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IST-2000-26429 Hermes Project Workshop http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/hermesProject METU Congress Centre, |
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New Methods and Tools for e-Business
Co-sponsored by the
Scientific and Technical Research Council of
1. If you wish to
attend the workshop please fill in the online registration form available at
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/hermesProject/seminars.html
before
2. .Limited funding for travel and lodging expenses is
available for those who wish to participate to Hermes
3. Enclosed please find PRIORITY
THEMATIC AREAS OF RESEARCH IN FP6
IST.
4. Please
submit expression of interest to FP6!
Call for
Participation
Objectives: The HERMES project, supported by the European Commission, aims to increase collaboration between the Mediterranean countries and the European Union by increasing awareness on the possible collaboration platforms in the following areas:
- Technologies for Business
Processes
- Smart Organizations, Electronic
Commerce
- Multimedia content and tools
- WWW technologies
- Knowledge Management
The ultimate aim of the project is to
achieve this collaboration in the form of joint projects. The
Steering
Committee:
Dr. Saqer Abdel-Rahim, RSS,
Prof.
Dr. Asuman Dogac, METU,
Raphael Koumeri , PLANET- ERNST & YOUNG,
Prof. Dr. Gregoris Mentzas, NTUA,
Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Mitrou, NTUA,
Prof. Dr. George Stassinopoulos,
NTUA,
Dr. Thies Wittig, ITC,
Dr. Daoud Zatari, PPU,
Program Committee:
Aybar Acar, METU-SRDC,
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Akgul, Bilkent
University,
Haktan Akin,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tayfun Akin (Industrial Relations), METU,
Assist. Prof. Dr. Aydin Alatan,
METU,
Alper Alsan, Siemens,
Caglayan Arkan, Siemens Business
Services,
Prof. Dr. Murat Askar, TUBITAK,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Volkan Atalay,
METU,
Mustafa Atilla, Cyberpark,
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sebnem Baydere,
Omer Benderli, Digital Platform,
Prof. Dr. Avni Cakici,
Yilmaz Cakir, ARA Ltd.,
Dr. Semih Cetin,
Burak Dalgin,
Kobiline,
Betul Dayioglu, TURKCELL,
Cagil Degermen, Mobil Data
Services, Superonline,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oguz Dikenelli,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Dogru, METU,
Prof. Dr. Georgios Doukidis,
Onder Eker, NETRON,
Sabahnur Erdemli,
Osman Erk, Digital Platform,
Prof. Dr. Bulent Ertan, METU,
Ahmet Eti, Sebit,
Onur Evren, Intro,
Dr. Cem Evrendilek, Prosoft,
Esra Guler, Kobiline,
Dilek Guncer, KOC BRYCE,
Selim Guven, Siemens,
Dr. Veysi Isler, METEKSAN,
Yildiray Kabak, METU-SRDC,
Gokhan Karakus, Superonline,
Bulent Kunac, Tepe Teknoloji,
Nuri Gokhan Kurt, METU-SRDC,
Mehmet Kurtoglu, HOBIM,
Prof. Dr. Selahattin Kuru,
Gokce Laleci, METU-SRDC,
Jean-Yves Roger, European
Commission,
Selim Oktar, Strateji Mori,
Mine Omurtak, Siemens Business
Accelerator,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muzeyyen Ece Oral,
Teknoplazma,
Dr. Attila Ozgit, METU,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozgur Ulusoy,
Bilkent University,
Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent
University,
Elif Ozdemir, Ericsson,
Prof. Dr. Irem Ozkarahan,
Prof. Dr. Canan Ozgen, METU,
Prof. Dr. Erman Tekkaya, METU,
Cagatay Topcu, Planet
Ernst&Young,
Ali Turker, Garanti Teknoloji,
Prof. Dr. Ersin Tulunay, MAM,
TUBITAK,
Ali Türker, Garanti Teknoloji,
Prof. Dr. Nese Yalabik, METU,
Rusen Yaykin, Interpro,
Prof. Dr. Ulku Yetis, METU,
Asst. Prof. Dr. Yucel Saygin,
Mustafa Yucelgen, Koc Bryce,
Ugur Yuksel, Teknokent A.S, METU,
Birol Yuruten, Altay Kollektif,
Haluk Zontul, TUBITAK-Bilten,
Tentative Workshop Program:
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Introduction to the IST Program, Bror Salmelin, Head of Unit, Electronic
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Introduction to HERMES Project, Prof. Dr. George Stassinopoulos, NTUA, |
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Coffee Break |
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A tutorial on how to make a project proposal to European Commission Programs, Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey |
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Description of the INCO DC 97 2496 MARIFlow Prototype, Gokce Laleci |
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MARIFlow Demo, Yildiray Kabak |
