EVERGROW -

Our objectives are to integrate in a single project advances in our knowledge of data networks and the content they carry, through new techniques of measurement, advances in the theory of the emergent phenomena which are encoun- tered in these large, ever-growing dynamic networks, with a focus on mechanisms to regulate their growth and channel user behaviour in the most effective directions, and advances in the architecture and functioning of overlay networks, which are the critical tool for exploiting this growing wealth of computing and communications power.

To do this we will provide a common platform and laboratory, our "virtual observatory", of computers coupled through the latest GRID technology. In the observatory we will provide archived measurements, tools to extrapolate them to 2025, test environments in which new services can be prototyped and evaluated against our network mock-ups, and the computing power to support the extensive computer experimentation that is needed to allow surprises to surface in the theoretical study of such complex systems as these.

EVERGROW will achieve a second sort of integration, integration of disciplines. We bring together to a common focus members of several distinct computer science and physics communities. We start with involvement from the communications, network measurement, distributed computing and physics of complex systems communities.

Facts

Funded by: EC FP6, IST Priority, Proactive Initiative "Complex Systems Research"
Coordination: Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Scientific coordination: Seif Haridi, SICS, and Scott Kirkpatrick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)
Administrative coordination and information: Karl-Filip Faxén, SICS
Starting date: 1st of January 2004
Duration: Four years
Contract No: 001935