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MUSING: Next-generation Business Intelligence T here are several pressure points on business decisions today: the data available to make decisions has ballooned, there are however challenges to using all of this data effectively; organisations must comply with more new regulations, stricter and more complex rules, shorter deadlines and greater consequences for non compliance. Now, decisions that once took days, have to be executed within rapidly shrinking timeframes; finally, business objectives involve trade-offs between risks, resource constraints, opportunity costs and other factors. All of this calls for ways to automatically extract the data, classify it, analyse it, discover and characterise trends and patterns. MUSING delivers solutions and services to enable perceptive Business Intelligence and enterprise’s self assessment activities and reducing the possible risks in decision making. Through knowledge management technology, advanced predictive analytics and intelligent access to third party data, MUSING increases the precision, consistency and agility of business decisions. Researchers in statistics, visualisation, semantics and machine learning contribute to this field. In particular, MUSING develops three vertical streams of RTD activities in domains where the impact of using Business Intelligence solutions is very high: • • Financial Risk Management (with particular reference to Credit Risk) Internationalisation Services (with particular reference to location and partnership selection) IT Operational Risk Measurement and Mitigation. telecommunications industry, and SMEs: Metaware (Italy) (Co-ordinator), CCH Sword (Ireland), Creditreform (Germany), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany), European Business Register (Belgium), KPA Ltd (Israel), University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Pavia (Italy), University of Pisa (Italy), Tadiran Telecom Communication Services (Israel), University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), Il Sole 24 ORE (Italy), Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Italy), FCG Plancenter (Finland). For more information please visit www.musing.eu Contact: Mr. Simone Nasoni, Project co-ordinator, Metaware S.p.A. email: info@musing.eu • Pursuing its multi-industry potential, MUSING is currently seeking collaborations with information and content providers to consolidate and further expand its application domain. MUSING is an FP6-funded Integrated Project on semantic-based knowledge management applied to business intelligence. 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Nevertheless, this solution becomes less economically attractive for each new technology node. This t CONTENTS Issue 7 November 2008 NEWS ANALYSIS 8 News Round-up of research news and events 47 Matters of the heart 50 Open mind Olivier Ecabert and Nic Smith on cardiovascular computer models Sarah Collins gets to grips with the science and ethics of brain implants 11 Cell factory Could researche NEWS ANALYSIS | RESEARCH ROUND-UP ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ������� ï RESEARCH ROUND-UP | NEWS ANALYSIS EU unveils telemedicine plans The European commission has adopted a communication to support and improve access for EU citizens and healthcare professionals to telemedicine. The initiative aims to increase and broaden telemedicine services, including diagnosis, tre The ASAMPSA2 project Advanced Safety Assessment Methodologies: Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Assessment T he ASAMPSA2 project (Advanced Safety Assessment Methodologies: Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Assessment) was launched on January 1, 2008 for 3 years, following a call of the European Commission STEM CELLS | NEWS ANALYSIS Cell factory Could researchers soon be able to sidestep the thorny ethical issue of using human embryonic stem cells in their work, asks Sarah Collins T his year marks the tenth anniversary of the isolation of the first embryonic stem cell line by US biologist James A T NEWS ANALYSIS | WOMEN IN SCIENCE A scientific revolution Adelheid Ehmke argues that if Europe wants to become a true knowledge economy, it needs to make science accessible to all – including women “I have been struck throughout my career by the lack of women in visible research decision-making WOMEN IN SCIENCE | NEWS ANALYSIS the detriment of European research and economies. However, a long-term commitment to addressing this situation is needed, and policies that look to rectify the multiple reasons for this problem need to be implemented. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing IMMERSENCE: What is it about? Entering Virtual Realities with all senses Being in Virtual Reality is being in artificially created environments. We enter these places through technologies that subtly deceive our perception. Today these environments reached a stunning degree of realism but they are HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELLS | NEWS ANALYSIS Fuelling the future Hydrogen could produce the engine of the future and revolutionise how we get around – if a new public-private partnership bears fruit. Sarah Collins reports T he EU could see hydrogen cars and buses on its roads by 2020 if a new public NEWS ANALYSIS | HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELLS Matt Williams This is not an area where all the research has been completed and we can march it to market neatly packaged and ready for consumers” Research commissioner Janez Poto č nik leaves 85 per cent being mainly channelled by the member states and r IMT-MINAFAB as an experimental facility for micro-and nanotechnologies