European Projects 2006

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The objective is to reduce the operating costs of relevant European aerospace products by 15%. The project will seek to reduce aircraft operating costs by realizing the weight saving potential of composite materials, by reducing the manufacturing costs of composite components, and by reducing maintenance costs. This project will include new design concepts and methods that exploit the full potential of these materials, as well as novel manufacturing and assembly processes. The project will be organized into four technical platforms:
- The Airliner Wing platform
- The Airliner Fuselage platform
- The Business Jet Wing platform
- Project Management and Training platform.

The aim of this project is to provide a Software Product Line (SPL) development methodology that offers improved modularisation of variations, their holistic treatment across the software lifecycle and maintenance of their (forward and backward) traceability during SPL evolution.
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) can improve the way in which software is modularised. Model-Driven Development (MDD) can help to express concerns as a set of models without technical details and support traceability of the high-level requirements and variations through model transformations.
AMPLE will combine AOSD and MDD techniques to not only address variability at each stage in the SPL engineering lifecycle but also manage variations in associated artefacts such as requirements documents. Furthermore, it aims to bind the variation points in various development stages and dimensions into a coherent variability framework across the life cycle thus providing effective forward and backward traceability of variations and their impact. This makes it possible to develop resilient yet adaptable SPL architectures for exploitation in industrial SPL engineering processes.

Grid4All aims to enable domestic users and non-profit organisations such as schools and small enterprises, to share their resources and to access massive grid resources when needed, envisioning a future in which access to resources is democratised and cooperative.
The proof of concept applications include: e-learning tools for collaborative editing in schools and digital content processing service accessible by end residential users.

The project contributes to the openness for ubiquitous learning of the large-scale repositories of digitised text, graphics, audio, video objects and to the process of their transformation into learning content, adequately enhancing and facilitating the knowledge building.
The project addresses innovative development of the main components of the learning processes - resources, services, communication spaces. New functionality of the learning communication spaces will be achieved by integrated web-, digital television and mobile technologies, supporting cross-media learning content.

MODELPLEX has three major objectives:
- Objective A: Develop an open solution for complex systems engineering improving quality and productivity;
- Objective B: Lead its industrialisation;
- Objective C: Ensure its successful adoption by the industry.
MODELPLEX will define and develop a coherent infrastructure specifically for the application of Model-driven engineering to the development and subsequent management of complex systems within a variety of industrial domains, where complexity is characterized by a combination of size, heterogeneity, legacy system management, dynamicity, distribution and autonomy of systems.
MODELPLEX will use established MODELWARE technologies as a basis for providing this second-generation MDE approach to solving complex systems engineering problems.
MODELPLEX is organised into two phases of 18 months, the first phase will build and deliver appropriate MDE solutions for complex systems and prepare their consolidation within selected industrial domains.
To achieve the objectives, a consortium of 22 complementary partners of internationally recognized experts in MDE has been setup. It includes major leaders of software intensive industry firms, tool vendors, academia and consultancy companies based in 8 countries.

Warehouse Management System (WMS) mission is evolving from controlling goods movement and storage to light manufacturing, transportation and order management. Demands from manufacturer end users are asking for WMS solution with decision making applications and networked environment. The Net-WMS project proposes a software solution enabling the expected new generation of Networked businesses WMS. Net-WMS will handle networked communication and co-operation processes through the integration of decision-making technologies, generic 3D placement primitives, virtual reality for 3D visualisation, interactivity to design packing models, knowledge modelling. The added-value and competitiveness increase of the Net-WMS solution will be characterised by shared expertise, easy deployment and maintenance, flexibility, interoperability, better resource handling and access to remote services.
The project gathers nine European organisations having a recognised expertise in logistical and packing problems as well as software development in supply chain optimisation. Net-WMS complementary and multidisciplinary consortium includes 3 SMEs, 2 large manufacturers and 4 academics and research centres.