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The North Shore Horticultural Society will hold its seventh meeting of the season at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, at the American Legion Hall, 14 Church St., Manchester. The evening features a presentation by Susan Stowe, titled "Daylilies for the Summer Garden." Stowe's presentation provides a complete overview of the perennial flower, including the definition of the genus, the plant's characteristics, history and facts. Stowe will recommend growing, hybridizing, reference materials and other tips. All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 978-232-0102.
The next stop on Montserrat College of Art's Improbable Places Poetry Tour is Eurostoves, The Culinary Centre, 45 Enon St., Beverly, on Thursday, March 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. Poets are invited to share poems on a culinary theme. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. In addition to the reading, the event includes a cooking demonstration and a cash bar. To participate, send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com by Thursday, March 20, or contact Colleen Michaels at 978-921-4242, ext. 1277, with any questions.
The Salem Athenaeum and GrubStreet, a nonprofit literary arts center, will offer fiction and memoir classes at Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex St., Salem, taught by writing instructors from GrubStreet. Memoir in Progress, designed for writers who are working on the first draft of their memoirs, will focus on generating work and getting quick feedback from the group. Class begins Tuesday, March 25, and runs for 10 Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fiction I is an introductory course in the craft of writing fiction, and participants will learn and practice the elements of fiction with an emphasis on the short-story form. Class begins Thursday, April 3, from 6 to 9 p.m., and runs for 10 Thursdays. Both classes cost $455 for GrubStreet members, $480 for nonmembers. Scholarships are available. For details and registration, visit www.grubstreet.org.
Parents who are concerned about the development of their child, who is between ages 3 and 5 and will not be attending kindergarten in the fall of 2014, may arrange an appointment for an early-childhood screening on Wednesday, March 19, or Monday, March 24, by calling Katie Provost, special education services coordinator, at 978-750-4756, ext. 1355. If these dates are not convenient, contact Katie to arrange another mutually acceptable date and time. Screenings will be held at the Howe-Manning School, 26 Central St., Middleton.


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Inventor of the "WOP" takes time for an interview.
Upcoming rapper Joe Galaxy took the time to interview with Gunaxin on his new single and upcoming album
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The latest round of Rex Ryan bragging has inspired quite the Twitter Trend
Two political thrillers are coming to a theater near you.
Celebrating the lost art of the "diss."
Songs that should be part of everyone's collection.
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Previewing the Fall TV lineup through their billboard advertisements.
Why is it that so many cartoon characters have food issues?
Iron Fist! Also, boobs.
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In "Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs & Co." there are a number of issues.
One very concrete one is the alleged pay differential between male and female executives as well as their track record of being promoted.
As Bloomberg reports, plaintiffs contend female vice presidents earn 21 percent less than males. And about 23 percent of fewer female vice presidents were promoted to managing director than males. Plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres for certification of class-action status. Here is the Bloomberg article.
The other less concrete matter is the macho ethos of drinking and patronage of strip clubs. Of course, females who are not invited along or feel culturally or ethically uncomfortable going along will likely be shut out from networking opportunities.
That is not a new issue. Back when we Baby Boomer females were first "allowed" into Corporate America, we were locked out of the good times males enjoyed after work and on business trips. Of course, we knew that could hold us back in our careers. But, hell, the men didn't want us around. And that was that.
The fun times the boys have are vividly depicted in the new book "The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess." It by former employee at Galleon, Argus and J.L. Berkowitz Turney Duff.
Duff doesn't hold back. Because the sell side chases his business, the hookers are brought to him. He only has to go to seek out strip clubs if he's seeking novelty. And he can get into just about any party hosted in locations like the roof of the Thompson Hotel.
In Chapter 13, Duff notes, "The booze is flowing, beautiful women surround me, and wealth is everywhere." Here you can order the book from Amazon.com.
Sometimes female colleagues would accompany Duff to a bar or a private party held in a public place. Mostly, though, it was boys' night out. Duff speaks well of those women, particularly saluting their brilliance, work ethic and genuineness. Did not participating in hard partying impede their careers? That might be more a matter of perception than the kind of information one can document and present as evidence at a trial.
If "Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs & Co." is certified and goes to trial, you bet it will be closely followed. Gender issues in professional services have become increasingly important as the shelf life in those industries, ranging from finance to law, become shorter.


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Vizolution is all about speed and simplicity. It is just one click for the agent to initiate a vScreen session, , and just as easy for the customer to join the session, just one simple PIN and no download. There are no firewall or download challenges for the customer, vScreen doesn't require any new IT or software to run as it works over the internet, it works for all customers on all operating systems, computers, browsers and mobile platforms, including iPads, smart phones etc. This ensures that the adviser can engage with their customer first time, every time - guaranteed. . In addition, it is a no touch installation for the presenter and comfortably sits on top of existing infrastructure without any IT involvement.
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text: Brokerage Event Catalogue PROFILES Wisebed: Wireless Sensor Networks Testbeds! 4 Josep Díaz UPC! 5 LAWA (Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data)! 6 Dr. Marc Spaniol Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbücken, Germany ! 8 PERIMETER - User-centric paradigm for seamless mobility in future internet ! 9 Fikret Sivrikaya Technische Universität Berlin / DAI-Labor! 10 Martin Dobler, Jens Schumacher Vorarlberg University of Applied Siences! 11 Eileen Dillon Waterford Institute of Technology ! 12 María Pérez Ortega GFI Informatica! 13 Wireless Sensor Network Testeds (WISEBED)! 14 Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun Universität Bern! 16 Maick Danckwardt Universität zu Lübeck! 17 PARADISO 2! 18 Roland Burger Club of Rome! 20 Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing (EULER)! 21 Papadimitriou Dimitri Alcatel-Lucent Bell! 22 David Coudert INRIA! 23 Davide Careglio Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)! 24 CREW! 25 Ingrid Moerman IBBT! 27 VITAL++ Embedding P2P Technology in Next Generation Networks: A New Communication Paradigm & Experimentation Infrastructure! 29 Spyros Denazis University of Patras! 31 Self-NET: Self- management of cognitive future internet elements! 33 Nancy Alonistioti, Apostolos Kousaridas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens! 35 MyFIRE - MULTIDISCIPLINARY NETWORKING OF RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN FIRE! 36 Le Gall Franck & Baumberger Marianne inno TSD ! 38 Alessandro Santiago dos Santos Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo! 39 PAVENTHAN Arumugam ERNET India! 40 Jørgen Friis ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute)! 41 James Stewart University of Edinburgh! 42 N4C Networking for Communications Challenged Communities: Architecture, Test Beds and Innovative Alliances! 43 Maria Udén Luleå University of Technology (Luleå tekniska universitet) Sweden! 44 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title Wisebed: Wireless Sensor Networks Testbeds Project Description The aim of this project is to provide a multi-level infrastracture of interconnected testbeds of largescale wireless sensor networks for research purposes, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the aspects of hardware, software, algorithms, and data. This will demonstrate how heterogeneous small-scale devices and testbeds can be brought together to form well-organized, large-scale structures, rather than just some large network; it will allow research not only at a much larger scale, but also in different quality, due to heterogeneous structure and the ability to deal with dynamic scenarios, both in membership and location. For the interdisciplinary area of wireless sensor networks, establishing the foundations of distributed, interconnected testbeds for an integrated approach to hardware, software, algorithms, and data will allow a new quality of practical and theoretical collaboration, possibly marking a turning point from individual, hand-tailored solutions to large-scale, integrated ones. For this end, we will engage in implementing recent theoretical results on algorithms, mechanisms and protocols and transform them into software. We will apply the resulting code to the scrutiny of large-scale simulations and experiments, from which we expect to obtain valuable feedback and derive further requirements, orientations and inputs for the long-term research. We intend to make these distributed laboratories available to the European