Report on Focused Outreach Actions and Exploitation

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1 ALLOW Adaptable Pervasive Flows Deliverable D9.3 Report on Focused Outreach Actions and Exploitation Contributor... : FBK Author... : Antonio Bucchiarone, Marco Pistore Reference Number... : ALLOW.FBK.D Version... : 2.0 Final Date... : Classification... : Public Circulation... : Project Team Contract Start Date... : Duration: 42 Months Project Coordinator... : USTUTT Project Partner... : USTUTT (IPVS), USTUTT (IAAS), UNI PASSAU, FBK, Imperial, ULANC FET - Future and Emerging Technologies Project funded by the European Community under the FP7-Programme ( )

2 D9.3 COPYRIGHT Copyright Copyright 2008, the ALLOW Consortium: USTUTT...Universität Stuttgart IPVS Universität Stuttgart IAAS UNI PASSAU...Universität Passau FBK...Fondazione Bruno Kessler Imperial...Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medic ine ULANC...Lancaster University This document may not be copied, reproduced, or modified in whole or in part for any purpose without written permission from the ALLOW Consortium. In addition to such written permission to copy, reproduce, or modify this document in whole or part, an acknowledgement of the authors of the document and all applicable portions of the copyright notice must be clearly referenced. All rights reserved. This document may change without any notice i

3 D9.3 DOCUMENT HISTORY Document History Version Issue Date Author Content and Changes FBK Version submitted to internal review FBK Final Version ii

4 D9.3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Executive Summary This document reports the outreach actions of ALLOW and how project results have been exploited during the last year. Starting from the exploitaiton plan defined in the 2 nd year of the project, we have analyzed how the knowledge and results generated within the ALLOW project have been spreaded in all the relevant communities, and how they can be taken up beyond the project iii

5 D9.3 CONTENTS Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Exploitation Plan 2 3 Partner Level Reports 5 4 Overall Analysis 11 5 Conclusion iv

6 D9.3 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Introduction The purpose of this document is to report the outreach actions undertaken by ALLOW during the 3rd project year, and to describe how these have been exploited to different target communities. Following the Description of Work (DoW), the ALLOW exploitation goal was defined as follow: to make sure that the knowledge and results generated within the ALLOW project are spread in all the relevant communities, and can be taken up beyond the project. To guarantee this goal, in the 2nd year we have defined an exploitation plan as a structured set of targets and target-driven actions. During the 3rd year, we have used this plan to direct and monitor the various exploitation activities performed by the partners and to analyze their outcomes in terms of collaborations with different target communities (industry, research, user groups). In this document, we first report the synthesis of the exploitation plan defined last year (Chapter 2). Starting from it we present, in Chapter 3, the outreach actions at the level of single consortium partner. We conclude the report with an overall analysis (Chapter 4) and with some concluding remarks (Chapter 5)

7 D9.3 CHAPTER 2. EXPLOITATION PLAN Chapter 2 Exploitation Plan In this chapter, we present the ALLOW exploitation plan defined in the 2nd year of the project and already presented in year 2 deliverable D9.2 Exploitation plan. This plan has been used during this year to direct and monitor the various exploitation activities at partner level and to to analyze if the achievement of the overall exploitation goal of the project. The plan coherently groups and organizes the expectations and actions expressed by each partner of the ALLOW consortium and is composed by a structured set of targets (reported in Table 2.1) and target-driven actions (reported in Table 2.2). In the following, for each target, we summarize its objective and the set of planned actions. Moreover, for each target-driven action, we provide the objective, the targets addressed and the planned actions

8 D9.3 CHAPTER 2. EXPLOITATION PLAN Table 2.1: Targets, Objectives and Planned Actions Target Objective Planned Actions Industry To make sure that the knowledge and results generated We intend to carefully monitor and coordinate the within the ALLOW project are spread to the actions performed by the consortium, by requiring relevant industrial audience, and can be taken up beyond each partner to report its progress, and by incre- the project. mentally refine this exploitation plan. Furthermore, we will push partners to contact industrial partners with the goal of disseminate and evaluate ALLOW To make sure that the knowledge and results generated within the ALLOW project are spread to the relevant research audience, and can be taken up beyond the project. User Groups To create a user community interested in the topic of adaptive pervasive flows (see DoW, page 105). Standardization Bodies To provide a direct contribution of the project to the standards in key technological areas. project results. The range of collaborations established by the consortium for exploitation goals on the research side is already quite vast. However, in relevant areas such us user interaction, context awareness and protocols for pervasive computing, the existing research collaborations are not yet being exploited by the partners for exploiting the project outcomes. For this reason, we will (a) push partners to establish links in these directions, exploiting their competencies and positioning in the research community, and (b) monitor the evolution of collaborations, and the academic exploitation of results. In the ALLOW project, two keys scenarios are adopted, which refer to two specific user communities, namely users in the medical area, and users from the logistics area. A part from monitoring the involvement of these communities, we foresee no further action for this target. The project will actively support Prof. Leymann in his activity to push ALLOW s concept to WS-* standardization bodies. Besides this, ALLOW does not currently plan to undertaken other efforts towards standardization

