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Different public and private entities are supporting our research financially. We greatly appreciate this continued support and would like to acknowledge all our sponsors. We truly believe that investments into research and education are one of the most profitable that society and business can take

Swiss National Science Foundation

NCCR MICS  – Swiss National Research Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (since 2001)The Swiss National Research Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems. The Center’s goal is to study fundamental and applied questions raised by new generation mobile communication and information services, based on self-organisation. Such systems have become very topical lately with (…)

Global Sensor Networks – a middleware for processing sensor data in the Internet (since 2004)Global Sensor Networks or GSN is a project started at EPFL in late 2004. The project ‘s main goal is to develop a generic platform for deploying sensor networks and processing data produced by the sensor network in a distributed fashion. (…)

Swiss Federal Programs

OpenSense (since 2010)The OpenSense project addresses key research challenges in the domain of information and communication systems related to community-based sensing using wireless sensor network technology in the context of air pollution monitoring, such as : i) Reducing noise and data volume of heterogeneous sensor data by exploiting redundancies derived from complex environmental processes. Previous (…)

ScienceWise – a semantic and social environment for physics (since 2010)ScienceWISE.info provides scientists with possibilities of article annotation and scientific bookmarking, helping the international community of physicists to generate dynamically, as a part of their everyday work, an interactive semantic environment, containing a field specific concept ontology with direct connections to the body of research papers (…)

European Framework program

CloudSpaces: Open Service Platform for the Next Generation of Personal clouds(since 2012)The privacy of users’ data has emerged as a critical issue in cloud computing. The CloudSpaces project advocates for a paradigm shift from application-centric to person-centric models where users will retake the control of their information. In particular, users retaking control of their information (…)

PlanetData – Network of Excellence on large-scale data management (since 2010)The PlanetData project is built around three objectives that together ensure the creation of a durable community made up of academic and industrial partners. This community will be supported in conducting research in the large-scale data management area through the provision of data sets and (…)

NisB (since 2010)The NisB project studies semantic interoperability for networked enterprises. The questions of interest are in this context: how to share interoperability information, what are the incentives for sharing such knowledge, how can one harness the interoperability information from a network of semantic mappings and how can the semantic interoperability emerge in this setting.For (…)