Progress Beyond the State of the Art. In this section we describe the State of the Art (SOTA) of access and aggregation network architectures in support to both fixed and mobile services, and we discuss the advances that the project COMBO proposes. To ease the exposition, we first treat the SOTA in the two network domains (fixed and mobile) separately, and then we discuss SOTA and progress beyond the current state as envisioned in COMBO in Fixed-Mobile- Converged architecture.
1.2.1 State of the Art in the Fixed Network Segment
1.2.2 State of the Art in the Mobile Network Segment WiFi technology operates in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz bands that are designated as "license-free" [21], and is based on a set of standards, namely IEEE 802.11. The recently defined standard IEEE 802.11n-2009 allows essentially increasing network throughput up to 450 Mbit/s with the use of four spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz [22]. Moreover, upcoming “Next Generation” WiFi (NG WiFi) standards such as 802.11ac (operating at 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz bands) or 802.11ad (operation at 60 GHz band, mainly based on the WiGig industry forum specifications) will support data rates of multiple Gbit/s [23].Taking into account the limitations of the radio frequency resources and the rapidly increasing demand for higher data rates, the use of LTE and NG WiFi technologies may be considered as the most promising ones for the mobile network segment.
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. Through a number of projects during the last ten years an e-Infrastructure for scientific computing spanning the globe has been established. Notable milestones are the US Globus Toolkit and Condor from the nineties. In Europe, the European Data Grid, UK e-Science project and the subsequent EGEE project made major steps towards a dependable, consistent and secure e-Infrastructure for research - not only in Europe but also all over the world. The development of Grid technology has moved the individual researcher’s access to remote resources from protocol level to application level. This not only increases productivity but the whole concept of Grids also makes the various resources on Internet visible to the individual researcher and thus stimulates the scientific vision. BalticGrid-II will reinforce and develop the provision of integrated services established in the BalticGrid project through a set of dedicated actions; • Formation of Application Support Centres (ASC). To integrate applications, specialists that understand all the different levels of the technology (compute systems, middleware and applications) are need. In each Baltic State and in Belarus at least two such specialists will be trained during the first 12 months of the project. Those specialists will form an ASC. After training, the ASCs will work on Gridification of the applications identified in NA3, and also give consultations to the Grid users (SA3). BalticGrid-II will further make substantial effort to coordinate high-quality research in the region. Specifically this will be done by; Through these efforts BalticGrid-II plan to advance the development of e-Science in the Baltic region. The starting point for BalticGrid-II will be the results of the BalticGrid project. Part from an established e-Infrastructure with a number of sites covering all the countries in the consortium the BalticGrid project has made a major impact throughout the region. The BalticGrid project is of high strategic importance to the Baltic States and focused on the integration of the Baltic States into the European Grid infrastructure as developed and operated by EGEE. The project exploits EGEE developments as well as developments in related Grid projects to avoid duplication of effort. The innovations in the BalticGrid project are primarily expected to occur in the Joint Research Activity, which is focused on accounting, user management and support for Service Level Agreements. The BalticGrid project has completed ...
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. The ANDES project has been organized to efficiently provide significant progress in all the steps of the nuclear data life cycle: measurements, evaluation, validation, utilization, dissemination and feedback. A selected realistic number of the most important pending problems is addressed to reduce the contribution of nuclear data to uncertainties in the prediction and estimation of key reactor and fuel cycle systems parameters that are related to safety of operation and sustainability of nuclear energy. Such progress will help to improve the understanding of benchmark experiments and tests with pilot plants and will therefore allow a more efficient, and thus less costly, research and development trajectory for the introduction of advanced reactors and their associated fuel cycles. To be effective the topics tackled by ANDES are guided by recent studies of expert groups that identified the main nuclear data contributing to the uncertainties of parameters of interest to system engineers. Thus, progress will be sought in areas that are of main interest.
