Awareness newsletter 8

issue 8 Spring 2013 newsletter of the awareness proactive initiative www.aware-project.eu

awareness newsletter

News from the Awareness Co-ordination Action project

AWASS 2013 Summer School Lucca, Italy FP7 FET Awareness projects: ASCENS Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles 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) Awareness is a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7

Editorial There will be no dust gathering on the passports of Awareness researchers over the Spring and Summer months thanks to the number of Awareness related events running soon! Perhaps you will head to Lucca, the beautiful Italian city in which you can brush up and update your skills at the 2nd Awareness Summer School to be held in June.

PhD students have a further opportunity to expand their horizons and gain valuable input to their work at the AAMAS Doctoral Forum, a conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi agent systems to be held in St Paul, Minnesota in May. If you prefer to head further North, Awareness are sponsoring a workshop at MOSPAS in Finland in July. The 4th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems provides a great opportunity to discuss research relating to modelling a high-performance simulation of P2P and Autonomic systems. On Italian soil again, Awareness project RECOGNITION will be disseminating the results of their

project at a workshop called From Cognitive Activity to Artificial Self Awareness. In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, and the Third International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, in Karlsruhe Germany, the workshop on Collective Social Awareness and Relevance will be receiving papers until the 1st July. Finally, check out the CFP for the 3rd AWARENESS workshop on SelfAware systems to be held at SASO 2013 in Philadelphia.

The programme for this event was designed with input from all the Awareness projects and promises to be a great way to round off three years of the Awareness Proactive Initiative. As ever, details of all these events inside this newsletter.

You’ll also find snippets of the latest articles to appear in the Awareness Magazine – don’t forget there is still time to submit your own article – as well as a scientific report on work coming from SAPERE. Note that the last date for receiving applications for Awareness exchange funding is 30th June and that all exchange must be complete by 30th September.

Looking forward to meeting you at one or more of the upcoming events

The AWARENESS team

Download the Awareness App produced by VU University Amsterdam The Awareness project has produced an iTunes app containing educational material about self-awareness in autonomic computer systems, including videos, lecture slides, and other materials. New material will be added as the project continues.

Find out more on the project website: www.aware-project.eu

Daniel J Dubois Report on exchange between Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy and Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Considering a scenario of cloud computing in which the providers may be generic users that want to occasionally share their unused computational resources, but with much less availability guarantees than the traditional cloud providers.

Full report available from the aware website: www.aware-project.eu

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Important Information Workshops date: (tentative) September 13, 2013 Submission Deadline: July 11 Acceptance notification: July 25 Early reg deadline: August 21 Camera-ready papers due: August 14 Contact Prof. Emma Hart: e.hart@napier.ac.uk

Workshop

Overview

3rd Awareness Workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-awareness in Autonomic Systems

As technology continues to rapidly advance, the management of systems becomes increasingly more difficult: systems are likely to be composed of heterogeneous devices, the topology of the system can dynamically change to device mobility; components of the system are probably programmed with different models, and emergent behaviours can occur, not pre-programmed into the system. On top of this, users of systems expect 24/7 reliability, high levels of security, and privacy of their data. The scale of the challenge imposed by the necessity to manage these systems is such that control can no longer be devolved to a human. Systems must be able to manage themselves, delivering high-quality of service while at the same time optimising overall performance and resource usage.

This poses significant challenges – systems must respond to ever changing conditions, and continuously adapt to external context (such as user requirements and behaviour). Awareness will be required across a hierarchy of levels, ranging from an individual component level to global levels of patterns of use, system performance, network conditions and available resources.

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.

Friday 13th September 2013 at SASO 2013, Philadelphia, USA.

Background We are delighted to announce the 3rd AWARENESS workshop@SASO, which has been organised in consultation with the Awareness Projects. The projects have each contributed a range of topics to be addressed by the workshop. We look forward to a stimulating workshop which spans the breadth of topics relevant to selfawareness in autonomic computing, providing exciting opportunities for cross-collaboration and crossdiscussion of both the challenges faced and their proposed solutions.