in Bucharest, Romania. DISSEMINATION IMT-MINAFAB (IMT facility for MIcro and NAno FABrication, www.imt.ro/MINAFAB) is an interface of the potential user with a complex system of the services along the following coordinates: (a) NEWS ANALYSIS | HYDROGEN Elementary lessons John C. Willison and Laurent Cournac investigate the production of hydrogen by micro-organisms M any micro-organisms are capable of producing hydrogen. In the case of fermentative bacteria, the production of hydrogen allows the bacteria to obtain energy HYDROGEN | NEWS ANALYSIS Photosynthetic culture of Rhodobacter capsulatus producing H2 from lactic acid Palais de la Découverte conversion of the waste into CO2 and hydrogen. This idea has formed the basis of a number of studies, including an EUfunded programme (Hyvolution). More work would be r NEWS ANALYSIS | FP7 | ICT PROJECTS Project management Sensing appliances to reduce energy consumption, the next generation of optical networks and pocket-sized lasers for surgeons are just some of the ICT projects recently launched in the EU, reports CORDIS Energy efficiency To aid in its fight aga FP7 | ICT PROJECTS | NEWS ANALYSIS works. This field is still relatively new, and the project should help to make Europe a world leader in this emerging area. The project results are expected to be used in a wide range of fields, including communications, sensing, aerospace, metrology, quantum comm Open Service Framework of the Future! by Dario Avallone, R&D Director of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Chairman of the NESSI Steering Committee NESSI on track to fulfill its dream by building the www.nessi-europe.eu N ESSI, the Networked European Software and Services Initiative, is the SMART THINKING | ICT |COMMISSIONER IN THIS SECTION ICT 24 The digital revolution not to be missed Viviane Reding on Europe’s role in ICT research 28 Giant leaps for mankind Nobel prizewinner Peter A. Grünberg talks spintronics 31 It’s all semantics Wendy Hall and Kieron O’Hara describe the ICT | COMMISSIONER LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | SMART THINKING turned into innovations that generate growth and jobs. Europe is very competent in the ICT arena, and we should use these talents to our benefit. After all, we invented the GSM and ADSL, the system which generates most of the world’s broad PeerTV: The Future of Media Distribution P eerTV is a comprehensive application for end users, content owners, and broadband operators that distributes video over Internet with live streaming and progressive download. It was recently launched in the Swedish market by startup company Peerialism. It o Scalaris: Scalable Transactional Storage for Web 2.0 Services S calaris provides a self-managing scalable, transactional storage for large-scale distributed Web 2.0 services. It provides a distributed key/value store built on top of a replicated storage layer and an enhanced structured P2P overlay n SMART THINKING | ICT | GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE Giant leaps for mankind T oday, compact and fast hard discs are a useful and indispensable tool for the information society. We are only a few mouse clicks away from our data, which grow at a rapid rate. This convenient access has been possible due to ICT | GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE | SMART THINKING to shrink the size of hard discs at the same time. Today, all of us benefit from the developments that followed this success of basic research: with dimensions smaller than a matchbox, these hard discs are currently used in transportable MP3 players, c MINAmI : Towards Ambient Intelligence for everyday life CMOS IC circuits including state-of-the-art nanodevices Tag interrogation with a mobile phone M INAmI project addresses challenges related to the implementation of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) applications, where the personal mobile device a ICT | SEMANTIC WEB | SMART THINKING It’s all semantics Wendy Hall and Kieron O’Hara describe the new frontier in personal computing and information management T he world wide web is one of the most transformative technologies of our time, a giant network of documents and resources allowing ac SMART THINKING | ICT | SEMANTIC WEB Kieron O’Hara Wendy Hall Wendy Hall is professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and a member of the scientific council of the European Research Council Kieron O’Hara is senior research fellow in the school of electronics and computer s QKD network with node modules Secure Communication with Quantum-Cryptographic Networks (A. Poppe, M. Peev, T. Laenger) Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) technologies are based on a completely new information science: Quantum Information. The new technologies emerging out of th SMART THINKING | ICT | TURING TEST The man-machine Kevin Warwick revisits Alan Turing’s pioneering imitation game for computers to see if machines really can think I n 1950 the mathematician, Alan Turing, in his seminal paper ‘Computing machinery and intelligence’, devised a simple imitatio ICT | TURING TEST | SMART THINKING UNIVERSITY OF READING the hidden human on each of these occasions was more like a tainly very impressed by the performance. Most likely, if there machine than was the computer. The eventual best machine had been no paired comparison and it was merely a single on Objective: I n 2007, 38.500 deadly accidents occurred on European roads, which resulted in 43.000 fatalities. A total of 1.3 million road accidents in the EU 27 resulted in 1.7 million people in hospitals. This is more than the total population of a small Member State such as Estonia! In 2001, the E and increasingly