ARU New Project Portfolio 2005ARU New Project Portfolio 2005
Martti Mäntylä
HIIT/ARU
HIIT Strategy OverviewHIIT Strategy Overview
•Mission: Competitiveness of Finnish society in the conditions of technological and societal paradigm shift
•Vision: HIIT is an internationally leading research centre in modern information technology and its interaction with individuals, business, sciences, and society
•Key principles:
– End-to-end, white box, multidisciplinary research
– Networking and internationalisation
– Close link with interesting applications and users
•Challenges: Maintenance and upgrading technological and methodological competence, removal of various bottlenecks, funding instruments, researchers
Research Program PrinciplesResearch Program Principles
•Focus, long-term vision, ownership
– Core project, core group
– Principal scientist, coordinator
•Critical mass, end-to-end
– Competences of several research groups
– Networking with partners
•Commitment of companies and funding organisations
•Flexible combination of instruments => Impact
– Basic research, strategic research, applied research, innovation research
– Testbeds, living labs, standardisation, …
– Teaching
Project C
Project B
Project A
Core Project
Research Program AnatomyResearch Program Anatomy
Core GroupPrincipal Scientist
(Coordinator)Researchers
Visitors
Group AGroup LeaderResearchers
Group BGroup LeaderResearchers
Group CGroup LeaderResearchers
Partner X
Partner Y
Partner Z
Research Programs 2005-2010Research Programs 2005-2010
MobileComputing
UserExperience
SemanticComputing
Digital ContentCommunities
DigitalEconomy
Complex SystemComputation
FutureInternet
NetworkSociety
IntelligentSystems
Fuego: Future InternetFuego: Future Internet
•Focus: novel concepts, applications and key enablers for Internet of the future
•Prof. Kimmo Raatikainen, Prof. Martti Mäntylä, Prof. Eero Hyvönen, Dr. Ken Rimey, Dr. Pekka Nikander, Dr. Andrei Gurtov
•Several co-operating research groups/teams:
– Mobile Computing (Kimmo Raatikainen + 7-10)
– Digital Asset Management (Ken Rimey + 4-6)
– Locator/Identifier Split (Pekka Nikander, Andrei Gurtov + 8-10)
– Semantic Computing (Eero Hyvönen + 8-10)
– User Experience (Timo Saari, Martti Mäntylä + 8)
Raatikainen
Fuego Core 2005/2007Future Mobile Middleware
Fuego 2005Fuego 2005
Mäntylä
InfraHIPInfrastructure for
HIP
Rimey
TMBToo Many Boxes:Personal digital
asset mgt
Mäntylä
MobiLifeNew services for
mobile lifeRimey
µXMLDBXML database for
small devices
Mäntylä and Toivonen
ContextRecognition
Raatikainen
DynamosDynamic
mobile services
Mäntylä
FAMICIMulti-connected
Internet
Hyvönen
Intelligent WebServices
Semantic servicecatalogues
Raatikainen
S4ALLServices for all
Saari
UCRMLiving Labs: User-Centric Research
Methodology
Mäntylä
DRAMADrama methods for
UCPCD
Network SocietyNetwork Society
•Scope: Digital convergence in life management, identity building, governance, education, health care, security, ... Present focus: Concepts, applications, and enablers for community-oriented digital services
•Prof. Martti Mäntylä, Prof. Jukka Kemppinen, Dr. Marko Turpeinen, Dr. Timo Saari, Dr. Pekka Nikander, Dr. Pekka Himanen, Prof. Mauri Kaipainen
•Three co-operating research groups:
– Digital Content Communities (Marko Turpeinen + 8)
– Digital Economy (Jukka Kemppinen + 10)
– User Experience (Timo Saari, Martti Mäntylä + 8)
Network Society 2005Network Society 2005
Turpeinen
MC2Mobile contentcommunities
Turpeinen
RISERich semantic
media
Himanen
Global NetworkSociety
Mäntylä
MUPPETP2P trust and
privacy Mäntylä
P2PdigiTVPeer-to-peer enhanced
digital TV
Kemppinen
“DE Core II”“Soft Law” on Future Internet
Mäntylä (Jacucci)
PandoraCommunity services
for urban renewalMäntylä
WWSServices for large-
scale events
Kaipainen
USEDUrban space andexperience design
Intelligent SystemsIntelligent Systems
•Focus: computational issues related to adaptive systems
•Prof. Henry Tirri, Prof. Petri Myllymäki, Dr. Wray Buntine, Dr. Jorma Rissanen, Dr. Patrik Floréen
•MINOS (2002-2005): MDL in CS and statistics
•PRIMA (2003-2005): Proactive information retrieval
•PROSE (2003-2006): Probabilistic methods for next generation search engines
•WIRNE (2003-2004): Location-based user profiling
•SIB (2003-2005): Topic-specific search engines
•ALVIS (2004-2006): Superpeer search engine
Intelligent Systems 2005Intelligent Systems 2005
Myllymäki (Tirri)
SIBSearch-ina-box:
Next generation Internet search
Tirri
ALVISSuperpeer search
engine
Tirri
MINOSMinimum description
length modeling incomputer science and
statistics
Tirri PROSE
Probabilistic methodsfor next generation
search engines
Myllymäki PRIMA
Proactive informationretrieval
Myllymäki OurWeb
User roles in contextaware community
collaboration
Myllymäki CIVI
Cognitively inspired visual interfaces
Myllymäki LAAWRTS
Learning and adaptiveagents in water resources
and transportationsystems
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•TEKES open call, no firm deadline but preferably by end of 2004
•CEC FP6 IST 4th call, March 2005?