Program Chairs Emma Hart: e.hart@napier.ac.uk Giacomo Cabri: giacomo.cabri@unimore.it Jeremy Pitt: j.pitt@napier.ac.uk

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AWASS

2nd Awareness Summer School Lucca, Italy 24th – 28th June 2013 Aimed at graduate/PhD students, and researchers from different disciplines, this summer school will cover theoretical, practical, and technological issues related to autonomic self-awareness and its various facets.

Managing systems is increasingly becoming more challenging. Different devices, heterogeneous platforms and different programming models can now be connected into a single system, and devices are increasing in technological complexity. These factors not only make systems unmanageable but lead to systems exhibiting unplanned behaviours. To counter this, systems must become self-aware, exhibiting contextawareness at an internal and external level.

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Format The school will take place in the San Micheletto Complex at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca.

This is an active and participative summer school with great social events and networking opportunities included. Participants will learn a lot and have great fun!

The summer school activities will include: Talks by well-known researchers: Alan Winfield, Martin Wirsing, Peter Lewis, Mark Read, René Doursat 4 case studies PhD Doctoral Forum PhD poster session Plenty of opportunity for mentoring activities Team presentations and feedback

Keynote

Lectures

Alan Winfield, UWE Bristol

Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich, ASCENS

Why Robots may need to be selfaware, before we can really trust them

Towards Systematically Engineering Ensemble

One of the most significant challenges facing designers of next generation robots is how to make them safe and trustworthy. Robots designed to share human workspaces and physically interact with humans must be safe, yet guaranteeing safe behaviour is extremely difficult because the robot’s humancentred working environment is, by definition, unpredictable. It becomes even more difficult if the robot is also capable of learning.

Mark Read, University of York , CoCoRo

Peter Lewis, University of Birmingham, EPiCS Types of Computational Self-awareness and How We Might Implement Them.

Capturing the Immune System: From the wet-lab to the robot, building better quality immune-inspired engineering solutions.

René Doursat, Drexel University Morphogenetic Engineering: Reconciling Architecture and Self-Organization Through Programmable Complex Systems.

Case Studies Students will develop four case studies covering state of the art autonomic systems technologies.

1: Computational Self-awareness in Smart-Camera Networks: mentored by Lukas Esterle and Peter Lewis, University of Birmingham

PhD Forum Following the success of the two previous editions, this year we will organise another Awareness PhD Doctoral Forum. This time co-located with the AWASS 2013.

PhD students in intermediate stages of their research and working in Awareness-related disciplines are invited to participate. The program will provide an opportunity for students to present and discuss their work in a supportive environment, with other PhD students and experts in the field.

It is a great opportunity to receive feedback on your work!

The forum program aims to: Give students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience.

Match each student with a senior researcher in the

2: Underwater search and rescue using a swarm of robots: mentored by Mark Read, University of York 3: Robot Swarms as Ensembles of Cooperating Components: mentored by Annabelle Klarl and Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich 4: Ensemble-oriented programming of self-adaptive systems: mentored by Michele Loreti, University of Florence

community (who will act as a coach). The coach will interact closely with the student during the forum, providing feedback on research, giving advice, etc.

Provide students with insights and opportunities for their future career.

Who can take part?

A full-time or part-time student, preferably at an intermediate stage of their PhD, registered at any institution for higher education, and taking part in the AWASS 2013.

Important dates: Submissions due: May 3 Acceptance Notification: May 20 Camera ready copies due: June 3 Date of PhD Forum: June 25 Full details at: www.aware-project.eu/2012/awass2013-lucca-italy

Doctoral Consortium @ AAMAS 2013 AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

The new FOCAS coordination action project is sponsoring three students that participate in the doctoral consortium organized as part of the conference: Jie Jiang from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Toni Penya-Alba from IIIA-CSIC in Spain, and LoĂŻs VanhĂŠe from both LIRMM in France and Utrecht University, the Netherlands The main aim of the doctoral consortium is to provide a forum for PhD students to present their research in an informal setting, discuss them with senior researchers in their field, and get insight into career perspectives after they have obtained their PhD degree.

AAMAS 2013 is located in St.Paul, Minnesota, USA and will take place from May 6th till May 10th.

The doctoral consortium will be held on May 6th.

