ComplexEnergy White Paper Draft Now Available

August 12, 2010 in Uncategorized | by innaxis | Leave a comment

The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute along with CREATE-NET are please to publish a draft of the ComplexEnergy White Paper.

After many revisions and discussions, a first draft of the ComplexEnergy White Paper has become available. Members of the Expert Panel also contributed to the advancement of the White Paper and will continue to do so until the paper becomes finalised.

The White Paper is one of the deliverables for the ComplexEnergy initiative. The project, funded by the European Commission´s 7th Framework Programme, focusses on Complex Systems for an ICT-enabled Energy System. The activities of the project can be described as the following:

  • Bridge the gap between Complex Systems, ICT and Energy research communities.
  • Identify the potential of ICT-enabled energy modelling, control, and management solutions built on the results of Complex Systems Science.
  • Propose future FET initiatives at the junction of ICT, Energy and Complex Systems.
  • Magnification of the level of awareness, at European scale, of the potential impact of advanced ICT techniques implementing concepts and tools from Complex Systems research for the design and governance of the energy system.

The draft version of the White Paper can be found on the ComplexEnergy website here .  The draft is intended to stimulate discussion and comments from the public. Considering that the ComplexEnergy initiative is a crossover between the ICT, Energy, and Complex Systems disciplines, many professionals are sure to find the paper interesting.

Any type of feedback and comments are welcomed and can be sent to: innovation@innaxis.org .

SESAR WP-E Network ´Mastering Complex Systems Safely´ is officially launched

July 26, 2010 in ComplexWorld, WP-E | Tags: , , , , | by innaxis | Comments closed

Being one out of the two networks that will be presently launched by SESAR, Innaxis as Network Coordinator teams up with the other Members to kickstart the operations.

On the 19th of July, Innaxis along with the other Network Members: University of Seville, DLR, NLR, University of Palermo, and the University of Westminster joined up with members of Eurocontrol and the SJU to discuss the future of the Network.

This 1.6M€ network that will span over four years is expected to provide a structured way to build research knowledge, competence and capability that should serve the industry in the long term. Currently the network titled ComplexWorld, has over 40 interested Participants.

The Network has laid out the Work Programme and Research Trends along with other useful information on their website: www.complexworld.eu .

Interested individuals and entities may contact the Network members for more information through their website and also by email: info@complexworld.eu .

SESAR has also launched WP-E Projects. Documentation for the call can be found here . The closing date is the 26th of October.

Programme finalised for INX sponsored event

July 8, 2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , | by innaxis | Comments closed

The programme containing event location and details on the highly respected speakers can be found here:

Event Programme

Invited speakers include many respectful key players in the industry today such as:

José Manuel Silva Rodríguez
Director General of Research
European Commission

Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal
Minister of Science and Innovation

Andreu Mas Colell
Catedrático de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico – Universidad Pompeu Fabra

Carmen Becerril Martínez
President – ACCIONA Energía

Francisco José Jariego Fente
Director of Strategy -  Telefónica I+D

Emma Fernández Alonso
Director of Corporate Strategy and Marketing- INDRA

To register for the event please: 1. Register in the UIMP system: here and then continue on to register for the event.

INX sponsors UIMP Conference: Triangle of Knowledge

May 27, 2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , | by innaxis | Comments closed

June 28-30 with distinguished speakers including José Manuel Silva Rodríguez DG Research for the European Commission.

The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute will be sponsoring a conference at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo from the 28-30 of June. Along with the conference, Innaxis is also promoting the opportunity to be given a scholarship for a summer course. Information and registration can be found here.

The conference is titled, ¨The Triangle of Knowledge¨ and follows a very innovative structure. The topics of the presentations and discussions follow a circle of thought-provoking issues that are important this day in age. This circle of themes are the following:

- Society and Science

- Science and Government

- Science and Business

- Government and Business

- Business and Society

ending with a concluding theme of  Innovation and Financing.

The conference will be sure to cover an interesting array of perspectives as the Director of the conference will be José Manuel Silva Rodríguez, the Director General of Research for the European Commission.

