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Special Theme: Intelligent Cars Number 94, July 2013 ERCIM NEWS www.ercim.eu Special theme: Intelligent Cars Also in this issue: Keynote: Collaborative Mobility – Beyond Communicating Vehicles Joint ERCIM Actions: W3C Launched Work on Web and Automotive Research and Innovation: LuxDrops – User-Friendly Management of Confidential Data in the Cloud Editorial Information Contents ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. Published quar- terly, it reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and KEYNOtE aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology and 4 Collaborative Mobility – Beyond Communicating Applied Mathematics. Through short articles and news Vehicles items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information by Ilja Radusch between the institutes and also with the wider scientific com- munity. This issue has a circulation of about 8,500 copies. JOINt ERCIM ACtIONs ERCIM News is published by ERCIM EEIG BP 93, F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France 5 W3C Launched Work Tel: +33 4 9238 5010, E-mail: [email protected] on Web and Automotive Director: Jérôme Chailloux by Philipp Hoschka ISSN 0926-4981 Editorial Board: sPECIAL tHEME Central editor: Peter Kunz, ERCIM office ([email protected]) The special theme section “Intelligent Cars” has been Local Editors: coordinated by Jaroslav Machan, ŠKODA AUTO a.s., Czech Austria: Erwin Schoitsch, ([email protected]) Republic and Christian Laugier, Inria, France Belgium:Benoît Michel ([email protected]) Cyprus: Ioannis Krikidis ([email protected]) Introduction to the Special Theme Czech Republic:Michal Haindl ([email protected]) 6 Intelligent Vehicles as an Integral Part of Intelligent France: Thierry Priol ([email protected]) Transport Systems Germany: Michael Krapp ([email protected] by Jaroslav Machan and Christian Laugier hofer.de) Greece: Eleni Orphanoudakis ([email protected]), 8 ABV – A Low Speed Automation Project to Study Artemios Voyiatzis ([email protected]) the Technical Feasibility of Fully Automated Driving Hungary: Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú ([email protected]) by Evangeline Pollard, Fawzi Nashashibi and Paulo Italy: Carol Peters ([email protected]) Resende Luxembourg: Thomas Tamisier ([email protected]) Norway: Truls Gjestland ([email protected]) 9 Cooperative Systems for Car Safety Improvement Poland: Hung Son Nguyen ([email protected]) by Zdeněk Lokaj, Tomas Zelinka and Miroslav Šrotýř Portugal: Joaquim Jorge ([email protected]) Spain: Silvia Abrahão ([email protected]) 11 Location Assurance and Privacy in GNSS Navigation Sweden: Kersti Hedman ([email protected]) by Xihui Chen, Carlo Harpes, Gabriele Lenzini, Sjouke Switzerland: Harry Rudin ([email protected]) Mauw and Jun Pang The Netherlands: Annette Kik ([email protected]) W3C: Marie-Claire Forgue ([email protected]) 12 Paving the Way for Apps in Vehicles by Avenir Kobetski and Jakob Axelsson Contributions Contributions should be submitted to the local editor of your 13 Mobile Opportunistic Traffic Offloading for Map- country Based ADAS Applications: the MOTO Project Approach Copyright Notice by Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella, Leandro All authors, as identified in each article, retain copyright of D’Orazio and Filippo Visintainer their work 14 Autonomous Traffic Warning System with Car-to-X Advertising Communication For current advertising rates and conditions, see by Josef Jiru http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ or contact [email protected] 16 Understanding V2X Communication Dynamics ERCIM News online edition Through Complex Network Science The online edition is published at by Nicholas Loulloudes, George Pallis and Marios D. http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ Dikaiakos Subscription 17 The VESPA Project: Driving Advances in Data Subscribe to ERCIM News by sending an email to Management for Vehicular Networks [email protected] or by filling out the form at the by Thierry Delot and Sergio Ilarri ERCIM News website: http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ 19 Intelligent Vehicles: Complex Software-Based Next issue Systems October 2013, Special theme: Image Understanding by Javier Ibanez-Guzman and Christian Laugier ERCIM NEWS 94 July 2013 20 Modularity Analysis of Automotive Control Software by Yanja Dajsuren, Mark G.J. van den Brand and Alexander Serebrenik 22 Electro Vehicle Car-Sharing System – A Simulation Model for Big Cities by Dmitry Rozhdestvenskiy and Petr Bouchner EVENts, BOOKs, IN BRIEF 23 The Car that Looks Like Me: Similarity Cues can Increase Trust in the Self-Driving Cars of the Future Event Reports by Frank Verberne, Jaap Ham and Cees Midden 39 MediaEval 2012 Evaluation Campaign by Gareth J. F. Jones and Martha Larson 25 Digital Road Authority for Coordination between In- Car Navigation Systems and Traffic Control