R+D Projects and Agreements

• Directory Based Edi Certificate Access and Management (DEDICA)
  Department contribution: UPC is in charge of the technical management of the project. It is also strongly involved in the specification and development phase of the project.
  Project length: April, 1996 - March, 1998.
  Funding body: CEC/TELEMATICS TE2005.
  Budget Funding: 16.0 M. ptas.
  Holder: Manel Medina.
  Partners: Teleport Paris, Alcatel Business, Eritel, Finsiel Consulenze e Applicazioni Informatiche, INTRASOFT, SSE.

• Multi-Site Computing (MSC)
  Project length: September, 1996 - March, 1998.
  Funding body: CEC/ESPRIT 22508.
  Budget Funding: 51.1 M. ptas.
  Holder: Leandro Navarro.
  Partners: Espais Telematics, S.L..

• Epitelio Network-Excluded People Integration by the Use of Telematic Innovative Opportunities (EPITELIO-NETWORK)
  Project length: January, 1996 - July, 1997.
  Funding body: CEC/TELEMATICS UR1009.
  Budget Funding: 10.7 M. ptas.
  Holder: Leandro Navarro.
  Partners: IEPALA, GREEN NET Educational Trust, ECTF, SODEPAZ, EUSKALNET, PFD, Manchester Metropolitan University, Trans European Rural Network (TERN), PANGEA, ENAIP, UPC.

• Interworking Public Key Infraestructure por Europe (ICE-TEL)
  Project length: January, 1996 - December, 1997.
  Funding body: CEC/TELEMATICS C1005.
  Budget Funding: 10.5 M. ptas.
  Holder: Manel Medina.
  Partners: GMD, COST, UNI-C, FCCN, FCR, Institute of Cibernetics, INESC, INTRASOFT, IC, IJS, POLITO, SSE, Technischen Universitaett Graz, UNINETT, University College London, SALFORD.

• Multimedia Publishing Brokerage Service (MULTIMEDIATOR)
  Department contribution: Implementation of the distributed service DFR (Document Filing and Retrieval). Contribution to standardization and to the general architecture.
  Project length: September, 1995 - August, 1997.
  Funding body: CEC ACTS AC096.
  Budget Funding: 22.0 M. ptas.
  Holder: Jaime Delgado.
  Partners: LOGIC CONTROL, SARITEL, BINTEC, MEDIA TRANSFER, DIACOMA, ARTS VIDEO, FCR, A PTT, TID, CSELT, MARI, COSI, DAC (UPC).

• EDI Trusted Thirds
  Project length: July, 1994 - July, 1995.
  Funding body: CEC/TEDIS 56621.
  Budget Funding: 11.0 M. ptas.
  Holder: Manel Medina.
  Partners: Bull, Expercom, Cryptomathic, Philips, R3 Security, Siemens Nixdorf, DAC (UPC Coordinator).

• Computational Mechanisms of Interaction in Cooperative Work
  Department contribution: We participe in three chief areas: 1.- The representation of the organization context, the study of boundaries and the interconnection of organizations. 2.- The notations and description techniques to represent the basic mechanisms of interaction that drive group activities. 3.- The object infrastructure and services supporting group interactions, laying on standarization work by ODP and OMG.
  Project length: September, 1992 - August, 1995.
  Funding body: CEC/ESPRIT 6225.
  Budget Funding: 22.5 M. ptas.
  Holder: Leandro Navarro.
  Partners: University of Amsterdam, GMD, University of Lancaster, University of Manchester, University of Milan, University of Nottingham, National Laboratory of RISOE and SICS.

• Security Administration and Manegement in EDI
  Project length: January, 1994 - December, 1994.
  Funding body: CEC/TEDIS 56533.
  Budget Funding: 3.0 M. ptas.
  Holder: Manel Medina.
  Partners: DAC (UPC Associated), Cryptomathic, Philips, R3 Security.

• Password Value Project
  Department contribution: Selected as the pilot site for Spain.
  Project length: September, 1993 - November, 1994.
  Funding body: CEC - VALUE Program.
  Holder: Francisco Jordán.
  Partners: GMD, INRIA, UCL.

• Translator's Workbench
  Department contribution: In TWB we developed a remote access to a machine translation system using X.400, several ODA converters for different word processors, and an access module to a remote terminological database. Our work in TWB-II is related to the distribution and networking of translation tools developed in the project. Furthermore, new ODA converters (for WordPerfect word processor) are being developed.
  Project length: April, 1992 - September, 1994.
  Funding body: CEC/ESPRIT P6005.
  Budget Funding: 17.9 M. ptas.
  Holder: Jaime Delgado.
  Partners: TA-Triumph-Adler Olivetti (coordinator), Cap Debis Systemhaus Ksp Gmbh, SNI, Siemens-Nixdord Information Systeme Ag, Siemens-Nixdord Sistemas de Información S.A., L-Cube Information Systems, S.A., University of Surrey, UPC.

• Towards Secure OSI (COST-225)
  Department contribution: Several documents containing, among others, the specification of a certification infraestructure for Europe, a secure transport protocol mechanism for multientity communications, implementation of TLSP (Transport Layer Secure Protocol).
  Project length: July, 1991 - August, 1994.
  Funding body: CEC COST 225.
  Holder: Manel Medina and Francisco Jordán.
  Partners: Representation of EU Countries.

• Diversos Serveis dins del Marc del Projecte de la Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya (XTEC)
  Project length: September, 1993 - December, 1993.
  Funding body: PROGRA. INFORMATI. EDUC. (GTAT).
  Budget Funding: 7.6 M. ptas.
  Holder: Leandro Navarro.

• Cosine P8 Pilot Project
  Department contribution: Selected as the pilot site for Spain.
  Project length: October, 1992 - June, 1993.
  Funding body: CEC - RARE - COSINE.
  Holder: Francisco Jordán.
  Partners: Baltimore Technologies (coordinator), UPC, Trinity College Dublin, GMD Darmstadt.

• Feasibility Demonstration of Oda Technical Documents
  Department contribution: Development of tools for handling documents based on the ODA (Open Document Architecture) standard (ISO 8613), including converters between FrameMaker word processor and ODA. Development of communication tools, including remote access to ODA documents based on X.400 and interactive communication. Contribution to ODA standardization in ISO and EWOS.
  Project length: January, 1991 - December, 1993.
  Funding body: CEC/ESPRIT EP5402.
  Budget Funding: 22.1 M. ptas.
  Holder: Jaime Delgado.
  Partners: Bureau Van Dijk (coordinator), Caption and UPC.