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The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG) is the leading organisation of institutes of applied research and development in Europe with about 12.500 employees and a budget of around 1.3 Billion Euros. Currently there are 56 Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany at 40 different locations from which 15 institutes are dedicated to information technology.

FIT has been involved in the past in numerous international projects and is currently involved in more than 30 national and international projects. Among them (A complete list can be found on our website):

Nomadic Information Systems:

• WP2 (Iterative user requirements engineering)
• InterMedia - Interactive Media with Personal Networked Devices
• aceMedia - Integrating Knowledge, Semantics and Content for User-centred Intelligent Media Services
• MICA - Multimodal Interaction in Context Adaptive Systems
• CXMS - Context Management System

Personalized eLearning:

• MACE - Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe
• AILB - E-Learning Environment for Deaf Adults
• ProLearn - Network of Excellence in Professional Learning

Cooperation and Community Support:

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• ECOSPACE - eProfessionals Collaboration Space
• B4BB - Broadband for Barefoot Bankers
• DRM - Distribution Networks Relationship Management

User-oriented Software Engineering

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• wearit@work - Development of Wearable-Computing Solutions
• ViSEK - Virtual Software Engineering Competence Center

Knowledge Management

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• SWAPit - Explorative Text and Data Mining
• SEWASIE - Semantic Webs and Agents in Integrated Economies

Collaborative Mixed Reality Systems

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• CoSpaces - Innovative Collaborative Work Environments for Individuals and Teams in Design and Engineering
• IPerG - European Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming
• IPCity - Integrated Project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environment

FIT has evolved a number of products that are now being marketed successfully by the industrial partners. Among them:

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• BSCW - Basic Support for Cooperative Work
• InfoZoom - Tool for visual interactive data mining in large data bases
• trainer42 - integrated eLearning system based on the Adaptive Learning Environment (ALE)

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FIT is also heavily involved in the scenario-based requirements analysis process and overlooks that the requirements and quality properties from the areas embedded systems, (wireless) networks, MDA and security/trust will be reflected in the architecture. FIT will also be involved in the development of Context-awareness and self-adaptive methods and the consideration of trust concepts within Hydra. User centred design and usability aspects for nomadic and wireless applications and services are further aspects to which FIT will contribute. FIT is also involved in dissemination of the project results (publication of papers in scientific journals, presentations at scientific conferences and workshops, etc.).

Regarding the allocation of work to the different workpackages FIT has the following responsibilities:

• FIT leads WP3 (Architecture design specification)

FIT contributes to the following workpackages:

• WP2 (Iterative user requirements engineering)
• WP3 (Architecture design specification)
• WP4 (Embedded AmI architecture)
• WP5 (Wireless networks & devices)
• WP6 (SOA and MDA middleware)
• WP7 (Trust, privacy and security)
• WP8 (Prototypes and system integration)
• WP13 (Dissemination and exploitation)