scientific community, so that other research groups will take advantage of the federated infrastructure. Overall, this means pushing the new paradigm of distributed, self-organizing structures to a different level. Project Partners UPC Spain UNIGE Switzerland UNIBE Switzerland RATCI Greece UNIDE Neetherlands UZL Germany UBERLIN Germany ULANCASTER England 4 Contact Details Name Josep Díaz Organisation UPC Job Position Catedratico Universitat UPC Website http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~diaz/ Partner Expertise Large networks, algorithms for communication, stochastic proceses 5 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title LAWA (Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data) Project Description Project Overview To support innovative Future Internet applications, we need a deep understanding of Internet content characteristics (size, distribution, form, structure, evolution, dynamic). The LAWA project on Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data will build an Internet-based experimental testbed for large-scale data analytics. Its focus is on developing a sustainable infra-structure, scalable methods, and easily usable software tools for aggregating, querying, and analyzing heterogeneous data at Internet scale. Particular emphasis will be given to longitudinal data analysis along the time dimension for Web data that has been crawled over extended time periods. Research Description LAWA will federate distributed FIRE facilities with the rich Web repository of the European Archive, to create a Virtual Web Observatory and use Web data analytics as a use case study to validate our design. The outcome of our work will enable Internet-scale analysis of data, and bring the content aspect of the Internet on the roadmap of Future Internet Research. In four work packages we will extend the open-source Hadoop software by novel methods for wide-area data access, distributed storage and indexing, scalable data aggregation and data analysis along the time dimension, and automatic classification of Web contents. Target Users and Benefits LAWA adds value to the FIRE community by offering access to very large datasets, with advanced methods and open-source tools for intelligent analysis. This enables research on the Future Internet with regard to the challenge of content explosion. A Virtual Web Observatory will be created, to support data-intensive experimentation with Web content analytics. A demonstrator is planned which will allow citizens at large to interactively browse, search, and explore born-digital content along the time dimension. Key Objectives • Web-Scale Data Provisioning Methods for large-scale on-demand crawling services that can be used for research purposes, and will optimize Web-content storage for processing. • Distributed Access to Large-Scale Data Sets Smart distribution of data across a wide-area network, coping with low-bandwidth high- latency Internet connections, and developing new techniques for distributed indexing across heterogeneous data stores. • Web Analytics Algorithms and software for systematically aggregating, querying, mining, and analyzing statistical patterns, cross-data dependencies, and temporal patterns and trends, in order to reveal latent knowledge in Web data. 6 • Virtual Web Observatorymining, and classifying Web-scale data forming the basis of the Services for measuring, Virtual Web Observatory (VWO). The VWO will enable experiments-driven research on large-scale Web contents. Project Partners MAX PLANCK Germany GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY Israel OF JERUSALEM STICHTING EUROPEAN Netherlands ARCHIVE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF Hungary SCIENCES HANZO ARCHIVES LIMITED Great Britain UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS Greece 7 Contact Details Name Dr. Marc Spaniol Organisation Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbücken, Germany Job Position Post Doctoral Researcher and Deputy Project Coordinator Website http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mspaniol/ Partner Expertise Dr. Marc Spaniol has received a doctorate in computer science from RWTH Aachen University and is now a post doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (MPI-INF). Within LAWA he serves as deputy project coordinator. His research interests and publications are in the area in the field of Web data quality, temporal Web mining and knowledge evolution. Research in the scope of LAWA aims to bridge the models, algorithmic methods, and architectural paradigms of the three fields of database systems, information retrieval, and data mining. He works in the area of Web archiving and mining, large-scale data processing as well distributed data management. In Web archiving and mining research aims at the creation of high-quality archival strategies, so that the interpretability of contents for later retrieval and analysis is ensured. This goes along with work in large-scale data processing. Here, he investigates information extraction techniques to textual and semi-structured Web sources (e.g., Wikipedia). Finally, in the field of distributed data management studies he studies handling of Web archival data in a distributed and self-organizing way. 8 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title PERIMETER - User-centric paradigm for seamless mobility in future internet Project Description PERIMETER's main objective is to establish a new paradigm of user-centricity for advanced networking. In contrast to network-centric approaches, user-centric strategies could achieve true seamless mobility. Putting the user at the centre rather than the operator enables the user to control his or her identity, preferences and credentials, and so seamless mobility is streamlined, enabling mobile users to be "Always Best Connected" in multiple-access multiple-operator networks of the Future Internet. For that, PERIMETER will develop and implement protocols designed to cope with increased scale, complexity, mobility and requirements for privacy, security, resilience and transparency of the Future Internet. These include appropriate mechanisms for network selection based on Quality of Experience; innovative implementation of "Distributed A3M" protocols for Fast Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting based on privacy-preserving digital identity models. All these mechanisms will be designed to be independent from the underlying networking technology and service provider, so that fast, inter-technology handovers will be possible. PERIMETER will also develop and implement middleware that support generic Quality of Experience models, signalling and content adaptation, and exemplary extension applications and services for user-centric seamless mobility. The paradigms of user-centric seamless mobility, middleware components and its integrated applications and services will be tested in two large- scale interconnected testbeds on real users, in three cycles of increasingly complex scenarios. The results will be used for assessment of user centricity. The realization of user-centric paradigm will revolutionise mobile communications. It will impact seamless mobility, issues of security and privacy, standards and future research, and it will maintain Europe's leading position in the race to define and develop the network and service infrastructures of the Future Internet. Project Partners Technische Universität Berlin / Germany DAI-Labor Vorarlberg University of Austria Applied Sciences Waterford Institute of Ireland Technology GFI Informatica Spain 9 Contact Details Name Fikret Sivrikaya Organisation Technische Universität Berlin / DAI-Labor Job Position Senior Researcher Website www.dai-labor.de Partner Expertise The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DAI-Labor) within Technical University of Berlin (TUB) employs over 100 researchers, post-docs, graduate students, and tech support staff. Since its inception in 1992 the DAI-Labor at TUB has become a bridge between research and industry in the areas of agent technologies, wireless communications, network and mobility management, autonomous security, data mining, and services/applications of these fields. Research at DAI- Labor is being conducted within five Competence Centres (CCs): " •" Agent Core Technologies (ACT) " •" Network and Mobility (NEMO) " •" Information Retrieval and Machine Learning (IRML) " •" Next Generation Services (NGS) " •" Security (SEC) The DAI-Labor key competency in the context of ICT-PERIMETER project is "Network & Mobility", which conducts research in the areas of new network architectures, mobility and QoS support and resource management in multi-technology, multi-operator environments, self-organising & self- managing networks, and autonomous communications. The group maintains a complex state-of- the-art "Beyond-3G" testbed, which was built jointly with the support of Cisco, Sun, Deutsche Telekom and other companies, and supports research on novel access technologies and QoE- enabled telecommunication services. The testbed constantly incorporates new and emerging technologies and provides the basic infrastructure for ongoing and future research projects. Within the PERIMETER project, DAI-Labor/TUB focuses on the design and development of the core middleware component for making network access and mobility decisions based on application requirements, user preferences, network measurements, and context information. Moreover, the "Beyond-3G" testbed at TUB forms one leg of the federated PERIMETER testbed, which is connected to the other leg at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. Leading the test and assessment work package in the project, TUB hosts the heterogeneous network access part of the federated testbed and will employ living lab methodologies in the last phase of the 3-phase project development and testing cycle. DAI-Labor at TUB has been involved in many large scale projects at national and European levels, including OBAN, Daidalos, BIB3R, ScaleNet, and StrokeNet. TUB is also one of the leading partners in the upcoming EU-ICT project ULOOP (User-centric Wireless Local Loop), scheduled to start in September 2010. 