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IST-2000-31050 AgentAcademy: A Data Mining Framework for Training Intelligent Agents (Research and Technological Development), IST-2000-31046 HUMANTEC: Design for Humanization of Technologies (Thematic Network), IST-1999-20216 LEVER: LEVERaging Knowledge Management in the Software Industry (Take up), INCODC-972496 MARIFlow: A Workflow Management System for Maritime Industry (Research and Technological Development), IST-2000-26429 HERMES (Accompanying Measure) Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac, METU, IST ?? DAHLM: Development and Analysis of Left Handed Materials (Future and Emerging Technologies) Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent IST-2001-33537: Prof. Dr. Selahattin Kuru, IST-2001-39151 CODMIME: Confidentiality of Data against Data Mining Methods (Future and Emerging Technologies), Asst. Prof. Dr. Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey Paper presentations (10 minutes presentation), 2 parallel sessions: 18 talks |
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Parallel session: Hands-on training with prototype for interested parties |
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Presentation on the current state-of-the art in e-business 1 (EU) Dr. Angeliki Poulymenakou, |
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eEurope+, Faruk Eczacibasi, TBV, |
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Plenary conclusions |
PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS OF RESEARCH IN FP6 IST
1.1.2 Information Society
technologies
1.1.2.i
Applied IST research addressing major societal and economic challenges
The objective is to extend the
scope and efficiency of IST-based solutions addressing
major societal and economic
challenges, and to make them accessible in the most trusted
and natural way, anywhere and
anytime to citizens, businesses and organisations.
– Technologies for trust
and security :
The objective is to develop technologies
for key security challenges posed
by the “all-digital” world and by the need to
secure the rights of individuals and
communities.
Research will focus on basic security
mechanisms and their interoperability,
dynamic security processes, advanced
cryptography, privacy enhancing
technologies, technologies to handle
digital assets and technologies for
dependability to support business and
organisational functions in dynamic and
mobile systems.
– Research addressing
societal challenges: The focus is on “ambient
intelligence” for a broader inclusion of
citizens in the Information Society, for
more effective health, security,
mobility and environment management and
support systems, and for the
preservation of cultural heritage, integration of
multiple functionalities across these
different domains will be also supported.
Research activities on “e-inclusion”
will concentrate on systems enabling
access for all, on barrier-free
technologies for full participation in the
information society and on assistive
systems that will restore functions or
compensate for disabilities thereby
enabling a higher quality of life for citizens
with special needs and their
carers. In the area of health, the work will focus on
intelligent systems aimed at supporting
health professionals, at providing
patients with personalised healthcare
and information, and at stimulating health
promotion and disease prevention in the
general population. Research will also
address intelligent systems to enhance
the protection of people and property
and for securing and safeguarding
civil infrastructures.
In the area of mobility,
research will focus on vehicle infrastructure and
portable systems to provide integrated
safety, comfort and efficiency and allow
for the provision of advanced
logistics infomobility and location based services.
Research in the area of environment
will focus on knowledge-based systems for
natural resource management and for
risk prevention and crisis management
including humanitarian mine clearance.
In the area of leisure, research will
focus on intelligent and mobile
systems and application for entertainment and
tourism. For cultural heritage,
the effort will focus on intelligent systems for.8
dynamic access to and preservation of
tangible and intangible cultural and
scientific resources.
– Research addressing
work and business challenges: The objective is to provide
businesses, individuals, public
administrations, and other organisations with the
means to fully contribute to, and
benefit from, the development of a trusted
knowledge-based economy, whilst at the same
time improving the quality of
work and working life and support
life-long continuous learning to improve
work skills. Research will also aim
at a better understanding of the socio-economic
drivers and impact of IST development.
