Eureka ITEA2 WellCom Project
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Eureka ITEA 2 WellCom was a collaborative research project running under the ITEA2 programme within the EUREKA framework. It was launched in April 2007 and ended in April 2009. The WellCom consortium was composed of 15 European organizations including Large companies, SMEs, research institute
s and universities. The research effort is supported in part by the different European Public Authorities involved in the project.
It is one out of the many projects dealing with Interactive tv. What is in common in all these projects is the involvement of users in the TV, which thus turns into an interactive device rather than a broadcast device.
The main outcome of the WellCom project was a set of demonstrators, showing
Research institute
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s and universities. The research effort is supported in part by the different European Public Authorities involved in the project.
It is one out of the many projects dealing with Interactive tv. What is in common in all these projects is the involvement of users in the TV, which thus turns into an interactive device rather than a broadcast device.
The main outcome of the WellCom project was a set of demonstrators, showing
- the interactivity of Bluetooth and NFC for personalisation of content
- voting and gaming on the mobile phone, with the same questions to be asked as in the main TV show
- chat with your friends watching the same TV show, but sitting at a remote place.
Partners
- Activa Multimedia,
- Alcatel-Lucent France,
- Expway,
- FTA-Inverto Digital Labs Inverto - Deciphering Broadcast Technology,
- Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor,
- InOut TV,
- NXP Semiconductors,
- Pace,
- Prewise,
- SES AstraSES AstraAstra is the name for the geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is sometimes also used to describe the channels broadcasting from these...
, - Telefonica I+D,
- TelenorTelenorTelenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...
, - TF1,
- UNIKUNIKThe University Graduate Center is a research foundation at Kjeller in Norway. UNIK has four focus areas* ,* Electronics and Photonics* Cybernetics and Industrial Mathematics* Energy and the Environment...
, - University of Evry.
External links
Conference papers
- S. Alam, J. Noll and D. Roman, "Semantic Policies for Service Access in Mobile supported Sensor Networks",Int. Conf. on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, I-CENTRIC 2008, October 26-31, 2008 - Sliema, Malta
- E. Lehtihet, Z. Iqbal, N. Agoulmine, J. Noll, and T. Sund, "Integrating Internet Services in a Converged Home Environment", Proc. of Wireless WorldWireless WorldWireless World was the pre-eminent British magazine for radio and electronics enthusiasts. It was one of the very few "informal" journals which were tolerated as a professional expense.- History :...
Research Forum, WWRF #21, 13-15 Oct 2008, Stockholm - M. M. R. Chowdhury, S. Alam and J. Noll, "Policy Based Access for Home Contents and Services, Fifth International Conference on Soft ComputingSoft computingSoft computing is a term applied to a field within computer science which is characterized by the use of inexact solutions to computationally-hard tasks such as the solution of NP-complete problems, for which an exact solution cannot be derived in polynomial time.-Introduction:Soft Computing became...
as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, IEEE/ACM CSTST'08, October 26-30, 2008 - Cergy-Pontoise/Paris - M. M. R. Chowdhury, N. Elahi, S. Alam, J. Noll, "A Framework for Privacy in Social Communities", Special Issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), Inderscience Publishers, ISSN(online): 1741-8216 ISSN(print): 1477-8394.
- J. Noll, S. Alam, and M. M. R. Chowdhury, "Integrating Mobile Devices into Semantic Services Environments" Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC 2008, July/August 2008, Athens, GreeceAthensAthens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
- N. Elahi, M.M.R. Chowdhury, and J. Noll, "Relation-based Access Control through Semantic Rules", Proceedings of WWRF #20, April 2008, Ottawa, CanadaOttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
- Najeeb Elahi, Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury, Josef Noll, "Semantic Access ControlAccess controlAccess control refers to exerting control over who can interact with a resource. Often but not always, this involves an authority, who does the controlling. The resource can be a given building, group of buildings, or computer-based information system...
in Web Based Communities", In the proceedings of 3rd International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information TechnologyInformation technologyInformation technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
ICCGI July/August, 2008 - Athens, Greece Published by IEEE CS press (IEEE Explore), ISBN 978-0-7695-3275-2 - Gondi, Vamsi Krishna; Lehtihet, Elyes; Agoulmine, Nazim, "Ontology-Based Network ManagementNetwork managementNetwork management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems....
in Seamless Roaming Architectures" In Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops, 2008. NOMS Workshops 2008. IEEE7-11 April 2008 Page(s):60 - 65 - Lehtihet, Elyes; Agoulmine, Nazim , "Towards Integrating Network Management Interfaces" In Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2008. NOMS 2008. 11th IEEE/IFIP 7-11 April 2008 Page(s):1–4
- Nguyen-Vuong, Quoc-Thinh; Agoulmine, Nazim; Ghamri-Doudane, Yacine , "Novel Approach for Load BalancingLoad balancing (computing)Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...
in Heterogeneous Wireless Packet Networks" In Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops, 2008. NOMS Workshops 2008. IEEE 7-11 April 2008 Page(s):26 - 31 - L. Trappeniers, M. Godon, L. Claeys, O. Martinot, E. Marilly, "Cross-Media Experiences: Ambient Community Interactions in the Cit", published in the Bell LabsBell LabsBell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
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