Convocatoria de CHIST-ERA
La
red del espacio europeo de investigación (era-net)
CHIST-ERA ha publicado
una convocatoria de propuestas para proyectos de
investigación sobre los temas Quantum Information
Foundations and Technologies i Beyond
Autonomic Systems – the Challenge of Consciousness.
España participa en esta era-net a través del Ministerio
de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN). Una vez superado con éxito
el procedimiento de evaluación trasnacional, los
participantes españoles serán invitados por el MICINN a
participar en la convocatoria de 2011 del Programa Nacional
de Internacionalización de la I+D, implementado por la
Dirección General de Cooperación Internacional y Relaciones
Institucionales-MICINN.
Final del plazo de presentación de
propuestas: 5 de noviembre de 2010 a las 17.00 h.
GMT.
Temas convocados:
1. Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (QIFT)
Els projectes han de centrar-se en un o més dels temes
següents:
1. Quantum information theory, algorithms and paradigms: new
fundamental understandings, new methods (e.g., quantum
optimal control, quantum feedback), new quantum algorithms,
computation paradigms and communication protocols;
2. Scalability of quantum processing systems: devices
realizing quantum algorithms with up to ten qubits,
demonstration of fault tolerant computing and error
correction on small scale systems;
3. Long distance quantum communication: technologies able to
overcome the current distance limitation of quantum
communication, e.g., by developing quantum repeaters
realizing reversible interconversion of different qubits
types;
4. Entanglement-enabled quantum technologies exploiting
several qubits for performing ICT tasks with unprecedented
characteristics (e.g., improved atomic clocks, entanglement
enhanced metrology, magnetometry, sensing and imaging),
quantum simulators, quantum state engineering.
Expected impact
Funded projects are expected to significantly advance the
state-of-the-art of the QIFT field by achieving one or more
of the following objectives:
1. Develop a deeper fundamental understanding of the quantum
nature of information;
2. Enable the scalability of quantum information
technologies in the presence of environmental decoherence,
hence facilitating their real-world deployment;
3. Develop reliable technologies for the different
components of quantum architectures;
4. Identify new opportunities fostered through quantum
technologies and the possible ways to transfer these
technologies from laboratories to industries,
5. Enhancing interdisciplinarity in crossing traditional
boundaries between disciplines in order to enlarge the
community involved to tackle these new challenges.
2. Beyond Autonomic Systems – the Challenge of
Consciousness (BASCC)
In the context of this call we define a conscious system or
context aware service as one which:
1. is aware of past and present actions and decisions and is
capable of critical analysis of same;
2. possesses rich internal dynamics and through a variety of
sensory modalities, is aware of the environment in which it
resides;
3. has a perception of its internal states – for example its
internal health, energy, performance;
4. is capable of constructing internal representations of
projected future scenarios and their dynamics;
5. is capable of associating percepts with models (which it
constructs) that predict and explain current and past events;
6. is capable of autonomous construction of future plans and
future actions, and an analysis of the cost implications of
such plans in terms of selected metrics;
7. can utilize knowledge of past actions of itself and
others entities in the formulation of such future plans;
8. is able to locate itself in terms of physical space and
its relationship to other entities;
9. is capable of generating an internal representation of
itself and its environment by the integration of sensed
external data and recall of internal states and
10. is capable of autonomously and selectively directing its
attention and computational processing power to address a
current important situation, external or internal to itself.
CHIST-ERA accepts that the creation of such systems is a
major, long-term challenging goal, which will require
substantial research and collaboration across many
disciplines, including Computer Science, Automatics,
Networks, Neurosciences, and others. In this call it seeks
excellent, innovative and multi-disciplinary proposals which
initiate research into systems that will exhibit at least
two, and preferably more of the above characteristics and
which propose new methodologies that will lay the foundation
for the eventual achievement of these ambitious goals.
Expected impact
Funded projects are expected to significantly advance the
state-of-the-art of the Autonomic Systems field by achieving
one or more of the following objectives:
1. Develop a deeper fundamental understanding of the
Autonomic Systems nature,
2. Enable the emerging of awareness-inspired control theory,
3. Develop Robust Autonomy by Model-Based Self-Awareness,
4. Identify new opportunities fostered through these
technologies and possibly the transfer of these technologies
from laboratories to industries.
Presupuesto de la convocatoria:
el presupuesto total es aproximadamente de 7,9
millones de euros para el tema 1, y 3,8 millones de euros
para el
tema 2.
Consorcios: un mínimo de
3 socios de al menos tres países distintos, pertenecientes a
la convocatoria: Francia, Reino Unido, Italia, España,
Alemania, Irlanda, Austria, Polonia, Suiza y Bélgica. Una
entidad individual (o el conjunto de entidades de un mismo
país) no puede asumir más del 60% de los costes elegibles
del proyecto. Se recomienda que se formen consorcios de un
máximo de 4 a 6 socios, con una financiación total máxima de
entre 1 y 2 millones de euros.
Duración de los proyectos:
entre 2 y 3 años.
Financiación: el MICINN
financiará a los organismos de investigación ubicados en
España. Las entidades elegibles son universidades y otros
organismos públicos de investigación, centros tecnológicos y
organismos privados sin ánimo de lucro que llevan a cabo
actividades de I+D. Se financiará hasta el 100% de los
costes marginales del proyecto.
Gastos elegibles: 1)
costes de personal con contratos temporales, 2) pequeño
equipamiento, 3) gastos corrientes, y 4) subcontratación
necesaria para realizar las actividades propuestas. Los
costes totales de la parte española no deben sobrepasar las
cantidades siguientes: 100.000 euros por proyecto en el caso
del tema 2, 180.000 euros por proyecto del tema 1 para
proyectos que se centren en aspectos teóricos, y 300.000
euros por proyecto del tema 1 para proyectos que se centren
en aspectos experimentales.
Toda la información y presentación de
solicitudes en línea:
http://www.chistera.eu
Para cualquier consulta: Angeles
Sanchis, ext. 51276,
operuv@uv.es
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