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Network
of Excellence
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CARiMan
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The
Internet Portal for Computer Aided Risk Management
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Responsible: ICS,
Assistance: all partners
An overall description of
the goals, content and strategy of the JPA is provided in B.1. .. B.4.
In this section we provide the detailed survey, in the form of
Work-Packages, of the work planned during the first 18 months of the project.
The history of the CARiMan
NoE explains how its main characteristics were defined. The first step toward
the NoE CARiMan was initiated on the beginning of 2002 by the Call for the
Expressions of Interest for the 6th Frame Programme, by the European Commission.
ICS,
a really small enterprise in the German "Neue Länder", recognised the
chance for international cooperation and further development of innovative
methods in real time recognition of signals, such as EEG, ECG eye-blink,
acceleration, sound, natural speech, video, and other noisy signals. Thus, it
designed an Expressions of Interest in related fields:
NoE: CAEPS - Computer
Aided Environment Protection System
http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=37066
http://eoi.cordis.lu/docs/int_37066.pdf
NoE: PatiMon -
Patient Monitoring
http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=37068
http://eoi.cordis.lu/docs/int_37068.pdf
IP: RecoPhone -
Recognition of Phonemes
http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=37070
http://eoi.cordis.lu/docs/int_37070.pdf
All these proposals were
based on an innovative method for signal recognition [ICS1 / 1989, ICS2 / 1990].
The aim of this work and these proposals is the overwhelming of the problems by
international cooperation with engaged and excellent scientists in Germany and
Europe. These tasks are related to IST and designed in the form of JPAs
described in B.4.2
Programme for jointly executed research activities of CARiMan. The
Integrating activities in B4.1 have been initiated by many contacts with
experts, especially in the different fields. This collaboration resulted in the
applications of CARiManS in various rapidly developing fields as integrating
activities.
Towards the successful and
efficient implementation of these activities, we have integrated many partners
in related fields, especially from the NAS. For the development of the proposal,
the following time-table was designed and implemented:
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Start of the development of the proposal
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17th May 2003
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Date of publication
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17th June 2003
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1. Draft and 1.
virtual conference
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1th ...7th
July 2003
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Information
Day “Improving Risk Management”
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3th
July 2003 Brussels
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Letter of Commitment and
contributions
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15th July 2003
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2. Draft and 2.
virtual conference
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15th ...20th
August 2003
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Full proposal and 2.
virtual conference
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15th September
2003
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Last reading and
optimisation
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Closure date
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15th October
2003 at 17.00 (Brussels local time)
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This project will also
provide the centralisation of research and development facilities among European
Countries which involves large and complex research that is centrally
orchestrated while distributed over a number of research sites rather than
conducted at a single site. This European co-operation will require deep
involvement and innovation in science, engineering, and medicine around Europe
and will provide goal oriented research, high technical competency and clear
benefits. Since both the scientific disciplines and the economic sectors are
included in the collaborative arrangements the efforts will be focused to common
problems more efficiently. In an effort to match problem complexity with
organisational breadth, institutions themselves can expand and consume ever
greater resources for their own management and administration.
The work to be performed in the first 18 months towards the successful
integration of the JPA is described in the following by means of specific work
packages. In the first stage of development we present the integrating
activities within the framework of several applications of CARiManS and the
integrated research work for the development of the hardware, software and
communications aspects of CARiManS. In a second stage, the CARiManS Teaching
Systems (CATS) assumes the mission to transfer the research achievements into
real world practice. The teaching systems will be designed for
professionals at different levels and for users. In an early stage of the
project, the knowledge will be distributed and exploited. Conferences, meetings
and workshops will be organised in order to introduce the system in exploitation
in all European countries. The management activities will overview the efficient
delivery of work within the CARiMan project.
Activities foreseen by the
network have been detailed in section B.4 (Joint Programme of Activities of the
whole duration of the project). Each of these activities is objective oriented,
and aimed to bring its contribution to the long-terms objectives of the CARiMan
network. For the first 18 months of the project, CARiMan partners decide to
define a set of well-defined tasks, each of them contributing to one or several
of the activities described in section B.4. The option to define well-structured
tasks with precise ambition and goals has been chosen, rather than to define
large-scale tasks including a lot of activities with fuzzy objectives. These
tasks are called "workpackages" in the following.
Defining limited-scope well-defined WPs has two main
consequences:
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The number of WPs considered
by the network is important (more than 40
including administration). This could be considered as a too ambitious
objective, not in agreement with the foreseen joint effort. However, it must be
reminded that each WP is of limited scope, and consequently of limited effort.
Moreover the partners strongly believe that a finer division of the work into
WPs from the beginning of the network activities (i.e. the writing of this
proposal) helps to clearly define everyone's job, the corresponding effort (in
funding and man-months), and the respective responsibilities.
2.
Another advantage of the
"fine-division" approach is that the work being clearly defined,
deliverables and milestones are easy to identify, leading to an easy evaluation
of the work after one year or 18 months. This will help both the consortium to
plan its further activities, and the European Commission to evaluate the work
done. The fine division also leads to a large number of deliverables, but again
each of them is limited in effort. A particular attention has been devoted to
the definition of deliverables after 12 months, leading to a possible evaluation
of the activities (both by the network and by the EC) before having to consider
the next phase of the JPA.
As
outlined in Section B.4. (Figure B.4.1) the project focuses on a technological
platform to be applied on different application areas. WPs related to technical
platform (Jointly Executed Research Activities) reflect the need of integration
of IT expertise towards the development of an efficient product. WPs related to
application (Integrating Activities) aim to integrate the methodologies needed
in the different areas, their differences and commonalities and pore the way for
adapting their need into the technical platform.