Dissemination and exploitation. SHIELD partners have a strong interest in disseminating and exploiting project results. For this reason they have already planned an effective and realistic industrial and academic dissemination and exploitation plan. This project will give opportunity to industries and SMEs to acquire know-how and the possibility to exploit results to introduce new commercial products, identify new possible application scenarios of SPD technologies, contribute to regulatory bodies with an effective services and technology architecture proposal. Moreover, they are interested in contributing to standards as described in Section 4.3. Next sections provide a complete overview of the SHIELD consortium plans in terms of exploitation, dissemination and patents.
4.2.1 - Dissemination plan
Dissemination and exploitation. In each stage of this research, we will collect a large amount of data as well as review a substantive amount of existing evidence in the desk research component. Below we have outlined our recommended process to convert the data into actionable findings, before disseminating these in a way that will help inform policy decisions across the FSA, and raise the profile of your work externally. Working collaboratively to shape the outputs We find it can be helpful for dissemination and engagement to involve clients in the analysis process. You are welcome to join us for analysis sessions, and we have a dedicated meeting space at Ipsos MORI equipped with ‘analysis walls’ allowing the project team and clients to meet. This discussion will highlight priorities for investigation in the analysis, including recommendations for the inclusion of new risk factors in an updated risk rating system. A collaborative approach will be extremely helpful to ensure that you can take the key messages from the research quickly and easily. In this way the production of all project outputs becomes an iterative process, but importantly the report will meet expectations, will be useful and easily disseminated to appropriate audiences. Please note that our academic partner will be involved in the analysis process and will review and comment on all deliverables in advance of them being sent to the FSA. Relevant, high quality outputs We have extensive experience of producing high quality reports and, from our experience of working with the FSA policy teams and its Social Science Research Unit on a variety of projects, we are fully aware of the standard of work you expect. In acknowledgement of the importance of this study, we have allocated a high level of director time to the production of deliverables and will include sufficient time within the project plan for up to two rounds of substantial comments on the report. We have assumed that at the end of each stage of the study we will develop a topline of key findings (2 page summary note) which will update FSA on progress and provide ‘live’ data which can be used to frame subsequent stages of the research e.g. case studies with local authorities. Of course these summaries are no substitute for the reports that we provide you but their benefit is that key findings can be quickly disseminated across relevant FSA policy teams as findings emerge. These topline summaries will be short and impactful to allow you to get a sense of the main fin...
Dissemination and exploitation. The usual channels will be used for academic publication including the conferences, Diagrams, VLFM, XXXX, TABLEAUX, TPHOLs, LICS, ETAPS, OOPSLA, ECOOP, UML, TOOLS, ICSE, BMC; and journals, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, BCTCS, FACS, LMS Journal of Mathematics & Computation, Journal of Logic and Computation, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE TSE. the work to industry. The ideas behind the tools should be exploitable, but only as part of a larger venture in developing better commercial tools to support modelling. Such a venture could be in partnership with one of our industrial contacts such as Rational or IBM. Exploitation need not be hindered by making the research prototypes freely available; we will seek advice about any patent issues that might arise before taking this step.
Dissemination and exploitation. CogX is primarily a scientific research project rather than a commercial development project. So there will be no direct commercial exploitation of results during the course of the project. However, we will still take as many reasonable steps as possible to disseminate the results to potential exploiters. The channels we have chosen will ensure that the impact of the project not only during but after it has finished is as great as possible. Our dissemination plan uses a couple of innovative mechanisms in addition to the established ones for research projects. In addition, to be efficient we have combined some dissemination activities with community building within the consortium. The activities are: • Scientific publications in conferences and journals: this will be the mainstay of the dis- semination of our scientific results to the research community. The emphasis will be on joint publications in highly reputed journals and conference proceedings. • Project website and intranet: we will create and regularly maintain a public website, with sections for researchers and the general public. This will be regularly updated with papers from each partner, with electronic copies of breaking work posted on the website prior to publication elsewhere. We will place particular stress on communicating our results in an understandable manner to a non-specialist audience. The project intranet will be used to disseminate work within the consortium. We will maintain shared code repositories which will be open source, and available for public use within the terms of the IPR agreement. • Open days: in conjunction with one of our General Assembly meetings each year we will hold a project open day, with a poster evening and demonstrations. The scientific advisory board, researchers on other projects, industrialists and general members of the scientific community will be invited. We will also, where appropriate use these events to disseminate results through the mass media. • Hands on summer schools: A central plank of our dissemination activity and of the community building work within the consortium will be our annual summer schools. These will last for 8-9 days each and will combine talks from the leading figures in relevant fields with hands on work (supported by tutorials) using a suite of 12 relatively low cost, flexible mobile platforms (P3- DX Pioneer robots). The hands on work will be partially supported by an open source toolkit for prototyping of cognitive robotic...
Dissemination and exploitation. This task is to introduce the activities and results of the MODSafe project to the widest possible range of audience. The activities include the publication of papers, conference presentations, meetings with stakeholders, and publication of newsletters. A dissemination plan will be established. Together with final periodic report a plan for use and dissemination of foreground will be delivered.
Dissemination and exploitation. Scientific dissemination is of key importance and will be handled accordingly to raise awareness on the new methods developed in the project. While OPPORTUNITY as a FET project does not aim at directly commercialisable results, the partners are in involved in a wide range of European, national and industry sponsored project in related areas. The partners will actively pursue the dissemination of results into these project to ensure maximum impact and open exploitation avenues.
