Awareness newsletter 5

issue 5 Summer 2012 newsletter of the awareness proactive initiative www.aware-project.eu

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FP7 FET Awareness projects: ASCENS Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles

News from the Awareness Co-ordination Action project

EPICS Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems RECOGNITION Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric Internet SAPERE Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems Also supporting: SYMBRION Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (funded by PerAda) CoCoRo Collective Cognitive Robots (funded by FP7 ICT) Organic Computing Initiative (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

Illustration of swarm robotics from the Ascens project. www.ascens-ist.eu

Awareness is a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7

Editorial As we head into the summer period, things are certainly hotting up for the Awareness team in what promises to be very busy month, with the AWASS summer-school taking place in Edinburgh just after this newsletter goes to press.

With a full cohort of students (and some turned away due to lack of space!) and an exciting line-up of lecturers, the week of the summer school looks certain to be fulfilling from both an academic perspective and a social one, with ample opportunities provided in the programme for networking and cross-disciplinary engagement. Look out for a full report on the summer school in the next issue of the newsletter.

SASO 2012 in the beautiful city of Lyon – submission deadline is the 4th July – check out further details of the submission guidelines inside. Another upcoming deadline to note is the 30th June for submitting your exchange application – remember that Awareness can part-fund your visit to another researcher or industrial contact.

Wishing all Awareness researchers a warm and productive summer

The Awareness team

Inside this issue you will find reports from recent workshops sponsored by Awareness at Wivace and WiOPT, as well as review of the talk given by Prof. Alan Winfield at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April. A list of upcoming Awareness events can also be found inside.

Those of you with research ready for publication might consider the 2nd Awareness workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems, to be held at

Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation at Wivace 20-21 February, Parma, Italy

http://wivace2012.ce.unipr.it

At the recent Wivace workshop, Awareness sponsored invited speaker Domenico Parisi (photo right), past director and, currently research associate, at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, in Rome. His talk was titled: “Two limitations of current living artifacts and how to overcome them”.

Awareness also sponsored the best paper award related to self-aware autonomic systems, the prize was a free place at our AWASS 2012 summer school. The winner was Yvonne Bernard for her paper, “An Evolutionary Approach to Grid Computing Agents”, by Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, David Bluhm, Jörg Hähner and Christian Müller-Schloer.

Photo shows the award presented by Giacomo Cabri (left) to Yvonne and her supervisor Christian Müller-Schloer head of the Organic Computing project.

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Invited speaker Domenico Parisi

Winner of the Awareness best paper award at Wivace Winner(s) Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, David Bluhm, Jörg Hähner and Christian Müller-Schloer with the paper "An Evolutionary Approach to Grid Computing Agents".

Abstract: The Organic Computing initiative aims at introducing new, self-organising algorithms in order to cope better with the complexity of nowaday's systems. One approach to selforganisation is the introduction of agents which are able to continuously adapt their behaviour to changing environmental conditions and thus collectively create an efficient and robust system. In this paper, we introduce an evolutionary approach to an agent which autonomously acts in a Desktop Grid system. The evolutionary agent is defined by ten chromosomes defining its behaviour. If two agents interact, the inferior agent copies a part of the genes of the more successful agent.

Therefore, the most successful gene combination will spread among the network.

There is a short bio and video clip of Yvonne Bernard on the Awareness website: www.aware-project.eu/2012/yvonne-bernard-interview

Awareness talk at the Edinburgh International Science Festival

The Thinking Robot Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK www.sciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/categories/talk/the-thinking-robot Events at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April were reported in several blogs. Here is the text, and drawings, from one blog covering the Awareness talk that took place at the National Museum of Scotland.

2. Swarm intelligence - the emergent property visible in bees or flocks of starlings

Robots, scientists, cartoonists - they go together naturally. So although it wasn’t on my original list from the Festival organisers, The Thinking Robot was a talk I was keen to attend.

It was given by Professor Alan Winfield and was refreshingly straightforward and pragmatic.

Taking a scale of animal intelligence, he argued that the most advanced robots today would be somewhere near the bottom, below cockroaches and senior Tory politicians (actually he didn’t mention the Tory politicians).