10 Contact Details Name Martin Dobler, Jens Schumacher Organisation Vorarlberg University of Applied Siences Job position Research Assistant, Lecturer Website www.fhv.at Partner Expertise The University of Applied Science Vorarlberg has a proven track record in creating solutions with over 100 companies and organisations worldwide and in acquiring extensive funding and grants. The FHV cooperates with Industry in pre-competitive and competitive research in order to come up with innovative solutions in the area of applied research. As a university of applied sciences the University of Applied Science Vorarlberg is focused on working together with business and industry, namely learning from each other to what is possible in the research laboratory and in the real-work context. In its joint ventures with business and industry, the University has channelled its resources into three strategic areas: Micro technology; User-centred technologies; Product and process engineering. The University has gladly provided solutions for SMEs as well as for world- class companies. FHV is currently involved in three large-scale testbeds related projects: CoreLabs (EP# 35065), with the objective to establishing a coordinated European programme of Co-Creative Living Labs for a New European Innovation Infrastructure." Tell-Me (EP#610175), aiming at providing a "turnkey" solution for the configuration, implementation and maintenance of Living Labs at national and international level. Living Lab Vorarlberg, is a basic research study for supporting the sustainability of products in the development and utilisation phase by applying the Living Lab approach. 11 Contact Details Name Eileen Dillon Organisation Waterford Institute of Technology Job position Research Assistant Website www.wit.ie Partner Expertise The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is a research centre within the WIT, and the group can rightly claim its place as Ireland"s largest communications software research centre. Since its foundation in 1996, the TSSG has grown to 115 active staff and students, two- thirds of which are professional researchers. From its outset, the TSSG has carried out research in communications, including topics such as mobility, security, autonomics, software development tools, pervasive computing and networked multimedia. The TSSG is the "Irish National IPv6 Centre" and is responsible for driving IPv6 related Research & Innovation activities in Ireland. In IST FP5, the TSSG was project manager of ALBATROSS, FLEXWORK and OPIUM. OPIUM is directly related to the PERIMETER concept in that through the project innovative software and services for mobile devices were designed, developed, and successfully trialled in a Pan-European OSA-Parlay Testbed, eventually used in an ETSI Parlay Interoperability Event. In IST FP6, the TSSG were prime contactors on the Daidalos, DBE, SEINIT, ENABLE and CoreLabs projects, and coordinators and project managers of the SecurIST project. On these, the TSSG was WP leader in the testbed, field trials and validation & verification tasks. The ENABLE project is directly relates to PERIMETER, as the TSSG are WP leaders in integration & validation, and are looking to validate enhancements of Mobile IPv6 to enable offering of transparent terminal mobility in large operational networks including multiple administrative domains and heterogeneous access technologies. 12 Contact Details Name María Pérez Ortega Organisation GFI Informatica Job position Programme Manager Website www.gfi.es Partner Expertise GFI Informática forms part of the GFI International Group, a multinational services company in the field of the Information Technologies. In Spain, GFI Informática operates in Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Pamplona, San Sebastián, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Vitoria, and counts with more than 1200 professionals. GFI Informática has presence in all the sectors of the market, collaborating with clients like Telephone Group, Vodafone, Madrid Box, Iberia, Community of Madrid, Basque Government, Caser, RENFE, Grupo Repsol, Bank of Spain, etc. GFI Informática provides global solutions to their clients in all related to Information Systems, Consultancy, Design and Conception, Development and Implementation, as well as in Evolutionary and Corrective Maintenance and the Support to Systems and Applications in Production. Our consultants and projects development staff have a wide experience in processes improvement, content management, distributed systems, I*Net architectures, integration and tests, focused towards "mission critical" applications. GFI Informática provides a complete range of services and solutions (especially on all the BEA Systems Platform), guaranteed by certification ISO 9001. More recently, and in order to exploit very specialized market branches, GFI participates in companies like AST (biometrics systems) or SAVAC (sanitary information systems). As technical and managerial partner, GFI has been involved in European projects since 1998 contributing with its effort and knowledge to their innovative solutions. Hypermedia, IRMA, TerreGov, PIM, Pallianet and currently Demos@Work, U@MareNostrum and FIT4Green are good examples of GFI´s experience in this European environment, being coordinators and/or technical leaders of several of them. In PERIMETER, GFI participate in all aspects of the project, with special attention to management of as the coordinator as well as the leverage their experience in SOA for telecom in applications and services in converging networks (WP4), integration (WP5) and testing (WP7, 9) 13 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title Wireless Sensor Network Testeds (WISEBED) Project Description The aim of WISEBED is to provide an infrastructure of interconnected test beds of large-scale wireless sensor networks for research and experimentation purposes. The Wisebed experimentation infrastructure • interconnects different test beds across Europe and forms a federation of distributed test laboratories. • interconnects the wireless sensor network testbeds with the Internet and especially with other test beds from FIRE in order to provide a virtual laboratory to enable testing and benchmarking in a controlled way. • allows researchers to use the experimentation facilities remotely, thus reducing the need for a local, private test bed and, more importantly, reducing the cost for research. • integrates simulated and physical sensor nodes to support large-scale sensor network experiments. • interconnects heterogeneous and previously incompatible sensor nodes among each other. Thus a user is able to set up a testbed with nodes equipped with different sensors, memory sizes and energy supplies. • enables virtual topologies on top of the physical topology of the local testbeds to give a specialized testbed to the users hand. • supports code independence by using different hardware available across the various testbeds. Several testbeds even include mobile sensor nodes and outdoor deployments. • provides services for allowing algorithms and applications to be tested in large-scale environments. • provides a repository of algorithms, mechanisms and protocols (Wiselib library) that can be directly used in future applications and experiments as reference for benchmarking purposes. • has developed a sophisticated testbed management system including federated authentication and authorization using single sign-on, allocation and reservation of testbeds and sensor nodes, deployment of experiment software, and experiment monitoring. The testbed management system can be adapted to other wired/wireless testbed architectures. • collects traces of data from the physical environment and derive models of real-life situations and scenarios. These scenarios will be used to evaluate the performance of algorithms and systems and draw conclusions on their operation and how it can be improved. Wisebed will make the distributed laboratory available to the European research community. The software to use the testbed or to integrate an own testbed in the WISEBED facility will be available in a ready to run packet including documentation and tutorials. 14 Project Partners Universität zu Lübeck Germany TU Braunschweig Germany FU Berlin Germany TU Delft Netherlands Universitat Politecnica de Spain Catalunya Research Academic Computer Greece Technology Institute Lancaster University United Kingdom Université de Genève Switzerland Universität Bern Switzerland 15 Contact Details Name Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun Organisation Universität Bern Job position Professor in Computer Science Website www.iam.unibe.ch/~rvs Partner Expertise Universität Bern has strong experiences in the areas of " •" network management " •" network security " •" wireless sensor networks " •" wireless mesh networks " •" mobile ad-hoc networks " •" energy-efficient protocols for wireless sensor/mesh networks " •" network virtualization, and " •" Internet-based experimentation facilities. Universität Bern has developed Wisebed's testbed management system "Testbed Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds" (TARWIS). Access control is ensured by a distributed, federated authentication and authorization system based on Shibboleth, which compatible to the eduGAIN service provided by GÉANT. A graphical user interface has been developed allowing users to schedule, execute, monitor, and analyse distributed wireless sensor network experiments. Several services are accessible via an iPhone application. Universität Bern is operating an in-door wireless sensor/mesh network testbed. Moreover, Universität Bern is participating in the European GpENI activity, an infrastructure project within the GENI program in the US. There, the GpENI (Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation) network testbed is being extended to Europe. Universität Bern is member of COST Actions IC0804 (Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems) and IC0906 (Wireless Networking for Moving Objects). 