Research in e-business and
e-government will focus on providing European
organisations, private and public, and
especially SMEs, with interoperable
systems and services to enhance
innovation capacities, value creation and
competitive performance in the knowledge
economy and on supporting new
business ecosystems. Research in
organisational knowledge management will
aim at supporting organisational
innovation and responsiveness through
elicitation, sharing, trading, and
delivery of knowledge. Work on electronic and
mobile commerce will target interoperable,
multimodal applications and
services across heterogeneous networks.
It will include anytime-anywhere
trading, collaboration, workflow, and
electronic services covering the whole
value creation cycle of extended
products and services.
Research into eWork systems will
focus on new workplace designs
incorporating innovative technologies to
facilitate creativity and collaboration,
on increasing resource-use
efficiency and on extending work opportunities to all
in local communities. Work on eLearning
will focus on personalised access to,
and delivery of, learning as well
as on advanced learning environments at
school, university, in the workplace
and in lifelong learning in general, taking
advantage of the development of ambient
intelligence.
– Complex problem solving
in science, engineering, businesses and for society :
The objective is to develop
technologies for harnessing computing and storage
resources which are distributed in
geographically dispersed locations, and for
making them accessible, in a seamless
way, for complex problem solving in
science, industry, business and
society. Application fields include environment,
energy, health, transport, industrial
engineering, finance and new media.
Research will focus on new
computational models, including computing and
information GRIDs, peer-to-peer
technologies and the associated middleware to
make use of large scale highly
distributed computing and storage resources and
to develop scalable, dependable
and secure platforms. It will include novel
collaborative tools and programming methods
supporting interoperability of
applications and new generations of
simulation, visualisation and datamining
tools.
1.1.2.ii
Communication, computing and software technologies
The objectives are to
consolidate and further develop European strengths in areas such as
mobile communications, consumer
electronics and embedded software and systems , and
to improve the performance,
cost-efficiency, functionality and adaptive capabilities of
communications and computing technologies.
Work will also lead to the next generation
Internet..9
– Communication and
network technologies: The objective is to develop the new
generations of mobile and wireless systems
and networks that allow optimal
service connection anywhere as well as
all-optical networks to increase network
transparency and capacity, solutions to
improve network interoperation and
adaptability, and technologies for
personalised access to networked audio-visual
systems.
Work on terrestrial and
satellite 3 based, mobile and wireless
systems and
networks beyond 3G will focus on the next
generation of technologies, ensuring
co-operation and seamless inter-working at
service and control planes of
multiple wireless technologies over a
common IP (Internet Protocol) platform as
well as novel spectral efficient
protocols, tools and technologies, to build
wireless re-configurable IP enabled
devices, systems and networks.
Research in all optical
networks will focus on the management of optical
wavelength channels enabling flexibility
and speed in service deployment and
provisioning and solutions for fibre to the
LAN. Research on interoperable
network solutions, including end-to-end network
management will support
generic services provision and
interworking, and interoperation between
heterogeneous networks and platforms. It
will include programmable networks
to provide adaptive and real-time
allocation of network resources and enhanced
service management capabilities by
customers.
Research will also address the
enabling technologies for personalised access to
networked audio-visual systems and applications as well as
cross-media service
platforms and networks, trusted digital
TV architectures and appliances able to
process, encode, store, sense and
display hybrid 3D multimedia signals and
objects.
– Software technologies,
embedded systems and distributed systems The
objective is to develop new software
technologies, multifunctional service
creation environments as well as tools
for the control of complex distributed
systems for the realisation of an
ambient intelligence landscape and for coping
with the expected growth and spread
of applications and services.
Research will focus on new
technologies for software and systems that address
composability, scalability, reliability and
robustness as well as autonomous self-adaptation.
It will include middleware for
the management, control and use of
fully distributed resources. Work on
multifunctional service creation
environments and new component frameworks
will aim at the development of
service functionality, including
meta-information, semantics and taxonomy of
the building blocks.
New strategies, algorithms, and
tools for systematic and accurate design,
prototyping and control of complex
distributed systems will be addressed. Work
will include networked embedded
systems, distributed sensing, computing,
storage resources and related
intercommunication. Dynamic resources
allocation will be a key feature as well
as cognitive techniques for generic object
and events recognition.
