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Research Focus
design and implementation of distributed software and service architectures, meta information systems data and application integration concepts
Major Research projects
Co-funded products under the IST (Information Society Technologies) programme of the European Comission
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Sany
(Sensors Anywhere) FP6 Integrated Project
"The SANY integrated project focuses on interoperability of in-situ sensors and sensor networks. SANY architecture will provide a quick and cost-efficient way to reuse of data and services from currently incompatible sensor- and data- sources."
cismet personel involved in work in SP2 (Sensor Network Architecture)
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ORCHESTRA
(Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management) FP6 Integrated Project
"ORCHESTRA is designing and implementing the specifications for a service oriented spatial data infrastructure for improved interoperability among risk management authorities in Europe, which will enable the handling of more effective disaster risk reduction strategies and emergency management operations. The ORCHESTRA Architecture is open and based on standards. Its specifications are contained in a document called the Reference Model–ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA) which is open and free of charge, and can be downloaded from here."
cismet personel involved in work in SP3 (Open Service Architecture)
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i-MARQ
(Information System for Marine Aquatic Resource Quality) FP5
"Marine environmental monitoring is undergoing rapid and sustained growth. A wide range of users and administrators of marine resources require concise and ergonomic information for decision support, in order to maintain and enhance environmental quality in face of growing pressure on resources.
In particular, tourism in coastal areas is demanding ever increasing environmental quality and requires daily and seasonal information on coastal environment quality and stress. These trends create a rapidly growing demand for solutions, comprising: the ability to process high volumes of raw data; to extract highest quality information; and to present it in a form which maximises usability and understanding.
i-MARQ will address this need, helping companies and authorities to anticipate problems and minimise the impact of their activities, whilst also helping coastal tourism to develop sustainably with enhanced public confidence in the environmental integrity of recreational waters."
cismet personel involved in work on MIS (Meta Information System) and overall architecture
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Gimmi
(Geographical Information and Mathematical Model Inter-Operability) FP5
"With over two million tons of pesticides used annually worldwide, from 900 active ingredients, the human health and environmental risks are high. Making data from so many products used in so many environments more widely available online is helping risk assessors work out what action to take.
Finding a uniform means of assessment has, in the past, always come up against a major obstacle – the huge variation in database technologies, types and quality of data, and the different bodies maintaining that data across Europe. Partners in the IST project GIMMI aimed to find a means of overcoming such wide disparities in data and data quality, and to develop a way of making such data more widely available.
In effect, GIMMI planned to bridge the gap in pesticide impact assessment between the data providers (soil, meteorology, agronomy, pesticides), the scientists (chemists, geologists, modellers) and end-users such as government bodies, public administrations and the pesticide manufacturing industry. "
cismet personel involved in work on architecture and component integration
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