Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage 1 Analysis of the State of the Art and Development of Concepts Workpackage number : 1 Start date or starting event: Month 1 Participant number: AIT ONB SR IMAC SUL LMG NRM KVA TARX MECH MUS MOT Person-months per participant: 8 4 7 10 3 1 1 1 6 1 3 11 Participant number: SPAC ALI CC SIE GRAN IAT ZEUS SI CERT ICCS VALT TINC Person-months per participant: 3 1 4 8 1 5 15 8 6 7 14 5 Objectives Analysis of the State of the Art and Development of Concepts (Phase I) Work Area A: Task 1.1: Definition of content to be provided. To provide high quality digital assets and services it is necessary to analyse the available content at partner sites. The important decision to take consists in defining what objects or surrogates might attract potential users or could be a basis for follow up added value processing. The nature of data will not only be of cultural & scientific type; goods available in museum shops have to be documented too to provide internet access to the museum shop. It might be useful not only store “primary” goods immediately for use of further processing, but also “eye catcher” suited to invoke a on demand process eventually doing a painting according to a theme offered in the REGNET – store (“painting on demand”). It should also be investigated if real goods, or replicates thereof will be offered. This means that the necessary logistics has to be set up properly (e.g. framing a painting). Having the world wide market in mind, even a mineral collection which was eventually a candidate for disposal might raise value via an auction over the internet. Task 1.2: Development of a documentation and digitisation plan for content creation and management. The objects to be used within REGNET differ in type, size, quality and quantity. In general two streams of actions have to be considered: retrospective digitisation and day to day cataloguing work. The first baseline for this task will be to differentiate the object type: Real objects (found in museums), Bibliographic objects (library, archives), Media objects (surrogates like images, films, etc), The documentation and digitisation plan should recognize the possibilities (financial, personnel support available) of a cultural institution as well as latest technology. During this task it should be investigated, if the establishment of a digitisation centre might be useful to serve a region using the REGNET service infrastructure. Work Area B:
Workpackage descriptions. This section contains a description of each workpackage. The person-months given refer to the researchers that are employed by the project; additional labour will be provided by the main investigators themselves. The numbering of tasks is non-consecutive because this is an revision of the original project description to take account of progress made up to the end of the second year. Some tasks have been deleted, some have been merged, and some have been added. Workpackage description Workpackage number: WP1 — Virtual machine and cost model Start date: month 1 Person-months for each participant: 12 pm for participant 1, 0 pm for participant 2 Objectives Definition of virtual machine platform, formalization of cost model, and collection of ex- amples. Description of work This workpackage provides the basis for the research in the remaining packages. The overall goal of the project is to build a framework for Java-style downloadable bytecode equipped with checkable certificates regarding their usage of resources. The executable part of these will be bytecode for a specific virtual machine, to be defined in 1a. Claims about resource usage will refer to the cost model defined in 1b, which specifies the amounts of various kinds of resource that are consumed during execution. For the sake of connecting with current practice, we will employ a version of the Java Virtual Machine Language. We plan to investigate the suitability of Microsoft’s .NET intermediate language as an alternative platform at an early stage (1d). If JVML turns out to be too restrictive for our purposes then we could switch attention to .NET.
Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage 1 Analysis of the State of the Art and Development of Concepts Workpackage number : 1 Start date or starting event: Month 1 Participant number: AIT ONB SR IMAC SUL LMG NRM KVA TARX MECH MUS MOT
Workpackage descriptions. WP0 Description - JPMA WP number 0 Start date or starting event: T0 (start of the project) WP Title Jointly-executed Programme of Management Activities (JPMA) Activity type MGT Management of the consortium WP Leader Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Floralis) Participant number 1 Participant short name Floralis Person- months per participant 63,00 Objectives The XxX Management organization is carried out through three activities: Strategic Management, Operational Management and Relations with the R&D Community at large. Description of work The Management Workpackage includes the Strategic Management and Operational Management activities. • Strategic Management o Yearly plenary meetings, at T0, T0+12, T0+24, T0+36, T0+48 will be organised, to plan the work in detail. • Operational Management o Operational management implements the yearly plenary meeting decisions, and the setting up the infrastructure. • Relations with the R&D Community at large o Direct interaction and relations with the community in the large are mainly handled by the ArtistDesign Office. The main strategic directions and orientations are decided the Strategic Management Board.
Workpackage descriptions. Below we describe the contribution of Actions to the different WP's. The following coding is applied to denote tasks: TaskWx.Ay represents a task of Workpackage x performed by Action y. If the TaskWx.Ay has many subtasks they are denoted by their Number z : XxxxXx.Xx.Xx. The values of x and y can range from 0 to 4 where A0 denotes the action of the Coordinator. We write Task.Wx.All to denote a task performed by all partners.