Invited speakers include:

Cristina Garmendia, the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain;

Profesor Andreu Mas Colell, Secretary General of the European Research Council;

Juan Mulet, General Director of COTEC;

Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Member of the European Parliament;

Profesor Carlos Romeo Casabona, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country and member of the European Research Area Board;

Carmen Becerril, President of Acciona Energía;

Dr. Martin Schuurmans, President of the European Institute of Technology (EIT);

Francisco Jariego, Strategic Director of Telefónica I+D;

Carmen Vela, General Director of INGENASA;

Juan Tomás Hernani, Secretary General of Innovation at the Ministry of Science and Innovation-Spain;

Carlos da Silva Costa, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank;

Antonio Álvarez Pinilla, Managing Director of the European Centre for Soft Computing; and

Antonio Giralt, President of Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB).

For those that would like to attend the conference, please visit this page and then click on the link on the top right titled ´Matrícula / Beca / Pago on-line ´ . If you are not a registered user of the UIMP, registration is fast and easy and furthermore open to all.

Scholarship information can be found here.

European Reflection Group publishes report “Project Europe 2030″

May 20, 2010 in European Reflection Group | Tags: , , | by innaxis | Comments closed

Innaxis contributes by providing Intranet Infrastructure – ´InGrid´ .

On May 8th, the European Reflection group published the 46 page report that examined the European Union´s present state and examined problems and challenges that will need to be overcome in order to maintain a strong presence within the world. May 8th, or Europe Day, and the 60th anniversary of the Schumann Declaration, this date proved to be fitting for the publication of the influential report.

Written in a straight-forward tone, and taking into account many aspects, the report provides a clear view of what the European Union needs to do. The group of 12 experts were contracted to do just that; assist the European Union more effectively anticipate and meet challenges in the longer term horizon of 2020 to 2030.

The Reflection Group write about a global economic crisis, states coming to the rescue of banks, climate change, downward pressure on wages, energy dependence and terrorism. Although it may scare the average European citizen, perhaps a report so truthful is what is needed to stimulate change.

The report states that the European Union must introduce measures, modify behaviour and correct dynamics if it wants to allow its institutions to really make life easier for its citizens, as well as restoring their enthusiasm for, and confidence in, a project which is going through one of its most difficult periods, recommended the ex-Spanish president Felipe González on behalf of the group.

The overall main message of the report is that the top priority must remain in creating jobs and growth. The full report can be found on the European Reflection´s Group website here.

The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute is proud to have helped the European Reflection Group construct their report. We provided a secure, collaborative intranet that allowed each member as well as any persons involved in the initiative to document all meetings and progress in one organised database. We are also very grateful that they have thanked us publicly in their report.

ComplexEnergy holds first workshop

April 26, 2010 in Workshop | Tags: , , , | by innaxis | Comments closed

Innaxis & Create-Net bring together members of the Expert Panel in Venice.

The first workshop, held on the 13th and 14th of April in Venice, proved to be successful with great brainstorming focus sessions that discussed the project´s first White Paper.

The workshop commenced with an introduction of the members of Innaxis and Create-Net, and also a detailed introduction on the ComplexEnergy initiative. Afterwards, each member of the Expert Panel that was in attendance made a short presentation about their background and vision concerning the project.

Following the presentations, the rest of the workshop advanced around four different focus sessions:

  1. Energy-related issues, challenges, and potential impact
  2. Complex Systems Methodologies and Tools
  3. Role of Complex Systems in Smart Energy Systems
  4. Relevant Scientific Communities, Possible Topics and Impacts

These focus sessions help brainstorm thoughts and ideas concerning the first White Paper that will be delivered in August. The advancements made from the workshop will be integrated into the White Paper and will continue to be developed. It is expected to have fairly thorough draft version of the White Paper around the 30th of May.

If you´d like to contact us concerning ComplexEnergy, please email innovation@innaxis.org .

More information can be found through the ComplexEnergy website and blog.

ComplexWorld WP-E Network Proposal successfully submitted!