Dissemination and exploitation. The innovative character of the Project requires a systematic distribution of information and acquired knowledge through a variety of routes to potential users or beneficiaries. Planned dissemination methods include written information, electronic media and person-to-person contact. Potential users and customer groups outside the CrossGrid consortium will be identified and their needs and requirements should be considered in the development of the Project. In this way a catalogue of intensive computing applications and institutions potentially involved in Grid exploitation will be created. Potential users will get assistance, information and ideas from the CrossGrid Consortium through the dissemination task leader. We have already started to establish close contacts with other European and international Grid projects.
Dissemination and exploitation. The Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET is the leading unit in the field of high performance computing and networking. The mission of ACC is to offer access to computational facilities and network services for universities and research institutes, as well as serve as the centre of competence in this field and promote new developments in efficient exploitation of computers and computer networks. Since 1999, ACC is taking a very active part in the development of the Polish cluster of SGI computers and this experience will be used in establishing the national Grid network in Poland. On the other hand, participation in the CrossGrid project will be a very important factor for this activity. The ACC will promote Grid computing among the Polish scientific community. The ACC staff members have started to take part in the Grid Forum and this will be a natural opportunity to disseminate results of the CrossGrid. ACC is also going to work with partners from software companies and industrial research centres (e.g. Motorola and ABB divisions in Cracow). The daily promotion of the CrossGrid activity will go through the ACC web page dedicated to this project, where we plan to put information about the project objectives, participants, results obtained with international testbeds, as well as multimedia presentations. XXX has already decided to organise each year the Cracow Grid Workshop to bring together people from Poland and Central Europe interested in the development and application of Grid technologies; the first event of this series was held on November 5 – 6, 2001 (xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx/cgw01). The Grid technology is already included in the advanced courses for students of computer science at the University of Mining and Metallurgy. In the last two years, about ten MSc theses were related to Grid computing and this activity will be continued in the following years. About ten MSc and six PhD students from the Institute of Computer Science (which closely collaborates with ACC) will be involved in the CrossGrid Project. At ACC, research is performed in an entirely open way and the methods and software developed are available to the scientific community. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (AC2)
Dissemination and exploitation. The Polish Data Grid Consortium has been established in 2001. It includes seven Polish institutions (four physics institutes/universities - including INP Krakow, and three computing centers). The Consortium has been established largely due to the initiative of the INP Krakow. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (of INP Krakow) has been asked to lead the Consortium. Most partners of the Consortium are participating in the CrossGrid project, therefore it is natural that CrossGrid activity will play an essential role in the Consortium operations. Members of the Consortium are the partners in the POLGRID proposal, which has been submitted to the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research in spring 2001, proposing the development of GRID computing across a broad scientific community in Poland and awaiting final discussions and decisions. Experience with the CrossGrid will be transferred to the POLGRID project, if approved. Until now, the INP Krakow has been involved in the large international collaboration around the LHC experiments at CERN Geneva, SLD experiments in Fermilab, USA, and Belle experiments at KEK, Japan - all of them working intensively on GRID projects for physics. In these experiments, the INP personnel is involved in "on-line" filtering of data and data analysis, working hand-to-hand with other laboratories. One of the tasks (subtasks) of the CrossGrid project will perform the study of the use of GRID technologies in "on- line" filtering of physics data. We believe that, if successful, GRID technology could help substantially to reduce the size of local computing farms, necessary for "interactive" data processing. Actually, the INP staff is participating in the GRID meetings of the physics community at CERN and elsewhere. Some members participate in the Global Grid Forums (e.g. Amsterdam). The Web address of INP is xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/. and the CrossGrid project will be presented on its Web pages. INP will not develop its own testbed, however the testbed installed at Cyfronet will be used extensively. INP will develop the task (sub-task) of using the GRID for "on-line" filtering of the physics data which will be tested using the Cyfronet testbed. INP Krakow is interested in promoting GRID technology, as it provides opportunities for future scientific computing. In November 2000, we organized a one day workshop attended by four people from CERN DataGrid and about 20-30 people from INP Krakow, the Krakow Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, INS Warsaw, IC...
Dissemination and exploitation. DATAMAT is already strongly involved in the Grid activities at a continental level, being one the three industrial partners of DataGrid and being the prime contractor of SpaceGrid, a large project on application of Grid technology to the space field (earth observation, solar terrestrial physics, spacecraft engineering, space science), funded by the European Space Agency. For this reason, DATAMAT is already actively participating in Global Grid Forums and is, in particular, within the steering committee of the DataGrid Industry and Research Forum. Further than those specific events, generally involving at most Grid-aware organisations, DATAMAT is also, for the time being, actively promoting Grid towards the general public through the following means: • press conferences / articles on national newspapers, either on its own or in conjunction with the main Italian scientific institutions involved in the Grid (namely INFN and CNR); • a specific brochure on rationale behind DATAMAT commitment in GRID projects (including DataGrid, SpaceGrid - on going - and CrossGrid - under negotiation), which has been printed and distributed at recent GGF3 and at the last press conference DATAMAT is also planning to have a specific section of its web site devoted to Grid related projects, in particular, once it has achieved significant results from its internal investment project. In conclusion, DATAMAT will disseminate CrossGrid-related information through the same means and events, making it complementary to the already on going involvement in the other projects. Trinity College Dublin (AC14)