Workpackage descriptions. This section contains a description of each workpackage. The person-months given refer to the researchers that are employed by the project; additional labour will be provided by the main investigators themselves. Workpackage description Workpackage number: WP1 — Virtual machine and cost model Start date: month 0 Person-months for each participant: 9 pm for participant 1, 4 pm for participant 2 Objectives Definition of virtual machine platform, formalization of cost model, and collection of ex- amples. Description of work This workpackage provides the basis for the research in the remaining packages. The overall goal of the project is to build a framework for Java-style downloadable bytecode equipped with checkable certificates regarding their usage of resources. The executable part of these will be bytecode for a specific virtual machine, to be defined in 1a. Claims about resource usage will refer to the cost model defined in 1b, which specifies the amounts of various kinds of resource that are consumed during execution. For the sake of connecting with current practice, we will employ a version of the Java Virtual Machine Language. We plan to investigate the suitability of Microsoft’s .NET intermediate language as an alternative platform at an early stage (1d). If JVML turns out to be too restrictive for our purposes then we could switch attention to .NET.
Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage title: Frameworks and Calculi for Dynamic Software Assembly Workpackage number: 1 Start date or starting event: month 0 Participant: GE-DISI HWU ICSTM TO-DI Person-months per participant: 22 5 11 5
Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage 1: Tasks for the Research Theory and Development Group on Smart Adaptive Systems (RTD SAS) Leading Key node: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Austria) represented by Xx. Xxxxx DORFFNER. Workpackage number 1.1 Participant number1: 4 11 16 19 28 42 Objectives In general to advance theory on Smart Adaptive Systems. Particularly: • to focus research interest on finding solutions for adaptive systems that can perform even in the presence of non- stationary environments • to improve portability of Intelligent Technologies in other environments • to identify novel directions of research on algorithms and methods with respect to their applicability in industry • to promote co-operation and fruitful interchange of ideas and lift barriers and isolation among all Intelligent Technology areas through common actions. Description of work
Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage 1 Description Workpackage number WP1 Start date or starting event: 0 Workpackage title: Structured overlay network and basic mechanisms Participant id 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Objectives To design and implement a structured overlay network that provides the basic self management abilities of node failure/removal/addition, and that provides the self management primitives (detectors and actuators) needed by the service architecture of WP2. Description of work T1.1 Low-level self-management for structured overlay networks (UCL:4, KTH:2, INRIA:2 NUS:4) This task will design the self-management mechanisms and their algorithms that are normally part of a structured overlay network. These mechanisms will handle node failure, node removal, node addition, state monitoring, and a simple threat model. T1.2 High-level self-management primitives in structured overlay networks (UCL:4, KTH:2, INRIA:6, NUS:4) This task will design the required primitives for configuration, versioning, updating. These primitives are detectors and actuators; they are needed for systems built on top of the structured overlay network. These will be used by the service architecture of WP2 when interacting with the structured overlay network, by the storage service of WP3, and by the self management services of WP4. T1.3 Security for structured overlay networks (NUS:9, KTH:2) This task will look at (1) identifying the relevant threats, (2) integrating security mechanisms into the overlay network, and (3) building a distributed monitoring system for detection of security violations.
Workpackage descriptions. Workpackage number : 1 Television & Broadcast Transmission Development of technology for low bit-rate signing transmission in broadcast TV. This will use signing captured directly from an expert signer, and will produce a television broadcast system for delivering sign language from this source to a photo-real virtual human driven at the receiver. The broadcast will either be of a live signer or of a recorded signer. Further development of technology to transmit signing represented in the ViSiCAST-GML intermediate language (defined in Workpackage 5). Ensure that ViSiCAST technology is properly integrated into relevant international standards. On the one hand, ViSiCAST technology should exploit existing standards, wherever relevant. On the other hand, the innovative aspects of ViSiCAST technology should be incorporated into emerging standards and systems, such as the multimedia home platform (MHP) within DVB, and the MPEG series of standards. Develop strategies for the implementation of the virtual signer in television set-top boxes, through consultation with the consumer electronics industry. Note: In the following Workpackage descriptions additional participant code designations are introduced for the administrative convenience of the project. Both ‘ITC-U’ and ‘UKPO-U’ mean ‘UEA’, and ‘ITC-T’ means ‘TV’. B3. Workpackage description Start date or starting event: Month 1 Participant number: 2 5 6 6 Person-months per participant: IRT 21 UEA7 INT 16 ITC-T 6 Objectives Description of work Proposal of appropriate XML-extension for standardisation to the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) project within the DVB standard. Suitability research on existing broadcast transport layers, such as Intercast/ATVEF, DAB or DVB for ViSiCAST data transmission. Definition and development of software converter tools for sign-language into broadcast format (VBI, MPEG-2 and/or MPEG-4 and/or MPEG-7). Requirements definition for, and development of hardware insertion tools (“multiplexer”) on transmitter side via VBI or appropriate MPEG standard. Virtual human body animation, within MPEG-4 framework, including:
