TSSG - Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

TSSG Marketing Manager

2008-05-09T13:12:50Z

Minimum Requirements: BSc, BBS or equivalent + 5 years relevant experience Roles and Responsibilities: The key responsibilities of this role involve working with Enterprise Ireland funded commercialisation projects to perform market and industry analysis, identification and recruitment of trial customers, shaping the technology development according to the needs of the market, based on models (such as the technology adoption lifecycle) and disseminating the results of the project. Further responsibilities include helping prepare marketing plans for TSSG technology that is been used to create a TSSG spin-out company and acting as a marketing mentor to these companies. Detailed responsibilities include: • Identification of market opportunities for commercialisation projects through effective market segmentation and analysis; • Using the above analysis create tactical marketing plans for lead customer acquisition through targeted campaigns, webinars and events; • Creating content such as white papers, case studies, presentations, and web site content for execution of these campaigns; • Project Management of Campaigns and Events/Trade Shows – such as 3GSM and CTIA; • Pitching TSSG and commercialisation projects to lead customers and key partners, and prospects in the overseas market; • Vetting customer needs and transitioning vetted prospects to leads for the Business Development Manager - TSSG. • Profiling prospects by way of Org Chart, initiatives, budgets, etc; • Coordinating with Business Development Manager for presentations and demos, providing relevant customer inputs for the same; • Generating a large number of leads to fuel the growth of future TSSG activities; • Actively disseminating marketing models (such as E. Rodgers and F. Bass - diffusion of innovations – popularised by G. Moore) and practice to internal TSSG teams by providing training on models, and messaging/tools for specific projects; • Working with project teams to help shape technology platforms into solutions that solve key problems for lead customers; • Working with TSSG researchers to help develop a market-orientation perspective; • Disseminating the results of projects; • Developing marketing plans for the commercialisation of TSSG technologies that are being spun out into start-ups; • Acting as an advisor and mentor to TSSG early stage start-ups companies. Reports to: Executive Director – Innovation and Commercialisation, TSSG. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Senior Java Software Engineer

2008-05-08T12:40:05Z

Minimum Requirements: A degree in computing or equivalent and a minimum of 4 years related experience. Roles and Responsibilities: • Develop architecture and low level designs for converged services. • Perform the implementation of those designs. • Design, develop and manage automated unit and acceptance tests. • Participate in agile development program. • Mentor junior staff members. • Work with management to define new features/services. • Work with quality assurance during release cycles. • Bug Fixing. • Peer review of design code and tests. • Document any necessary processes or procedures. Skills and Abilities Required: • Excellent knowledge of Java. • Product development and lifecycle experience. • Understanding of software configuration and release management. • Strong focus on refactoring and code quality. • Ability to design for scalability and resilience. • Understanding of design patterns. • Knowledge of internet protocols. • Worked with some/all of these (JSP, Servlets, Javascript, XML and HTTP). • Experience working with databases, for example, MySQL or MSSql Server. • Friendly manner with good communication skills, both written and oral. Desirable: • Experience working with J2EE technologies. • Experience working in an agile environment. • Knowledge of Ant, JUnit and Cruisecontrol. • Experience working with Spring. • Experience using SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). • Experience with BEA Weblogic and/or Oracle Communication and Mobility Server. • Experience with IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) would be a plus. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Software Test Engineers x3

