IST specific research topics
Compilation of Quads input (8 June 1998)

Table of contents

PREFACE

KEY ACTION 1 - SYSTEMS AND SERVICES FOR THE CITIZEN

1. Personal Health Support Systems and Services for Citizens
2. Empowering Health Professionals with Advance Applications and Systems
3. New Generation Telemedicine Systems and Services
4. Healthcare Information Networks and Services for Continuity of Care
5. Support for Future Health Delivery Systems (Health Managers)
6. Design for All
7. IST tools, systems and support for independent living
8. Adaptive or assistive technology devices for people with disabilities
9. Adapting Public Administrations to the Information Society
10. Access to Public Administrations for all Citizens
11. On-line Support for the Democratic Process
12. Environmental Management and Information Systems and Services
13. Risk and Crisis Management System
14. IST Technologies for Environment and Sustainable development
15. IST Systems for Intelligent Transport Infrastructure
16. IST Systems for Intelligent Vehicles
17. IST Technologies for Operators and Managers
18. IS Traveller (information, communication and mobility) services;
19. Integrated Systems for Tourism

KEY ACTION 2 - NEW METHODS OF WORK AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

1. Work and Business in the Information Society
2. Human Workspaces
3. Multi-Location Collaborative Working
4. Dynamic Virtual Enterprise Management
5. Digital Development of Intelligent Goods & Services
6. Life-cycle Support for Customer-Product Relationships
7. Electronic Trade & Service
8. Organisational Learning & Knowledge Management
9. Business and Industry Operations Experiments & Best Practice
10. Acceptable Security Architectures
11. High Reliability Components, System & Services
12. Dependable Network Environments
13. Digital Object Life-cycle Management

KEY ACTION 3: MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND TOOLS

1. Efficient authoring and design for creative content in knowledge and media publishing
2. Content Personalisation
3. Instructional Management Systems and Reusable Learning Material
4. Advanced Learning Environments
5. Re-engineering Life-Long Learning through ICT
6. Digital Representation and Preservation of Cultural Artifacts
7. Full Multilinguality
8. New forms of Content
9. Content assets management and access
10. Active Content
11. Analysis, indexing, retrieval and filtering for visual, auditory and numerical media
12. Information representation, visualisation and navigation
13. Natural Interactivity
14. Media Representations, Models and Standards

KEY ACTION 4: ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES

IPCN-01: All-Optical Networks and Terabit Transmission
IPCN-02: Networks and interoperability
IPCN-03: Technologies for Networked Services
IPCN-04: Integration of high performance realtime communications and information processing systems.
SSSE-01: Responsive, Emergent and Evolutionary Software Intensive Systems Engineering
SSSE-02: Intelligent and Emergent Services Engineering
SSSE-03: Technologies for Knowledge and Intelligence sharing and reuse
SSSE-04: R&D in statistics within the European Statistical System (ESS).
SSSE - 05 – ver. 1.1: European Initiative on Dependability
RLSV 2: Networked Virtual and Hybrid Environments for Tele– and Virtual Presence
MPCS-01: Terrestrial Wireless Communications Systems and Networks
MPCS-02 : Satellite Communication Systems and Services
MPCS-03 : Enabling Technologies for Wireless Communications
MPCS-04 : Software Re-configurable Radio
IMVS-01: Intuitive self–adaptable multi-sensorial interfaces
PSSM-01: Improved sensing and displaying beyond reality
PSSM-02: Intelligent computing/communications devices and network terminals
PSSM-03: Generic microsystems and subsystems designing, computational prototyping and manufacturing.
MELE-01:Electronic Design and Semiconductor technologies for applications
MELE-02: Advanced process technology, equipment and materials
MELE-03: Opto-electronic and photonic technologies and devices
MELE-04: Interconnections
HORI-01: European Initiative on Dependability
HOR-02: Integration and convergence of infrastructures for broadband services supporting Information Society applications.
HORI-03: Take-up actions for Essential Technologies
HORI-03bis: Take-up actions for software systems and services

FUTURE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

I. The Open FET Domain
II. Proactive Initiatives
1. Quantum Computing and Communications (QCC)
2. Personal Bio-information Systems
3. Microelectronics Advanced Research Initiative (MEL ARI)

SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

1. Broadband Interconnection of National Research and Education Networks
2. Concerted Actions on European Broadband Inter-connectivity
3. Interconnection of advanced communications testbeds, and related transmission experiments
4. Functional integration and systems validation within advanced communications testbeds

CROSS-PROGRAMME THEMES

1. Interoperability and multi-functionality of new generation cards
2. Integrated Applications Platforms
3. Ensuring User Acceptability of Applications and Services
4. Title: Mobility – the un-tethered citizen (version 27/5/98 - under revision)
5. Title: European Initiative on Dependability
6. Title: Embedded Networks Initiative
7. Title: Space Technologies and Applications
8. A European Geographical Information Infrastructure (EGII)
9. Converging Information Society Technologies and Applications in the Field of Networked Information and Digital Spaces
10. Personalisation using Information Society Technologies
11. Usability and User-Centred Design in Information Society Technologies
12. Building Virtual Places and Agent Worlds with Information Society Technologies
13. Non-RTD Issues

ANNEX: CROSS-INDEX


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