From Fabrizio.Sestini@cec.eu.int Tue Jun 29 19:31:24 2004 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:27:49 +0200 From: Fabrizio.Sestini@cec.eu.int Subject: EU-IST basic research initiatives on Communications [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] This is to inform you that the 4th call of the EU IST programme, to be published at the end of 2004, is expected to include an initiative on "SITUATED AND AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATIONS", open to proposals for Integrated Projects (IP) and Networks of Excellence (NoE). Its goal is to promote research in the area of new paradigms for communication/networking systems that can be characterised as situated (i.e. reacting locally on environment and context changes), autonomously controlled, self-organising, radically distributed, technology independent and scale-free. On the IST-FET website http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/comms.htm you can find the draft TEXT of the call, as well as interesting background DOCUMENTS, on which I solicit your comments (directly to me or through the consultation forum open at http://fp6.cordis.lu/ist/fet/proposal_details.cfm?ID_EVENT=53), and the announcement of the related International WORKSHOP ON AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION (Berlin, 18-19 October 2004). Due to the foundational nature of this research initiative, we actively seek involvement of researchers from any relevant scientific, economic or humanistic disciplines: communications, computing, physics, socio-economics, etc., and therefore invite you to disseminate this announcement to any subject you may consider interested in it. I finally wish to remind that the 3rd IST call, recently launched and closing on 22 September 2004, includes a call for IPs and NoEs in the area of GLOBAL COMPUTING, with an indicative budget of 20 million euro, see http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/gc.htm, for which we also solicit your participation. Thank you for your attention, and please accept my apologies if you receive this as an unsolicited message. Kind regards, Fabrizio Sestini IST (Information Society Technologies) programme, FET - Future and Emerging Technologies DG Information Society, European Commission, Brussels