3. Individual - the ability which enables an individual to learn by trial and error

He offered four types of intelligence: 1. Morphological - the body’s own natural reactions and balanced structure

4. Social - learning from each other.

Whereas an animal may show two or more types of intelligence, individual the best robots so far can only manage one of them.

Keep up to date with Awareness activities: Website: www.aware-project.eu Facebook page: Awareness: Self awareness in autonomic systems Twitter @euawareness Linkedin group: Awareness CA

Along with discussing the moral and philosophical implications, Alan showed films of several robots which, frankly, I wouldn’t allow in the house. They exhibited the ‘uncanny valley’ effect - one side is cartoon-like, the other is human-like; somewhere in between is the weird, neither one-thing-or-the-other zone guaranteed to creep you out.

It looks like it’s going to be a while before we get the robot butler …

Copyright Colin Shelbourn, www.radiocartoonist.com

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Awareness Sponsor Keynote Speaker at WiOPt 2012 Jean-Pierre Hubaux

May 14th - 18th, Paderborn, Germany 10th International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

Keynote: Jean-Pierre Hubaux “The more pervasive wireless networks become, the more our private location data get exposed. In this talk, we will describe some solutions to this problem, including mix zones and their application to vehicular networks. We will also address non-cooperative behavior in privacy protection. Then we will show how location privacy can be quantified.

We will also discuss why so much public research funding is devoted to the further improvement of (wireless) networks (in spite of the fact that manufacturers will take care of that anyhow) and so little to privacy protection (which is usually not a vendors’ priority).”

This symposium brought together researchers and practitioners working on modeling and optimization of wireless network design and operations. It presented works on different perspectives, including performance analysis and simulation, algorithms and protocol design, optimization theory and application, information theoretic analysis including capacity scaling, for all forms of wireless networks: cellular, metropolitan, ad hoc, delay-tolerant, mesh, sensor networks.

Photos from www.wi-opt.org

Awareness sponsor keynote SEAMS 2012 7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) June 4-5, Zürich, Switzerland Franco Zambonelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Title: Reconciling Self-Adaptation with Self-Organization Franco Zambonelli is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1997. His research interests include pervasive computing, multi-agent systems, self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviews journals, and has been an invited speaker at many conferences and workshops. He is the Co-Editor-inChief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive

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Franco Zambonelli at SEAMS 2012 Systems, serves on the editorial boards of Elsevier’s Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, BCS Computer Journal, and Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE SASO Conference. He has been scientific manager of the EU FP6 Project CASCADAS and is currently coordinator of the EU FP7 Project SAPERE. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

www.aware-project.eu/saso-2012 10th September 2012

Invited Speaker

At SASO 2012, Lyon, France

Prof. Dr. ir.

Marco Aiello

http://saso2012.univ-lyon1.fr The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges involved in creating self-aware systems which are capable of autonomous management, and consider methods by which these challenges can be addressed. The workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of researchers in the hope that collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to drive forward research in the area.

Call for papers Topics addressed by the workshop include (but are not limited to): Methods for enabling adaptation across multiple timescales Approaches to balancing tradeoffs between global and local concerns of the system Consideration of how systems can predict future events and adapt accordingly Methods which enable performance be optimised across the system?

Techniques for enabling resource usage (i.e energy, bandwidth) be optimised?

How can internal and external context be defined and exploited?

Consideration of novel architectures for creating systems composed of heterogenous nodes which may be programmed in different ways?

New methods software engineering and abstraction for coping with diverse systems of devices

Submission Deadline for submission: July 04, 2012 Acceptance notification: July 25, 2012 Visit the SASO 2012 Workshop website for submission details. www.aware-project.eu/saso-2012

Workshop Chairs Professor Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University: e.hart@napier.ac.uk Dr Giacomo Cabri, UniversitĂ di Modena e Reggio Emilia: giacomo.cabri@unimore.it

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Are Homes Smart if they are Aware?

Abstract Pervasive computing environments such as our future homes are the prototypical example of dynamic and complex systems where the interaction with the user generates a large degree of uncertainty in the state of the environment.

While a home equipped with heterogeneous devices, whose services and location constantly change, needs to behave as a coherent system supporting its inhabitants. I will present software architectures that enhance homes by making them smarter with the goal of supporting user’s desires or saving energy. The discussion of the presented architectures will enable to draw some conclusions on the role of awareness in smart spaces. The examples illustrated are drawn from two EU projects: Smart Homes for All and Greener Buildings.

