Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:00:08 +0100
From: Gerhard Wickler
To: Maurizio Marchese,
    Paul Burghardt,
    Frank Fiedrich ,
    Julie Dugdale>
    Austin Tate,
    Stephen Potter,
    Alan Smaill,
    Michal Pechoucek,
    Alexander V. Smirnov,
    Ioannis Dokas,
    Lucas Dixon,
    Fiona McNeill
Subject: Re: AI for Crisis Response

Thank you again to those who attended the first virtual meeting on AI
for crisis response, and to those who did their best to attend! I'm
sorry that it did not work for everybody who tried to attend. Here is
a quick summary and some ideas for next steps, as discussed.

We all agreed that EU FP7 funding would be a good focus for this
group. There are a number of currently open calls that we could
target:


Security: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=322

ICT: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=376 

FET Open: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=319

Environment: ???

COST: http://www.cost.esf.org/

Of course, this covers a lot of areas and research topics, so one of
the first steps could be to identify a couple of specific areas that
would be suitable for us and where we see a realistic chance for
submitting a proposal. Approaching the problem from the other end, it
would be useful to know more about the research areas we are
interested in, independent of FP7.

So, to move things forward I will set up another doodle poll for a
second meeting in SL in around two weeks' time. In the meantime, I
will try to identify what seem to me to be likely target areas within
the above calls, and start a discussion forum about these using the
http://openvce.net website. I will then invite people, in advance of
the next meeting, to add their own comments as well as any further
suggestions for target areas. Then, during the meeting itself, we can
hopefully decide on one or two areas in which to concentrate our
efforts. Also, it would be good if everybody could prepare a few
slides about their research interests for this meeting.

Here is the doodle link promised above: http://doodle.com/9x25urhyegrrr6v9

Anything I have forgotten? Gerhard