April 20, 2010 in Calls for Proposals | Tags: , , , | by innaxis | Comments closed

Innaxis along with: University of Seville, NLR, DLR, University of Westminster, and University of Palermo have successfully submitted a thorough proposal for a SESAR WP-E Network concentrated on the theme of ´Mastering Complex Systems Safely´.

The proposal has much interest- about 43 entities have registered to be participants of the network, with 25 of them being universities.

The proposal was submitted to the offices of Eurocontrol on the 8th of April, 2010. Any news received hereafter will be communicated to all members and participants.

If you´d like to get in touch with Innaxis concerning the WP-E proposal, you may email info@complexworld.eu . The website, www.ComplexWorld.eu will be continuously updated this week.

INX Researcher Massimiliano Zannin spreads C.S. knowledge in Mexico

February 12, 2010 in Uncategorized | by innaxis | Leave a comment

Massimiliano Zanin gives Winter School classes and interviews with local radio station

INX Researcher Massimiliano Zanin was invited to be a professor at the Winter School of Dynamics of Complex Systems that went from the 3rd of November to the 4th of December. This was the second time he was invited to give lectures at this Winter School.

The Winter School is organised by the Centro Universitario de Los Lagos of the Universidad de Guadalajara . The other invited professors included:

Dr. Steffano Boccaletti from the Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi ,
Dr. Javier Martín Buldú from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
Dr. Nikolai Rulkov from the University of California, San Diego specifically the Institute for Nonlinear Science, and
Dr. R. Stoop from the Swiss Material Science Institute (EMPA) renamed the Swiss Federal Labortories for Materials Testing and Research .

The entire Winter School was focussed on Complex Networks and Complexity Science and its various applications. Massimiliano Zanin gave presentations concerning the ´The complex world of the Aeronautical Transportation System´ .  The Winter School was a success as afterwords, some of the invited professors including Massimiliano, were invited to interview on the university´s official radio station.

Below please find a few photos of Massimiliano giving his lecture at the Winter School. There is also a sound clip from his interview with the radio station. Although it is in spanish, the 4 minute clip clearly explains his experience as an invited professor and the applications of complexity science to the air transportation network.

Click to hear Massimiliano´s Interview

INX becomes coordinator of ComplexEnergy

January 14, 2010 in Uncategorized | by innaxis | Leave a comment

Together with CREATE-NET, INX launches ComplexEnergy; a new FP7 FET Project.

As most of you know, the FET (Future and emerging technologies) initiative is the European Commission “incubator” for new ideas and themes for long-term research in the area of information and communication technologies. As a part of the FET program,  The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute, in cooperation with CREATE-NET, launched the ComplexEnergy project, funded under FP7 ICT call 4, topic ICT-2009.8.10 Identifying new research topics and assessing emerging global S&T trends in ICT for future FET Proactive initiatives.

The main objective of ComplexEnergy is to identify the most promising research avenues and emerging trends at the junction of ICT, Energy and Complex Systems domains, with a view to propose new topics in this area for future FP7 calls. More information can be found on the CompleEnergy project site: http://www.complexenergy.eu

To satisfy this frutful objective, ComplexEnergy will be focussed on bringing together the ICT, Energy and Complex Systems research communities in order to:

  • build the foundations for a new, EC-scale, interdisciplinary research community able to formulate innovative approaches to energy system modeling, design and governance;
  • carry out a well-defined and systematic consultation of these three research communities, as well as of policy makers and other relevant stakeholders, with the aim to identify the main strategic areas, the emerging research avenues and the major research challenges at the junction of ICT, Energy and Complex Systems; and
  • define a roadmap for the development of these research trends, including recommendations on research topics for FP7 calls in 2011 and beyond.

Although the project has just launched, we have already begun planning the first workshop and contacting key professionals to form an Expert Panel. If you´d like to be on a contact list for a workshop or general communication concerning the project please feel free to email: innovation@innaxis.org .

