Edition #4/ February 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS

1. HIGHLIGHT - Prof. Manuel José Damásio achieves his "Agregação"

Prof. Manuel José Damásio had his Agregação evaluation on 14 and 15 of February, at University of MInho in Braga, Portugal. Prof. Damásio's achieved his Agregação in the field of Communication Sciences, specialization in communication theory and having as theme "Social capital and Communication Technologies: Education and Collective Action within mediatized environments". Prof. Manuel José Damásio, COPELABS's General Manager, is an Associate Professor at ECATI - School of Communication, Arts and Information Technologies - University Lusófona. As a researcher, Manuel José Damásio is a member of CICANT and a colaborator at COPELABS, R&D group DAIM (Digital Arts and Interactive Media).

The Agregação is a Portuguese academic title achieved after the PhD and the last step towards a Full Professor position (Cátedra). The Agregação proof is composed of three exams: a CV discussion; a discussion towards the content that the lecturer pursues in his/her specialization: a public class in the specialization theme.

IN THIS ISSUE

1. HIGHLIGHT - Prof. Manuel José Damásio achieves his "Agregação"

2. FP7 EU IST ULOOP holds its first plenary meeting in Megève, France

3. Project UMM provides its first public deliverable

4. COPELABS coordinates the submission of five projects

2. FP7 ULOOP holds its First Plenary Meeting in Megève, France

ULOOP (EU IST FP7 User-centric Wireless Local Loop) held its first plenary meeting in the lovely city of Megève, France. The event was hosted by partner Université de Genève between 10-12th February 2011. Over the course of two and a half days, the ULOOP 11 partners represented by a total of 20 persons met together to discuss the evolution of the first six months of work, as well as to work together on the active project tasks.

A first aspect pursued over the first six months of ULOOP relates to the development of the underlying use-cases that shall outline both the development of novel concepts as well as the implementation, and the ULOOP large scale demonstrations (third year of the project. A second aspect relates to the socio-economic analysis of the different technological pieces that were the basis to devise the ULOOP use-cases. Such analysis shall provide results and guidelines concerning how ULOOP functionality can be framed within today’s regulatory telecommunications framework. A third aspect relates to the global definition of ULOOP concepts and boundaries.

ULOOP is coordinated by Alcatel-Lucent BellLabs France and has as scientific coordinator University Lusófona, COPELABS (Rute Sofia) . ULOOP consortium hols a total of 11 partners. The project runs between 2010 and 2013. The project pursues the mission to empower the end-user as active stakeholder in Future Internet connectivity models, and addresses novel business opportunities for service and access providers based on such user-empowerment.

3. Project UMM Provides its First Public Deliverable

The User-centric Mobility Management (UMM) project is focused on global mobility management in spontaneous wireless environments, i.e., environments that self-adjust to any network topology change. Global mobility management is addressed from an out-of-the-box perspective where the main purpose is to develop solutions that are better tailored to user-centric networking environments.

In its first public deliverable (D1: Use-cases) UMM debates around current user-centric environments, in particular the characterization of such environments.

UMM is a 3 year project sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) coordinated by COPELABS (Rute Sofia and Andrea G. Nascimento) and which has as participating institution Instituto de Telecomunicações, pólo de Aveiro (Susana Sargento).

2. COPELABS Successfully Coordinates the Submission of Five Projects

COPELABS has successfuly submitted 5 projects related to its three main R&D tracks: networking and systems; digital media; digital economy.

A first project submitted has an European scope and is focused on the topic of Internet of connected objects, holding a total of 20 European partners.

The four additional submitted projects have a national scope and are focused on different aspects that integrate user-centric environments e.g. resource management, sensing. All of the projects integrate elements from the different R&D teams in COPELABS, namely, from the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) team; the Digital Arts and Interactive Media (DAIM) team; the Experimental Facilities for Innovation (EFFI) team, as well as from the Information Technologies and Management (ITEM) team. The five projects contribute to the common vision of COPELABS: to bring into life disruptive and yet simple concepts and mechanisms that will change the way that Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are perceived today, as well as the way that ICT impact our lives.