NEM R&D Clusters
The mandate of the NEM Clusters is to define what should be done in their areas and to facilitate networking among NEM members with a view to projects creation. Discussions and results from the clusters will also be used to map interests and views of the NEM community on future R&D challenges in the NEM area and eventually to recognise some areas which are not enough covered and considered within NEM. Furthermore, the activities of NEM Clusters should increase visibility and strength of the NEM Initiative improving its impact in public and among relevant European and national organisations and bodies.
How to join a NEM Cluster:
In order to join a NEM Cluster, you have to contact respective Cluster leaders or co-leaders. List of NEM Clusters is available below, including corresponding contact information.
Procedure for creation of NEM Clusters:
1) Each Cluster is initiated by NEM members – Steering Board member if possible but not necessary.
2) Each Cluster must be coordinated by Designated Cluster leader. If a cluster is proposed by a NEM member who is not in the Steering Board member one SB member will serve as rapporteur to represent the Cluster.
3) Proposals for creation of new Clusters have to be sent to NEM Office by e-mail to: info@nem-initiative.org. The proposal should include the following:
- Cluster title
- Acronym (optional)
- Name and e-mail address of a Cluster Leader - to be published on the NEM website
- Name and e-mail address of a Cluster co-Leader (optional)
- Abstract describing scope of the cluster (maximum 1000 characters) - to be published on the NEM website
- Detailed Cluster description (optional) in pdf format and not longer than three A4 pages - to be made available on the NEM website for download.
4) NEM Office will publish received information on the website, create a corresponding e-mail list, and distribute a Call to all NEM members to join the cluster. The e-mail list will be updated on request received from the Cluster Leader. Dedicated FTP space for each Cluster can be created on request as well.
5) In the case of submission of Clusters ideas with similar scope, an appropriate merge between Clusters will be proposed. Final decision right has NEM Executive Group.
Call for Cluster creation remains permanently open. NEM Clusters will be created upon request and corresponding announcements will be distributed in 7-10 days periods.
List of NEM Clusters
Next Multimedia Content Distribution - NMCD
Leader: Pierre-Yves Danet (pierreyves.danet@orange-ftgroup.com)
Abstract: The NMCD cluster has the objective to address Delivery home, house, building networks and terminals. Decentralised home, control devices, energy management and security safety tools, instruments, devices.
- Enhanced multimedia and broadband delivery
- Extended home
- Connected condominium
- Multimedia home networking
- Very high data rate home area network
- Home and mobile user
- Seamless service handover between user terminals.
NEM Security Cluster - NEM SEC
Leader: James Clarke (jclarke@tssg.org), Co-leader: Jimmy McGibney (jmcgibney@tssg.org)
Abstract: The NEM Technology Platform is addressing the architectures central to the convergence of telephony and voice services, Internet and data services, and home media. This has a pivotal role in the EU IST FP7 strategy and is important to a range of overlapping academic and industrial interests. In addition, it will be an explosive growth area with the move from physical media to on-line media content creation and provision. In order to succeed, major issues, concerns and challenges in relation to Trust, Security and Dependability (TSD) will need to be addressed and, thus, there will need to be significant research and development of TSD areas across many disciplines within the Networked and Electronic Media domains. The SRA identifies five large challenges on which NEM is focusing on, these include similar and/or challenges identified within the TSD research community and integration of these two areas within this cluster will provide opportunities for the research community to raise awareness, leverage and advance existing work in this area.
CBS - Community Based Services Cluster
Leader: Antonio Kung, (antonio.kung@trialog.com), Steering Board rapporteur: Pierre-Yves Danet, (pierreyves.danet@orange-ft.com)
Abstract: The objective of the CBS cluster is to address enabling technologies allowing for the creation of community-based services. The vision is that many if not the bulk of future applications will be community-based services, because they bring social value. Examples of such applications could be in sports, transport, e-inclusion, etc…. CBS enabling technologies must cope with challenges related to trends such as IPTV, user participation in providing content, and ubiquitous computing paradigms (virtual devices and virtual sources). Projects are needed to cover the following topics:
- Configuration, e.g. personalisation for individuals and group, autonomic computation and installation
- Interactions, i.e. how to create, explore, contribute to a community
- Clustering of contents and services, including virtual sources
- Clustering of devices, including virtual devices
- Quality of service, in terms of synchronisation of clustered content, accountability, privacy and data protection, …
Such projects should involve the study of social criteria, the study of business models, and the development of a serie of application demonstrators.
MCS - Multimedia Content Search
Leader: Nozha Boujemaa, (Nozha.Boujemaa@inria.fr), Co-Leader: Christoph Dosch, (dosch@irt.de)
Abstract: As Multimedia content archives/repositories are huge and are continuously growing: accessing, distributing and sharing this content in the general public and professional context are becoming among the most challenging issues from the technical point of view and presenting big economical impact.
Multimedia/Rich-Media Content Search must include, however, the related environment such as the generation, modelling, handling and managing of metadata as well as the inclusion/linkage of the search into the production process (work flow) of content generation (for professional users) and into the process flow of end-user actions. Note that end-users themselves may produce content ("prosumers"). General public content consumers are becoming more and more producers themselves via Web2.0 tools and will thus become user of metadata generation tools (and generate metadata themselves). Advanced methods and products for content indexing (automatic metadata generation) as well as efficient content searching tools represent a crucial investigation domain for Europe in the upcoming years.
We think that it's relevant for NEM having a "group of interest" dealing with this strategic objective gathering experts from several domains: technology providers, content owners, including prospecting for new uses-cases and new services to better exploit, access and reuse the generated content. This R&D cluster will work in the topic of content search engines:
- to provide input to NEM SRA in the related areas: Content, Enabling technologies, Applications.
- to promote joint events (concertation, sessions in professional or scientific exhibitions) with other EU projects in the field
- to help FP7 projects proposals to build up consortia
NEM Content
Leader: Malte Behrmann, (kanzlei@malte-behrmann.de), Co-Leader: David Wood, (wood@ebu.ch)
Abstract: The Purpose of the Cluster is to bring together individuals and organizations from across the content industry to discuss common problems, and to identify technological barriers to the advancement of content production in Europe. The cluster should call for studies where these are needed, encourage research and development, and help to bring together those who wish to form collaborative projects.
NEM Content cluster description