ARTIST2: Embedded Systems Design

Project Information

ARTIST2

Grant agreement ID: 004527

Project closed

Start date 1 September 2004

End date 30 September 2008

Funded under

• Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Total cost No data

EU contribution € 6 500 000,00

Coordinated by

CAISSE DES DEPOTS ET CONSIGNATIONS
France

Exploitable results

Developing a research community for embedded systems design

The ARTIST2 Network of Excellence (NoE) is structured around a set of intra and inter-cluster research activities on cutting-edge topics in embedded systems design. The project has implemented an international and interdisciplinary fusion of effort to foster the emergence of a European research community for embedded systems design. This ongoing interdisciplinary effort in research is mandatory to fully establish embedded systems design as a discipline combining competencies from electrical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and control theory. The ambition is to compete on the same level as equivalent centres in the USA (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon), for both the production and transfer of knowledge and competencies, and for the impact on industrial innovation. One of the main objectives of the ARTIST2 Network of Excellence has been to gather together the best European teams from the composing disciplines, to forge a scientific community. This objective has been achieved by integration around a Joint Programme of Activities, aiming to create critical mass from selected European teams. Integration occurred at two levels: - Integration within clusters, corresponding to essential topics in the area of embedded systems design. Before the start of the NoE, efforts on the identified topics are fragmented, and there was no European research team that could gather the sufficient critical mass needed. The integration of a topic is a first step towards integrating the area as a whole - Integration between clusters topics to create the multi-disciplinary community which now plays a major role in driving research in the area of embedded systems design. This was achieved through integration activities that will bring together teams from different clusters. Building the embedded systems design scientific community has been an ambitious programme, and continues through the ArtistDesign Network of Excellence. ARTIST2 has built on the achievements and experience from the ARTIST1 FP5 Accompanying Measure (http://www.artist-embedded.org/) on Advanced Real-Time Systems. Beyond ARTIST1, there was a remarkably strong willingness within the composing scientific communities to establish this new area - by accelerating the ongoing convergence between them. In the USA, this convergence has been strongly supported by funding agencies through the creation of dedicated research centres and R&D programmes, by launching and dedicated conferences, special interest groups and journals. (e.g.: Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems). Even if a number of the core partners in ARTIST2 were initially from different disciplines, many had already interacted, due to their participation in a multitude of R&D projects - sponsored by the EC under FP5, Esprit and Eureka. Within these projects, many shared common industrial partners. The partners’ international standing, research and teaching programmes in the field, the technologies they have developed and possess, and their leading presence in international scientific events prove their excellence. The Joint Programme of Activities integrated the partner institutions mainly by promoting close collaboration and massive researcher exchanges between partners and thus start an ARTIST culture within the network.