9 D9.3 CHAPTER 2. EXPLOITATION PLAN Table 2.2: Actions with Objectives and Targets addressed Action Objective Target Addressed Planned Actions Application Workshop To involve industries and research communities to showcase the project results, and involve them for the take-up of the knowledge and results built within ALLOW Open Source To provide a durable means of access by companies interested in experimenting with the prototypes developed in the project (see DoW, page 105). Industrial Projects Projects and Institutes Demonstrations To showcase the ALLOW project results to different audiences, so to allow a practical verification of the outcomes of the project, and to enable, on one side, checking their ability to solve the problems posed by real-world applications, and on the other, the sharing of the knowledge and the identification of novel research challenges. To maintain and strengthen links with industrial partnerships, transferring the technology developed in ALLOW to companies that have well established collaborations with the partners of ALLOW, but also possibly attracting new potential adopters of the AL- LOW solutions and paving the way to new potential partnerships To maintain and strengthen links with research partnerships, possibly attracting new partners interested to investigate the issues tackled within ALLOW, and to collaborate to build new solutions. Industrial and entities Industrial and entities, User Groups. Industrial and entities We plan to take care of the organization of the Application and Workshop to showcase AL- LOW results. While most partners are developing their prototypes and demonstrators as open source tools, or plan to do so, the modalities and timings of their open source release is not clear in many cases. The next actions will hence be devoted to the definition of the contents, modalities (e.g., via project web site) and licensing schemes. In coordination with WP8, we will monitor the delivery of demonstrators, and in particular we will make sure this is synchronized with relevant events such as meetings with domain experts or showcase sessions at key conferences Industrial entities While industrial links are established on a perpartner basis, we intend to act at the level of consortium to facilitate the established of these links. In particular, we will take care of setting up materials and that present ALLOW s topics and results, and facilitate the presentation of project to potential industrial partners. entities We will monitor the evolution of the participation of ALLOW partners to research projects, checking that the results discovered in ALLOW are appropriately disseminated to those projects whenever e.g. showcase events take place

10 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Chapter 3 Partner Level Reports In order to guarantee the progress of exploitation activities, a monitoring task has been executed during the last year of the project. We collected partner-level reports and we checked the status of the activities done during the 3rd year. More precisely, each partner has reported information about how the different outreach actions have been exploited to showcase the project results to different audiences. In the following, we present one table for each partner of the consortium. Each row in the tables reports a short description of the outreach action, the target audience involved and the way in which it has been transferred. Table 3.1: IPVS Target Description Action Type Industry, User Group IPVS has disseminated ALLOW project results on an international level in bilateral talks Georgia Institute of Technology, Altanta, Georgia. Prof. Umakishore Ramachandran is one of leading researchers in the field of embedded and pervasive systems. Joint future projects are envisioned IPVS participated in the development of a demonstrator of the flow adaptation and evolution concepts investigated in the project. This demonstrator, with the implementation of the Car Logistic Scenario defined from the meeting with BIBA, has been exhibited at the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11) in Budapest. The same demonstrator has been accepted as Demo at the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM IPVS has organized an application workshop at the BIBA (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, ) to discuss on a possible logistic scenario to use for the project validation. This meeting has raised the awareness for the AL- LOW concepts at the forefront of research on selforganizing logistics. Future collaborations are envisioned. Institute Demonstration Application Workshop

11 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Table 3.2: IAAS Target Description Action Type Industry Based on ALLOW technology an electronic codriver for long-term test drives in the automotive domain is built by PORSCHE AG. The goal is to increase the quality of the test. In addition, the electronic co-driver supports the driver planning the test drive. The test drive is modeled as a (constraintbased) process model. The tasks are refined at runtime according to the driver s preferences, the car s type, the car s configuration, or the test s objective. The recommendation system helps the driver planning the test sequence and controls the test s compliance. IAAS has written joint papers with MASTER and COMPAS FP7 EU Projects on fragment composition and constraint-based workflows. IAAS has developed an open source task manager. Industrial Project Project Open Source

