
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Outline
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While several groups have identified the need for agent standards, their production is currently a research activity. Although research groups in various companies have produced working multi-agent systems, many issues are at present too poorly understood for reliable, well-specified standards to be generated. The goal of this project is therefore to generate this understanding such that the project can act as a driver of relevant standardisation effort. The principal focus of the project is the standards under development by FIPA - the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents. Additionally, the project will seek to influence agent standardisation work being performed by the Object Management Group
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Contact/URL
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http://www.labs.bt.com/profsoc/facts/
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Project Name
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LEAP
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Start Date
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January 1, 2000
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Duration
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30 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999-10211
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Partners
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Motorola, British Telecommunications, Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd, Telecom Italia Lab S.P.a., Siemens AG, Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club E.V., Universita degli Studi di Parma
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Outline
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Project LEAP is addressing the need for open infrastructures and services, which support dynamic, mobile enterprises. It will develop agent-based services supporting three requirements of a mobile enterprise workforce: Knowledge management (anticipating individual knowledge requirements), decentralised work co-ordination (empowering individuals, co-ordinating and trading jobs), travel management (planning and co-ordinating individual travel needs). It will develop a reference Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform responding to the communication and co-operation needs of mobile teams, based on standards and capable running on advanced phones or mobile devices.
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Contact/URL
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http://leap.crm-paris.com/
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Project Name
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PISA
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Start Date
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January 1, 2001
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Duration
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36 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - RTD project IST-2000-26038
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Partners
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Dutch Data, Protection Authority, National Research Council Canada, ZeroKnowledge Systems, TNO, Sentient Machine Research, FINSA Consulting, Globalsign
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Outline
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PISA targets the creation of privacy enhancing technologies for next generation electronic business applications.
PISA’s functionality includes mobility, inter-agent communication and usability in a setting that encompasses legacy systems and knowledge representation. However, technology is not a panacea even in this project.
There are several main areas of interest to FIPA. PISA is developing a FIPA based agent framework for privacy including ontologies, agent architectures and communication patterns. The framework privacy being developed links to the European standard privacy legislation. The PISA project seeks to input its work into FIPA in the area of agent privacy (an area of interest for the FIPA Security Workgroup). In addition, this work will also provide specific requirements for the policies and domain research that FIPA is undertaking.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.pet-pisa.nl
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Project Name
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SHUFFLE
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Start Date
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February 1, 2000
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Duration
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30 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999-11014
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Partners
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Emorphia, Swisscom, Portugal Telecom, National Technical University of Athens, Queen Mary, Univesrity of London
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Outline
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SHUFFLE is a European collaborative project. The aim is to build a distributed resource re-allocation scheme using collaborating intelligent agents (using the FIPA-OS toolkit), where each agent only uses partial information, i.e. to have truly decentralised control. This is different from work on earlier mobile systems where schemes were presented to improve channel usage and call blocking once fixed channel assignment (FCA) could no longer cope. Those schemes did outperform FCA but they generally used a centralised approach that required an up-to-date global knowledge of the mobile network.
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Contact/URL
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http://www.ist-shuffle.org/.
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Project Name
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SONG - Portals of Next Generation
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Start Date
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January 1, 2000
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Duration
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24 months
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Funding Agency
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EU - IST 1999-10192
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Partners
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France Telecom, Universitaet Stuttgart, GMD, Siemens AG, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Telecom Italia Lab, Telenor Communication As, Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications, Blaxxun Interactive AG, T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft Mbh, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Université de Genève
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Outline
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"Portals" is a new term, synonymous with access point to resources and services on the Web. Typical services offered by portals include directory of resources, search facility, news, e-mail, phone, map information, and sometimes a community forum. These services generally rely on point-and-click on structured information like characters, still pictures or 2D graphics. The project intends to investigate, develop and standardize the building blocks for the next generation of portals. These building blocks include existing Web technologies, but also 3D computer graphics elements as in computer games, intelligent agents embodied in realistic avatars, new user-friendly interfaces and real-time audiovisual communications. The project will demonstrate how these new technologies, integrated in a sample e-commerce application, allow an easier and more natural access to resources and services.
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