Centres 40 TransForm School on Research Directions by Rob van der Mei, Maaike Bots and Frank Ottenhof in Distributed Computing by Panagiota Fatourou REsEARCH ANd INNOVAtION Announcements 40 AITA 2013 – 12th International Workshop on This section features news about research activities and Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications innovative developments from European research institutes 40 W3C Workshop on Publishing using the Open Web Platform 26 Imperia: The 21st Century Eco-Friendly Sports Car by François Henry 41 Second Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance 28 An Innovative Active Suspension System for Autonomous Vehicles: A Safe and Comfortable Ride 41 Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces: Walls, and Good Handling Tables, Tablets and Phones by Katerina Hyniova 41 5th Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC 2013) 29 Wire-Speed Regular-Expression Scanning at 20 Gbit/s and Beyond Books by Jan van Lunteren and Christoph Hagleitner 42 Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications 31 DRMSim: A Routing-Model Simulator for Large- Scale Networks 42 Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor by Aurélien Lancin and Dimitri Papadimitriou Systems 32 LuxDrops – User-Friendly Management of 42 Digital Stereoscopy – Scene to Screen 3D Production Confidential Data in the Cloud Workflow by Pascal Bauler, Daniel Heinesch, Antoine Schlechter and Fernand Feltz Jobs 42 Research positions at The Warsaw Center of 33 InGeoCloudS: A Cloud-Based Platform for Sharing Mathematics and Computer Science Geodata Across Europe by Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Trani, In Brief Makis Atzemoglou, Benoit Baurens and Dimitris Kotzinos 43 European Laboratory on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining 34 Electromagnetic Fields for Neuron Communications by Rié Komuro and Ilangko Balasingham 43 Michael Wilson Obituary 36 A Patented Position Determination Solution 43 National ICT Awards 2013 for Python and SIG by Per Kreuger 43 Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of 36 SoFWIReD – Southampton Fraunhofer Web and IACR Internet Research & Development by Sepideh Chakaveh 38 Preserving Linked Data by Carlo Meghini, Anna Molino, Francesca Borri and Giulio Galesi ERCIM NEWS 94 July 2013 3 Keynote rely on a rapid adoption of vehicle-2-x communication not only by vehicle manufacturers but also road and infrastruc - ture operators. Therefore, in a first step to full deployment, Dutch, German, and Austrian authorities agreed to establish an intelligent corridor ranging from Rotterdam in the Netherlands via Frankfurt/Main in Germany to Vienna in Austria where construction areas are announced wirelessly to Ilja Radusch, the equipped vehicles. This corridor will be the first installa - head of department tion of cooperative traffic where vehicles and road infra - “Automotive Services structure work together. and Communication Technologies” at The road ahead Fraunhofer FOKUS However, the possibilities of cooperative traffic do not stop and head of the there. Just like the Internet, vehicle-2-x communication tech - Daimler Center for nology is providing a link between travellers and not just Automotive IT their vehicles. Therefore, the next task is to join those trav - Innovations. ellers (which include drivers and any type of road users) and the infrastructure operators in a collaborative network to solve various travel needs all the way from eco-friendly parking to short-term decisions on trip planning. Collaboration is the key concept of a future mobility approach, which extends the cooperative concept of the first generation systems and applications – such as travel time Collaborative Mobility – optimizing navigation systems – by including the human user in a highly integrated cooperative, interactive, and par - Beyond Communicating ticipatory network. In this collaborative concept, it is not only the systems and vehicles that communicate, but all Vehicles actors (systems and humans) are engaged in a continuous bi- directional, dynamic exchange of information allowing for European efforts for more intelligent transport systems have pro-active traffic system management which encourages a long history with the first programmes focusing on Road active participation and interaction of road users. Transport Informatics (RTI) dating back to the 1980’s. The corresponding Intelligent Vehicles Safety Systems started Mobility research so far has been focused on safety systems even earlier in the late 1950’s by progressing from passive and applications relieving drivers from the most exhausting safety systems towards truly pro-active safety functions we tasks. However, further improvements require a behavioural envision today. The state of the art in road and vehicle safety change in all road users and operators in the direction
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