This call focuses on technologies for the networked, distributed dimension of software and access to services and data. It will support long-term research that enables software developers to easily create interoperable services based on open standards, with sufficient flexibility and at a reasonable cost.
Research proposals can be submitted in 3 areas, namely Cloud Computing, Internet of Services, and Advanced Software Engineering. In addition, budget is reserved for Coordination and Support Actions.
Cloud Computing provides on-demand resources, e.g. servers, storage, networking, software and information; customers can scale up or down and pay for what they use. It is expected that the Cloud Computing trend will change the market and the structure of the IT and telecommunications industries. However, a report by a group of experts highlighted open research issues, for instance related to scalability, interoperability, mobility, energy efficiency, etc. (see link below). These research issues should be addressed in Objective 1.2.
The Internet of Services vision foresees many, many connected IT services, which are offered, bought, sold, used, and composed by service providers, consumers, aggregators, and brokers. Anyone can develop new services and make them available for others to use or build upon. The result is a new way of offering, using, and organising IT supported functionality. This research stream builds upon the work done in previous Work Programmes, and focuses on research issues arising from dealing with a massive amount of services.
The Advanced Software Engineering goes to the core of the objective, namely software engineering. It targets software engineering techniques to cope with the challenges that are brought forward by the Future Internet and Internet-scale applications. In addition, research is welcomed in tools and methods for community-based software development.
Call
FP7-ICT-2011-8, closing 17 Jan 2012
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