Innaxis wishes you a Happy New Year

December 22, 2009 in HolidayCard | Tags: , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

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INOUI Final Dissemination Forum, Cologne Germany

December 14, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

Part of the INOUI Consortium, INX attends the Final Dissemination Forum

INOUI or, INnovative Operational UAS Integration, has had its final dissemination conference to present results and findings from the project. INOUI is funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission and, as the title alludes, it focuses on the integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in non-restricted airspace.

An UAS consists of one or more remotely piloted aircraft, one or more pilot stations and the command and control links as well as any other system elements. Today, UAS are used mainly for miliary missions but civilian UAS usage is expected to grow. It is estimated that Europe could potentially represent the second largest market for UAS.

If integrated properly, UAS could provide a large amount of benefits for all stakeholders. However, some challenges must be tackled such as: lack of international regulations, reliability in regulation and certification, radio spectrum capacities, along with political and public acceptance.

The INOUI project has focussed primarily on:

  • Identifying the spread of operation concepts for UAS applications
  • Identifing how the UAS can fit into the ATM System of 2020
  • Identifying how UAS can benefit from SWIM
  • Identifying the safety issues related to UAS and developing high level safety objectives and requirements,
  • Identifying potential airport types for UAS operations

Paula López-Catalá is the primary researcher from Innaxis. She has been working on the INOUI project principally on Work Package 4 lead by Boeing which focuses on the 2020 UAS Common Operation Picture (SWIM Enabled).

The Final Conference was assisted by Alberto Blanch and Melanie Kubik. A retrospective concerning the final conference as well as documents to the INOUI project deliverables can be found at: www.inoui.isdefe.es .

2nd Colloquium sponsored by INX

December 3, 2009 in Roundtable Discussions | Tags: , , , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

Invited speaker Francisco Ros- Spain’s Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society talks about the potentials of the technological sector for economy growth.

The economic situation is on everyone´s mind lately and more so in formal colloquiums such as the ones that are hosted by The Euroamerica Foundation. These events present an opportunity to hear certain personalities from the fields of science, politics, economy, and diplomacy and their reflections about the current situation in their field.

Innaxis sponsored the December colloquium in which Francisco Ros, Spain´s Secretary for Telecommunications and the Information Society, was invited to speak. He states that the Information Technology sector has increased by 16% in revenue, or 114 billion euros.

Francisco Ros also points out that within this growing industry a direct employee can generate between 6 and 7 induced jobs. Furthermore between 2005 and 2008, employment grew to 7.2%, encouraging growth in influencing economic sectors.

This sector has much importance on the economic growth both on a national and international level. In regards to growth on a national level, Francisco Ros talks about a few opportunities that should be taken advantage of especially during the Spanish presidency of the European Union that will be starting in January 2010.

Below you can find a picture with Innaxis president Carlos Álvarez with Francisco Ros as well as Carlos Solchaga,President of the Euroamerica Foundation.

Spain´s ticket out of the Crisis

November 20, 2009 in Roundtable Discussions | Tags: , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

President of Microsoft Spain presents her thoughts at Innaxis sponsored EuroAmerica colloquium.

On November 19, 2009 María Garaña, President of Microsoft Spain, presented her thoughts on how Spain can overcome the crisis.

Compared to the rest of Europe, Spain has been hit with the hardest of the economic crisis. Unemployment rates are at 19.3% according to Eurostat, and Zapatero just announced a tax increase. It´s no surprise that consumer confidence is still at a low 45,1% compared to 76,1% just two years ago, and 84,5% in 2006 according to the data provided by the ¨Instituto de Crédito Oficial¨.

Garaña was invited to speak at the EuroAmerica November colloquium about Spain´s economic situation. During her presentation, she talks about three priorities Spain should have in order to try to get out of the crisis.

1. Encourage the formation of small and medium companies in the information technology industry.

2. Create incentives for young students that would like to study a technical career field and furthermore support young entrepreneurs that are trying to make their dreams a reality.