16 Contact Details Name Maick Danckwardt Organisation Universität zu Lübeck Job position PhD student at the Institute of Telematics Website http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/users/danckwardt/ Partner Expertise The Institute of Telematics (ITM) is active in the research field of protocols, algorithms, and applications for communication in Networks and Distributed Systems. One major topic is the experimental research with our wireless network simulator SHAWN and our sensor node testbed projects FleGSens, WISEBED, Real-World G-Lab and FRONTS. On the other hand the ITM has experience in communication infrastructures for health care systems and distributed car to car networks. ITM is the coordinator of the WISEBED project. We specified a set of APIs for the sub-components of the WISEBED management system and developed a so called federator to be able to interconnect the different testbed instances among each other. Using this federator the different testbeds look like one testbed laboratory for the end user. Furthermore, we focus on a tunnelling technique for wireless sensor nodes called "virtual links". With this virtual links we are able to interconnect nodes that are not in communication range, consist of incompatible radio interfaces or even physical nodes with simulated ones. The user application running on the nodes can not tell if a message was received via the radio interface or if it was injected via a virtual link. This technique is one of the key components to establish a federated heterogeneous sensor network testbed. The WISEBED testbed located at University of Lübeck consist of 200 sensor nodes of three different hardware types and includes mobile and solar powered outdoor nodes. 17 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title PARADISO 2 Project Description Wouldn't it paradoxical that, to a large extent, the "Future Internet" is explored today without exploring what the future of our societies might be… If it is today well acknowledged that the world has profoundly changed during the last decades, it has to be acknowledged too that the world will probably profoundly change in the next decades in order to avoid major risks of breakdown. Industrialized, emerging and developing countries will therefore need to agree, sooner or later, on an alternative way forward based on a true sustainable development, more sustainable economic and financial models, more equally shared resources. What is at stake if of course, ultimately, the wellbeing of all citizens of the world, to be measured by new indexes going beyond GDP. Therefore, designing the Internet of the future is not only a question of technological developments, of user-centric approaches, of socio-economics issues. And even if it is not easy to predict the future, it doesn't mean we can't prepare for it. The PARADISO project, defined in early 2007 and selected at ICT Call 1, has already advocated and explored this probable paradigm shift in global societal developments through the "PARADISO reference document". It thus appeared quite visionary and timely when the present economic and financial crisis expanded during the year 2008, which is probably one of the reasons of the significant project impact. The PARADISO2 project, selected at ICT Call 4, will build on the assets and achievements of the PARADISO project and will be: • more focused: while "PARADISO1" was encompassing the ICT sector at large, PARADISO2 will specifically focus on the Future Internet, • more concrete: the two facets of the problem ("how should societies evolve" and "which FI can be suited to these societies") will be further explored, including functional and technological specification of the envisioned Future Internet, and recommendations concerning research to be developed in the framework of FP8. 18 The PARADISO2 project counts on the involvement of a multidisciplinary high-level expert panel composed of around 25 representatives of leading institutions, companies, research institutes, and NGOs from Europe and all over the world. Project Partners Sigma Orionis (coordinator) France Club of Rome Italy 19 Contact Details Name Roland Burger Organisation Club of Rome Job position Member of the Board, Italian chapter of the Club of Rome Website www.clubofrome.it Partner Expertise Born in 1969, Italy. Studied Economics and Information Technology at the Catholic University in Milan. Degree in Business Japanese from Bocconi University/JETRO, Milan. Member of the Club of Rome think tank and project leader on ICT & Sustainable Development. Organizer of the Digital World Conference series together with UNESCO and Club of Rome towards the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS 2003/2005). Organized presentation of the $100 Laptop in Tunis in November 2005 together with Prof. Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab and the presentation to International Government Representatives. Fellow of the Digital Vision Laboratory, Stanford University. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, ACM. Member of the Council of the Club of Rome Aurelio PECCEI Foundation, Rome. 20 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing (EULER) Project Description The EULER project will develop new models and tools to extensively analyse the Internet topology, to accurately and reliably measure its properties, and to precisely characterize its evolution. These models, that will better reflect the dynamics and the evolution of the network together with its policy, will be used to derive useful properties and metrics for designing routing schemes and provide relevant experimental scenarios. The present project will also develop appropriate tools to evaluate the performance of the proposed routing schemes on large-scale topologies (of order of 10.000 nodes or even more). The focus of this research project is the introduction of new routing schemes that i) produce routing paths whose stretch is bounded and independent of the network size, and ii) store corresponding entries in routing tables whose memory size is sub-linear in the number of nodes based on the exploitation of unique properties of the Internet topology. These properties offer the possibility to design a routing scheme using a metric space that would significantly reduce the amount of routing updates required to timely maintain non-local but consistent knowledge about the topology. Prototype of the designed routing protocols as well as their functional validation and performance evaluation on the iLab-T experimental facility and/or other FIRE experimental facilities such as PlanetLab/OneLab will be performed. These experiments will allow validating the proposed routing schemes under realistic running conditions. Project Partners Alcatel-Lucent Bell Belgium Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et France Automatique (INRIA) Interdisciplinair Instituut voor BreedBand Technologie Belgium (IBBT) Universite Pierre Marie Curie (UPMC) France Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium Research Academic Computer Technology Institute Greece (RACTI) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Spain 21 Contact Details Name Papadimitriou Dimitri Organisation Alcatel-Lucent Bell Job position Principal Research Engineer Website Partner Expertise Alcatel-Lucent Bell (ALB) has achieved a wide and in-depth expertise in routing research domain including distributed routing algorithmic, routing system architecture, routing scheme design, traffic engineering and routing protocols. ALB is also experience in Internet topology modelling, analysis, and mining, as well as performance modelling and performance analysis of distributed routing algorithms and systems. ALB is also active in various standardization bodies of direct interest to the EULER project such as the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where it is actively involved in IP routing, IP/MPLS and MPLS-TE efforts as well as various Routing and Internet Area activities. ALB has been prime contractor of many European IST projects such as FP7 EIFFEL, ECODE, and TA2, FP6 MUSE and MUSE2, FP5 ATRIUM, GIANT and TEQUILLA, as well as Eureka projects such as ITEA TBONES, CELTIC TIGER and RUBENS. Alcatel-Lucent is also involved in ETP (NEM, NESSI, and e-Mobility) and NoE (CONTENT). 22 Contact Details Name David Coudert Organisation INRIA Job position Senior Research Scientist Website http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/David.Coudert/ Partner Expertise The EULER project involves participants from 3 INRIA project-teams, namely: o) MASCOTTE (a joint team with University of Nice Sophia and CNRS) develop methods, tools and software for efficient use of telecommunication networks. This involves a high level research in the fields of simulation, algorithms and discrete mathematics. MASCOTTE has developed industrial collaborations with various partners such as France Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent for the design and optimization of telecommunication networks. For example it has participated in the CRC CORSO with Orange Labs (2003-2008) and is currently involved in a contract with Alcatel- Lucent-Bell on dynamic compact routing. MASCOTTE has also been involved in various R&D projects funded by the EU: FET CRESCCO 2003-2006, RTN ARACNE, IST FET AEOLUS, and COST 293 GRAAL. o) GANG (a joint team with CNRS and University Paris Diderot) focuses on algorithm design for large-scale networks using structural properties of these networks. Application domains include the development of optimized protocols for large dynamic networks such as mobile networks or overlay networks over Internet such as peer-to-peer applications, and the navigability of social networks. GANG tools come from recent advances in the field of graph algorithms both in centralized and distributed settings. In particular, this includes graph decomposition and geometric properties (such as low doubling dimension, low dimension embedding, etc.). It was involved in EU action COST 295 DYNAMO. o) CEPAGE (a joint team with CNRS and University of Bordeaux) members have strong skills in the techniques dedicated to graphs decomposition, searchability properties in large networks and data mining. CEPAGE is specialized in algorithms of compact routing, economic broadcast and perpetual exploration of networks. CEPAGE's main contributions are the study of models allowing dynamicity and errors. It was involved in EU action COST 295 DYNAMO. 