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