1.1.2.iii
Components and microsystems
3 The activity on satellite communications
is done in coordination with the activities in priority 1.4
“aeronautics
and space”..10
– Micro, Nano and
Opto-electronics The objective is to reduce
the cost, increase
the performance and improve
reconfigurability, scalability, adaptability and self-adjusting
capabilities of micro-, nano- and
opto-electronic components and
systems-on-a-chip.
Research will focus on pushing
the limits of CMOS process and equipment
technologies and enhancing device
functionality, performance and integration of
functions. It will address alternative
process technologies, device types,
materials and architectures to meet
demands of communication and computing.
Particular emphasis will be put
on RF, mixed-signal and low power design.
Work on optical,
opto-electronic, and photonic functional components, will
address devices and systems for
information processing, communication,
switching, storage, sensing and imaging.
Research on electron based nano-devices,
as well as on molecular
electronics devices and technologies, will
target those that promise broad
functionality and have integration- and mass
fabrication potential.
– Micro and Nano
Technologies, Microsystems, Displays: The objective is to
improve the cost-efficiency,
performance and functionality of subsystems and
microsystems and to increase the level of
integration and miniaturisation
allowing for improved interfacing with
their surrounding and with networked
services and systems.
Research will focus on new
applications and functions that take advantage of
multi-disciplinary interactions (electronics,
mechanics, chemistry, biology, etc.)
combined with the use of micro and
nano-structures and new materials. The aim
is to develop innovative,
cost-effective and reliable microsystems and
reconfigurable, miniaturised subsystem
modules. Work will also include low
cost, information-rich and higher
resolution displays as well as advanced
sensors including low cost vision and
bio-metric sensors, and haptic devices.
Work on nano-devices and
nano-systems will address the exploitation of basic
phenomena, processes and structures that
promise novel or improved sensing or
actuating functionality as well as their
integration and fabrication.
1.1.2.iv
Knowledge and interface technologies
The objective is to improve
usability of IST applications and services and access to the
knowledge they embody in order to
encourage their wider adoption and faster
deployment.
– Knowledge technologies
and digital content: The objective is to provide
automated solutions for creating and
organising virtual knowledge spaces (e.g.
collective memories) so as to stimulate
radically new content and media services
and applications.
Work will focus on technologies
to support the process of acquiring and
modelling, navigating and retrieving, representing and
visualising,
interpreting and sharing knowledge. These functions will be
integrated in new
semantic-based and context-aware systems
including cognitive and agent-based
tools. Work will address extensible
knowledge resources and ontologies so as to
facilitate service interoperabilitiy and
enable next-generation Semantic-web
applications. Research will also address
technologies to support the design,
creation, management and publishing of
multimedia content, across fixed and
mobile networks and devices, with the
ability to self-adapt to user expectations..11
The aim is to stimulate the
creation of rich interactive content for personalised
broadcasting and advanced trusted media and
entertainment applications.
– Intelligent interfaces
and surfaces: The objective is to provide more effective
ways of accessing ubiquitous information
and easier and natural interaction
modes with intelligence that
surrounds us.
Research will focus on interfaces
and interactive surfaces that are natural,
adaptive and multi-sensorial, for an
ambient landscape that is aware of our
presence, personality and needs, and
which is capable of responding
intelligently to speech, gesture or other
senses. The aim is to hide the complexity
of technology by supporting a
seamless interaction between humans, between
humans and devices, virtual and
physical objects and the knowledge embedded
in everyday environments. This
includes research on virtual and augmented
reality
Work will also address
technologies for multilingual and multicultural access
and communication that support timely and cost
effective provisions of
interactive information-rich services
meeting the personal, professional and
business requirements of all members of
linguistically and culturally diverse
communities.
1.1.2.v
IST future and emerging technologies: in this area, the objective is to help new
IST-related science and
technology fields and communities to emerge, some of which
will become strategic for economic
and social development in the future and will feed
into the mainstream IST activities
in the future. To ensure openness to unforeseeable
ideas, critical mass of research
where strategic focus is needed, and seamless coverage of
the IST frontier, two
complementary approaches will be utilised: one receptive and open -the
other proactive.