12 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Table 3.3: PASSAU Target Description Action Type, User Group Industry, User Group PASSAU co-organized the First Workshop on Hybrid Pervasive/Digital Inference at Pervasive 2011 together with the Palo Alto Center and the University of Sidney. The workshop focused on one of the main aims of the ALLOW project, how to combine activity recognition with other structural knowledge, for example flows. PASSAU attended a meeting at the Ubiquitious Computing Lab at the Palo Alto Center (PARC) organized by Kurt Partridge and Oliver Brdiczka presenting the initial results of the Mainkofen user studies and experiments, spawning discussions on the integration of human centric flows with activity recognition. The outcome of the meeting was a better understanding on how constraints and structural knowledge extracted from work -flows can support activity recognition. Additionally, the meeting increased the visibility of the ALLOW project in the US research community. PASSAU presented the initial results, experiment setup and goals of the ward user studies to the management and staff of the hospital in Mainkofen. Afterwards, he lead an interesting question and answer session gathering very positive feedback towards the initial findings and the ALLOW Project aims. PASSAU took part in the PERADA Summerschool in Budapest, presenting the research findings of the ALLOW project in a lecture/tutorial session. The attendees learned about traditional context recognition and the augmentation of human centric flows to trace workflows and improve the inference process. Dissemination Event Application Workshop Industrial Projects Dissemination Event

13 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Table 3.4: FBK Target Description Action Type Industry, User Group FBK visited the BIBA (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, ) to discuss on a possible logistic scenario to use for the project validation. The goal of the meeting was to gather from BIBA scenarios in the logistics domain to be adopted by ALLOW. BIBA presented different scenarios all of them very relevant for our work. One of them in particular was selected because very relevant for project goals. It concerns the unloading, handling and delivering of cars at harbors. FBK has used it to illustrate and validate the adaptation and evolution techniques proposed in the project. After the project conclusion, for FBK, BIBA could be one of the potential adopters of the project results. FBK has developed a demonstrator of the flow adaptation / evolution concepts investigated in the project. This demonstrator, with the implementation of the Car Logistic Scenario defined from the meeting with BIBA, has been exhibited at the The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11) in Budapest. The same demonstrator has been accepted as Demo at the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011) FBK has developed an open source framework that supports the design and run-time of service-based applications: see The solutions developed by FBK for flow adaptation and evolution have been implemented and will be part of this framework as open source code. FBK has started exploiting this foreground within the EU project S-Cube, as a baseline technology for service adaptation and evolution; this project will guarantee further developments and wider testing of the concept developed within the ALLOW project. FBK is also evaluating the transfer of the techniques and tools developed within this foreground to a spinoff working in the area of SOC. The tools are protected by an open source license. Expected impact is on the quality of software, in particular for what concerns its robustness, its resilience, and its agility; a quantification is not possible at this stage. Application Workshop Demonstration Open Source Project

14 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Table 3.5: Imperial Target Description Action Type Industry Through various contacts and meetings with Industry, Imperial has disseminated information about the ALLOW project to people from BT, Microsoft Cambridge, the GSMA, several Telecom operator, Ocado (an online grocer). The research in the ALLOW project has resulted in joint papers with researchers on 4 other research projects. With the Ubival project on distributed orchestration of worflows, with the Caregrid project on trust management in the presence of uncertainty, with the Primma project on Collaborative Privacy Policy Authoring in a Social Networking Context and Privacy-preserving location sharing, with the ITA (US Army Labs and UK MoD) on Break-Glass Policies. ALLOW was also instrumental in Imperial s participation in the newly started EU research and training network: icarenet on Context awareness for healthcare, wellness, and assisted living. Imperial s Teleo-reactive implementation is also being used in the UK s Homework project to allow home users to manage Home networks. The Break-glass policy is also been considered as a possible replacement for standard firewall approach., User Group Imperial visited Hannover Medical School to discuss requirements for hospital ward workflows and to explain the aims of ALLOW. The visit has played a significant part in focusing Imperial research in the final year of the project and developing demonstrators. Imperial s Teleo-Reactive implementation for Android devices has been released at Queries to the associated mailing list indicate interest amongst universities and some small companies,. Other source-code developed by Imperial is available on request., User Group Imperial has focused its demonstrator effort on developing nursing workflow scenarios. These have been influenced by the visit to the Hannover Medical School. Application Workshop Project Application Workshop Open Source Demonstrator