•TEKES Fenix call, April 2005?
•Academy of Finland general call, May 2005
•TEKES NETS follow-up program call?
•TEKES TULI call (if applicable)?
Fuego Core 2005/2007Fuego Core 2005/2007
•Fuego Core 2005/7: Future Mobile Middleware
•Focus on middleware communication, mobile distributed event system, XML/RDF data access, and software configuration management. Also contribute to international standardization, particularly to W3C.
•Kimmo Raatikainen, Sasu Tarkoma
•Co-operation with UC Berkeley, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), possibly also Tshingua University (Beijing, China)
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
TMBTMB
•TMB: Too Many Boxes
– How will users manage their files on multiple handheld devices, computers, and home/car entertainment boxes? How to combine control with simplicity, rejecting both complete automation and complex graphical user interfaces?
– Build on PDIS/PDOS results to enable user studies using engineering prototypes
•Ken Rimey
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
µXMLDBµXMLDB
• µXMLDB: An XML Data Base for Mobile Devices
– Automatic index management; Query language; Representation of stored XML; Resource usage in mobile devices; Support for distributed databases
– Deliverables: Open source C implementation for Unix and Symbian OS
•Kenneth Oksanen, Vilho Raatikka
•Co-operation with Laboratory of Information Processing Science
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
Living Labs: UCRMLiving Labs: UCRM
•Living Labs: User-Centric Research Methodology
– Investigate co-evolution of technology and human activities, overcoming lack of critical mass, insufficient test duration, poor instrumentation, and single-trial designs of conventional field studies.
– Expose phenomena such as social innovations, domestication, appropriation, repurposing, …
•Timo Saari, Antti Oulasvirta, Esko Kurvinen
•Co-operation with CKIR, Helsinki School of Economics
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
MobiCustMobiCust
•MobiCust: Customizing Mobile Knowledge Work
– Study various scenarios team-based mobile knowledge work and investigate the facilitation of performance in selected work tasks by prototyping customized mobile technologies
– Develop design guidelines and rules for customized services, applications and technologies
•Timo Saari, Giulio Iacucci, Petri Myllymäki
•Co-operation with CKIR, Helsinki School of Economics
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
OurWebOurWeb
•OurWeb: Detecting User Roles for Context Aware Collaborative Software
•Miikka Miettinen
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
GNSGNS
•GNS: Global Network Society
– Study the logic and dynamics of the network society at global level and its main challenges especially from the viewpoint of the development of China
•Pekka Himanen
•Co-operation with Prof. Manuel Castells (University of Southern California ) and Prof. Youtien Hsing (UC Berkeley/BCIS and CITRIS )
•TEKES open call, aim at 100% strategic funding
P2PdigiTVP2PdigiTV
•P2PdigiTV: Peer-to-Peer Digital Television
– How can copyrighted content be distributed so that its use can be controlled (and charged)?
– How should the distribution be arranged to provide adequate facilities for search, metadata management, media conversions, etc.?
– Which business models are feasible?
•Olli Pitkänen and Tommo Reti
•Co-operation with Prof. Petri Vuorimaa, TML laboratory
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
DE Core IIDE Core II
•DE Core II: Soft Law on the Future Internet
– How can unconventional agents (communities, groups, …) act in various roles in digital economy?
– Which conventions or rules characterise this?
– Can these rules be accommodated in a legal framework to build trust, facilitate risk management, provide conflict resolution, and add transparency?
•Jukka Kemppinen
•TEKES open call
•Companies:
– TBD
CEC ProjectsCEC Projects
•Move it!
– Giulio Jacucci, NEST
•Pandora
– Giulio Jacucci, IST FET
•FAMICI
– Andrei Gurtov, Martti Mäntylä, IST FET
Eureka ProjectsEureka Projects
•Services for All
– Kimmo Raatikainen