Category : Programme implementation
General Information :
A new European Integrated Project, funded
under the Priority 2, 'Information Society
Technologies'(IST) of the Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6) , has recently been launched in
Sweden.
The project, ccalled EVERGROW, brings together
researchers from Europe, Israel and Egypt, as
well as corporations such as Ericsson, IBM and
France Telecom to lead the development of a
completely new form of Internet by 2025.
'The goal of the project is to build the science
based foundations for the growing global
information networks of the future,' says
Professor Erik Aurell, one of the coordinators
of the project.
'Networks will soon not only give us access to
all the world's knowledge, but the entire
society will be network-based, from private life
and business to industry and the processes of
government. The demands on the future Internet
will be high,' explained Professor Aurell.
It is apparent to all that global information
networks are becoming increasingly more complex.
Some of the challenges lying ahead can already
be predicted. For example, a number of today's
highly manual processes will have to be
automated, such as network management, network
provisioning and network repair on all levels.
EVERGROW's aim is to increase understanding of
these problems and processes to the highest
level possible so that their management can flow
from fundamental, scientific principles.
The project will focus on three main areas:
complex systems, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and
experimental networking.
Data Source Provider : Swedish Institute of
Computer Science (SICS)
Document Reference : Based on information from
SICS
Programme Acronym : FP6-IST
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing,
Information Systems, Elaborazione dati, Sistemi
di informazione, Tratamiento de la información,
Sistemas de información,
Informationsverarbeitung, Informationssysteme,
Traitement de l'information, systèmes
d'information
Contact Person : For more information on
EVERGROW, please visit:
http://www.sics.se/~kersti/evergrow/page.php?id=1