23 Contact Details Name Davide Careglio Organisation Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Job position Associate professor Website http://people.ac.upc.edu/careglio Partner Expertise The EULER project involves participants from a Joint Research Unit (JRU) belonging to two different universities: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat de Girona (UdG). UPC is a public university devoted to high level education and research excellence in engineering. The participation of the UPC in the EULER project will be carried out by the Advanced Broadband Communications Centre (CCABA: http://www.ccaba.upc.edu), which integrates several UPC research groups with interests in complementary communications fields. CCABA has participated in many projects of the different European Framework Programs (FPs). Within the 6th FP, we participated in the Integrated Projects EuQoS and NOBEL (phases I and II), and in the e-Photon/ONe, E-NEXT and CONTENT Networks of Excellence. Concerning the 7th FP, we are involved in IP STRONGEST, STREP DICONET and NoE BONE projects. We were also active in the COST actions (COST 263, 266 and 291) and currently we are participating in COST IC0703 (Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis – TMA: theory, techniques, tools and applications for the future networks) and COST IC0804 (Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems). CCABA members focus on the development of methods and tools for traffic monitoring, characterization, and analysis, on the design of algorithm and protocols for traffic engineering, traffic management, distributed control plane, and packet scheduling, and on the experimentation of field-trial prototypes. 24 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title CREW Project Description The main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally- driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands. The CREW platform incorporates 4 individual wireless testbeds (heterogeneous ISM @ IBBT- Gent, heterogeneous licensed @ TCD-Dublin, cellular @ TUD-Dresden, wireless sensor @ TUB- Berlin) augmented with SoA cognitive sensing platforms from IMEC (Belgium) and TCF (France). CREW will physically and virtually federate components by linking together software and hardware entities from different partners using a standardized API, realizing advanced cognitive sensing functionality. In addition, the CREW federation will establish a benchmarking framework, enabling experiments under controlled and reproducible test conditions and providing methodologies for automated performance analysis, allowing a fair comparison between different cognitive concepts or between subsequent developments. Data sets created under benchmarked conditions according to a common data structure enable the emulation of CREW components in other experimental or simulation environments. The basic CREW federation will be operational at the end of the first year for external use. Through two open calls (at month 12 and month 24) external experimenters will be attracted for using the CREW platform, leading to an open and demand-driven expansion of the federation and its usage. Along with the federation activities, a strong interaction with the FIRE coordination and support actions will be realized, hereby ensuring maximal compliance of the CREW platform to the overall vision of the FIRE facilities. Finally, the CREW project will implement a sustainability business model for exploitation of the federated testbed from year 4 on and beyond the project. 25 Project Partners Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology VZW (IBBT) Belgium Interuniversitary Microelectronics Center VZW (IMEC) Belgium Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Ireland Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) Germany Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) Germany THALES Communications France (TCF) France EADS Germany 26 Contact Details Name Ingrid Moerman Organisation IBBT Job position Group leader Mobile & Wireless networks – coordinator of CREW Website www.ibbt.be Partner Expertise The IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology www.ibbt.be) is an interdisciplinary research institute for ICT innovation in Flanders, Belgium. It has been established in 2004 by the Flemish government as a Strategic Research Centre in view of the emerging e-society. It has today over 600 researchers dealing with the technological, economic, legal and social dimensions of the development and exploitation of broadband services. The IBBT-IBCN (INTEC Broadband Communication Networks) research group, where Ingrid Moerman belongs to, counts around 120 members, specialised in various technology aspects of both fixed and wireless networks, the related services and supporting software and the techno-economic evaluation of the future internet. The expertise on mobile and wireless networking covers the following research areas: • Wireless sensor networks • Cooperative and cognitive networks • Wireless access • Self-organizing distribute networks In the broad range of research domains mentioned above, the IBCN group combines theoretical top-down research and development with validation, experimentation and proof-of-concept. As such, the group has developed the following set of competences across its research domains: • Design and development of innovative protocols and algorithms and network architectures. • Network-level simulation and validation • IBCN's competence of validation, experimentation and proof-of-concept is guaranteed through an extensive set of prototyping, emulation, and testbed evaluation & exploitation technologies and practices. IBBT iLab.t provides extended test facilities for evaluating the technical feasibility of ICT innovation (more info: see http://ilabt.ibbt.be/). Lab.t contains an extensive set of user devices, network technologies, and advanced testing and measurement equipment, and has adequate network connectivity. The floor space covers around 500m2, with currently approx. 80 racks, or 3300 units, which is about 2/3 of the maximum capacity. There are 550+ Linux nodes, and various technologies like IP, Ethernet, xDSL and coax access are used. In addition to a wired testbed, iLab.t includes a significant wireless testbed, Virtual Wall emulation facilities, an operational GRID network, file-based production, video testing and physical layer facilities. The iLab.t Wireless Lab is an extensive wireless mesh and sensor network infrastructure installed at IBBT office premises. It consists of 400 IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh network nodes and 200 27 sensor nodes, supporting a mix of sensor platforms. Its unique features include power control and measurement, and environmental emulation on all nodes. Easy deployment of specific software (protocols, middleware components ...) is available. The iLab.t Wireless Lab allows for easy and flexible testing of functionality and performance, of stress, interference and scalability, and log of the sensor and WLAN nodes' events. 28 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title VITAL++ Embedding P2P Technology in Next Generation Networks: A New Communication Paradigm & Experimentation Infrastructure Project Description Emerging types of applications, rich in user-created or provider-created content, enabled by P2P technology, with high demands for network resources are rapidly changing the landscape of network requirements and operations creating new challenges in network and service management, configuration, deployment, protocols etc. P2P is primarily a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisation, thus, reducing operational costs, while it achieves optimised resource utilisation for the deployed applications and services. In contrast, IMS as a control plane technology primarily addresses issues of heterogeneity of access technologies, addressing schemes, AAA, security and mobility management. VITAL++ major objective is to combine and experiment with the best of the two worlds, namely, IMS-like control plane functionality and P2P technology giving rise into a new communication paradigm that will bring a wide range of benefits. The key to achieving this objective is to put this paradigm under strenuous experimentation, carried out under realistic network conditions using popular applications. To this end, VITAL++ is putting together a pan-European testbed comprised of existing geographically distributed test sites integrated by IMS technology. This will be thoroughly tested by reference content applications and services that use P2P technology as a means for their distribution and achieving satisfactory QoS levels through network resource optimisation algorithms rather than non-scalable QoS reservation operations. VITAL++ mainly aspires at defining and illustrating a new communication paradigm that will demonstrate how content-based applications and services, highly heterogeneous in terms of user functions and distributed in the network, can be enrolled in the frame designated by the operations of traditional telecommunication networks and thus be made widely available to the users with proper Quality of Service, security and adequate privacy. VITAL++ will use the IMS technology to introduce its paradigm, targeting at the following technological objectives: Define methods for binding P2P technology applications with the user oriented concepts of call setup and administration of the NGN networks. • Define methods for binding the QoS mechanisms of NGN networks with the highly distributed nature of the P2P applications and their mechanisms for discovering and managing various types of content. • Define mechanisms for secure content delivery. • Integrate within the P2P applications the framework of user identification and authentication. 