Biography Marco Aiello is Professor of Distributed Information Systems at the Johann Bernoulli Institute of University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Prior to that he was a Lise Meitner fellow at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria) from which he obtained the habilitation. Before he has been assistant professor at the University of Trento (Italy).

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (2002) and a degree in Computer Engineering cum Laude from the University of Rome, La Sapienza (1997). His current research interests are in the fields of Smart Energy Systems and ServiceOrientated Computing.

More information is available at www.cs.rug. nl/~aiellom and www.distributedsystems.nl

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Privacy embedded in the design: A self-protecting content approach Akla Esso Tchao and Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo from the University of Geneva, Switzerland discuss some of the recent work undertaken by the SAPERE project on looking at how privacy can be embedded into the design of a system, examining the issue of personal content protection; they propose a technique inspired by the natural immune system in which documents are active entities that are able to determine whether access is allowed to their content based on the context of use.

Just as the immune system regards self as cells that are considered normal within the body, the selfprotecting document defines self as authorised access to its content, and denies access to ‘non-self’, i.e. unauthorised access.

A proactive protection of privacy integrated in the design of self-protecting documents (picture, video, computer software, etc.) that analyze their context of use and protect themselves against any foreign or unusual activity.

The development of Internet and the diffusion of mobile phones allow anyone to easily publish and share personal content such as images, videos or music.

This often leads to situations of potential intentional or unintentional misuse without the informed consent of the content owner. Indeed, this facility of sharing is accompanied by a major drawback: it makes it difficult or even impossible to control the propagation or copies of such data. It hinders the protection of privacy: we may want to share our picture on a social media with our own friends, but disagree with the use of this picture by private companies for advertising purposes or refuse that our friends share this picture with friends of their own.

Techniques, such as steganography - hiding a message in the content - or fingerprinting - extracting key features of a document – allow to determine whether an image, text or video are actually copies of the original document, but do not prevent their visualisation or modification by unauthorided persons. Traditional digital rights management (DRM) techniques limit the viewing of protected content, but require special software or equipment, thereby limiting the flexibility. Most DRM systems found in media, enterprise and gaming rely on highly invasive and strict techniques, often closed or proprietary and hence significantly hamper user experience (flexibility, ease of use, etc.). In addition, most DRM systems are designed for large organizations, with little to no provision for people to use them for their own personal content protection.

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Self-protecting document Current works on personal content protection using a self-protecting approach are not appropriate for deployment for personal usage because of the cost or the lack of flexibility. Indeed, the self-protecting document (SPD) [1] uses a polarization key, which is highly bound to the user device, while the selfprotecting container technology (DigiBox) [1] requires prior deployment of tamper-resistant hardware.

The approach we propose [3] considers a document as an active entity that decides on its own to reveal itself or to be transferred. The decision depends on the current environment in which the document is evolving.

Similarly to the immune system, able to recognize a pathogen and to fight it, a personal document evaluates its context of use and denies access to its content if it determines that the situation and the intended action on the document is unusual or unauthorized. The

context of use is a composition of diverse information such as the current location, current viewer, social or physical neighbors, etc. For example, a bank employee cannot access the accounts of his clients from his laptop at home (unauthorized location); on a social media, a friend can view an image, but cannot send it to its own friends (unauthorized action); or misplaced sensitive data refuse to be read by third parties.

The technique we use is borrowed from the Artificial Immune Systems in particular the negative selection mechanism [4]. The negative selection mechanism is the ability of the human immune system to differentiate between the cells of the organism known as self cells, and the foreign elements that can cause disease known as non-self.

In the framework of personal content protection, we define self as any authorized access to the content and non-self as the opposite. Usually the self patterns are encoded in the form of binary strings.

Detector generation Initial phase - The initial repertoire of self set is provided by the content owner according to the access policy specified for the content. We introduced this phase in order to reduce the time necessary to accumulate the self patterns.

Learning phase - The learning phase follows the initial phase and depends on the kind of protection intended by the content owner. The self patterns learned in this phase are added on top of the initial repertoire of self set.

changes in the environment using co-stimulation signals provided by a human observer, and periodic updates.

