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European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Number 64, January 2006 www.ercim.org Special: Emergent Computing Joint ERCIM Actions: ‘Beyond the Horizon’ Anticipating Future and Emerging Information Society Technologies European Scene: Routes to Open Access Publishing CONTENTS JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS THE EUROPEAN SCENE 4 Fourth ERCIM Soft Computing Workshop The Routes to Open Access by Petr Hajek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of 16 Open Access: An Introduction Sciences / CRCIM, Czech Republic by Keith G Jeffery, Director IT, CCLRC and ERCIM president 4 Cor Baayen Award 2006 18 Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access 5 Second ERCIM Workshop ‘Rapid Integration of Software by Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK Engineering Techniques’ by Nicolas Guelfi, University of Luxembourg 19 The Golden Route to Open Access by Jan Velterop 5 Grid@Asia: European-Asian Cooperation Director of Open Access, Springer in Grid Research and Technology by Bruno Le Dantec , ERCIM Office 20 ERCIM Statement on Open Access 6 GFMICS 2005 — 10th International Workshop on Formal 21 Managing Licenses in an Open Access Community Methods for Industrial Critical Systems by Renato Iannella National ICT Australia by Mieke Massink and Tiziana Margaria 22 W3C at the Forefront of Open Access Beyond-The-Horizon Project by Rigo Wenning, W3C 7 Bits, Atoms and Genes Beyond the Horizon 23 Cream of Science by Dimitris Plexousakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece by Wouter Mettrop, CWI, The Netherlands 8 Thematic Group 1: Pervasive Computing and Communications SPECIAL THEME: by Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria EMERGENT COMPUTING 24 Introduction to the Special Theme 9 Thematic Group 2: by Heather J. Ruskin and Ray Walshe, Dublin City University/IUA, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies Ireland by Colin Lambert, University of Lancaster, UK Invited article: 9 Thematic Group 3: 26 Swarm-Based Space Exploration Security, Dependability and Trust by Michael G. Hinchey, Roy Sterritt, Christopher A. Rouff, by Michel Riguidel, ENST-Paris, France James L. Rash and Walt Truszkowski 10 Thematic Group 4: Invited article: Bio-ICT Synergies 27 Collective Intelligence and Evolution by Fernando Martin-Sanchez, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid by Akira Namatame, Akira Namatame, National Defense Spain Academy, Japan 11 Thematic Group 5: Invited article: Intelligent and Cognitive Systems 28 Evolving Game-Playing Strategies by Rolf Pfeifer and Alois Knoll, University of Zurich, Switzerland with Genetic Programming by Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 12 Thematic Group 6: Software Intensive Systems 30 Collaborative Online Development by Martin Wirsing, Universität Munchen, Germany of Modular Intelligent Agents by Ciarán O’Leary, Dublin Institute of Technology, Mark Humphrys 13 Quantum Information Processing and Communication and Ray Walshe, Dublin City University/IUA, Ireland Preparation for FP7 in Future and Emerging Technologies Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission 31 CE-Ants: Ant-Like Agents for Path Management in the Next- Generation Internet NEWS FROM W3C by Otto Wittner and Bjarne E. Helvik, NTNU, Norway 14 The Web on the Move 33 ISEE – A Framework for the Evolution and Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks 14 W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing for Embodied Agents by Martin Hülse, Steffen Wischmann, and Keyan Zahedi, 15 W3C Workshop: ‘Toward a More Secure Web’ Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems – AIS, 15 W3C Seminar on Web Services and Semantics Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany 15 Latest W3C Recommendations 34 Emergent Intelligence in Competitive Multi-Agent Systems 15 W3C Continues ICANN Participation by Sander M. Bohte, Han La Poutré, CWI, The Netherlands 35 Building a Computational Digital Economy through Interdisciplinary Research by Petros Kavassalis, University of Crete, Greece, and Konstantin Popov, Konstantin Popov SICS, Sweden 37 Models of Multilateral Cooperative Behaviour by Milan Mareš Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences / CRCIM, Czech Republic 38 Emergent Walking Behaviour in an Aibo Robot by Cecilio Angulo, Ricardo A. Téllez and Diego E. Pardo, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) / SpaRCIM, Spain R 2 ERCIM News No. 64, January 2006 Next issue: April 2006 — Special theme: Space Exploration CONTENTS R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 39 Concept-Based Text Representations for Categorization Digital Libraries Problems 58 XSMapper: a Service-Oriented Utility for XML Schema by Magnus Sahlgren, SICS, Sweden Transformation by Manuel Llavador and José H. Canós, Technical University of 40 A Framework for Efficient Statistical Modelling Valencia/SpaRCIM, Spain by Daniel Gillblad and Anders Holst, SICS, Sweden Bioinformatics 41 Rules, Inferences