3. Lastly, encourage alliances between public administrations and private companies to create synergies.

Stimulating the cooperation and understanding is a popular objective, not only in the country of Spain but also Spain´s international relations. The EuroAmerica Foundation´s primary objective is to stimulate cooperation and understanding between European and Latin American institutions, companies and personalities. Innaxis as well, holds a similar vision, to act as a catalyst which makes possible the emergence of relevant, ambitious and interdisciplinary ideas and projects.

The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute has been in close ties with The EuroAmerica Foundation, sponsoring a different event with the Minister of Science and Innovation as the invited speaker.

Below are pictures from the event. Innaxis continues to share this ´catalyzing´ objective with EuroAmerica and will also be sponsoring the next colloquium.


Innaxis contributes to additonal int’l congresses

November 3, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

The Innaxis research team has presented three more contributions to the scientific community about the connections between Complexity Science and Air Transportation Networks.

The first event was the FisEs ’09 congress on Statistical Physics, held in Huelva (Spain) on the 10th – 12th September 2009, and hosted by the group of Physics of Complex Liquids of the Universidad de Huelva. Two posters were accepted by this congress, the first of which was presented by Innaxis researcher Massimiliano Zanin and reported new results about modelling the aeronautical system by applying the concept of Scheduled Network. The second was an application of the celebrated GoogleLab’s PageRank algorithm to model the consequential effect of delays, and the study of importance of each airport from the point of view of the transmission of reactionary delays.

The third contribution was developed along with A. Vejar, of the CNRS, Nancy Université of France, and was presented in the European Conference on Complex Systems 2009 held in University of Warwick, UK, on 21-25 September 2009. Here, a new approach was studied. Instead of analysing the complex network created by a transportation system, an emergent graph was created by modelling the dynamics of customers and vehicles in a general fitness landscape. Such a model could help in understanding the mechanisms that lead to the creation of standard connection models, like point-to-point or hub-and-spoke structures, and in forecasting the evolution of a real transportation environment.

These three contributions touch upon how modelling the network in different ways can help make the overall transportation network more efficient, especially in regards to money, ecological consumption, and passenger satisfaction.

INX Founder F.J. Mancebo is chosen to be part of SESAR Joint Undertaking Scientific Committee

August 18, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

The SESAR Joint Undertaking is a unique public-private partnership in air traffic management (ATM) research and development founded by the European Commission and Eurocontrol with the objective of revolutionising the air traffic management in Europe.

To help with the scientific aspects of the research work programme under SESAR, the SESAR Joint Undertaking has created a Scientific Committee. Through a highly selective process, this team will help reinforce the SJU innovative and scientific approach to building the future Air Traffic Management systems and procedures. This committee is composed of an astronaut, professors, and researchers and are now part of SESAR; demonstrating the strong involvement of the Scientific Community to guarantee high level academic contribution to the SESAR programme. 

It is our great pleasure to announce that our very own founder, Dr. Francisco Javier Mancebo, has been chosen to be a part of this highly respected 12 person team. 

Dr. F.J. Mancebo has more than 20 years of experience in research in applied mathematics in a variety of aerospace fields. He graduated as an Aeronautical Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and later obtained his Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering in the same University. He has authored more than 15 articles published in world-class scientific journals (agreed by the Journal of Citation Reports). He specialises in systems modelling and simulation, dynamical systems theory, partial differential equations, reaction-diffusion problems, waves in fluids, 4D trajectory analysis and trajectory prediction for air traffic management purposes and related problems.

Dr. F.J. Mancebo has developed an intense research activity in the last years in the air transport sector, culminating with the co-founding of The Innaxis Foundation and Research Institute at the end of 2005. Since then, Dr.Mancebo has acted as Scientific Advisor for The Innaxis Research Institute collaborating in all the research activities of the Institute, focussing in developing a scientific research agenda in the context of air transport for the Institute.

As part of the Scientific Committee, the team will focus on:

  • the scientific analysis of SESAR from different angles: economics, human factors, statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, technology;
  • the liaison between SESAR and the academic and scientific communities across Europe including education of the future SESAR interested engineers & scientists and
  • the scientific value of the SESAR results.