29 • Designate a generic frame of P2P integration with NGN networks that will include: - Perception of P2P services. - Terminal issues and user operations (e.g. mobility management). - Business models for P2P exploitation in NGN networks. • Building on the VITAL++ platform, create a prototype network environment that will integrate P2P applications and perform extensive experimentation on the new communication paradigm through appropriate trial scenarios. • Demonstrate a number of P2P application trials involving real time content like video, audio and multimedia. • Use the technological knowledge of the project for contributions to standardisation bodies, scientific magazines, conferences and related events. Project Partners University of Patras Greece Telefonica I+D Spain Fraunhofer Fokus Germany Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg Germany Blue Chip Technologies S.A Greece Centre for Technological Research of Crete Greece Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland Telekom Austria TA AG Austria Voiceglobe Belgium Sprl. Belgium 30 Contact Details Name Spyros Denazis Organisation University of Patras Job position Assistant Professor Website http://www.wcl.ece.upatras.gr/network-architecture Partner Expertise Network Architectures and Management Group (NAMaG) is led by Assistant Professor Spyros Denazis in collaboration with Prof. Odysseas Koufopavlou and is currently comprised of 10 Phd students, 1 postdoc, 3 research fellows and one network administrator. The research work that has been carried out by our group during the last 4-5 years resulted in innovative concepts followed by their implementations that can be exploited in the context of Future Internet, Content Distribution, Identity Management and Large scale experimentation. In this document we focus and elaborate on our work on Content distribution, in particular in the areas of content distribution our work focuses on the areas of live streaming and video on demand by means of Peer-to-Peer systems. This work has been mainly carried out in the Vital++ project (www.ict-vitalpp.eu) although it started well before this project. The result of this research activity has led us to this conclusion: "building content distribution systems through P2P requires a holistic approach according to which the scheduler should be co-designed with the P2P overlay for optimal content distribution". Having this in mind we have designed and built a locality aware (mesh) overlay that organizes the peers in such a way that the neighbors in the overlay are also physically close to each other in the underlying network. Taking this into account, our scheduler has been designed so as it exploits this feature (locality) of the overlay resulting in considerable reductions in the setup time and increased adaptability and robustness in dynamic network conditions (congestion) and peer behavior (churn). We note here that our overlay is self-organised and self- adaptable due to our distributed algorithms that we have designed and built in our system. Furthermore, our work is not just theoretic and simulation based but we have built a P2P engine (P2P client) that implements our P2P architecture (overlay and scheduler) and we have initially tested it in some VITAL++ scenarios. The P2P engine has been integrated in the VITAL++ client that is comprised of an IMS client and the P2P engine. We are about to engage ourselves in a large scale experimentation that involves real users from the university campus in order to face real conditions and refine our P2P engine. Part of our expertise stems from our involvement in VITAL++ which is coordinated by our group and aims at integrating NGN functionality and operations with P2P technology. To this end, we have contributed to the overall VITAL++ architecture that allows NGNs to use P2P in such a way that a number of criteria are met, with most prominent being authentication of peers, DRM, and QoS. Based on our experience in working with VITAL++ it is evident that in future networks, content distribution could take advantage of P2P mechanisms by exploiting idle resources in the operator's network thus greatly reducing the cost of content delivery. The research and experimentation is carried out using our testbed which is an IMS system extended with some additional architectural components as specified by VITAL++ architecture, 31 namely, Content Index subarchitecture and Overlay Management sub-architecture. This testbed is currently connected with the PASIPHAE audiovisual platform Technological Educational Institute in Crete allowing us access to a larger user group and geographical area in order to carry out experimentation planned in VITAL++. It is also connected with the IMS platforms of Telefonica, Fraunhofer Fokus in Berlin and Telekom Austria in order to run multimedia experimentation in collaboration with RBB a broadcaster in Berlin. Currently, we are researching mechanisms that will facilitate cooperation between the overlay and the underlying network for increasing efficiency of content distribution. In addition, having realized that different architectures of P2P overlays (structured, unstructured etc) are suitable for different application domains, we are designing our P2P engine as a modular architecture that allows third parties to plug-and-play their own overlays, schedulers etc in order to dynamically built P2P engines customized for specific application domains. Finally, we are enhancing the features of our P2P technology with real time measurements and statistics using a scalble sampling technique that will allow our P2P algorithms and schedulers to use more accurate estimates which will greatly improve their efficiency. 32 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title Self-NET: Self- management of cognitive future internet elements Project Description Self-NET shall engineer the Future Internet based on cognitive behaviour with a high degree of autonomy, by proposing the operation of self-managed Future Internet elements around a novel hierarchical feedback-control cycle. The Self-NET concepts are based on a hierarchical Distributed Cognitive cycle for System & Network Management (DC-SNM) which aims at facilitating the promotion of distributed management. The management approach encompasses a hierarchical distribution of cognitive cycles, breaking down the execution and decision making levels to (autonomic) network elements, network domain types and up to the service provider realm in order to address management, dynamic organisation and (re)configuration of future internet elements. Research Description Self-NET key outcome is the specification, engineering and experimentation on network elements high autonomy in order to allow distributed management, fast decisions, and continuous local optimization. The overall design is based on the paradigms of self-awareness, self-management/ self-governance, self-organisation and self-optimisation and on the hierarchical Distributed Cognitive cycle for System & Network Management (DC-SNM). The DC-SNM model is the reference model for Autonomic Internet Elements' functionality and behaviour. An Autonomic Element may be a network element (e.g., router, server, base station), a network management system, or any software element that lies at the service layer. The major phases of the DC-SNM follow the Generic Cognitive Cycle (Monitoring-Decision making-Execute) steps but are reiterated in order to perform similar steps in networking or domain layer abstractions, thus virtualising the notion of the autonomic internet elements (encompassing also internet clusters, network neighbourhoods, communities etc.). In this way a knowledge plane can be accommodated throughout the internet enabling cognitive operations and behaviour (e.g., cognitive management, cognitive ARQ operations, cognitive IP component functions, cognitive routing). Self-NET has designed an OSGi based cognitive framework for the engineering of the future Internet Self-management systems. Mechanisms for situation awareness building (locally, compartment view) and for the decision making engine (Fault and Optimization opportunities identification, configuration action selection) have been proposed. Feedback-based learning algorithms for the refinement of the policy rules of the decision making engine and inference engines have been also designed. Furthermore, the Self-NET management ontology and the respective policy rules that guide network nodes operation have been issued. Based on the above mechanisms that constitute the functionalities of the network element cognitive manager (NECM) and the network domain cognitive manager (NDCM), specific control and execution capabilities have been extended, designed and tested (dynamic protocol composition framework, mobility management framework, forwarding and routing in wireless mesh networks, and wireless networks coverage and capacity optimisation). 