Cardiff
University participates through the School
of Computer Science. Cardiff University is a research-led
Institution founded in 1883 and is ranked as the overall 7th highest UK
University in terms of research by the UK government. The School of
Computer Science employs approximately 80 staff, has a buoyant research
culture and has significant research activity in distributed systems,
scientific computing and graphics and multi-media. The School hosts the
Welsh e-Science Centre which represents a multi-million pound
infrastructure related investment at the University for GRID focused
research. This provides large scale distributed computational resources
for scientific application and commercial exploitation.
Investigators: Roger M. Whitaker
(project co-ordinator), Stuart M. Allen
CNR is
the Italian National Research Council and participates in the project
through the researchers of the Ubiquitous Internet group of the Institute
for Informatics and Telematics (IIT). The researchers of the
group carry out basic and applied research in Mobile and Pervasive
Computing Systems with special emphasis on networking, middleware, and
p2p platforms. UID participates to many research projects funded by
national and international institutions. As particularly relevant to
SOCIALNETS, the group led, between 2002 and 2005, the European FP5 FET
Project MobileMAN,
which defined and developed a campus-wide, self-organizing, and totally
wireless network, and, since 2006, participates to the FP6 FET-SAC HAGGLE project, which aims at
exploring completely disruptive networking architectures for
opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks.
Investigators:
Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella
The Computer Laboratory, Systems Research Group,
(UCAM-CLAB) has been a pioneer in the design and study of multimedia
applications for the Internet, and has also developed recently a strong
expertise on challenging networks. Systems is the largest research area
in the Computer Laboratory covering hardware, communications hardware
and software, operating systems and distributed systems. Past systems
developed here include Edsac, the Titan operating system, the Cambridge
Ring and the Cambridge Distributed Computing System. The Systems
Research Group (SRG) has some 40 members, and is divided into a number
of subgroups: the Opera group, the Networks and Operating Systems
group, and the Self-Timed Logic group. Networks
and Operating Systems group (NetOS), which is involved in
this proposal, undertakes teaching and research into topics including
computer architecture, operating systems design, network monitoring and
protocol design, practical distributed systems and mobile
communications. NetOS runs a number of team-based research projects
simultaneously, with a leaning towards real implementations and
deployments. We work closely with other groups in the Computer
Laboratory and University, as well as industrial partners such as
Microsoft Research. The NetOS group has organized and hosted BIOWIRE
2007 the first workshop on Bio-inspired design of networks -- in
particular wireless networks and self-organizing properties of
biological networks. NetOS also participate to the USA – UK
International Technology Alliance (ITA) project which focuses on
Biologically Inspired Self-Organization in Networks.
Investigators: Jon Crowcroft,
Pietro Lio
The National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens was founded in 1837 and is
the oldest University in Greece. The Department of Informatics and
Telecommunications was founded in 1989 and is part of the School of
Applied Sciences. It consists of three divisions: Computer Science;
Computer Systems and Applications; Telecommunications and Signal
Processing. The Department has about 44 faculty members and over 300
MSc and PhD students. The Advanced
Networking Research (ANR) group was formed in 1999 by Prof.
Ioannis Stavrakakis and has been actively involved in a number of
international projects, funded mainly by the European Commission
(VIDEOGATEWAY, br/OADWAY, ACCA, ANA, CASCADAS, BIONETS, E-NEXT,
CONTENT), as well as several national projects funded by several Greek
Ministries or other organisations. The group has focused on networking
research with concentration on protocol design, algorithmic aspects and
performance evaluation with main application to ad hoc and mobile
networking, content storage and discovery, autonomic and opportunistic
networking, conventional and P2P streaming, etc. Currently the group
also includes 2 post-doc researchers, 2 lecturers, and 5 Ph.D. students.
Investigators: Ioannis Stavrakakis
The Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary
Anthropology within the School of Anthropology at the University
of Oxford was launched in October 2007 when Prof. Dunbar
moved to the University of Oxford. Prof. Dunbar is currently studying
the social behaviour of humans and primates. Dunbar's number, which is
150, represents a theoretical maximum number of individuals with whom a
set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of
relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each
person relates socially to every other person. Currently, Prof.
Dunbar’s group is involved in the project “Size and
structure of human social networks” (funded by the br/itish
Academy). This project is using a combination of empirical data,
agent-based modelling and small group experiments to explore the size,
composition and dynamics of human social networks, and the roles played
by trust, obligation and frequency of interaction in maintaining
relationships.
Investigators: Robin Dunbar
The Group Complex Systems and Random Networks
(GNET) is an interdisciplinary group at Physics Department (University
of Aveiro) devoted to research in the areas of statistical
mechanics and mathematical physics. The group has been developing
research in complex networks and its applications. Other topics of
interest are granular media, phase transitions, etc. The ultimate aim
of GNET is to find new phenomena in statistical physical. Other
objectives include better understanding of known phenomena and offering
well-motivated teaching in theoretical physics to our students. The
Group coordinates and directs the research of graduate students in
doctoral programs at Physics Department whose primary interests are in
the area of Theoretical Physics/Statistical Mechanics.
Investigators: Jose F. Mendes
Institut
Eurécom is a graduate school of engineering and
research institute in telecommunications located in Sophia Antipolis,
France. It is a consortium of industrial and academic members including
EPFL, Télécom Paris, Swisscom, Hasler Stiftung,
Thalès, SFR, France Telecom, HITACHI Europe, Texas
Instruments, ST Microelectronics, Bouygues Telecom, SHARP, Politecnico
di Torino and Helsinki University of Technology. Eurécom
employs 70 scientists in three research departments: computer
communications, multimedia and mobile communications.
Eurécom has participated in several European projects
(BETEL, BETEUS, NICE, SUZIE, WEB4GROUPS, WAND, ESW, WITNESS, MOBYDICK,
SPATION) in the ACTS, Telematics and TEN TELECOM and IST Programmes and
is currently involved in the PRIME, E-justice, DAIDALOS, WIDENS, E2R,
GMF4iTV, DIVINES projects and E-Next, NEWCOM and NEXWAY NoE's of FP6,
in the MOBILEMAN project of the FET programme and the 3W3S project as
part of the Safer Internet Action Plan. The Institute is also involved
in a number of national research projects supported by the French RNRT
programme: SEVA, ICARE, METROPOLIS, VTHD++, PAESTU, AUBE, COBASCA,
SAMU, ERMITAGES, PLATON, ANTIPODE, @IRS++.
Investigators: Refik
Molva