1). All these cross section measurements concern reactions for which the current nuclear data uncertainty is significantly larger than that necessary to satisfy the targets of modelling uncertainties established by systems engineers. Therefore, the emphasis for the measurement efforts will be on reducing experimental uncertainty and to quantify the covariances and limits of the techniques employed. In particular, attention will be paid to systematic effects that impact the measurement results. For key reactions this implies comparing measurement results obtained at different facilities with different state-of-the-art setups in order to obtain the best possible understanding of systematic effects. For inelastic scattering relatively little accurate experimental results were published and therefore a substantial amount of data will result from the project for the important cases of 238U, 23Na, 56Fe, 28Si and Zr. For capture, new methods and setups were recently developed that warrant improved accuracy of the new proposed experiments for 238U and 241Am. Thus a substantial step towards meeting the target uncertainties for these reactions is anticipated. Similarly, recent progress in equipment and methodology development warrants important new experimental results for neutron-induced fission cross sections of 240,242Pu, 243Am and 245Cm by the direct technique and the very difficult case of 238Pu by surrogate neutro...
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. The FIGARO platform will be modular and flexible such that individual components may be included and extended depending on the individual needs of the farmer. Beyond existing DSS describe, the envisioned product will include the multitude of factors mentioned above as part of the unified system. For the purpose of this project the state of the art irrigation management system (described below) will be used as a basis. New and adapted technologies will be developed and integrated on top of the FIGARO platform to form a novel and practical tool which will be validated and demonstrated extensively across the climate zones of Europe.
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. This section positions PHEME vis-à-vis latest techniques and on-going research efforts, and defines XXXXX’s novel contributions.
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. In this section we describe the State of the Art (SOTA) of access and aggregation network architectures in support to both fixed and mobile services, and we discuss the advances that the project COMBO proposes. To ease the exposition, we first treat the SOTA in the two network domains (fixed and mobile) separately, and then we discuss SOTA and progress beyond the current state as envisioned in COMBO in Fixed- Mobile-Converged architecture.
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. The HATS project will develop a formal foundation for the modeling, analysis, and verification of software families and thus leverage technologies from various areas of research. Below, we briefly review how HATS will extend the state of the art for software family development and for the most relevant modeling and analysis techniques. Formal methods for software families are of vital importance for the competitiveness of European industry [155]. The IP project Assert1 on “automated proof based system and software engineering for real-time applications” develops techniques for families of real-time embedded systems in European avionics. The importance of software families for European industry requires the development of a variety of formal methods for different applications. In contrast to Xxxxxx, we focus on business applications with a direct impact on the quality of life of European citizens. Furthermore, our techniques will be more generally applicable, and thereby contributing to the competitiveness of European industry.
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. The single most important S&T innovation of MOLTO will be a mature system for multilingual on-line translation, scalable to new languages and new application domains. The following table gives an overview of how MOLTO advances the state of the art. The baseline is the current capability of systems that permit automatic publishing quality translation, such as the WebALT mathematics translation and other comparable systems based on GF or other techniques. We are not comparing the progress with Google Translate and Systran here, because these systems don’t achieve the desired translation quality. Languages up to 7 up to 15 10 xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx 11 xxxx://xxx.xxxx.xxx/classifications/ipc/en/ Domain size 100’s of words 1000’s of words Robustness none open-text capability Development per domain months days Development per language days hours Learning (grammarians) weeks days Learning (authors) days hours The single most important tangible product of MOLTO is a software toolkit, available via the MOLTO website. The toolkit is a family of open-source software products:
1. a grammar development tool, available as an IDE and an API, to enable the use as a plug-in to web browsers, translation tools, etc, for easy construction and improvement of translation systems and the integration of ontologies with grammars
Progress Beyond the State of the Art. In the following the objectives listed in Tables 1 and 2 of the proposal are shortly addressed and the state-of-the-art discussed, according to the Table shown below:
Progress Beyond the State of the Art