15 D9.3 CHAPTER 3. PARTNER LEVEL REPORTS Table 3.6: ULANC Target Description Action Type Industry, User Group Lancaster has developed a demonstrator of the situated user interface technology investigated in this project. This demonstrator, which focuses on embedded display networks and situated glyphs, won the Best Demo Award at the Pervasive 2011 conference in San Francisco. Gerd Kortuem and Adalberto Simeone (ULANC) discussed glyph-based user interfaces for hospitals settings with Veraz Ltd, a UK-based healthcare IT research company. Veraz Ltd. is engaged in commercializing sensor solutions aimed at reducing the spread of diseases in hospitals. The developed sensor technology uses a workflow-like description to detect violations of sanitary regulations. Veraz is in need of user interface expertise and see glyphs and display network as suitable technology for alerting hospital staff about sanitary issues. Gerd Kortuem and Fahim Kawsar (ULANC) visited Tokyo University, Waseda University and Keio University in Tokyo to present their work on situated workflows and glyph-based user interfaces. Gerd Kortuem was invited to give a public lecture on the ALLOW project and flow-based systems for pervasive computing at Keio University. Gerd Kortuem and Fahim Kawsar (ULANC) visited Bell Labs, Antwerp to present the ALLOW project. Bell Labs is developing software engineering methods for the Internet of Things and Pervasive Computing. Discussion shave been initiated about incorporating flow-like abstractions into Bell Labs development platform. Fahim Kawsar and Gerd Kortuem (ULANC) were co-organizers of Workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things, held in conjunction with UbiComp 2010, The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2010), September 26-29, Fahim Kawsar (ULANC) is organizing the Workshop on Intelligibility and Control in Pervasive Computing, The work on micro-display networks and situated glyphs done at Lancaster University has resulted in a joint publication and a joint demo with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The work on situated glyphs done at Lancaster University has resulted in a joint publication with Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) lab at Hasselt University in Belgium. Demonstration. Application Workshop Institute Institute Industry Dissemination Event Dissemination Event Institute Institute

16 D9.3 CHAPTER 4. OVERALL ANALYSIS Chapter 4 Overall Analysis The exploitation plan defined in the 2nd year aims at ensuring that the knowledge and results generated within the project was spread to all the relevant communities and can be taken up beyond the project. In this Chapter we analyze to which extent this result has been achieved. We organize the discussion according to the four target audiences described in Chapter 2. Community: This is the target which has been most successfully outreached. ALLOW has established various research partnerships with research bodies outside the consortium, in particular, through the exploitation of the project results in other research projects. This includes bilateral collaborations between ALLOW and other existing projects (MASTER, COMPAS, S-Cube, UbiVal, CareGrid and icarenet). Moreover, project partners are planning the launch of new follow-up projects building on top of ALLOW concepts and techniques. The organization of dedicated dissemination events, such as workshops co-located with relevant conferences, invited talks, teaching, collaboration with other research institutes, etc. has been another way to reach researchers. These events have been useful to disseminate and demonstrate the results of ALLOW, as well as to compare ALLOW s results with related research results outside of the project. Industry: Partners in the consortium have well-established collaborations with companies that are interested in the project results. These links have been exploited, both at the partner level and at the consortium level, to disseminate and promote the project results, and to pave the way for possible adoptions of these results. Demonstrators based on the use cases addressed by ALLOW, in the Health-care and Logistics domain, have been exploited to showcase the project results to industry. Also, the tools developed in ALLOW are made available as open source, which facilitates their evaluation by industry. Also the organization of dedicated events like application workshops has been an effective way to establish links with industry. While the overall ALLOW framework has not (yet) been fully adopted in industrial projects, various components are currently being exploited in projects and other collaborations with industry. User Groups: ALLOW has outreached two type of user groups, the first in the Health-Care domain and the second in the Logistics domain. Regarding Health-Care domain, the collaboration with user groups has been very successful; different teams of researchers from different partners joined and conducted an extended study to collect real-world data from the Mainkofen Hospital and from the Hannover academic medical center. This data was the basis of most evaluation and demonstration activities (i.e., recognition experiments, situated UI studies and investigations concerned with security) throughout the project. For what concerns the Logistics domain, a collaboration has been established with BIBA, a research institute with a very strong track record in self-organizing logistics. This collaboration has been very important to permit an evaluation on realistic scenarios of the concepts and mechanisms investigated by ALLOW. IN

17 D9.3 CHAPTER 4. OVERALL ANALYSIS perspective, this collaboration will also facilitate the presentation of the project results to the stakeholders in the Logistic domain that collaborate with BIBA. Standardization Bodies: As anticipated in the exploitation plan defined in the 2nd year of the project, outreach to this target turned out to be unfeasible. Due the nature of the ALLOW project, which aims at developing highly innovative concepts and results, and due to the nature and length of standardization procedures, bringing ALLOW s concepts into standards may require an effort, and more substantially a time-span, which goes beyond ALLOW s scope and duration

18 D9.3 CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION Chapter 5 Conclusion This document has presented how the ALLOW exploitation plan defined in the 2nd year has been used to guarantee that the overall exploitation goal of the project is consistently met. We have reported the different exploitation activities done from each partner during the last year with the objective to present how the ALLOW project has reached different target communities (research, industry, user groups and standardization bodies) using different outreach actions. The document concludes with an overall analysis on how during the project we have been able to ensure that the knowledge and results generated within the project was spread to all the target communities