2008-05-07T16:07:21Z

Minimum Requirements: At least 5 years relevant testing experience. Major Duties: The successful candidate will plan, design, develop and execute the software testing of advanced telecommunications products. Candidates must have at least 5 years software test experience. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in the following areas: • Proven experience in the following types of testing: Functional, Acceptance, Performance, Scalability and Installation Testing. • Using technical specifications to design test specifications and procedures. • Developing software and scripts to automate test cases. • Troubleshooting skills and ability to learn new technologies. • Testing software against test plans and technical specifications, investigating and reporting errors and defect tracking. • Generating test harnesses, managing test data suites and configuring and controlling test environments. The candidate should be able to work in a dynamic team environment and will be expected to display excellent time management, organisational and communication skills. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Job Description: Software Test Engineer The Software Test Engineer will be involved in the Verification and Validation of a number of advanced telecommunications software products. Responsibilities • Work with the Project Technical Lead to ensure that the requirements for each project are implemented according to the Customers requirements. • Promotion and Implementation of the Verification and Validation function within each assigned project. • Plan, design, implement and execute the Verification and Validation of a number of advanced telecommunications software products and report results efficiently and accurately to the Verification and Validation Manager and the Project Technical Lead. • Identify areas for Improvement of products through process improvement. • Provide technical input to test project planning, test development and test execution tasks. • Improve strategies based on historical information covering quality, cycle-time and productivity performance. • Contribute to Verification and Validation Test Specification definition. • Take responsibility and accountability for the Verification and Validation portion of all projects. Plan test programs with input from management and technical experts. • Using technical specifications, design test cases which have a high probability of detecting undiscovered errors in both software and documentation. • Testing the software against test plans and technical specifications, investigating and reporting errors in defect tracking application. • Involvement with the planning, preparation and execution of independent system testing of products. • Working in accordance with documented test procedures and processes. • Creating test specifications and procedures for specific projects. • Generate test harnesses, manage test data suites and configure and control test environments. • Responsible for test case automation. • Responsible for the sharing of knowledge obtained on each assigned project. • Report to the Validation and Verification Manager. • Help secure future funding streams by contributing to project proposals at European and national level. Requirements • At least 5 years software test experience. • Excellent understanding of testing, the function of test, and the ability to articulate this to project teams. • Strong analytical and interpersonal skills. • Interest and enthusiasm for testing. • Ability to master new products and new technologies. • Logical approach to problem solving. • Attention to detail and methodical approach. • Good organizational and inter personal skills. • Creation of test procedures and test plans. • Knowledge of Programming and or scripting languages. ]]> 5pm on 6th June 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Junior Web Developer

2008-05-07T16:02:21Z

Major Duties: We are looking for someone who can join a multi-skilled team, take the initiative and deliver software components that work as planned and contribute to the overall project objectives. In return, successful candidates get the opportunity to join an experienced team and contribute to an exciting project with great potential for personal fulfilment. Skills: • HTML, CSS and JavaScript • PHP, Ruby on Rails, Django or similar server-side skills • Basic MySQL knowledge • Working knowledge of Photoshop or similar graphic design tools • Familiarity with widget and RSS systems a plus • Mobile web skills a plus • Agile development skills a plus ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Senior Web Developer

2008-05-07T15:58:46Z

Major Duties: Experienced web developer required to lead and develop a team on existing and new systems. We are looking for someone who can join a multi-skilled team, take the initiative and deliver software components that work as planned and contribute to the overall project objectives. In return, successful candidates get the opportunity to join an experienced team and contribute to an exciting project with great potential for personal fulfilment. Skills: • Master of HTML, CSS and JavaScript • Strong Ruby and Ruby on Rails • RDBMS knowledge • Understanding of REST • Working knowledge of Photoshop or similar graphic design tools • Familiarity with widget and RSS systems a plus • Mobile web skills a plus • Agile development skills a plus ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Senior Software Engineer

2008-05-07T15:40:53Z

Minimum Requirements: 4 years experience in the software industry as a software developer We are developing an innovative Business to Business application comprising software components communicating with each other using web service standards. The software captures domain knowledge, performs some reasoning on that knowledge and presents the results to a business user. The project has challenging development objectives and timescales. Now that the project is taking off, we are looking for enthusiastic, experienced software engineers to join the team and help us to deliver. Major Duties: You will design and develop innovative large-scale web-enabled software systems. You must have a minimum of 4 years experience in the software industry as a software developer and will be able to demonstrate the following competencies: • To apply standard development practices, particularly Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Agile Software Development • To develop software in languages such as Java and Ruby • To take responsibility for delivery of work packages, with well-tested, maintainable and efficient code • To be proactive in keeping up to date with current and future developments in software: development practices, languages, design philosophies, tools and applications Preference will be given to candidates with the following: • Recent experience of building and troubleshooting complex interdependent web services • SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) design, development and deployment experience • Experience of using QRA (Query, Reporting and Analysis) techniques to deliver analytical solutions to business clients • Database design and implementation experience, particularly in a Business Intelligence environment • A degree in a numerate subject • Excellent communication skills We are looking for someone who can join a multi-skilled team, take the initiative and deliver software components that work as planned and contribute to the overall project objectives. In return, successful candidates get the opportunity to join an experienced team and contribute to an exciting project with great potential for personal fulfilment. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Research Test Engineer

