Workpackage number	IA 1.1		Start date or starting event:		T0
Workpackage title	Maintaining the Knowledge Map
Activity type	OTH
Participant number	01 [1]	Main contributors [2]		Other contributors
Participant short name	GET	Estimated: 8 particip.		Estimated: 26 particip.
Person-months per participant	8	2 each		1 each

Objectives : The objective of this workpackage is to maintain a global cartography of issues related to the architecture, design and engineering of the Network of the Future, and to map the efforts of the Euro-NF partners on this global map. Euro-NF predecessors have created the Knowledge Map tool (http://omega.enstb.org/eurongi/) as an organic hypertext document created dynamically, with a distributed approach, by all the members of the network. It is organic in the sense that it is continually growing and evolving in a natural way This Knowledge Map makes possible the identification of the strengths and weaknesses of European research relative to Networking. This in turn facilitates the coordination and orientation of future research efforts in order to ensure that European research is able to provide a  coverage of strategic networking issues. Lastly, part or all of the obtained knowledge is public, thus helping in the dissemination of the results obtained within the Network. There is a huge amount of technological trends related to the architecture, design and engineering of Networks. This is why it is a strategic objective to provide a clear picture of the worldwide efforts related to the architecture, design and architecture of future Networks and to compare this picture with the one corresponding to Euro-NF. The existing tool has mostly been used till now to publish State of the Art analyses, research results obtained by NoE members, and to describe Summer School and PhD programs dedicated to topics relevant to the NoE. The objective of the present workpackage is to increase the interactions within the network by continuously updating the KM with problem statements, papers, RFCs, relevant Web sites, proposed solutions to identified problems, and counter-examples relative to proposed solutions.

Description of work ·       The participants of the NoE provide a global cartography of issues related to the architecture, design and architecture of future networks. This cartography, made available through the Knowledge Map tool (http://omega.enstb.org/eurongi/) covers the worldwide effort and not only the activities within the NoE. ·       A document can be uploaded in several formats: text-based, LaTex, MS Office or Open Office documents are converted in html, in order to provide a comfortable browsing experience. Acrobat PDF documents can also be uploaded, which allows for quick interactions. ·       Several access methods are currently implemented: 1. hierarchical access: documents are hierarchically structured as part of a tree at the top of which one finds the fundamental Euro-NF research areas. The nodes of the tree relate to specific topics and subtopics. This is the main access method. 2. keywords driven access: a limited subset of master keywords (e.g. wireless, routing, admission control,...) are defined beforehand and each author shall characterize his/her document by one or several such keywords. The reader can specify that he is interested in the documents that are characterised by a given set of master keywords. The hierarchical tree is then “thinned” and only the documents characterised by these key words are presented. The list of master keywords has to be regularly updated. 3. “guided tour” access. A “guided tour” is a specific type of document that proposes a selection of logically ordered documents located in various nodes of the cartography considered as a tree. It is well adapted e.g. to describe Summer School and PhD courses programs. 4. “search engine empowered” access. the reader submits some words and the system returns the documents that contain these words. This initial KM (http://omega.enstb.org/eurongi/) will be continuously updated, implying a sustained survey of Euro-NF related ongoing research. IA 1.1 will maintain this Knowledge Roadmap continually, thus facilitating the coordination and orientation of research activities within the network. New features shall be added to the tool if deemed necessary by the network. Within the KM, documents can have different objectives. Some may be associated with problem statement with links to parent, sibling and child problems, as well as to related documents including papers, RFCs, relevant Web sites, etc. Other pages are technical solutions (hopefully linked to identified problems). Yet others might be counter-examples raised with respect to proposed network architecture elements.   The KM will be used in particular to identify topics to be addressed in Tutorials, Workshops and Summer Schools organized to spread excellence. Although highly dynamic, in order to be an operational tool of the network, at least part of the KM should be kept freely available to non-consortium members in order to communicate the advances obtained within the NoE.

Deliverables D.IA.1.1.1: Synthesis report summarising the activities regarding the update of the knowledge map within Euro-NF (T0+42)