popular. However, even the most eff ective vehicle-based system could benefi t further if additional information were available thanks to cooperation with other vehicles and with the infrastructure. This need is addressed by the CVIS project (Cooperative Vehicle to Infrastructure Sy SMART THINKING | ICT | SENSING TECHNOLOGY The rat’s I whiskers Artificial sensors inspired by rats’ whiskers could put robots in touch with the world as never before, explains Tony Prescott n designing intelligent machines, research on sensing technology has focused most on vision, then hearin ICT | SENSING TECHNOLOGY | SMART THINKING University of Sheffield Concept of a ‘scratchbot’, an example of what the robot rat would look like transducers (the receptors) are kept away from the contacted surface where they might otherwise sustain damage from the direct physical contact needed f Maintaining Highest helicopter standards C o-funded by the European Union, ADHER project (Automated Diagnosis for Helicopter and Rotating parts) aimed to optimise maintenance of rotorcraft while keeping a very high standard of safety. The two year project was involved in the development of pioneerin ICT | QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY | SMART THINKING Do you want to know a secret? Quantum cryptography could potentially provide us with completely secure bank transactions and online purchases. Sarah Collins investigates T wo people play a game, which ends up with both generating secrets that each one k SMART THINKING | ICT | QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY Components from the HP Labs prototype QKD system machine and which stands three to four feet away,” says Harrison. HP’s “cheap and cheerful” system – Harrison says they’ve managed to cut the price point down to $1 – will generate enough sec GAP(Guard Anticipation & Prediction ) A new approach to Health Risk Prediction T he protection of the public’s health is one of the most important aims of European countries. In the last decade, many efforts have been made to develop national and international systems for surveillance, anticipatio SMART THINKING | ICT | SEARCH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY In search of success Microsoft has just launched a string of research centres to look into search engine technology. Matt Williams reports A t the beginning of October in Paris, Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, announced plans for a ser ICT | SEARCH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY | SMART THINKING Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in January this year been around for nine or 10 years, it is developing every day, enable Microsoft to dominate the search market in the same with new applications coming COSEE Project Abstract New generations of (IFE) In-flight Entertainment Systems are required to provide more and more services (Audio, video, Internet...). But most of the IFE equipment and boxes are installed inside the cabin, they may be buried in small enclosed zones and they are not connected to ICT | VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN | SMART THINKING Matters of the heart Olivier Ecabert and Nic Smith explain how a new project to make a computer model of the cardiovascular system could revolutionise patient care e uHeart is a project recently funded by the European commission as part of the vi SMART THINKING | ICT | VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN A cardiovascular doctor diagnoses a heart patient at a hospital in Ahmadabad, India The application of this technology in clinical environments is congenital cardiac surgery and left ventricular assist devices; the next challenge, specifically, to MUSING: Next-generation Business Intelligence T here are several pressure points on business decisions today: the data available to make decisions has ballooned, there are however challenges to using all of this data effectively; organisations must comply with more new regulations, stricter and more SMART THINKING | ICT | BRAIN IMPLANTS A man looks at the CAT scan showing the implant in his brain to help control his Parkinson’s disease Open mind Implanting computer chips in the brain seems to be the next frontier in treating serious illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But is the ICT | BRAIN IMPLANTS | SMART THINKING explained Berger at a conference on brain research organised machine what’s happening in our brains. As a doctor I have in the European parliament in October. “But it can have specto be strict. There is a lot of work that needs to be supported tacular side The @neurIST project: biomedical data integration supporting in silico understanding of cerebral aneurysms, and individualized disease management and interventional planning By providing an integrated approach to alleviate the current fragmentation of relevant information and integrating concepts of Fig 2: Modern interven�onal imaging systems (top-le�; Courtesy of Philips Healthcare) allow the genera�on of detailed anatomical aneurismal models through advanced image analysis (top-middle). Simula�on tools allow detailed analysis of intraaneurismal haemodynamic pa�erns with and without SMART THINKING | ICT | ASSISTED LIVING TECHNOLOGY People’s revolution The Oasis project aims to revolutionise the services available to older people, says Silvio Bonfiglio T A health and wellness kiosk in New York transmits health data to a central computer at the Beverwyck assisted living home ICT | ASSISTED LIVING TECHNOLOGY | SMART THINKING Oasis – the project STARTED: January 2008 OVERALL LENGTH: 4 years CONSORTIUM: 33 complementary partners from 11 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, UK) PROJECT