We have proposed a self-protecting content approach to ensure privacy by using the negative selection mechanism to recognize unauthorized situations of usage and access of the content. Preliminary work with location demonstrates the usefulness of the concept. Future work will look at other or richer context information such as social network in order to generate access policy to the content and the self string in different scenarios.

Originally designed for the general public specifically addressing the protection of privacy, this protection system also applies to data held by organizations having to comply with data protection laws, copyright or the right to forget. It corresponds to the concept of “Privacy embedded in the design” [5] recommending a proactive protection of privacy, centered on the user, and integrated in the design of the system that protects the data.

Authors Akla Esso Tchao, University of Geneva, Switzerland Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland

References [1] P. Ram, T.T. Ta and X. Wang. Self-protecting documents. Google Patents, February 2003. US Patent 6,519,700.

Once the learning phase is over and the different self sets are constituted, unique data elements are associated to each object in the self sets.

[2] O. Sibert, D. Bernstein, and D. Van Wie. Securing the content, not the wire, for information commerce.

In NATIONAL ONLINE MEETING, volume 17, pages 333–346, 1996.

Maturation phase - Together with a randomly generated binary string, the self string is used as an input for the generation of the detector set. Any randomly generated binary string that does not match the self string up to a certain threshold will enter the detector set.

[3] A. Tchao, G. Di Marzo, and J-H Morin. Personal DRM (PDRM) - a self-protecting content approach.

In F. Hartung, T Kalker, and I. Shiguo (eds), Digital Rights Management: Technology, Standards and Applications. CRC Press, 2012.

Access control

[4] S. Forrest, A.S. Perelson, L. Allen, and R. Cherukuri.

Self-non self discrimination in a computer. In Research in Security and Privacy, 1994. Proceedings, 1994 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on, pages 202–212, 1994.

Whenever a user wants to access a self-protected content, the current access context information is used to generate a binary string, which is passed to the detector. If the binary string is not detected, this means the access to the content is within the boundaries specified by the owner. In the case the string is detected, meaning the content is accessed outside the boundaries specified by the content owner, access to the content is denied. In addition, the detector set can adapt to

[5] Ann Cavoukian. Privacy by design - the 7 foundational principles, Visited on 2012-1-16. http:// privacybydesign.ca/about/principles/.

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New Awareness Online Resources www.aware-project.eu

Since our last newsletter we’ve uploaded 10 new video opinions from researchers covering a wide range of Awareness focussed topics – adaptation, information and modelling, environment awareness, learning, emergent behaviours and technologies and systems. View the video opinions here: www.aware-project.eu/category/research-agenda-2/ video-opinions.

There are also new, short videos (2 minutes max) in our 101 Challenges for Awareness Research area. You can view them here: www.aware-project.eu/awareness-101.html Other useful resources include 20 slide presentations collected from Awareness events, covering everything from project explanations, through Virtual Lecture slides to ‘How to get a PhD’. View the slides here: www.aware-project.eu/category/resources/slideshows

We’ve been collecting reviews of papers relevant to our Awareness research domain too, providing background and ongoing research perspectives.

View the reviews here: www.aware-project.eu/category/research-agenda-2/ paper-reviews-research-agenda-2 Lastly, for those who are aurally inclined we’ve uploaded some audio challenges gathered from our Bologna inter-project meeting, in January. Listen here: http://www.aware-project.eu/audio-archive

10th-16th June 2012 Edinburgh Napier University

Around 30 students and researchers from will be arriving in Edinburgh for the Awareness Summer School.

Watch out in the next issue for a full report and check the facebook pages for up-to-date photos. www.facebook.com/aware.eu Topics will include: Self-organising and self-adaptive systems, Pervasive computing technologies, Security and socio/economic aspects of autonomic computing.

Speakers: Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Ascens Project) Jim Torresen (Epics Project) Giovanna di Marzo (Sapere Project) Roger Whitaker (Recognition Project) Jon Timmis (Cocoro Project) Serge Kernbach (Symbrion Project) AWASS 2012 takes place at the historic Craighouse Campus, part of Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland.