2008-05-07T15:19:41Z

Minimum Requirements: This role will report to the Lead Research Test Engineer/Technical Manager. Candidates must have a BSc/BEng in Computing or Telecommunications, or equivalent, and have at least 3 years software test experience. Requirements: - BS/MS in CS or equivalent. - Experience working in a Test environment involving Integration, System and Regression Testing - Excellent communication abilities to enable communication with development teams in the resolution of system defects. - Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment. - Some Knowledge of IP Networking protocols and systems Major Duties: The successful candidate will plan, design, develop and execute the Verification and Validation activities within assigned telecommunications based research projects. The candidate will have to: • Actively work to accomplish the following types of testing when required: Functional, Acceptance, Performance, Scalability and Installation Testing. • Use technical specifications to design test specifications and procedures. • Develop when needed software and scripts to automate test cases. • Enhance their troubleshooting skills and ability to learn new technologies. • Test software against test plans and technical specifications, investigate and report errors and defect tracking. • Configure test environments and maintenance of test lab equipment. • Manage testing functions and initiate process improvements within assigned research projects. • Contribute towards project related documentation. • Actively partake and contribute towards internal Testbed related initiatives. • Contribute towards publications when required.( conferences, Journals, media reports) • Willingness to travel. The candidate should be able to work in a dynamic team environment and will be expected to display excellent time management, organisational skills. The successful candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills for effective dialogue with colleagues on a project team and superiors. Must continue to develop an appreciation of the wider field of technology outside their own specialization. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

System Administrator

2008-05-07T15:17:07Z

Minimum Requirements: BSc/BEng in computing or telecommunications, and a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in an IT support environment. Major Duties: • Ownership of one or more project technical roles. • Monitoring of production applications, including creating and/or implementing automated methods to monitor production applications. • Ensure efficient use of hardware and scalability of deployed systems. • Perform systems upgrades or new technology deployments. • Create test procedures and test plans for image distribution. • Documenting all of the processes. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Software Developer

2008-05-07T15:14:03Z

Minimum Requirements: This role will report to the Lead Engineer/Technical Manager. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 3 years related experience. Requirements: - BS/MS in CS or equivalent. - Strong Java or C++ skills and object oriented design experience, including a working knowledge of core libraries and design patterns. - Excellent communication abilities. - Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment. - Experience working in an Agile Development Environment. Major Duties: The role of a software engineer requires solving a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways. The software engineer must be able to take ownership of specific complex tasks, and take them to completion. The successful candidate must be capable of contributing to the architectural design and enhancement of current and future projects, and must have the ability to design and implement complex module with minimal supervision or review. Principal Responsibilities: The candidate will have to: • Work on multiple problems of diverse scope where refinement of design/requirements will be necessary . • Produce functional and design specifications and test plans in the course of implementing solutions. • Take responsibility for the complete life cycle of a module from requirements to delivery. • Good analytical and interpersonal skills. • Logical approach to problem solving. • An appreciation for software development tools, methods and trends. • Plan, schedule and monitor own work with little review. • Be proactive in a development team, contribute significantly to the success of the team and be able to gain the co-operation of others. • Have experience in a variety of technologies, possibly focusing on a particular expertise. • Continue to demonstrate an organised, systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to designing, problem solving, coding and defect fixing. The successful candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills for effective dialogue with colleagues on a project team and superiors. Must continue to develop an appreciation of the wider field of technology outside their own specialization. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Security Research Engineer

