Publications in New Working Environments

Glossary of Terms relating to Collaborative Environments
collected by Jean-Pierre Briffaut (GET Institut National des Télécommunications)

Collaboration@Work Report 2006 in FRENCH

This year again, the report on new working environments and practices illustrates developments towards new information and communication technology supported working environments and processes. It gives a view on collaboration in the working environment, in Europe and in the world.

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Ever since the Third Framework Programme for Research, the European Commission has been active in the area of improving working environments to provide better access to work, increase competitiveness and support sustainability.
This started with Telework as a minor application across telecom networks and became, under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research, a wide domain of activities which built on technologies developed in other sectors like mobile communications, and which provides workers with improved mobility and extended collaboration capacities and capabilities.
New Working Environments issues have now gathered together a broad community of interested researchers and industrialists who have jointly developed the concept of Living Laboratories and are currently considering the setting up of a European Technology Platform (ETP) on which to test new ideas and their implementation.
New Working Environments are consequently expected to be key contributors to the i2010 objectives on growth through innovation and creation of jobs.

On 30-31 May 2006, the New Working Environments Unit of the Directorate General information Society and Media of the European Commission organised the 5th Expert group meeting where recognised experts in the field discussed Future and Emerging Technologies and Paradigms that will affect the R&D agenda in the Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) area in FP7 (2007-2013). The workshop gathered members of the Collaboration@work Experts Group representing academia and research departments within IT industry.
This publication encompasses the findings coming out of the workshop summarising the revised vision of the target CE2020, expected impact, new three Building Blocks, new list of 5 emerging paradigms and updated research challenges brought forward by the experts.

With ICT being recognized as a major theme of the renewed Lisbon strategy, it is clear that industrial and technological advances in the ICT sector are essential for strengthening the European competitiveness. The 1st Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry, CWE’06, approached this theme with a clear user-centric perspective, where a deeper understanding of industrial needs is the starting point for scoping and defining the upcoming FP7 research activities on collaborative environments.
The mission of the conference was to bring together a select group of industry practitioners and academics, to jointly address emerging industry needs, and to shape the future research agenda in the area of Collaborative Working Environments.

Main vision: The totality of the manufacturing network has to be considered with respect to its scale and scope to enable better modes of collaboration between all facets of a network and with the externals in the context of its operations.

Main vision: Collaborative Working Environments 2020 will provide the architecture and infrastructure that allows seamlessly integrated comprehensive support services for collaboration involving sharing data, information, knowledge, tools for manipulation, representation and visualizations in forms that will aid people, teams and group co-workers to collaborate with full quality of support at speed in real time to aid the searching processes, thinking processes, decision processes and action processes.

Report on industry-led FP7 consultations and 3rd Report of the Experts Group on Collaboration@Work.

In January and February 2006, New Working Environments Unit of the Directorate General information Society and Media of the European commission organised two workshops where recognised experts in the field discussed the most outstanding research themes that will affect the R&D agenda in the Collaborative Environments (CE) area in FP7 (2007-2013). The workshop in January gathered members of the Collaboration@work Experts Group representing academia and research departments within IT industry. The workshop in February got together mainly IT industry representatives directly related to the business of their companies and not only to research, with the support of 5 representatives of academia.
This publication encompass the findings coming out of both workshops summarising the vision, characteristics and research challenges brought forward by the experts. The first section of this document is dedicated to the IT industry perspectives on CE supporting Business and Industry. The second section includes the vision and challenges for Collaborative Environments 2020 drawn by the Collaboration@Work Experts Group.

This year again, the report on new working environments and practices illustrates developments towards new information and communication technology supported working environments and processes. It gives a view on collaboration in the working environment, in Europe and in the world.

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During the 5th Framework Programme for Research (FP5), a small proportion of the IST Programme budget was allocated to human capital activities.
More than fifty Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowship (MCIHF) contracts, and a number of Training Accompanying Measures (TAMs) were set up.
This report celebrates the achievements of the participants in these projects and illustrates what can be done to support the building of European industry based research with as little as €20 M.

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The purpose of the report is to give examples of some regulatory and legal constraints of the practical implementation of the IST solutions developed through FP research projects and identify issues that should be addressed in order to contribute to the achievement of the EU Policy and to accomplish a sustainable knowledge society development through IST.

This report is mainly composed of the outcome of the Experts Group Meeting held in Brussels on 6th October 2004.

Thematic supplement on emerging technologies.

Section IV: Ambient Intelligence In Practice: Future Perspectives And Applications; Chapter 13 : "AMI-endowed Collaboration@Work"
This chapter, by Isidro Laso-Ballestreros and Bror Salmelin, showcases a challenging application scenario for collaboration in pan-European AMI-like working environments for augmented empowered workers at the centre: the SEEM@work scenario. Design requirements related to virtualization, seamless connectivity and management of complexity will be derived from the analysis of this scenario.

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This report is mainly composed of the outcome of the Experts Group Meeting held in Brussels in May 2004.

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We are pleased to announce the arrival of a book produced largely by the INFSO Training Accompanying Measure IST-1999-29034 NETAGES, which finished last year. The PhD students and a number of post-docs who took part in the project contributed to the software suite which is described as the "workflow" in the book.
It is perhaps not well enough known that only 20-30% of the oil can be extracted from reservoirs at the present time. The results of the work described in the book and performed in the project could lead to an economically significant improvement in this figure.