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The NORMEC project is funded by the EU's 5th Framework Programme. O projeto NORMEC é financiado pelo 5º Programa-Quadro da UE. O ponto de partida do projeto NORMEC foi a avaliação da importância económica das dimensões normativas da ação e da ordem; tinha como principal objetivo a criação de um quadro geral para a conceção de instituições e políticas públicas que possam fomentar a cidadania disposições e ação coletiva. A análise das origens e evolução dos conceitos de ação e ordem no âmbito economia levou à conclusão de que as interpretações enviesadas da corrente dominante obras dos clássicos privaram o seu património de elementos cruciais no que diz respeito à atualidade debates. Em particular, a teoria dos sentimentos morais de Adam Smith e a discussão sobre comensurabilidade pelos marginalistas, embora largamente ignorada, são contributos altamente relevantes para os esforços atuais destinados a reformular os conceitos de agência e ordem. A necessidade de uma perspectiva renovada sobre a acção económica à luz da importância da preocupações morais, compromissos com normas sociais, fatores estruturais e institucionais foram confirmado pelas experiências e simulações realizadas no âmbito do projeto.

The project has validated the advantages of the new JPEG-2000 standard in the development of critical and real time applications such as medical and remote sensing applications. These applications require efficient implementation of the (de-)compression algorithms for very large images, interactive tools for data selection and personalisation of the content, as well as cooperative discussions and decisions (including diagnostics for the medical applications). OBJECTIVES To promote the use of JPEG-2000 for visual communications in the field of scientific digital images by a specific parametrization of the standard to very large sized images. To demonstrate the scalability and the versatility of the standard by developing an open platform for getting an interactive, secure and multimodal access to very large sized images through IP connections. A two levels architecture has been proposed, one for session management based on session protocols of the IETF and the other for image communications based on JPEG-2000. To develop dedicated tools for setting real-time connections to large image databases. To validate the developed platform and concepts through two user-oriented trials in the field of remote sensing and medical images exchanges. More information at the European Commission website here.

Caracterização das condições e modos de consumo, tipo de substâncias consumidas, trajectórias e perfis dos reclusos consumidores de droga.

Objective The Agentcity vision is: An ambient proactive environment where heterogeneous autonomous and increasingly intelligent systems representing businesses, services and individuals are able to interact with each other in a peer to peer manner and enable flexible and dynamic composition of services. Knowledge, information and service sharing is effectively available to users and organisations. When new pertinent or innovative services are available they are immediately offered to the appropriate user. Services are automatically discovered and integrated at the right level of interaction. Ontology, security, reputation and trust services in the environment should further enrich the range of businesses and private interactions possible between agent peers. Furthermore, the environment should be open to allow new services and systems to be connected and integrated semantically by coming on-line automatically.Objectives:The primary objectives of this project are:(a) to create a realistic, decentralised open environment which enables high level semantic interoperability between systems to support formation of novel, dynamic value constellations,b) to build sufficient knowledge and understanding of dynamic open environments to enable transition to widespread usage in reliable commercial grade systems.The project addresses dynamic value constellations in Four ways:(1) Designing and deploying an open extensible network environment which can support heterogeneous service building blocks composable into new value added service(2) The integration of business services into the environment to support rich interactions(3) The bringing together agent level communication technologies to provide a unified framework for modelling dynamic application services and(4) Demonstration points to show some of the depth and breadth of the world wide network of agent platforms and services.

Este projecto perspectiva-se sob a forma de uma abordagem multipolarizada à temática das estratégias educativas face à questão da "multiculturalidade".