2008-05-07T15:05:41Z

Minimum Requirements: BSc/BEng in computing or telecommunications, or equivalent. Major Duties: As a Security Research Engineer at the TSSG the main technical role will be involvement in the research, development, testing, integration and evaluation of a distributed security management system. This includes working mainly on European research projects at different levels, both technical and project management, demonstrating experience dealing with threats and vulnerabilities of systems and efficiently co-coordinating activities of many European partners to ensure timely release of high quality deliverables. The candidate will also have to demonstrate an ability to work autonomously in a research environment. The candidate should have good oral and written communication skills as this role will involve considerable inter-company collaboration. The candidate must display a readiness to take personal responsibility for issues that need to be resolved and act effectively within the scope of their own position to resolve them. Responsibilities: • Working closely with inter-company research teams from product/research conception through to final software release. • Provide configuration, reporting, and technical support for security infrastructure equipment and software. • Develop position papers and publication material suitable for the international Security, Trust, Dependability and Privacy research community. • Perform systems upgrades or new technology deployments. • Create test procedures and test plans. • Process documentation and website maintenance. • Organisation of technical workshops and events and liaison with many technical communities. Requirements: • BSc/BEng in computing or telecommunications, or equivalent. • Professional, team oriented approach to work. • Strong analytical and interpersonal skills. • Ability to rapidly understand and analyse new products and potential solutions to research challenges. • Logical approach to problem solving. • Attention to detail and methodical approach. • Good organisational and interpersonal skills. Desirable: • Understanding of the preparation, implementation and maintenance of telecommunications and IP infrastructure equipment. • Knowledge of secure software development. • Proven record of project management. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

Researcher in Autonomic Network Management x2

2008-05-07T14:59:30Z

Minimum Requirements: • BSc/BEng in computing or telecommunications, or equivalent. • Experience in software development in Java, C++. • Professional, team oriented approach to work. • Strong analytical and interpersonal skills. • Ability to rapidly understand and analyse new products. • Logical approach to problem solving. • Attention to detail and methodical approach. • Good organisational and interpersonal skills. Major Duties: • Working closely with inter-company research teams from product/research conception through to final software release. • Provide configuration, reporting, and technical support for autonomic network management systems. • Develop domain expertise in modelling of operator requirements, communication service offerings and network capabilities. • Perform systems upgrades or new technology deployments. • Create test procedures and test plans. • Documenting all of the processes. • Must be willing to travel. ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

TSSG Present at EU Future Internet Conference

2008-04-28T12:23:49Z

The TSSG is at the heart of EU funded research into the Future Internet. The TSSG also has Irish funding (from the HEA and SFI that funds related basic research into the management of future networks). Therefore the TSSG was well represented by attendees and presenters at the recent event in Slovenia: Future Internet Assembly (31st March - 2nd April 2008). This post tries to summarise TSSG Future Internet activity, EU-funded and Irish-funded, and how this range of expertise links to events like the one in Bled.

The key point of this posting is to illustrate how the TSSG is at the centre of Future Internet activity in Europe. In addition to the active projects, and participation in the EU Technology Platforms, the TSSG has also led the way in building events that integrate the North American view of the Future Internet with the European view, in particular through the TridentCom event (held this year in Austria in March, chaired by Miguel ponce de Leon, and next year in Washington DC) chaired by our colleague and visiting Professor in Waterford IT, Thomas Magadanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Technical University of Berlin).

The TSSG's engagement in Future Internet activities builds upon our prior experience in communications infrastructure and services (and in particular the management challenges of heterogeneous environments including wireless access networks), and our experience in EU FP4, FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects from 1996-2008.

]]> TSSG active in EU Future Internet projects

4WARD [IP FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: partner)

The 4WARD project is looking to the new architecture and design for the Future Internet and has set itself the task of creating a new approach to networking architecture that is more flexible and better adapted to present and future requirements.
EFIPSANS [IP FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: partner)

The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services.
AutoI [STREP FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: partner - coordinated proposal submission)

The Autonomic Internet project will design and develop a self-managing virtual resource overlay that can span across heterogeneous networks, support service mobility, quality of service and reliability.
PERSIST [STREP FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: coordinator)

The Project PERsonal Self-Improving SmarT spaces (PERSIST) deals with personal smart spaces that a user carries with his mobile devices and that are able to interact in an ad hoc way. Thus, PERSIST complements the vision of a operator driven Pervasive and Context-Aware Computing environment (e.g. Daidalos I and II projects in FP6) by extending it to environments where neither network connectivity nor smart space features are available. Major research challenges of the PERSIST project are service provisioning and composition in ad hoc scenarios, context awareness and context semantics, pro-activity and learning and privacy and security issues. All of these objectives except security and privacy are covered by the Internet of Services Working Group of the Future Internet Assembly. PERSIST is a member of the Internet of Services Working Group and is active in the Security and Privacy cross-domain subgroup which interfaces to the Security and Privacy Working Group of the Future Internet Assembly.
Inco-Trust [CA FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: coordinator)

