Bordeaux, August 29th, 2011
CoreGRID is a European research Network of Excellence which has developed theoretical foundations and software infrastructures for large-scale, distributed Grid and P2P applications. The network has extended its interests to include the emerging field of (service based) Cloud computing which is of great importance to the European software industry.
For over twenty years, ERCIM has been a consortium of leading research institutions committed to cooperating for excellence in research. Focusing on information and communication science and technology (ICST) and related areas of mathematics, ERCIM has a successful track record of promoting ICST research and cooperation in Europe and beyond. ERCIM is now dropping its limitation of one member per country, allowing a small number of excellent research institutions in ICST per country to directly become members of ERCIM.
The call for articles for ERCIM News No. 86 (July 2011) has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call
The special theme of the July issue is "ICT for Cultural Heritage" Deadline for Contributions: Wednesday 18 May 2011
For details, see http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call
The 12th International Workshop on Principles on Software Evolution and the 7th ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution will be held in Szeged, Hungary,5-6 September 2011.
This workshop is the merger of the annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE). The rationale for a common event is to capitalize on the synergies to be found when theorists and practitioners meet.
Research in software evolution and evolvability has been thriving in the past years, with a constant stream of new formalisms, tools, techniques, and development methodologies trying, on the one hand, to facilitate the way long-lived successful software systems can be changed in order to cope with demands from users and the increasing complexity and volatility of the contexts in which such systems operate, and, on the other hand, to understand and if possible control the processes by which demand for these changes come about.
This workshop is co-organised by the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution
More information and call for papers at http://pleiad.cl/iwpse-evol/
"Access to Audiovisual Archives" (AXES) is the name of a new large-scale integrating project (IP) that will investigate innovative solutions for audiovisual content exploration. The project was launched by a kick-off meeting on January 13-14, 2011 at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Michel Cosnard, President of INRIA was elected President of ERCIM at the last ERCIM Board of Directors, held in Brno, Czech Republic, 4 November 2010. Michel Cosnard took office as ERCIM president 1st January 2011 for a two-year term. Michel succeeds Keith Jeffery who served as ERCIM President from January 2005.
MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning) is the ERCIM Working Group dealing with all aspects of multimedia processing, analysis, and management. Several teams from both ERCIM and non-ERCIM institutions participate in this Working Group by sharing their experiences and carrying out common research. The most visible achievement so far has been the MUSCLE Network of Excellence, partially funded by the European commission from 2004 to 2008, which has established collaborations among the 45 partner groups (each active in some specific aspect of multimedia understanding), and has implemented a successful fellowship program to provide the opportunity for a number of postdocs to gain valuable experience in different international laboratories.