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Towards dynamic and decentralised situation awareness in SAPERE Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, Mirko Viroli, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Franco Zambonelli A recent survey from Forrester suggests that in 2016 one billion people will own smart mobile devices with powerful sensing, computing, and communication capabilities. The widespread adoption of such devices creates an unprecedented opportunity towards harvesting and harnessing tremendously large volumes of sensed information so as to select and inform the most appropriate context aware services to support human users. More specifically, we envision a point in the near future where such devices will opportunistically connect with each other to form dense infrastructures, with available resources exploited to offer spatially situated services that adapt to their context of use, and with the ability to enhance service delivery with myriad sensing modalities offered by the surrounding physical and virtual world.

Prototypical examples of such technology are gaining attention outside the laboratory: public displays in a shopping mall intelligently detecting the presence of people and personalising and adapting their content accordingly, vehicular control systems directing vehicles to avoid traffic, and social network based applications utilising information about the location and activities of friends to recommend activities or promote encounters.

goals, and to aggregate, interpret and reason over such information. A typical arrangement is to provide sensor data as input to a classifier, which reasons over the information to produce application-friendly, semantically meaningful classifications of state—situations. Situation awareness is a key enabler of pervasive computing, allowing applications to be designed to adapt to situation changes, independently from the underlying sensor data that informs the classification.

The novelty of our work comes from developing, to the best of our knowledge, the first decentralised, selforganising approach to situation recognition based on a combination of localised classifiers and the in-network aggregation of situation classifications as they are routed to interested parties. A combination of semantic technology, context-awareness and bio-inspired self-organisation techniques provides the groundwork for our approach: semantic technologies provide a flexible framework for describing and assessing the suitability of classifiers and sensor data to given request; context-awareness accounts for application quality of service concerns that are important, but orthogonal to the resource discovery process, and self-organisation techniques provide a means of adapting to changing environmental conditions—the arrival and removal or resources and the ever evolving network topology [4].

SAPERE [1] proposes an innovative bio-chemically inspired framework where the pervasive service environment is architected as a spatial substrate where chemically inspired laws of nature, called eco-laws, regulate the overall system behaviour, grounding the framework on distributed, locally-scoped interactions to bring self-* properties to the system as a whole [2, 3].

Components of the pervasive service ecosystem interact and combine with each other according to their spatial relationships and the influence of the eco-laws acting upon them.

Considering the vast expanse of information about people, places, devices, services, and environmental conditions that we assume will be available to such a general-purpose service framework, applications are challenged to gain awareness of their surrounding: to seek, discover and filter information relevant to their

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Figure 1: The display of the Whereabouts Clock

We illustrate our approach by drawing upon the example of the Whereabouts Clock [5], a situated display for the family home that visualises the general whereabouts of family members, inferred from cell tower data, through use of a clock metaphor. Figure 1 shows our interpretation of the Whereabouts Clock, adapted to visualise the present and predicted situations of people inferred from data sourced from across the environment.

The decentralised situation awareness prototype we have developed using SAPERE's bio-inspired mechanisms has shown promising performance in simulations of various real-world application scenarios, demonstrating the success of the marriage between situation awareness, and self-organisation systems.

Our ongoing work looks towards deeper embedding of intelligence techniques within the bio-inspired mechanisms to enable more intelligent and autonomic service delivery, and evaluating the scalability, robustness and responsiveness characteristics of these approaches.

References

Figure 2: Situation classifications are generated across the network (left), and aggregated en route to an interested host (right).

Figure 2 illustrates the process of routing situation classification information towards the node hosting the application. The left-hand-side of the figure shows inferences made at different points in the network: in people's homes, places of work, and mobile devices.

Data from physical sensors attached to doors, cupboards, and computers, indoor and outdoor location systems, device embedded sensors such as accelerometers and virtual computer activity and personal calendar sensors all feed locally situated classifiers. J48 Decision Trees are used in this example, although overall the approach is learning-algorithm agnostic. Computational gradient structures extending from the nodes hosting the classifiers and the Whereabouts Clock broadcast requests for sensor and classification information across the network, while another bio-inspired pattern, chemotaxis, draws matched information towards query origins. Using Dempster-Shafer evidence theory, aggregation is applied to integrate the classifications and their uncertainties en route to their destination. This means that the situation recognition function is handled in a fully distributed fashion as the data flows from sources to consumers, allowing the resulting in-network consensus result, as shown on the right-hand-side of Figure 2 to be consumed by the application, all while the self-organisation features of SAPERE support this execution over a fluid and evolving network topology.