INCO-TRUST is an FP7 international cooperation project within the F5 Unit Security, bringing together researchers in ICT Trust, Security and Dependability from the EU, U.S., Japan, Australia, South Korea and Canada. The project will address problems where the interconnected trans-national world of “things” (and attacks, impact, enforcement) gives incentive to join forces with other countries. The topic areas include Future Internet, interlinked infrastructures and their protection.
Think-Trust [CA FP7 ICT Call 1] (TSSG: coordinator)

Think-Trust Project is investigating Trust, Security, Dependability, Privacy and Identity from ICT and Societal Perspectives. The project and its Advisory Board (RISEPTIS) will be supported by targeted working groups from the stakeholder and research community that will address focussed issues and questions. These WG will focus on 1) Security, Dependability and Trust in the Future Internet and 2) Privacy and Trust in the Information Society. Its objective is to formulate recommendations on future policy and research priorities.
PII [IP FP7 ICT Call 2] (TSSG: partner)

The PII (PanLab 2) project is a Pan-European laboratory infrastructure implementation project which has the objective to enable the federation of innovation clusters on a European level, applying the framework developed by the Panlab SSA in FP6, which consists of basic legal, operational, and technical rules.
Perimeter [STREP FP7 ICT Call 2] (TSSG: partner) Project kick-off is May 2008

The Perimeter project is looking to establish a new paradigm of user-centrality for advanced networking. In contrast to network-centric approaches, user-centric strategies could achieve true seamless mobility putting the user at the centre rather than the operator enables the user to control his or her identity, preferences and credentials, and so seamless mobility is streamlined, enabling mobile users to be “Always Best Connected” in multiple-access multiple-operator networks of the Future Internet.
VITAL++ [STREP FP7 ICT Call 2] (TSSG: partner) Project kick-off is May 2008

Emerging types of applications, rich in user-created or provider-created content, enabled by P2P technology, with high demands for network resources are rapidly changing the landscape of network requirements and operations creating new challenges in network and service management, configuration, deployment, protocols etc. P2P is primarily a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisation, thus, reducing operational costs, while it achieves optimised resource utilisation for the deployed applications and services. In contrast, IMS as a control plane technology primarily addresses issues of heterogeneity of access technologies, addressing schemes, AAA, security and mobility management. This project's major objective is to combine and experiment with the best of the two worlds, namely, IMS-like control plane functionality and P2P technology giving rise into a new communication paradigm that will bring a wide range of benefits. The key to achieving this objective, is to put this paradigm under strenuous experimentation, carried out under realistic network conditions using popular applications. To this end, the project is putting together a pan-European testbed comprised of existing geographically distributed test sites integrated by IMS technology. This will be thoroughly tested by reference content applications and services that use P2P technology as a means for their distribution and achieving satisfactory QoS levels through network resource optimisation algorithms rather than non-scalable QoS reservation operations.

(Note on types of EU project: IP = Integrated Project; STREP = Strategic Research Project; CA = Coordinated Action; SSA = Strategic Support Action).

TSSG active in EU Technology Platforms

All of the EU Technology Platforms in which the actively participate have signed up to support this Future Internet activity in the EU. Technology Platforms are the EU's mechanism for allowing key industrial sectors to define the research challenges for the sector, providing a mechanism for these challenges to be integrated into the research funinding programmes of the EU Commission. The descriptions below describe the EU-TPs activity at the Future Internet Assembly in Bled in March 2008:

eMobility (TSSG: board member)

Objective: To reinforce Europe's leadership in mobile and wireless communications and services and to master the future development of this technology, so that it best serves Europe's citizens and the European economy.
eMobility participated to a number of the breakout sessions at the Future Internet Assembly. WIT/TSSG were responsible for finding a speaker from eMobility for session BO5 Security and assisted with the presentation entitled security cross-issues as seen from the perspective of the eMobility European Technology Platform made during the breakout session. As Steering Board member, WIT/TSSG were requested to help with the questionnaire for eTPs during the preparation phase of the event.

NEM (TSSG: board member)

Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) is one of the European Industrial Initiatives, also known as Technology Platforms, established by relevant key European stakeholders, which address the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalized broadband access, increased mobility, availability of richer media formats and contents, as well as new home networks and communications platforms.