In reference to the newly formed Scientific Commitee, Patrick Ky, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking states, ¨Having these personalities on-board will enable SESAR to build on sound scientific foundations. Thanks to the contribution of the Scientific Committee, SESAR JU will establish strong links with academic institutions conducting applied research of relevance to us. We strive for an innovative approach at SESAR and the input of the Scientific Committee will stimulate the technologists and engineers to think out of the box and deliver breakthroughs in ATM research.¨

Innaxis prides itself on interdisciplinary, collaborative research, and continues to bridge the gap between science, policy making, and implementation. We look forward to the future achievements of the SESAR Joint Undertaking Scientific Commitee as Dr. F.J. Mancebo carries on the same Innaxis core values in the roadmap to ATM research advancement.

INX presents ´Dynamical Model for the Air Transport Network´ at the 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation

June 23, 2009 in Uncategorized | by innaxis | Leave a comment

This international conference focuses on the state of the art technology in modelling and simulation. Many different themes are covered; ranging from Electrical and Electromechanical engineering to Modelling, Simulation and Control of Technological Processes. The conference took place June 9-12th in Madrid, Spain and was hosted by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

ECMS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from different fields involved in building innovative simulation systems, simulation and modelling tools and applications on both the research and industrial front. Keynote speakers included Rafael Martí from the Universidad de Valencia, Agustín Maravall from Banco de España, and Kishor Trivedi from Duke University.

The Innaxis publication ¨A Dynamical Model for the Air Transportation Network¨ received great reviews and the team was invited to speak about their findings. Complex Systems researcher Massimiliano Zanin gave the speech about modelling the ATM network in order to withstand and better operate with the forecasted 100% European flight growth.

Dynamical Model for the Air Transport Network

Dynamical Model for the Air Transport Network

Zanin explains how an ATM network can be modelled differently if a scheduled networks approach was used. By including the time factor, secondary nodes representing the duration of the flight is added thus including more information and giving capability of defining metrics such as efficiency, vulnerability, sensitivity to noise, and more.

Evolving the air transport network by increasing the number of nodes and connections,  the network went from a ´Random Structure´ model to a ´Hub and Spoke´ in that if the fitness is high, the network becomes more efficient with the addition of a Hub.

Evolving a network

The presentation concludes with a realistic algorithm for air network growth. A PDF of the presentation can be accessed here.

Innaxis publishes two papers; initiates ComplexWorld.eu

May 18, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

External projects, internal projects, publishing papers, submitting proposals- This multi-tasking ability is part of the reason why Innaxis never finds a dull moment.  Even in the downtime that often occurs in European countries during the summer months, Innaxis has published two documents related to Complexity Science.

This multi-tasking achievement was deemed capable through the efforts of Massimiliano Zanin, Lucas Lacasa, and Miguel Cea. They have written ¨Dynamics in Scheduled Networks¨ which has been published in the interdisciplinary journal Chaos (http://chaos.aip.org). Chaos is a quarterly journal published by the American Institute of Physics devoted to increasing the understanding of nonlinear phenomena and describing the manifestations in a manner comprehensible to researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

The paper will be published in the June 2009 edition and is already available online (Chaos-an Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science website). The paper explains how time restrictions are usually neglected when studying real or virtual systems through complex network theories, and a static structure is normally defined to characterize which node is connected to another. This approach seems to be oversimplified as real networks are indeed dynamically modified by external mechanisms.  The paper presents a scheduled network formalism that takes into account such dynamical modifications by including generic time restrictions in the structure.  Below is a paragraph taken from the paper explaining how scheduled networks can be used in an air traffic management scenario.

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The same team of people along with Samuel Cristobal has also published a contribution titled, ¨A Dynamical Model for the Air Transportation Network¨ which has been submitted and approved for  European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ’09. The publication will be discussed at the June 9-12 event in Madrid Spain under the category ¨Discrete Event Modelling and Simulation in Logistics, Transport and Supply Chains (LT) (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2009/index.html).

