Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge

EternalS DIT-PRJ-10-016

Status active project
DISI role Coordinator
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2009-09-16
Start date 2010-03-01
End date 2013-02-28

Project details

Project astract Latest research work within ICT has allowed to pinpoint the most important and urgently required<br/>features that future systems should possess to meet users' needs. Accordingly, methods making systems<br/>capable of adapting to changes in user requirements and application domains have been pointed out as<br/>key research areas. Adaptation and evolution depend on several dimensions, e.g., time, location, and<br/>security conditions, expressing the diversity of the context in which systems operate. A design based on<br/>an effective management of these dimensions constitutes a remarkable step towards the realization of<br/>Trustworthy Eternal Systems. The EternalS Coordination Action specifically aims at coordinating<br/>research in that area based on a researcher Task Force together with community building activities,<br/>where the organization of large workshops and conferences is just one of the tools that will be used to<br/>conduct a successful CA.<br/>EternalS creates the conditions for mutual awareness and cross-fertilization among the 4 ICT-Forever<br/>Yours - FET projects (FP7-ICT-Call 3): LivingKnowledge, HATS, Connect and SecureChange. These<br/>projects are currently conducting research in key ICT areas: (i) automatic learning of systems capable<br/>of analysing knowledge and diversity with respect to their complex semantic interactions and evolution<br/>over time (e.g. diversity of opinions due to sequences of events), (ii) exploitation of formal methods for<br/>the design and networking of adaptive and evolving software systems, where security policies and fully<br/>connected environment represent fundamental properties of effective present and future systems.<br/>Thanks to the indirect participation of the above-mentioned projects, EternalS will actively involve<br/>many researchers from both academic and industrial world in its action. This will allow for (a)<br/>thoroughly studying eternal systems' dimensions such as diversity & time awareness and self-<br/>adaptation & evolution by automatic learning, in fields of relevance, i.e., Knowledge, Software, and<br/>Networked and Secure Systems; and (b) writing the roadmap for interesting and successful future<br/>emerging technology.
Keywords Adaptive Systems, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Software Systems, Networked and Secure Systems
Fundings 549980 €
Partners
  • DIT - UniTN
  • The University of Chalmers Tekniska Hoegskola Aktiebolag
  • Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
  • Katholieke Universieteit Leuven
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Waterford Institute of Technology

DISI Sub-project details

Fundings 173702 €
Manager Alessandro Moschitti