NEM were very active during the sessions, especially the BO session on content. They also participated to the other sessions and, for example, presented the security challenges to the BO5, which included ensuring data integrity and resiliency, sustainable user privacy and trustworthiness and content management. This calls for interoperability and scalability of security measures. WIT/TSSG is the leader in an activity within NEM called NEM Security. WIT/TSSG is representing NEM Security in a cross platform panel session on ICT TSD in July 2008 at the DEBS 2008 conference.

NESSI (TSSG: member)

The NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) Technology Platform is a public/private partnership that aims to develop and implement a common European strategy for achieving global leadership in software and services. NESSI addresses European research in services architectures and software infrastructures including Grids and will develop technologies, strategies and deployment policies fostering new, open, industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance the safety, security and well-being of citizens. Software and services have become a strategic capability for industry and society. Advances in Web services, Grid technologies Software and communication networks are changing the Internet, wireless and audiovisual worlds into a worldwide platform for building and delivering distributed applications, services and information. Today, this trend is emerging as a market for "on-demand services" that build on web services, Grid technologies and SOAS. This will have a profound effect on existing IT business models. Rather than customers having to adapt their processes to make use of off-the-shelf software, they will be able to procure, relatively cheaply, tailored systems that directly support their work and that can evolve in step with their businesses.

NESSI were active during most sessions, especially the BO session on services. A representative also presented in the Security session on the implications of virtualization for security and the related specifications of security requirements in the virtual environment. WIT/TSSG is a member of the NESSI Working group on Trust, Security and Dependability.

TSSG in Irish-funded Future Internet projects

AMCNS (Science Foundation Ireland, SFI PI Cluster)

The “Autonomic Management of Communications Networks and Services” research programme addresses the essence of Autonomic Management, which is the ability for a system to self-govern its behaviour within the constraints of the business goals that the system as a whole seeks to achieve. It aims to develop a reference architectural framework for autonomic communications, which will facilitate the definition, creation, deployment and management of communications services in line with high level business goals, but without the requirement for significant human intervention. Fundamental part of the work is the use of information modelling to capture knowledge relating to network capabilities, environmental constraints and business goals/policies, together with ontological engineering to provide inferencing capabilities. This foundation is supplemented by reasoning and learning mechanisms to enhance and evolve this knowledge. Policy-based network management systems incorporating translation/code generation will use this knowledge to automatically configure network elements in response to changing business goals and/or environmental context. This realises an autonomic control loop, in which the system senses changes in itself and its environment, analyses these data to ensure that business goals and objectives are being met; expedites changes should these goals and objectives be threatened, and observes the result to ensure that closed-loop operation is maintained.

Serving Society (Higher Education Authority, HEA PRTLI Cycle 4)

The proposed research programme aims to address the following long-term research question: How do we realise future communications services and infrastructure that reflect changing individual and societal preferences, and that can be effectively managed to ensure delivery of critical services? The project will adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to the specification of artefacts including models, algorithms, processes, methodologies and architectures that will collectively constitute a framework that can guide the realisation of future communications environments to effectively provide critical societal services and, in doing so, support and sustain interactions between various communities of users. Three closely-linked strands of research (and one smaller sub-strand) constitute the project: Future Communications Services, Future Communications Networks, Capturing and Addressing Societal Needs.

IMS ARCS (Enterprise Ireland, EI ILRP)

IMS is the IP Multimedia Subsystem, a core component of the mobile telephony architecture defined by the 3GPP, and of the fixed-mobile convergence standards defined by ETSI TISPAN. IMS can be viewed as an important aspect of the telecommunication industry's view of how the Future Internet will be structured. The IMS ARCS project aims to develop IMS expertise within the Irish Software and Telecommunications Industry. The project stakeholders consists of an academic consortium lead by the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) and a number of industry partners including operators, hardware and software vendors, and mobile service providers and developers. The IMS ARCS project is developing a set of prototype services together with a set of common enablers which will serve as exemplars of what can be achieved using IMS technology and will help springboard the creation of innovative new IMS products and services within the stakeholder group. A further objective of the project is the creation of a national centre of excellence in IMS technology and the setup a world class IMS test environment which will be operated by TSSG, and which will be accessible by companies developing IMS focused products.