33 Target Users and Benefits The Self-NET vision for the future Internet is to enable the management and service integration of a multitude of heterogeneous standards, building on self-management and cognitive principles and accommodating several operators, network types, and complex service and application environments. Various fixed and wireless/mobile systems and interfaces have been considered for the architectural specification and for the performance evaluation of the proposed mechanisms for the instantiation of self-management concepts (e.g., 3GPPP UMTS, HSDPA and LTE, IEEE WiMAX, IEEE WiFi, wireless mesh networks). Self-NET outcomes benefit both the network operators (optimized utilization of resources, automatic planning and reduction of management time of complex network parameters and structures, easy adaptation of networks) and end users (improved quality of service and experience). Self-NET outcomes have started to penetrate the Internet and telecommunication standards (e.g., ETSI AFI). For more information (Public Deliverables and Publications) you can check the web site of the project: http://www.ict-selfnet.eu Project Partners National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR Thales Communications S.A. FR Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten DE Forschung E.V Organismos Tilepikoinonion Tis Ellados OTE AE (Hellenic GR Telecommunications Organization (OTE) S.A.) King's College London UK Telekom Austria TA Aktiengesellschaft AT Vodafone – Panafon Anonymi Elliniki Etaireia GR 34 Contact Details Name Nancy Alonistioti, Apostolos Kousaridas Organisation National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Job position Professor (Project Coordinator), Research Engineer Website http://scan.di.uoa.gr Partner Expertise SCA-Networks is a new and pioneering Lab focusing on software based autonomic and reconfigurable systems in the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, which belongs to the School of Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The SCA-Networks Lab (Self-Configuring Autonomic Networks) operates under the supervision of the Lecturer Nancy Alonistioti and is a spin off lab of CNL. SCAN members have wide expertise in technical and project management, system design, reconfigurable and cognitive systems, autonomic and mobile computing, mobile applications and services. Over the past decade, UoA researchers have been actively involved in International projects, funded by the European Commission (ACTS WAND, RAINBOW, IST FP5 WINE, MOBIVAS, EURO-CITI, VIDEO-GATEWAY, BROADWAY, POLOS, ANWIRE, IST FP6 E2R I & II, LIAISON, CASCADAS, ANA, BIONETS, ICT FP7 E3, SACRA, CONSERN, Self-NET) and a vast number of National Initiative projects. UoA researchers have undertaken project and technical management roles (e.g., MOBIVAS, Self-NET, E2RI, E2RII, CONSERN). SCAN and CNL researchers have been actively striving for wide-area dissemination of its research results through interaction with UMTS Forum, 3GPP, DMTF, MExE Forum and with EU DG INFSO for event organisation and meeting hosting activities. 35 FIRE Week 2010 Brokerage Event Profile Project Title MyFIRE - MULTIDISCIPLINARY NETWORKING OF RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN FIRE Project Description The challenge for the project MyFIRE is to develop the use of experimental facilities in Europe in particular by increasing awareness of testing related best practices. The project will ensure a balance between the requirements for researcher's collaboration and the stakeholder's expectations. This means achieving the good experimental activities, developing the sustainable testing methodologies and paying a specific attention to the contribution to European standards development. The framework will be developed through the creation of open dialogue between the ICT networking research communities and experts from key areas of sociology, policy makers, economic models and standard. In order to succeed in these challenges, MyFIRE's mission is organised around four activities: • To identify the main issues and needs in the test beds approach: - Researchers and users needs for experimental facility - Standardisation - Exploitation process of Future Internet research - Economics data for testbeds sustainability • To define the testing methodologies used by the projects in Europe and international testbeds, so that the best practices model can be analysed and documented leading to improved design, set up and use of the experimental facilities, and standards • To build common tools and roadmap to increase effectiveness in the testing approach to improve the use of the FIRE Facility • To disseminate the results and create a network: by a series of workshops in Europe and advanced emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and China The MyFire project will add its modest contribution in the methodologies related to efficient test beds design and set up and with approach cross over the multidisciplinary techniques and research areas. Making use of known standardised approaches, together with socio-economic analysis, MyFIRE will provide tools to optimize the design, set-up and usage of FIRE test beds. This will target the optimisation of investments in FIRE test beds and the further improvement of well established test beds.The efforts made on international collaborations with third countries will allow to further expand the FIRE community toward countries less covered up to now. 36 Project Partners Inno TSD FR European Telecommunications Standards Institute EU University Edinburgh UK Fraunhofer- FOKUS DE BII CN ERNET IN ITMO RU Instituto de Pesquisas Technologicas BR 37 Contact Details Name Le Gall Franck & Baumberger Marianne Organisation inno TSD Job position Senior consultant – project coordinator Website www.inno-group.com Partner Expertise Inno group is a leading strategic management consultancy company operating in nearly all- European countries. Inno group has offices in Karlsruhe, Rostock, Sophia-Antipolis and Stockholm. Inno offers a multi-national, highly qualified team of more than 50 consultants who support their customers in their mother tongue, and who fully understand the specific cultural and national conditions that exist in Europe. Over the last 15 years Inno AG has combined highly specialised expertise, creativity and pragmatism to assist more than 500 clients all over Europe. One of the core activities of inno is to provide management support to complex inter-institutional and trans-national projects relevant to innovation, science and technologies. This includes consortium & knowledge management, reporting, accountancy and financial controlling, IPR issues, dissemination and exploitation of research results, support of spin-offs as well as general marketing and public relations activities. Inno also leads various European projects involving dissemination of scientific knowledge, training and implementation of pilot projects. inno lab is the Central Technical Unit (CTU) of inno which deals with technological innovation. By being tightly coupled with the consultancy and valorisation activities of inno, the lab provides both strong technical knowledge and vertical competences. Thus, it helps its customer in commercialisation of new products and services through various approaches: technological watch to identify new concepts and techniques, prototyping to demonstrate a product/service, software integration and packaging, and technical workshops/seminars to disseminate the knowledge. Through those activities, inno lab helps commercialization by targeting the right market with the right product/service and by reducing the time to market needed by a product between its conception and its delivery. Franck Le Gall is a PhD-Engineer in the physic and telecommunication fields. After 5 years in technical development of new generation optical networks (he authored several patents and scientific publications), he spent six years in the set-up and the management of large international and multi-cultural R&D projects focused on ICT systems (from the physical layer to applications) development. He is now involved in several ICT European projects and ensures the operational management of the Go4IT project. Baumberger Marianne graduated from the University of Nice with two masters degrees in Economics of innovation and industrial development. She joined inno-TSD 2 years ago. She contributes to national and European studies dealing with economical development based on innovation: territorial diagnostic, policy recommendation and definition, policy evaluation. She actually works for ETSI to improve the access and the participation of SMEs to standards. Marianne is accustomed to the use of consultancy tools and methodology to be used within such studies: desk research and bibliographical analysis; benchmarking analysis and identification of best practices; development of web-survey and statistical and multicriteria analysis; facilitation of working groups and meetings; administrative management... 38 Contact Details Name Alessandro Santiago dos Santos Organisation Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo Job position Researcher Website www.ipt.br Partner Expertise IPT – Institute for Technological Research, a public research institute linked to the São Paulo State Secretariat of Development, has been contributing actively to the country's development for over a century. IPT is one of Brazil's largest research institutes, with state-of-the-art laboratories and a highly qualified team of researchers and technicians working basically in four major areas: • Innovation, • R&D, • Technological services and metrological support, and • Information and education in technology. Heedful of the needs of the public and private sectors, IPT provides solutions and technological services aimed at increasing the competitiveness of companies and promoting quality of life. Its twelve technology centers act multidisciplinarily in a broad range of fields, encompassing segments such as energy, transportation, oil and gas, environment, civil engineering, information technologies, cities, and safety. IPT is also a national reference in the area of calibration, and was the first laboratory certified by INMETRO – National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality. In addition to its current research, development and innovation projects, the institute is expanding its areas of action to include biotechnology, new materials, and bioenergy. Modern, highly integrated, attuned to the opportunities and demands of technological development and prepared to be a qualified link among universities, research centers and the business sector, IPT maintains its collaborative role in the country's development. 39 Contact Details Name PAVENTHAN Arumugam Organisation ERNET India Job position Senior Manager (R & D) Website www.eis.ernet.in Partner Expertise is an Autonomous Scientific Society under Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. ERNET provides pan-India network connectivity to the educational and research institutions through its 14 Points of Presence (PoPs) located across the country. 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Looking for ethnic grocery, near Clarkston, MI
Hello everyone, I am looking for a nice big ethnic (thai, japanese and indian) grocery for my foodie needs near Clarkston, MI. I've heard there's some in Pontiac but I have no idea where. I haven't had much luck finding anything. I have to say I'm new to the area and am not finding much of what I'm used to. Thank you for your time.