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Students will be working on four Case Studies during the week: Self-assembling strategies Alberto Lluch Lafuente (lecturer) and Andrea Vandin (mentor) Crowd steering in a music festival Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (lecturer) and Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez (mentor) Cognitive modelling of community detection/ definition, and cognitive based forecasting models of epidemics Andrea Guazzini Classifying human motion for active music systems Jim Torresen (lecturer) & Arjun Chandra (mentor)

Awareness online magazine More new articles have been added to the Awareness online magazine. These short articles, covering recent advances and research news, are informal and aimed at a general audience. They can be viewed online or downloaded in pdf format.

If you would like to write for the Awareness magazine, contact Jeremy Pitt: j.pitt@imperial.ac.uk

www.awareness-mag.eu Magazine Themes: Artificial Intelligence : Computer Organisation : Interactive Robotics : Networks & Infrastructure : Situational Awareness : Swarm Robotics

Latest articles: Cloud2Bubble aggregates environment-generated data, including affective data, from the system (the cloud) and delivers relevant services to the end user (the bubble).

Cloud2Bubble: a context-aware platform for enhancing quality of experience Pedro Mauricio Costa, João Falcão e Cunha, and Teresa Galvão

An example of global positioning system (GPS) trajectories from Milan, Italy.

Privacy by design in data mining Dino Pedreschi, Anna Monreale, and Fosca Giannotti “A privacy by design paradigm can be included in knowledge discovery technology to counter potential privacy violations without obstructing the information gained by data mining.”

“The aggregation of environment-generated data, including affective data, in pervasive environments enables the delivery of tailored user services with the potential to enhance users’ quality of experience.”

SensorFly: a minimalist approach for emergency situational awareness

Semantic context-awareness for application servers in next-generation networks

Ozge Dilaver Kalkan

Yves-Gael Billet, Christophe Gravier, Julien Subercaze, and Jacques Fayolle

Programming models for reconfigurable heterogeneous multi-cores Christian Plessl, Marco Platzner, Andreas Agne, Markus Happe, and Enno Lübbers

Self-organizing trusted communities of trustadaptive agents Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, Jörg Hähner, and Christian Müller-Schloer

An outlook for self-awareness in computing systems Peter Lewis, Xin Yao, and Marco Platzner

Pei Zhang

Markets as complex emergent phenomena Self-awareness in agile assembly systems Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo and Regina Frei

Evolutionary autonomic design framework for selforganizing Future Internet Symeon Papavassiliou and Vasileios Karyotis

Social Computers help to resolve global social challenges Elena Pavan, Fausto Giunchiglia, and David Robertson

Fingerprints in online media reveal the organization of social systems Renaud Lambiotte

Kiga-kiku computing and speculative computation Ken Satoh

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Events for Awareness Researchers If you know of any relevant conferences and events that Awareness researchers should be adding to their calendars, drop an email to Ingi at the Awareness Project: i.helgason@napier.ac.uk.

Awareness sponsor plenary talk and awards ACEC the 10th Track on Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration hosted at WETICE 2012

Awareness Sponsor best paper award UKCI 2012 September 5th – 7th 2012 Jeremy Pitt

Awareness are sponsoring a plenary talk by Dr. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London and best paper and student paper awards at ACEC the 10th Track on Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration hosted at WETICE 2012.

Over it’s 9 years in existence, ACEC has focused on projects that leverage the adaptability, autonomy and intelligence of first-class software agents for the collaboration that occurs across enterprise software systems. In 2012, ACEC celebrates it’s 10th anniversary. The organizers would like to continue to explore research in agent-based computing, but also we will welcome a wider array of projects that leverage adaptive techniques that may not include all the attributes of first class software agents. In addition to our traditional domain areas, i.e. Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Service Composition, we are also interested in new adaptive techniques such as collaboration when organizations leverage emerging web techniques such as Cloud Computing, Crowd-Sourcing and general Social Networking. 10th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC) June 25 – 27, 2012, Toulose, France

https://acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk

International Workshop On Self-Aware Internet Of Things

The 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012) is hosted by Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ukci2012

Awareness sponsor invited speaker SRCS 2012 Lamia Youseff Workshop on Self-Awareness in Reconfigurable Computing Systems in conjunction with the 2012 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 1st September 2012, Oslo, Norway