Bled Declaration

Current Internet: Success & Challenges

With over a billion users world-wide, the current Internet is a great success – a global integrated communications infrastructure and service platform underpinning the fabric of the European economy and European society in general. However, today's Internet was designed in the 1970s for purposes that bear little resemblance to current and foreseen usage scenarios. Mismatches between original design goals and current utilisation are now beginning to hamper the Internet’s potential. A large number of challenges in the realms of technology, business, society and governance have to be overcome if the future development of the Internet is to sustain the networked society of tomorrow.

Future Internet: Vital to continued economic Growth in Europe

In the future, even more users, objects, services and critical information infrastructures will be networked through the Future Internet which will underpin an ever larger share of our modern and global economies. It is therefore time to strengthen and focus European activities on the Future Internet to maintain Europe’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.

A significant change is required and the European Internet scientific and economic actors, researchers, industrialists, SMEs, users, service and content providers, now assert the urgent necessity to redesign the Internet, taking a broad multidisciplinary approach, to meet Europe’s societal and commercial ambitions.

Future Internet: Addressing the Challenges through EU Collaboration & Cooperation

EU member states have already committed, through the renewed Lisbon Agenda and the i2010 initiative, €9.1 billion of funding, as part of a public-private partnership, for ICT research over the duration of FP7. However, we must ensure that, within this, continuous and long term support is given to the design of the Future Internet as a key element of the future networked society. It is of strategic importance for Europe to fully engage in the conception, development and innovation of a Future Internet ensuring the long term growth of the ICT sector, full support to an ICT based economy, and the elimination of the digital divide for all citizens.

The research projects assembled here in Bled represent the first phase of this public-private partnership, a joint investment of over €400 million, that recognises the challenges above and emphasises a concerted and comprehensive process of redesign, based upon novel network, service, trust, security and content technologies together with strong initiatives towards new innovations in societal, governance and service domains, in order to ensure that the Future Internet fulfills its potential.

More specifically, building upon the obligations of our individual project contracts and the goals of the Strategic Agendas of the European Technology Platforms, we confirm our ambitions include:

Fostering Favourable Conditions through Coordinated Action

Coordinate our efforts to foster cross-disciplinary innovation and creativity.

Work together through a European Future Internet Assembly of research projects strengthening cross-discipline activity and optimising the impact of our actions.

Cultivate and foster the skills and knowledge required to develop the Future Internet.

Create the conditions for the deployment of services and service oriented systems.

Communicate through open standards for Future Internet technologies and architectures.

Open the European Future Internet Assembly to new projects and actors over time to widen the coordination and consistency of the action.

Jointly Designing, Developing and Experimenting

Services and networking architecture for the Future Internet.

Location independent, interoperable, coherent, consistent, scalable, pervasive, reliable, secure and efficient access to a coordinated set of services.

Tools supporting collaborative business models and social network applications.

Technologies ensuring the robustness and security of the networks, managing identities, protecting privacy and creating trust in the on-line world.

Approaches and tools to leverage the full potential of the Internet of Things.

Capabilities for supporting the creation, sharing, locating and delivery of new-media content.

Increasing Awareness at Policy Level

Raise awareness of the economic, policy and regulatory issues as identified by the newly proposed European Future Internet Assembly, the UN Internet Governance Forum, the OECD and the European regulatory frameworks.

Contribute to the definition of European positions within global forums and arenas.

Call for European action towards the Future Internet

To help us meet these major challenges, we call on the:

European Member States to strengthen and coordinate their national R&D efforts and initiatives toward the Future Internet.

European Commission to stress the vision and amplify the related R&D in order to drive Europe ahead of tomorrow’s Internet transformations in the way we work, live, and interact.

European Member States and the European Commission to support the creation and activities of the European Future Internet Assembly proposed in this declaration.