COORDINATOR: FIMI Philips SMART THINKING | ICT | THE JTIs | ARTEMIS Intelligent systems The Artemis public-private partnership could have a major impact on the energy efficiency of homes and buildings, writes Kostas Glinos A Kostas Glinos is head of the embedded systems and control unit in DG InfoSoc rtemis (advanced res ICT | THE JTIs| ENIAC| SMART THINKING Micro-machines A new public-private partnership focusing on micro and nanoelectronics has seen an overwhelming take-up so far, writes Dirk Beernaert R ecently, five joint technology initiatives ( JTIs) have been set up as public-private partnerships to addres Engine for innovation ‘We make innovation work’. That is the closing statement of all SURFnet’s communications, and with good reason. The core activity of SURFnet, the Dutch national research and education network, is to apply innovation in actual practice. This is what SURFnet has done for tw Federated access The end users of the SURFnet network, totalling almost a million people at the connected institutions, are taking advantage of an increasing number of online services provided by a growing number of providers such as other educational and research institutions and publishers. To use NEUTRONS FOR EUROPE planning for research success The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Europe’s premier facility for science and technology research using neutrons, is gearing up to meet the economic and environmental challenges of the next decade N eutron scattering is one of the key methods for i Key programmes include refitting some components of the neutron source, and building new beamlines and instruments. The average efficiency of the ILL instruments will be boosted by a factor of more than 10! A major investment-strand is to develop the campus on which the ILL is sited and which is sha BUILDING BRIDGES | ARCTIC RESEARCH | CLIMATE CHANGE IN THIS SECTION ARCTIC RESEARCH 62 Northern exposure Nalan Koç tells Matt Williams how Arctic sea ice is not only shrinking but getting thinner as well 65 Under the sea The unique nature of the Arctic marine environment, and the way its organism ARCTIC RESEARCH | CLIMATE CHANGE | BUILDING BRIDGES is much less. The extent of the ice is also smaller today, meaning that the total volume of Arctic ice is getting much smaller.” In 2007, the Northwest Passage, which runs along the northern coast of North America and Canada, connecting the Atla B uilding Innovative Partnerships Brings the Best Science to the Most Neglected Diseases: the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative For example, parasitic diseases such as malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) cause substantial morbidity and mortality wor ARCTIC RESEARCH | MARINE BIOPROSPECTING | BUILDING BRIDGES Under the sea The unique nature of the Arctic marine environment, and the way its organisms have adapted to it, holds numerous possibilities for the discovery of new pharmaceutical products. Matt Williams reports from Tromsø T he Arctic r BUILDING BRIDGES | ARCTIC RESEARCH | MARINE BIOPROSPECTING Marine samples in MabCent’s lab in Tromsø working at low temperatures should be very effective, and it is the potential of these metabolisms, and the strategies they have developed to cope with their living conditions, that the researche The Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy in Berlin coordinates an European consortium working on novel lasers for neurosurgery 19 representatives of the 9 partners and 4 guests took part in the kick-off meeting of the EU project MIRSURG on June 24-th in Berlin. After g BUILDING BRIDGES | ARCTIC RESEARCH | NORWEGIAN SPACE PROGRAMME The final frontier Norway has ambitious plans when it comes to the development of space technology, but it is also keen to involve itself in EU programmes. Matt Williams reports from Tromsø Matt Williams A satellite antenna at the Kong ARCTIC RESEARCH | NORWEGIAN SPACE PROGRAMME | BUILDING BRIDGES “For any given number of satellites, we have exceptionally good coverage. In the Barents region, this is important for us, both geopolitically and in terms of energy” Bo Andersen, director of the Norwegian space centre the Norwegian ECHOGRID E choGRID promotes collaboration in Grid research and technologies with China by defining short-, mid-, and long-term visions in the field. The outcomes are as follows: * 3, 5 and 10 years roadmaps developing a shared European and Chinese vision of future GRID research perspectives for bo The WORKPAD project aims at designing and developing an innovative software infrastructure for supporting collaborative work of human operators in emergency/disaster scenarios. In WORKPAD, different teams, belonging to different organizations, need to collaborate to reach a common goal by executing BUILDING BRIDGES | ARCTIC RESEARCH | GOVERNANCE The northern dimension Time is running out for a decision on how the Arctic – and its valuable natural resources – should be governed, argues Diana Wallis W A satellite antenna at the Kongsberg ground station in Tromsø hen the Russians planted a ARCTIC RESEARCH | GOVERNANCE | BUILDING BRIDGES Coastal ice melts in the city of Longyearbyen, in Norway’s Svalbard Islands in February this year, as temperatures hit record highs law of the sea (UNCLOS) as a model for multilateral cooperanication on an Arctic strategy, which should be published PRACE Hosts Scientifi c Workshop during ICT 2008 T he themes of the scientific workshop are applications, architectures and training needs for petascale computing. Participants will receive firsthand information outlining the current status of the PRACE project, including its progress on hardware in MEDICAL HOME CARE IN EUROPE