Clarkston is tough. Do you often travel south of there? What types of items do you often seek--lemongrass, miso, garam masala....? There are some good places around Rochester Rd., south of M59 (15-20minutes from Clarkston). Whole Foods in Rochester is even a bit closer, and can sometimes address your needs. Pls offer addit'l info.
re: vtombrown
I'm ok with traveling to go get what I need. I didn't expect to see anything in Clarkston. I do go in Auburn Hills and Rochester often so that area is very good for me. I'm looking for fresh curry leaves (I'd be ok with dried if I have to.), garam masala, cardamome pods (black and green) and nigella seeds. That's for the indian part. As for the rest I'm not looking for anything in particular but like having a store to browse and inspire myself.
What vtombrown said.
There are plenty of ethnic markets around metro Detroit but they are pretty well scattered. Let us know where your travels take you or how far you want to drive/what specifically you are looking for and we can help.
Pontiac does have one of my favorite Mexican grocers, Carnival.
But for Asian and Indian, there are lots of ethnic markets on Dequindre, which I realize is a hike from Clarkston, but you can do some one-stop shopping if you plan right.
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re: DirdenT
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re: DirdenT
Dirden T, Troy-and-neighbors definitely is your kind of area. Take I75 to M59 (east) and then exit south on Rochester Rd. Your first stop is Nino Salvaggio's grocery. This place isn't ethnic, by your definition, but they do have nice fresh curry leaves.
Heading south on Rochester Rd. there are a couple Indian grocers, as well as the RELATIVELY quite good Ashoka Indian restaurant. I'm not an Indian grocery frequenter, but one of the two places in the area is All India's Foods at 4939 Rochester Rd. Though, a bit further south, on Maple Rd (15 Mile Rd) is a cluster of them, such as Balaji Foods at 61 E Maple Rd, and Namaste at 164 E Maple Rd., etc.. There has not been a big consolidation of Indian grocers. They remain many and small.
Backing up…Just a ways after your first stop at Nino Salvaggio's, you will hit a good Korean grocer at 5060 Rochester Rd, named Han Mi. Following your way south, you will hit the cross street of Big Beaver Rd (16 Mile Rd.), where you could head east to E-Mart at 2963 East Big Beaver for even more Korean selection, including a lunch counter, too. There's at least one more Korean grocer between these two stops, but this is not meant to be an exhaustive list…
For Japanese, it's Noble Fish, located just west of Rochester Rd., at 45 East 14 Mile Rd. Look at a map first, because Rochester Rd. gets choppy and changes its name along the way.
For Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese groceries, you probably should take I75 clear down to the 14 Mile Rd exit and head just east to John R Rd. where south of there you will find Chinese groceries at the refurbishing Fuji Market at 31722 John R Rd (yes, I know Fuji is a dumb name for a Chinese market…They used to be the headquarters for a market called China Merchandise, but I won't go into that story).
South of there, you obviously will hit 13 Mile Rd. If you continue straight on John R, you will arrive at the up-and-coming Saigon Market, or if you turn left on 13 Mile Rd. you will arrive at Kim Nhung Superfood (facing 13 Mile, but technically at 30925 Dequindre Rd.), which is famous for Thai and Vietnamese groceries. To get a bigger selection, you'd have to head clear to Detroit (Seven Seas) or way over to Ypsilanti (Hua Xing).
Welcome, and keep in touch!
Noble Fish
45 E 14 Mile Rd, Clawson, MI 48017
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re: kellycolorado
Yes, the Madison Hts China Merchandise FINALLY reopened last week, as Fuji Market. The grocery items still are mostly Chinese despite the Japanese name ("Fuji" was taken from the owner's other business nearby, Fuji Buffet). The store has been transformed from good, to very good (still not 100% great). The new lobster tanks are a pretty good deal! I hear this store is way better than it's old sister store on the West side.
The Old Orchard strip mall on Orchard Lake and Maple has what I believe is a Middle eastern grocer. Not sure if this is the etnic you're looking for, but on Haggerty and 14 Mile there is a Eastern European grocer.
re: Fibber McGee
There is Filipino Oriental Market on Dixie Highway just across from the Eastern Pearl Chinese restaurant. There is also Shreeji Indian Grocer (sp?) in Auburn Hills. Carnival Market in Pontiac will fit all your Mexican cooking needs, and La Mexicana is also on Dixie at Silver Lake rd. but not as varied as Carnival is.
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re: coney with everything
Hey Cw/E, Have you tried the new Indian place, Athidhi, at 15Mile and Dequindre? I had their buffet, weekend before last, which was decent and PACKED, but I'm more wondering about their dinner menu quality. I still haven't popped up to International (M.E.) Market at 17 Mile to get their hommous, as you suggest, but I'll get there soon.
re: coney with everything
Alright, so after 6 hours of ''grocery hopping'' I've come to some conclusions: 1. Troy and surroundings definitely full of awesome. 2. I really don't care if I have to drive 30 - 45 mins to go to a store I love. 3. It's really easy to spend a lot of money on food you don't need.
I skipped the closer groceries suggested by some here for the simple reason that I felt more inspired by Troy and it's surroundings. I have to say that even though Nino Salvaggio's was not what I was looking for, it's an amazing store that should be visited by all. I dare you to come out of there with nothing. Fruit and vegetable selection is probably the best I've seen since I moved in the area in April. How often can you get fresh raw peanuts... I love having all the dry beans displayed as they do it. Lots of cheese and meats. Cool bakery section with really nice breads. The dry goods aisles were nice, but not the main attraction. Overall I'd give it a 9/10. I will be going back there for sure.
On all the indian groceries I've visited, India Town on Dequindre near 15 mile definately had the best selection. (and the best organization... they're often in a weird order, it's just how it is.) I don't think anyone mentioned that one. It's another one worth a visit for anyone that makes indian food at home. Of course I have not visited every indian store in a 100 mile radius, so there very well might be a better one out there, but so far, they had everything I was looking for indian wise (minus the fresh curry leaves) As for asian groceries (I know, I know, indian is also asian :P ) I loved Kim Nhung Superfood, mostly for the fish selection. I don't know how many times I said ''WOW!''. I will be back later for some. (I will add this important note to any chowhounder hopping from store to store: bring a cooler with ice or have some kind of refrigeration system. I didn't and I had to skip the fish cause I wanted to keep it as fresh as possible) Other than that the store also had a good selection items. I think on it's own it wouldn't have all of what I'm looking for but combined with another different one I'm sure I would be completely satisfied. I did like Han Mi and felt it did complete Kim Nhung pretty well.
My next trip will be more japanese oriented as I have not explored that side on this trip. There just so many stores it's hard to keep track of them all. I just talked of my favorites on this trip. I'm sure lots of you have their own favorites. That's what's I love about food; we all like different things which makes it a fun world to explore.
I hope this thread has helped others who like me were looking for some nice groceries. Thanks to all who contributed and I will see you on the forums.
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re: coney with everything
re: DirdenT
I get my curry leaves at the grocery store owned by the Rangoli people on Walton west of Squirrel, Spices of India. I eat lunch then head over for curry leaves. My alternate place is the Indian place on Rochester road across from the Target complex in Rochester Hills, India Grocers. I freeze them in a single layer in a ziploc and they last a lot longer (up to a month+).
For asian groceries, I also recommend Saigon Market on John R north of 12 mile, especially for vietnamese herbs/veggies. So fresh! I always go mid week.


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