This declaration is endorsed by the following European Technology Platforms and European Research Projects

Accession to this declaration is open to existing and future EU Projects that wish to actively contribute

eMobility NEM NESSI ISI and EPOSS

2020 3D Media 4NEM 4WARD ADAMANTIUM AGAVE ASPIRE AUTOI AVANTSSAR AWISSENET CASAGRAS CHIANTI CHORUS COIN CONTENT CuteLoop DICONET E3 eCRYPT II EFIPSANS EIFFEL eMOBILITY EURO-NF FAST FORWARD INTERSECTION IRMOS iSURF m CIUDAD MASTER MobileWeb2.0 MOBITHIN MOMENT NAPA-WINE N-CRAVE NESSI 2010 OPEN P2P NEXT PanLab / PII PERSIST PetaMedia PICOS PRIMELIFE PRISM RESERVOIR SAPIR S-CUBE SEA SENDORA SENSEI SERVFACE Service WEB 3.0 SHAPE sISI SMOOTH-IT SOA4ALL SOCRATES SWIFT TA2 TAS3 TECOM THINK-TRUST VICTORY WOMBAT

Project Manager

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Minimum Qualification Required: Bachelors Degree Major Duties: • Project management of TSSG projects • Staff management on a range of projects • Fulfilment of project reporting requirements • Telephone and email management of companies and funding agencies involved in projects ]]> 5pm on 5th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie

The Grand Opening of the Culloden Battlefield and exhibition

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The latest spin-out from the TSSG is called ZolkC Ltd., which recently launched an innovative new wireless tourism service for the Culloden Battlefield in Scotland (see quote below from the Sunday Telegraph, 24th February 2008).

It was all a long time ago, but the voices and images conjured by the new time machine at Culloden linger hauntingly in the memory.

On April 16th 2008, the National Trust for Scotland has organised the Grand Opening of the new Culloden Battlefield centre and exhibition. This will also include the new ZolkC service 'The Culloden Battlefield Guide'. Led by Paul Savage, a number of TSSG staff are attending this event.

The Culloden Battlefield Guide.
The innovative Battlefield Guide developed by Zolk C Ltd is the world's first GPS triggered electronic guide in use in tourism and heritage sites. With specially created audio, video and supporting illustrations (including key content from the BBC), the multimedia content is triggered automatically as visitors explore Culloden Moor, at their own pace, allowing them to understand and appreciate better what actually happened on 16th April, 1746.

Visitors to the exhibition at the new STG 9million Culloden centre can enhance their experience by walking the Moor with the Battlefield Guide. They will receive unobtrusive, location specific multimedia content while they soak up the atmosphere of the battle in situ. Initially in English and Gaelic the guide in time will be available in a range of languages from Spanish to Japanese and will be offered to all those visiting the moor.

Why use satellite technology? A key objective of the Culloden project was that the battlefield site should be restored, as close as possible, to that seen by the forces on that fateful day in April 1746. More traditional techniques such as interpretative panels or markers were not felt to be in keeping with the sanctity of the Moor as a war grave. As well as the multimedia content that is automatically triggered, addition information is available on a menu that changes depending on the visitor's position on the battlefield, allowing them to gain a more complete understanding of the events of 16 April, 1746.
Who is Zolk C?
Zolk C is a new venture based in Waterford, Ireland and Inverness, Scotland. Its remit is to create and operate technology solutions that enable interpreters to deliver a better, more effective user experience at tourism and heritage centres internationally. Zolk C provides full project lifecycle including design, development and management of interpretive solutions. The company is a joint venture between the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) of the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), who specialise in the research and design of pervasive, mobile technologies and of Zolk Ltd, an Inverness based company specialising in the design, deployment and management of online services. The Zolk portfolio includes Learning Works, Careers Scotland and UHI Millennium Institute. Zolk C has used their combined expertise to design, develop, deploy and manage the Battlefield Guide for the NTS.

For further information contact: Paul Savage, Zolk C Ltd. on +353 51 302923

For more information on the Culloden Battlefield project click here.

PhD Studentships x 2

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Commencement Date: June 2008 Minimum Requirements: • Possess a Master degree in Computer Science or related discipline. • Have strong programming skills of Java and Ruby, and experience of implementing numerical algorithms with Java • Have a good understanding or some experience in the following areas: database, statistics, machine learning, or data mining. • Have good written and spoken English, and ideally some existing publications Major Duties: • Develop the novel algorithms and scalable software systems for Predictive Analytics and Web services based on Semantic Web mining. • Study novel techniques of distributed data mining For further information, please contact Huaiguo Fu (hfu@tssg.org) ]]> 5pm on 30th May 2008 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie