Open China ICT Opening European Chinese Cooperation Dialogue Conference 15 th -16 th November

1. Open China ICT Opening European Chinese Cooperation Dialogue Conference 15th-16th November Beijing China

2. Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC) • The University of Bedfordshire: • is a modern university in the UK • finalist of ‘University Department of the Year’ in the European Electronics Industry Awards (Elektra) 2011 • emphasises research for practical application. • IRAC has a strong record in collaborative research with a wide range of partners, both in the UK and in many countries overseas, funded by the EC, UK government, industry, etc. • it has over 40 academic staff members, 20 research fellows and 50 PhD students.

3. IRAC’s Collaboration with Chinese Partners • EU projects • EU FP7 Laser Nanoscale Manufacturing • EPSRC project • partner in two UK-China projects • Long-term collaborations with: • Zhejiang University • Beijing University of Post & Telecommunications • National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)

4. Centre for Computer Graphics & Visualisation (CCGV) • led by Prof. Gordon Clapworthy • links with researchers in almost 30 countries and specialises in providing solutions to real world problems • especially active in medical applications • has been a partner in 23 international projects over the last 13 years (such as FP4, FP5, FP6, and FP7). • coordinated 7 projects • since 2006, in 5 EU projects, we have been involved in tasks of data handling and web services

5. Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) • Prof Clapworthy coordinated the STEP project: • the STEP Roadmap was received enthusiastically by the ICT for Health Unit of the European Commission • as a result, VPH became a priority in Framework 7 • it has been the subject of 5 Calls for Proposals with a collective budget of over €300 million

6. Projects Related to the Theme of Future Internet • EU FP6, LHDL, 01/02/06 – 31/01/09, awarded ‘the best project of the month’ by EC • web services for biomedical digital library • service coordination and composition for visualisation • EU FP7, ContraCancrum, 01/08/2008 - 31/07/2011 • semantic-based medical data processing • EU FP7, VPHOP, 01/09/2008 - 31/10/2012 • service-oriented biomedical model & data integration

7. New Projects • EU FP7 Call 9, MyHealthAvatar, begins March 2013, • 3-year STREP, coordinated by Prof Feng Dong at BED • responsible for: • data mining • semantic presentation of data • data analysis including visual analytics • EU FP7 Call 9, CHIC project, • 4 year IP, BED is a partner • responsible for: • cloud infrastructure • data semantics and analysis

8. EU Roadmap for Future Internet Research • Looking beyond the start of the next decade, infrastructure convergence and cloud has already happened, and looking forward, we view Internet not as network, cloud, storage, or devices, but as the execution environment for smart applications, services, interaction, experience, and data. • The future network integrates many different capabilities – sensor nets, Internet, hotspots, wireless, core network, to provide the vastly increased capacity and breadth of services needed. • The execution environment operates from data centres, into the network and out into the devices. Networked data is distributed across the FI. From FINAL_COMBINED_ROADMAP_VERSION_2.0

9. Themes of Future Internet • In EU’s research priorities for the Future Internet, we see three themes that are foundational in building the Future Internet: • Beyond converged infrastructure – the Internet infrastructure • Networked data – exploiting the Internet’s natural resource • Internet Security – maintaining the security of the Internet and its users online From FINAL_COMBINED_ROADMAP_VERSION_2.0

10. Our Main Research Interests • Cloud and mobile infrastructure • Service discovery & composition • Data integration and analytics (text, visual) • Semantic reasoning

11. Contact details Thank you very much for your attention Please contact me at: Enjie.liu@beds.ac.uk