ROMNET-ERA
ROManian Inventory and NETworking for Integration in ERA
Contract No. 510475, financed by European Commission (2004-2006)

ICT Technology Pillars:

– Nano-electronics, photonics and integrated micro/nano-systems. pushing the limits of miniaturisation, integration, variety and density; increasing performance and manufacturability at lower cost; facilitating incorporation of ICT in range of applications;
interfaces; upstream research requiring exploration of new concepts.
– Ubiquitous and unlimited capacity communication networks: ubiquitous access over heterogeneous networks - fixed, mobile, wireless and broadcasting networks spanning from the personal area to the regional and global area - allowing the seamless delivery of ever higher volumes of data and services anywhere, anytime.
– Embedded systems, computing and control: powerful, secure and distributed computing and communication systems that are embedded in objects and physical infrastructures and that can control and adapt to their environment.
– Software, Grids, security and dependability: dynamic, adaptive, dependable and trusted software and services, and new processing architectures, including their provision as a utility.
– Knowledge, cognitive and learning systems: capturing and exploiting knowledge embedded in web and multimedia content; bio-inspired artificial systems that perceive, understand, learn and evolve, and act autonomously; learning by machines and humans based on a better understanding of human cognition.
– Simulation, visualisation, interaction and mixed realities: tools for innovative design and creativity in products, services and digital media, and for natural, language-enabled and context-rich interaction and communication.
New perspectives in ICT drawing on other science and technology disciplines, including insights from physics, biotechnologies, materials- and life-sciences, for miniaturisation of ICT devices to sizes compatible and interacting with living organisms, to increase performance of systems engineering and information processing, and for modelling and simulation of the living world.