Title: Self-awareness and Adaptive Technologies: the Future of Operating Systems?

www.iot-butler.eu/self-iot

Dr. Youseff holds a Doctorate degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has received her post-doctoral training at MIT working at CSAIL with Professor Anant Agarwal on research in cloud computing, operating systems and next generation exascale computing paradigm. Dr. Youseff has received several awards, including the international ACM-UPE’02, the AUC presidential cup’03, XHPC best paper award’06 and IPDPS best poster award’08 at the TCPP forum. In addition, she has served as a program committee member, program co-chair and organizer to several top conferences and workshops in computing systems, including SOCC, DAC and USENIX Middleware. She also has tens of technical publications and book chapters with more than 1000 non-self citations. She is currently a research software engineer in cloud computing at Google Seattle, WA office.

http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu

http://srcs12.doc.ic.ac.uk

Self-Iot 2012

Icac 2012

September 17th 2012, San Jose, California, USA. The Self-IoT aims to be a reference workshop that will gather different scientific communities from academy and industry under one common objective: realizing plug & play, contextaware and autonomous Internet of things that will be selfconfigured, self-organized, self-optimized and self-healed without (or with minimum) human intervention.

The workshop is looking for novel ideas, works in progress or deployment experiences in application domains such as smart city, smart home/building, smart transport, smart retail and smart healthcare.

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Awareness is pleased to sponsor an award of £350 to the best paper submitted to UKCI 2012 that deals with the topic of self-awareness in autonomic systems. (Papers are not limited to the subjects given as examples above). Judging will be based on the opinions of the reviews obtained from the Programme Committee in conjunction with a panel from the AWARE project consisting of Prof. Emma Hart, Dr Jeremy Pitt, Prof. A.E Eiben and Dr G. Cabri.

Funding for Awareness Research Exchanges

Next Dead line 30th June!

Deadlines: 30th September/December/March/June 2011‐2013

Working in the field of Self-Aware Autonomic Systems?

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Are you a researcher looking to collaborate with another researcher from another institution?

Do you want to kick-start a collaboration with someone from a different discipline?

Have you some experience to share with companies or SMEs? Would you like to invite an expert from another institution to work with you, or explain their ideas to your own research group?

Would your Awareness project benefit by sharing ideas with other FET-funded projects?

Awareness is the European Commission’s FET Proactive Initiative on Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems. The coordination action funds research exchanges to encourage interaction between institutions, organisations, industry and SMEs. We can “match-fund” travel and accommodation costs for researchers engaged in research related to selfawareness in autonomic systems, especially if they aim to learn from different disciplines or transfer knowledge between academia and industry. This means we can pay up to 50% of the costs as long as the host organisation or the individual visiting researcher pays the balance of costs.

Full details including an FAQ and application form are available on the Awareness website www.aware-project.eu

Awareness is a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7

The Awareness Coordination Action project provides a collaborative environment for research into self-awareness in autonomic systems, supporting the network of researchers and engaging with a wider scientific and technological audience.

Awareness reaches out to a diverse, multidisciplinary scientific community that researches self-aware autonomic systems. As technology continues to rapidly advance, the management of systems becomes more difficult, and they must increasingly be able to manage themselves implying that they must be self-aware. Achieving truly self-aware systems is of interest to almost everyone in society as it will have technical, social and economic impacts. The FET funded projects that we support are:

FP7 FET Awareness projects: ASCENS Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles EPICS Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems RECOGNITION Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a contentcentric Internet SAPERE Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems

Also supporting: SYMBRION Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (funded by PerAda) CoCoRo Collective Cognitive Robots (funded by FP7 ICT) Organic Computing Initiative (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

What the Awareness project does: Organises summer schools and virtual lectures to train the researchers of the future and for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Arranges workshops relevant to the self-awareness community of researchers. Presents public showcase events. Creates widely accessible publications, and training materials for use in teaching and outreach work. Provides funding for research exchanges. Disseminates the research output of our supported FET funded projects. Shapes the Reseach Agenda of the future: this will gather opinion relating to the Awareness Initiative from expert researchers and scientists.

www.aware-project.eu

Awareness is a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7 2010-2013