1.1.3 Nanotechnologies and
nanosciences, knowledge-based
multifunctional
materials and new production processes
and devices
The twofold transition toward a
knowledge-based society and of sustainable development
demands new paradigms of production
and new concepts of product-services. European
production industry as a whole needs to
move from resource-based towards knowledge-based,
more environment-friendly
approaches, from quantity to quality, from mass
produced single-use products to
manufactured-on-demand multi-use, upgradable product-services;
from “material and tangible” to
“intangible” value-added products, processes
and services.
These changes are associated
with radical shifts in industrial structures, involving a
stronger presence of innovative
enterprises, with capabilities in networks and mastering
new hybrid technologies combining
nanotechnologies, material sciences, engineering,
information technologies, bio and
environmental sciences. Such an evolution implies a
strong collaboration across
traditional scientific frontiers. Leading edge industrial
developments involve also a strong synergy
between technology and organisation, the
performance of both being highly dependent
on new skills.
Successful technological
solutions have to be sought more and more upstream in the
design and production processes; new
materials and nanotechnologies have a crucial role
to play in this respect, as
drivers of innovation. This requires changes of emphasis in
Community research activities
from short to longer term and in innovation which must
move from incremental to breakthrough
strategies. Community research will benefit
greatly from an international
dimension..12
Research priorities
1.1.3.i
Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences
Nanotechnologies represent a
new approach to materials science and engineering.
enjoys a strong position in the
nanosciences, that needs to be translated into a real
competitive advantage for European
industry. The objective is twofold: to promote the
creation of an RTD-intensive European
nanotechnology related industry, and to promote
the uptake of nanotechnologies in
existing industrial sectors. Research may be long-term
and high risk, but will be
oriented towards industrial application. An active policy of
encouraging industrial companies and SMEs,
including start-ups, will be pursued,
amongst others through the promotion
of strong industry/research interactions in
consortia undertaking projects with
substantial critical mass.
– Long-term
interdisciplinary research into understanding phenomena,
mastering processes and developing
research tools: The objectives are to
expand the generic underlying
knowledge base of application oriented nano-science
and nanotechnology, and to develop
leading edge research tools and
techniques.
Research will focus on:
molecular and mesoscopic scale phenomena; self-assembling
materials and structures; molecular and
bio-molecular mechanisms
and engines; multi-disciplinary
and new approaches to integrate developments
in inorganic, organic and
biological materials and processes.
– Nanobiotechnologies:
The objective is to support research into the integration
of biological and non-biological
entities, opening new horizons in many
applications, such as for
processing and for medical and environmental analysis
systems.
Research will focus on:
lab-on-chip, interfaces to biological entities, surface
modified nano-particles,
advanced drug delivery and other areas of integrating
nano-systems or nanoelectronics
with biological entities; processing,
manipulation and detection of
biological molecules or complexes, electronic
detection of biological
entities, micro-fluidics, promotion and control of growth
of cells on substrates.
– Nanometre-scale
engineering techniques to create materials and components:
The objective is to develop
novel functional and structural materials of superior
performance, by controlling
their nano-structure. This will include technologies
for their production and
processing.
Research will focus on :
nano-structured alloys and composites, advanced
functional polymeric materials,
and nano-structured functional materials.
– Development of handling
and control devices and instruments: The objective
is to develop a new generation
of instrumentation for analysis and manufacture
at the nano-scale. A guiding
target will be a feature size or resolution of the
order of 10nm.
Research will focus on : a
variety of advanced techniques for nano-scale
manufacture (lithography or
microscopy based techniques); breakthrough
technologies, methodologies or
instruments exploiting the self-assembling
properties of matter and developing
nano-scale machines..13
– Applications in areas
such as health, chemistry, energy, optics and the
environment: The objective is to foster
the potential of nanotechnologies in
breakthrough applications
through the integration of research developments in
materials and technological
devices in an industrial context.
Research will focus on:
computational modelling, advanced production
technologies; development of
innovative materials with improved
characteristics.
