The VIM Project
...or to give it its full title
VIM: A Virtual Multicomputer for Symbolic Applications
which is a network project under the EC's Human Capital and Mobility
programme. The network brings together 15 partners researching in
three areas: parallel and distributed systems, compilation for
parallel execution and artificial intelligence. The goal is to
develop AI applications to run on distributed architectures and across
local and wide-area networks.
- For papers and software see the VIM repository.
- For more detailed information about the project see the work programme.
- The project coordinator is Julian Padget.
- The project officer is Luis Minguez Lara, tel: +32(2)295.00.79,
fax: +32(2)296.32.70
Activities and reports
- Activities from the first year are listed in the 1994 annual report. (Note: the layout of the
report is as specified by the Commission.) There are also specific
reports on:
- Activities from the second year are listed in the 1995 annual report.
- The project will now run until the end of 1997 on the strength
of a case for extension
- A workshop took place May 1-3 1997
in Lanjarón (Andalucía).
- Activities from the third year are listed in the 1996 annual report.
- A closing workshop took
place December 4-6 1997 at Ravello, near Amalfi.
- Activities from the fourth year are listed in the 1997 annual report.
- The final report, comprising the summary
report and the general report, was
submitted at the beginning of July.
- A complete set of the full
papers presented at the 1997 workshops.
- A complete set of the papers
accepted for publication in "Collaboration between human and
artificial societies", to appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence series. Access will be withdrawn after files
have been submitted to Springer.
New items - updated 990414
- Access to papers withdrawn as per previous item. Papers will be
published as Volume 1624 of LNAI.
Partners
-
AI Lab, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel.
Contact: Walter
van de Velde or mail walter@arti.vub.ac.be.
Related pages: none.
- GMD (FIT.KI) Bonn.
Contact: Hans
Voss or mail hans.voss@gmd.de.
Related pages: none.
- GMD FIRST, Berlin.
Contact: Angela Sodan or mail angela@first.gmd.de.
Related pages: none.
- Christian
Albrechts Universitaet Kiel.
Contact: Wolfgang
Goerigk or mail wg@informatik.uni-
kiel.de.
Related pages: APPLY
Project.
- LSI, Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya.
Contact: Ulises Cortes or mail ia@lsi.upc.es.
Related pages: none.
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.
Contact: Vicenc Torra or mail vtorra@teseu.etse.urv.es.
Related pages: AI group
at URV
- Institut d'Investigacio en
Intel.ligencia Artificial at Campus Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona, Bellaterra.
Contact: Carles Sierra or mail sierra@iiia.csic.es.
Related pages: none.
- INRIA, Rocquencourt.
Contact: Christian
Queinnec or mail christian.queinnec@inria.fr.
Related pages: ICSLA
Project.
and
INRIA,
Sophia-Antipolis.
Contact:
Brigitte Trousse or mail Brigitte.Trousse@sophia.inria.fr.
Related pages: AID
Research Group .
- Ilog S.A., Gentilly.
Contact:
Pierre Parquier or mail parquier@ilog.fr.
Related pages: none.
- Dipartimento di Informatica,
Universita di Pisa.
Contact: Giuseppe
Attardi or mail attardi@di.unipi.it.
Related pages: none.
- Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, Naples.
Contact: Mario Mango Furnari or
mail mf@arco.na.cnr.it.
Related pages: none.
- Dipartimento di
Informatica ed Applicazioni, Universita di Salerno.
Contact: Antonio
Gisolfi or mail ef@udsab.dia.unisa.it.
Related pages: none.
- Mathematical
Sciences, University of Bath.
Contact: Julian
Padget or mail jap@maths.bath.ac.uk.
Related pages: Denton
Project.
- Department of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton.
Contact: David
DeRoure or mail d.deroure@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Related pages: none.
- University of Warwick.
Contact: Iain Craig or mail iain.craig@dcs.warwick.ac.uk.
Related pages: none.