[1] Franco Zambonelli, Gabriella Castelli, Laura Ferrari, Marco Mamei, Alberto Rosi, Giovanna Di Marzo, Matteo Risoldi, Akla-Esso Tchao, Simon Dobson, Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Alois Ferscha, Sascha Maschek, and Bernhard Wally. Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems. Procedia Computer Science, 7:197–199, January 2011.

[2] Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, and Josep Lluis Arcos. Description and composition of bio-inspired design patterns: a complete overview. Natural Computing, pages 1–25, 2012.

[3] Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Jose Luis FernandezMarquez, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, and Franco Zambonelli. Injecting self-organisation into pervasive service ecosystems. Mobile Networks and Applications, September 2012.

[4] Graeme Stevenson, Danilo Pianini, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Juan Ye, and Simon Dobson. Combining self-organisation, context-awareness and semantic reasoning: the case of resource discovery in opportunistic networks. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Coimbra, Portugal, March 2013.

[5] Barry Brown, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph Kaye, and Rachel Eardley. Locating family values: a field trial of the whereabouts clock. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, UbiComp ’07, pages 354–371, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

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www.cs.cf.ac.uk/csar

Collective Social Awareness and Relevance September 30th to October 2nd 2013 In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, and the Third International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, in Karlsruhe Germany.

This workshop focuses on the emerging topic of collective awareness in pervasive ICT systems, which can be applied to harness human cognitive functionality and social relationships to provide relevant and timely content and computation to the user.

Humans are one of the few species that exhibit selfawareness; the ability to think about one’s own thoughts, manage one’s own behaviour and to action and respond to stimuli based on secondary and cumulative effects.

Such self- awareness represents a higher state of consciousness that allows humans to reason, motivate action, influence situations, impact upon others as well as derive knowledge and understanding. It is possible to extend awareness to ICT by harnessing human cognitive principles and the implicit and explicit relationships captured within social networks between people and devices.

Meanwhile, the growth of user-generated online content in multiple media has led to an explosion of material within the ‘long tail’. Discovery and surfacing of content to users in an autonomous fashion while maintaining relevance is of increasing importance. The rise of the

smartphone as an ever-present digital surrogate coupled with their ability to act as sensors, means that we can now begin to combine the power of collective human cognition with the communication and computational capabilities of autonomous systems to produce a new class of decentralised applications to address these issues.

To achieve such collective awareness requires a deep understanding of our dynamic social relationships and communities, mechanisms to ensure privacy and participation within such networks, and a thorough understanding of the local conditions and individual characteristics to give local context surrounding awareness.

This workshop seeks to develop the concept of cognitive self and collective- awareness at the device, at the artifact and at the system levels as a fundamental property of pervasive ICT systems.

Call for Papers: Important Dates Submission Deadline: 01/07/2013 Review Notification: 22/07/2013 Camera Ready Deadline: 12/08/2013

Publication Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI).

Awareness at AINA-2013 The Awareness project was present at the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013) which was held in Barcelona, Spain, from March 25 to 28.

That was a chance to promote the activities of the initiative, to gather material for the Awareness Research Agenda, and to suggest interesting collaborations.

The conference was very broad, so we decided to focus on some specific sessions that were the most interesting for Awareness topics, to promote activities. In particular, we addressed two sessions and a workshop:

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Agents and Intelligent Computing; Scalable, Intelligent, and Autonomic Computing; The First International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems.

Copies of the Awareness newsletter were available at the conference, and many participants enjoyed them.

Some video opinions were collected, they can be found at: www.aware-project.eu/category/research-agenda-2/ video-opinions AINA conference website: www.aina-conference. org/2013

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.

Magazine Themes: Artificial Intelligence : Computer Organisation : Interactive Robotics : Networks & Infrastructure : Situational Awareness : Swarm Robotics

www.awareness-mag.eu

Latest articles: Socially adaptive software M. Birna van Riemsdijk

Runtime computational reasoning techniques have the potential to realize socially adaptive software so flexible that it can function as a social partner for people.