T he average life expectancy of the European countries has increased considerably in the last decade and it is expected to do so throughout the 21st century. This situation does not only tense the economies of these countries but also questions the adequacy of the existin FUTURE FORECAST | ALLEN TELESCOPE ARRAY Cosmic company Seth Shostak says we could soon answer the question about the existence of intelligent beings in space C ould there be other intelligent beings in space? This is the very serious question being asked by a small number of astronomers, and it†ALLEN TELESCOPE ARRAY | FUTURE FORECAST “It’s entirely possible that we could learn of cosmic company by eavesdropping on alien radio transmissions or signals sent our way with high-powered lasers” technology that, at least in principle, could detect signals broadcast into space from other st THALES WAS RIGHT Transients in the Hellenic and Antilles Locii of Earthquakes of European Subductions: Water Activity, Structure and Seismic Risk Illuminated by Geophysical High-Technology O n 26 December 2004, with the SumatraAndaman megathrust earthquake and tsunami, the world opened new eyes to SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY | FUTURE FORECAST Master of the universe The SKA international radiotelescope will give us the opportunity to witness the dawn of the universe, reveals Michael Kramer R adio astronomy studies the universe in many unique ways, which is demonstrated by its remarkable track re FUTURE FORECAST | SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY Strong field tests of gravity using pulsars and black holes Michael Kramer is associate director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Manchester, UK black holes in the early universe. The telescope will also study the formation of matter from the T he EU-integrated Project “Integrated Risk Reduction of Information-based Infrastructure Systems – IRRIIS” has started in February 2006 with the target to enhance substantially the dependability of Large Complex Critical Infrastructures (LCCI) by developing appropriate models for interdepend Over the past 20 years, Europe has grown to become a world leader in astronomy. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the preeminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. To preserve and further expand Europe’s leading role in astronomy, new and innovative steps The European Extremely Large Telescope The World’s Biggest Eye on the Sky The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the astronomical telescope that has provided astronomers with unprecedented views of the Universe. A revolutionary new ground-based telescope concept, the European Extremely Large B iblioteka Publiczna im. W. J. Grabskiego w Dzielnicy Ursus m. st. Warszawy (W. J. Grabski Public Library in Ursus district of the city of Warsaw, Poland) carries out large activity among local society using different types of electronic and traditional media for making the society intellectually eLearning Programme 2006 — contract n. 2006-4529/001 – 001 ELE ELEB11 The “G&G Grandparents and Grandchildren” project, supported by local authorities, associations and public and private organizations, is addressed to people aged over 55. It is intended, through the involvement of students FUTURE FORECAST | LARGE HADRON COLLIDER The discovery machine T Two LHC magnets are seen before they are connected he Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most complex scientific experiment in the history of mankind, aims to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. By colliding particles togeth LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | FUTURE FORECAST 80 different countries. After decades of planning, building and assembling, the LHC was finally ‘switched on’ on 10 September. The world watched as protons travelled around the ring for the very first time, and in a matter of hours, engineers had managed FUTURE FORECAST | LARGE HADRON COLLIDER Under pressure Matt Williams finds out what really happened to cause the Large Hadron Collider to shut down T he state of jubilation among many of the world’s physicists as the first beam of protons made a successful circuit around the LHC on 10 September LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | FUTURE FORECAST barriers, causing some of the magnets to move. This is what to recover the situation, and we have the time to do it. But seems to have happened.” what is really disappointing about this is the timing, because The LHC tunnel is currently too cold for scienti Corvinus University Budapest Corvinus University Budapest received its name only in 2004, as a result of an integration process going on during the past few years. The Budapest University of Economic Sciences and the College of Public Administration merged in the year 2000. The faculties of the form S mart ho M es for ALL An Embedded Middleware Platform for Pervasive and Immersive Environments for-All The SM4ALL project investigates an innovative middleware platform for inter-working of smart embedded services in immersive and personcentric environments, through the use of composability and sem INDUSTRY COMMENT In the Telecommunications Garden by Lars-Hendrik Röller, President European School of Management and Technology ompetition watchdogs are often compared to gardeners. They mark out the beds, ensure diversity of species, and generally encourage growth. But what sets competition watc THE PHODYE PROJECT P HODYE is a multidisciplinary project that aims to develop a new sensing and recognition technology based on the integration of dye thin films with photonic structures. 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