1.1.3.ii Knowledge-based
Multifunctional Materials
New, high knowledge-content
materials, providing new functionalities and improved
performance, will be critical
drivers of innovation in technologies, devices and systems,
benefiting sustainable
development and competitiveness in sectors such as transport,
energy, medicine, electronics,
and construction. To assure Europe's strong positions in
emerging technology markets,
which are expected to grow by one or two orders of
magnitude within the next
decade, the various actors need to be mobilised through
leading edge RTD partnerships,
including high risk research and through integration
between research on materials
and industrial applications.
– Development of
fundamental knowledge: The objective is to understand
complex physico-chemical and
biological phenomena relevant to the mastering
and processing of intelligent
materials with the help of experimental, theoretical
and modelling tools. This will
provide the basis for synthesising larger complex
or self-assembling structures
with defined physical, chemical or biological
characteristics.
Research will focus on:
long-term, trans-disciplinary and high industrial risk
activities to design and
develop new structures with defined characteristics;
development of supra-molecular
and macromolecular engineering, focusing on
the synthesis, exploitation and
potential use of novel highly complex molecules
and their compounds.
– Technologies associated
with the production, transformation and processing
of knowledge-based
multifunctional materials, and biomaterials: The objective
is the sustainable production
of new “smart” materials with tailor-made
functionalities and for
building up macro-structures. These novel materials,
serving multisectorial
applications should incorporate in-built characteristics to
be exploited under
predetermined circumstances as well as enhanced bulk
properties or barrier and
surface characteristics for higher performance.
Research will focus on: new
materials; engineered and self-repairing materials;
crosscutting technologies
including surface science and engineering.
– Engineering support for
materials development: The objective is to bridge the
gap from “knowledge production”
to “knowledge use”, thus overcoming the EU
industry’s weaknesses in the
integration of materials and manufacturing. This
will be achieved by the
development of new tools enabling the production of
new materials in a context of
sustainable competitiveness.
Research will focus on:
inherent aspects of optimising materials design,
processing and tools; testing,
validation and up-scaling; incorporation of life-cycle
approaches, obsolescence,
bio-compatibility and eco-efficiency.
1.1.3.iii New Production
Processes and Devices.14
New production concepts which
are more flexible, integrated, safe and clean will depend
on breakthrough organisational
and technological developments, supporting new
products, processes and
services, and at the same time decreasing (internal and external)
costs. The objective is to
provide the industrial systems of the future with the necessary
tools for efficient life-cycle
design, production, use and recovery as well as appropriate
organisational models and
improved knowledge management.
– Development of new
processes and devices and flexible and intelligent
manufacturing systems. The objective is to
encourage industry’s transition
towards more knowledge-based
production and systems organisation and to
considering production from a
more holistic perspective, encompassing not only
hardware and software, but also
people and the way in which they learn and
share knowledge.
Research will focus on:
innovative, reliable, smart and cost-effective
manufacturing processes, and
systems, and their incorporation into the factory
of the future: integrating
hybrid technologies based on new materials and their
processing, micro-systems and
automation, high-precision production
equipment, as well as
integration of ICT, sensing and control technologies, and
innovative robotics.
– Systems approach and
hazard control. The objective is to contribute to an
improved sustainability of
industrial systems and a substantial and measurable
reduction in environmental and
health impact, through new industrial
approaches, as well as
enhancement of resource efficiency and reduction in
consumption of primary
resources.
Research will focus on:
development of new devices and systems for clean, and
safe production; non-polluting,
sustainable waste management and hazard
reduction in production and
manufacturing, including bio-processes; enhancing
company responsibility on
products, resource consumption and industrial waste
management; studying
“production-use-consumption” interactions, as well as
socio-economic implications.
– Optimising the
life-cycle of industrial systems, products and services. Products
and production should become
increasingly life-cycle and service oriented, in
addition to the requirements of
intelligence, cost-effectiveness, safety and
cleanliness. The key challenge
is therefore new industrial concepts based on life-cycle
approaches, which must allow
new products, organisational innovation
and the efficient management of
information and its transformation into useable
knowledge within the value
chain.
Research will focus on:
innovative product-services systems that optimise the
“design-production-service-end-of-life”
value chain through the development of
and experimentation with hybrid
technologies and new organisational
structures.
The research activities carried
out within this thematic priority area will include exploratory
research at the leading edge of
knowledge on subjects closely related to one or more topics within
it. Two complementary
approaches will be utilised: one receptive and open – the other proactive.
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