I envision a future where software systems function as partners that work with, inspire and support people in varying social situations. To this end, software systems must be capable of social adaptation, just as people adapt their behaviour when changing from one social context to another, such as travelling to another culture or getting home from work. Each social context comes with its norms, regulations and laws, which I call social requirements. When presented with a set of social requirements, people are capable of adapting their behaviour accordingly, even if that is not how they would normally behave.

Digital game enables active user participation in SmartGrids Pablo Almajano, Aikaterini Bourazeri, Maite Lopez-Sanchez, and Inmaculada Rodriguez Computational awareness can promote sustainability and efficiency in electricity use by encouraging cooperative and collaborative user participation.

Recently, the worldwide electricity distribution and supply network underwent major changes to satisfy the increased demand for efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. SmartGrids use information and communication technology to underpin the network’s infrastructure and performance. Specifically, SmartGrids are concerned with policy demands to address global warming and carbon dioxide emissions and consumer demands for low and competitive electricity prices.

Important issues in the use of SmartGrids include security, smoothing out peak demand, increased generation from renewable resources, and (more importantly from our research point of view) active user participation.

Three new video interviews on the Awareness website Philip Moore is a researcher at Birmingham City University, in UK. His interests include: the development of intelligent context-aware systems, data fusion with intelligent context processing, ontology-based context modelling implemented in intelligent event-driven rule-based systems, the development of data structures for context-aware systems to enable effective in-memory and persistent storage of contextual data, and the investigation of context-aware systems implemented under uncertainty using semantic data representation with Kansei Words.

Mauro Migliardi is an associate professor at the University of Padova, in Italy.

His main research interests concern the engineering of complex distributed systems in most of its declinations.

Among these networking, metacomputing and security.

Juan Manuel Orduna is head of the The group of Networks and Virtual Environments at the University of Valencia in Spain.

His research interests concern High Performance Computing, Population Dynamics Visualization, Mobile Computing, Augmented Reality, and Simulation.

Watch the videos at: www.aware-project.eu/category/resources/video-media

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Awareness sponsor MOSPAS 2013 4th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs13/2-conference/ workshops/workshop-07-mospas

July 1 – 5, 2013 Helsinki, Finland part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2013) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Michele Amoretti, University of Parma Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca For further information about the HPCS 2013 conference, please visit http://hpcs2013.cisedu.info

From Cognitive Activity to Artificial Self Awareness Cognitive science, social psychology, socio-physics, and computer science: models and experiments

June 18th-19th 2013 Centre for the Study of Complex Dynamics, Florence, Italy The aim of this workshop is to disseminate the main results and the cognitive inspired models developed during whithin the RECOGNITION FP7 project. The target of the project was the development of a cognitive inspired model to equip the self awareness at the level of the ICT systems.

Invited Speakers Prof.Steven Sloman – Brown University (USA) Prof. Guillaume Deffuant – Irstea (Fr) Prof.Roger Whitaker – University of Cardiff (Uk) Dot.Josè Ramasco – University of the Balearic Island (ES)

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SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigms have emerged as highly appealing, scalable solutions to tackle the growing complexity of software and hardware systems. While P2P solutions put the emphasis on decentralization and sharing of resources, AC solutions are based on equipping computational entities with autonomic (self-*) features. Both approaches are of course complementary and are often combined together in modern distributed systems that avoid central coordination and human intervention. The design, implementation, and analysis of such complex systems pose several challenges, both with functional and non-functional properties, depending on network size, churn rate and application context. This workshop has the goal of providing an international forum for researchers and practitioners willing to present, discuss and exchange highly innovative research results and advanced topics that combine theoretical and practical approaches to modeling and high performance simulation of P2P and Autonomic systems.

Programme: June 18th Morning: A Tri-Partite model of Cognition: Decision Making and Problem Solving processing models.

Afternoon: Sociophysics of the human virtual dynamics: Theoretical approach and experimental results.

June 19th Morning: Round table “Cognitive ICT: insights and future perspectives” Website: http://alturl.com/tndau In collaboration with:

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