5th RTD Framework Programme

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IST (Information Society Technologies)

Project details

Project reference:	IST-1999-12538
Acronym:	WHALES
Title:	Web-linking Heterogeneous Applications For Large-scale Engineering And Services
Subject Index:	Economic Aspects; Information Processing, Information Systems; Innovation, Technology Transfer; Telecommunications
Objectives:	Objective: The main objective of WHALES is to provide a planning and management infrastructure for complex distributed organisations working as networks on large scale engineering projects. Members of such a network may be big and medium to small enterprises as well taking into account workers, management, the organisations itself and the consumers, who are integrated as external business partners. The WHALES system will pursue two main objectives: to design and develop a set of software components supporting integrated planning, deployment and monitoring of large projects in multi-site, multi-enterprise organisations and to demonstrate the applicability and benefits of the developed software composed through analysis, implementation and experimental usage on pilot business cases presented by users in the consortium. Work description: The four thematic areas in the WHALES project are so defined: 1) Project Management Project management covers organisation of the project as a whole, partners direction according to the workplan and Consortium strategy, interaction with the Commission, monitoring and accounting of project activities, risk assessment and contingency management, project infrastructure maintenance. 2) Network Architecture & Software Components The project main body consists of five technical Workpackages (WP3 to WP7) devoted to the study and development of the ICT architecture and software components that are going to support the WHALES network organisation model. Each Workpackage includes the fundamental activities of a quality-based software development process: requirements, analysis and design, implementation, test and deployment. A sixth Workpackage (WP2) provides a common development infrastructure for the teams working on each component, dealing with: methodology and tools to be used, selection of existing re-usable components, co-ordination of joint developments, maintenance of a technical data repository, configuration and change management. 3) Business Cases Analysis & Implementation In parallel with technical developments, the proposed organisation model and tools are introduced and applied on four business cases proposed by WHALES users in different industrial sectors. Each business case corresponds to a Workpackage (WP9 to WP12) including the fundamental activities of business case analysis, experiment selection and preparation, experiment implementation and results assessment. A fifth Workpackage (WP8) co-ordinates all business cases, dealing with application of common methodologies, metrics and best practices, and ensuring uniformity, comparison and joint evaluation of results produced by each business case. 4) Exploitation & Dissemination Throughout the project the Consortium prepares and refines its strategy related to diffusion and commercial exploitation of the project results, in terms of marketable products definition, potential market analysis, competitors classification, identification of dissemination and distribution channel, industrialisation plans. These objectives are accomplished in Workpackage 13, where exploitation plans are prepared since the early stages of the project based on an in-deep survey of the target market, and results produced are promoted through publications at conferences, workshops and expositions and through the project's and partners' web sites.
Start date:	2000.03.01
End date:	2002.08.31
Duration:	30 months
Project status:	Execution
Project cost:	3.21 million euro
Project funding:	1.80 million euro
Programme type:	5th FWP (Fifth Framework Programme)
Subprogramme area:	Flexible, mobile and remote working methods and tools - Dynamic networked organisations
Contract type:	CSC (Cost-sharing contracts)
Project URL:	http://whales.gformula.com
Prime contractor:	Gruppo Formula S.P.a.
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	ITALY
Region:	NORD OVEST, PIEMONTE, Torino
City:	Cascine Vica Rivoli - To
Post Code:	10090
Address:	Corso IV Novembre 57
Contact person:	PAGANELLI, Paolo
Telephone:	+39-5-9848810
Fax:	+39-5-9848630
E-mail:	democenter@mo.nettuno.it
Contractor:	UNIVERSITAET BREMEN
Organisation type:	Research
Organisation size:	> 500
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BREMEN, Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
City:	BREMEN
Post Code:	28334
Address:	Bibliothekstrasse 1, Postfach 33 04 40
Contact person:	HIRSCH, Bernd E. (Professor)
Telephone:	+49-4212-183384
Fax:	+49-4212-185610
E-mail:	hi@biba.uni-bremen.de
Contractor:	Formacao, Desenvolvimento e Investigacao
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	PORTUGAL
Region:	CONTINENTE, LISBOA E VALE DO TEJO, Grande Lisboa
City:	Lisboa
Post Code:	1070-129
Address:	Rue Fialho de Almeida 28 2. Esq
Contact person:	GRILO, Antonio
Telephone:	+351-1-3643066
Fax:	+351-1-3620914
E-mail:	a.c.b.grilo@svrveywg.salford.ac.uk
Contractor:	Metz Aerials Gmbh & Co. Kg
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis
City:	Karlsruhe
Post Code:	76185
Address:	Carl-Metz-strasse 3, Postfach 210954
Contact person:	TURK, Helmut
Telephone:	+49-721-5965225
Fax:	+49-721-5965119
E-mail:	helmut.tuerk@metz-online.de
Contractor:	Universita di Roma ""Tor Vergata"
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	ITALY
Region:	LAZIO
City:	Roma
Post Code:	00173
Address:	Via Orazio Raimondo 18
Contact person:	CESAROTTI, Vittorio
Telephone:	+39-06-72597178
Fax:	+39-06-2021351
E-mail:	cesarotti@uniroma2.it
Contractor:	Fata Group Spa
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	ITALY
Region:	NORD OVEST, PIEMONTE, Torino
City:	Pianezza - To
Post Code:	10044
Address:	Strada Statale 24, Km 12
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Contractor:	Lisnave Estaleiros Navais S.A.
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	PORTUGAL
Region:	CONTINENTE, LISBOA E VALE DO TEJO, Grande Lisboa
City:	Lisboa
Post Code:	1000
Address:	Rua Santa Domingo a Lapa 82,1, PO Box 135
Contact person:	CORREIA RODRIGUES, Antonio
Telephone:	+351-6-5799102
Fax:	+351-6-5799183
E-mail:	correia.rodrigues@lisnave.pt
Contractor:	Hungarian Academy of Science, Computer and Automation Research Institute
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	HUNGARY
Region:	Region Desc. N/A (HUNGARY)
City:	Budapest
Post Code:	1111
Address:	Kende U. 13 - 17, PO Box 63
Contact person:	KOVACS, George L.
Telephone:	+36-1-2096143
Fax:	+36-1-4667503
E-mail:	gyorgy.kovacs@sztaki.hu
Contractor:	MT-System Ltd.
Organisation type:	Other
Organisation size:	10 - 49
Country:	HUNGARY
Region:	Region Desc. N/A (HUNGARY)
City:	Budapest
Post Code:	1108
Address:	Venyige U. 3., 1475 POB 167
Contact person:	BORI, Zsuzsanna (Ms)
Telephone:	+36-1-4311142
Fax:	+36-1-2602166
E-mail:	mtsystem@mtsystem.hu

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