In this contribution, Scheduled Networks are used as a framework for simulating the growth of virtual aeronautical networks. The basic assumption is that the cost for passengers should be minimized, which is approximated with the time needed to go from one airport to another one. Some results are presented, and the role and importance of hubs (that is, central airports where great part of the flights are concentrated) is discussed. Peer reviewing for both publications was done by F J Mancebo, founder of the Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute and longtime UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) mathematics professor in the Superior School of Aeronautics.

The papers recently published by the Innaxis group have further advanced the opportunities to expand the findings into different scenarios. Following the same direction, Innaxis will be launching ComplexWorld.eu, an initiative to foster and promote the study of system complexity in the field of air transport. More particularly, ComplexWord.eu will be a candidate network for the SESAR Long Term initiative (WP E). As Air Transport Networks are becoming more complex characterized by an increasing number of airspace users which inevitably brings indeterminacy and unpredictability to the behavior of the system that needs to be carefully studied, analyzed, modeled, simulated and understood. Although still in it´s preliminary phase, ComplexWorld.eu will promote a research plan on how to tackle these issues in the field of air traffic management, introducing the concept of complexity management in the context of the 4D Trajectory Management operational concept developed in SESAR.

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Innaxis: Coordinator for UII Aeroespacial

March 11, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: | by innaxis | Leave a comment

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The UII Aeroespacial, (Unidad de Innovación Internacional) is an International Project office for R&D in the aerospace industry. There are various ´UIIs´, each in a separate industry. The main objective for each UII is to help Spanish companies become more involved in European level projects, more specifically, the European Union´s 7th Framework Programme.

This initiative is part of the program ´Tecnoeuropa´ which is lead by Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e industrial (CDTI) and the Ministerio de Industria Turismo y Comercio.

Innaxis, as coordinator for the UII Aeroespacial, will help Spanish companies participate in programs in the following sectors: Environment, Information & Communication Technology, Security, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Materials and New Production, etc.

For this, the UII Aeroespacial will be offering strategic, tactical, and execution services.

If you’d like to find out more information, please go to the UII Aeroespacial website:  http://uii.innaxis.org/  or send an email to: uii@innaxis.org

EU Parliamentary strongly supports pre-commercial procurement

March 2, 2009 in Uncategorized | by innaxis | Leave a comment

¨Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) can enable public authorities to improve the quality and effectiveness of public services – such as in health care, public transport, energy, environment, security etc – whilst creating opportunities for European companies to take international leadership in new markets.¨

This pre-commercial procurement is said to be the missing link in the European innovation cycle. It currently is widely exploited in both the US and Asian economies but is used very little in Europe.

The pre-commercial procurement would involve phases 0-3 in a typical 4 phase product innovation process. The procurement would specifically involve the phases of research, solution proposal, prototype, and pre-commercial product/service.

The European Union relieve this would benefit the healthcare and transport industries the most. It will help create lead markets in Europe, especially for future ICT-based products and services.

There are many research programs in Europe, however results and findings cannot be exploited to the full extent until now.

For more information, please see the Thematic Portal of the European Commission here .

Minister of Science and Innovation invited to speak at Innaxis-sponsored event

February 19, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | by innaxis | Leave a comment

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Innaxis had the pleasure of sponsoring another roundtable event held by Euroamérica.  Euroamérica is an independent, non-profit organisation whose principle objective is to stimulate the cooperation and the understanding between insitutions, businesses, and other European and Latin American personalities, for the promotion of a relationship between Europe and America.

The Minister of Science and Innovation was invited to speak at this event. She spoke about the major investment that will be put in R&D in order to beat the national crisis.

The main solution, she says, is ¨the cooperation between the government with superior education along with scientific research and innovation. ¨

For this, she talks about the supplement of the investment that will be put into R+D+i. On top of the already decided amount, there will be additional resources of 490 million euros destined to go to the ´Plan Español´ for the economic stimulus and ¨to strengthen the thread that holds the productivity of our country¨.

She also speaks of European-level cooperation, and even Iber-American cooperation. Although in times of crisis, ¨Spain must still maintain its outstanding commitment of being both a cultural and political link between both regions of the world.¨

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