and Robust Approximation at Work 59 Analysis and Modelling of Genomic Data by Antonín Dvořák, Vilém Novák, Viktor Pavliska, University of by Anna Tonazzini, Francesco Bonchi, Stefania Gnesi, Ercan Ostrava, Czech Republic Kuruoglu and Sergio Bottini, ISTI-CNR, Italy 42 Particle Swarm Optimization for the Reconstruction of Numerical Mathematics Permittivity Range Profiles from Microwave Measurements 61 Numerical Mathematics Consortium by Simone Genovesi and Emanuele Salerno, ISTI-CNR, Italy Distributed Systems 62 CORRECT – Developing Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems 44 Building Blocks from Biology for the Design of Algorithms for by Alfredo Capozucca, Barbara Gallina, Nicolas Guelfi, Patrizio the Management of Modern Dynamic Networks Pelliccione and Alexander Romanovsky, University of Luxembourg by Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea Rizzoli Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi Ubiquitous Computing sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Manno-Lugano, Switzerland 63 The WearIT@work Project: Empowering the Mobile Worker with Wearable Computing 45 Chemical Programming of Self-Organizing Systems by Elisa Basolu, Massimo Busuoli, ENEA - Italian National by Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Pascal Fradet and Yann Radenac, Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment and INRIA/IRISA, France Mike Lawo, University of Bremen, Germany 46 A Development Model Radio Technology for Robust Fault-Tolerant Design 64 PULSERS Delivers on Phase 1 – Europe to Adopt a Ruling for by Andy Tyrrell and Hong Sun, University of York, UK Ultra Wide Band by Walter Hirt, IBM Research GmbH, Switzerland 48 Emergent Properties of the Human Immune Response to HIV Infection: Results from Multi-Agent Computer Simulations Security and Trust by Ashley Callaghan, Dublin City University / IUA, Ireland 66 AVISPA: Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications 49 Network Emergence in Immune System Shape by Alessandro Armando, Università di Genova, Italy, David Basin, by Heather Ruskin, and John Burns, Dublin City University, Ireland Luca Viganò, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Jorge Cuellar, Siemens and Michael Rusinowitch, Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en 50 Agent-Based Modelling of Viral Infection by Dimitri Perrin, Dublin City University / IUA, Ireland Informatique et ses Applications, France Pattern Recognition 51 The ‘Decent’ Project: Decentralized Metaheuristics 67 Prague Texture Segmentation Data Generator and Benchmark by Enrique Alba, University of Málaga / SpaRCIM, Spain, by Stanislav Mikeš and Michal Haindl, Institute of Information and Martin Middendorf, University Leipzig, Germany Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences/CRCIM, Czech 53 Evolutionary Methods make New Effective Laser Shapes Republic by Thomas Bäck and Joost N. Kok, Leiden University, Multimedia The Netherlands 68 Visiting Hybrid Museums: A Colony of Ants in your Pocket by Javier Jaén and José A. Mocholí, Universidad Politécnica de 54 Neural Net Modelling in Financial Engineering of Options Valencia / SpaRCIM, Spain by Jerome Healy, Longchuan Xu, Maurice Dixon, Fang Fang Cai, Brian Read and Brian Eales 70 Edutainment and Game Theory Realization through an Open- Source UNESCO Virtual Perspolis Project 55 Self-Optimization in a Next-Generation Urban Traffic Control by Sepideh Chakaveh, Olaf Geuer, Fraunhofer Institute for Media- Environment Communication, Germany; and Stefan Werning, Massachusettes by Raymond Cunningham, Jim Dowling, Anthony Harrington, Institute of Technology, USA Vinny Reynolds, René Meier and Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin / IUA, Ireland Web Tool 71 CONFIOUS: Conference Management System with 56 Self-Organized Routing in Mobile Intelligence, Power and Style Ad Hoc Networks using SAMPLE by Manos Papagelis and Dimitris Plexousakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece by Jim Dowling and Stefan Weber, Trinity College Dublin / IUA, Ireland 72 Announcement: Call for Take up Actions, Joined sub-Projects to the AXMEDIS project of the European Commission EVENTS 73 Reports: EU-INDIA’05 - Second Annual Conference of the ICT for EU-India Cross Cultural Dissemination Project by María Alpuente, Santiago Escobar, and Moreno Falaschi, Technical University of Valencia / SpaRCIM, Spain 73 7th Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group ‘Matrix Computations and Statistics’ 74 ANNOUNCEMENTS 74 LEGAL NOTICE 75 IN BRIEF ERCIM News No. 64, January 2006 3 JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS Call for Candidates Fourth ERCIM Soft Cor Baayen Award 2006 Computing Workshop The Cor Baayen Award, awarded to a most promising young researcher in computer sci- ence and applied mathematics, was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President, by Petr Hajek and is open to any young researcher having completed their PhD thesis in one of the ‘ERCIM countries’: Austria, Belgium,
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