Overview
Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS) is a four-year European funded FP7 integrated project which runs from 2010-2014. It is a multidisciplinary research research project which aims to lay the foundations for engineering the novel class of proprioceptive computing systems.
Proprioceptive computing systems are self-aware, meaning that they are able to monitor themself, and reason about their own behaviour, state and progress. They also perform self-expression by effectively and autonomously adapting their behaviour to changing conditions. Concepts of self-awareness and self-expression are new to the domains of computing and networking; the successful transfer and development of these concepts will help create future heterogeneous, distributed and decentralised systems capable of effciently responding to a multitude of requirements with respect to functionality and flexibility, performance, resource usage and costs, reliability and safety, and security.
Consortium
The EPiCS consortium spans Europe and includes a range of leading universities, research labs and industrial partners. The partners are:
| Institution | Research Group | Country |
| University of Paderborn | Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing | Germany |
| Imperial College London | Computer Systems Group | United Kingdom |
| University of Oslo | Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Department of Musicology | Norway |
| Klagenfurt University | Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems (NES) | Austria |
| University of Birmingham | Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) | United Kingdom |
| EADS Innovation Works | Avionics and Architectures Group | Germany |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) | Communication System Research Group (CSG) | Switzerland |
| Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) | Video and Security Technology Research Group | Austria |
Links
- More information can be found about the EPiCS project at the official project website: www.epics-project.eu.
- The EPiCS project is part of Awareness, a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Comission under FP7. The Awareness initiative has its own website: www.aware-project.eu.
- The internal-only Birmingham EPiCS wiki pages can be found here.