1. Sammanträde med styrelsen
Linneaus Center ACCESS Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks, Signals and Systems
Sammanträde med styrelsen
Tisdag den 6 mars 2007, kl
Näsby slott, Näsby park

2. Sammanträde med styrelsen Dagordning
Interimsstyrelsen konstituerar sig
Föredragningslista
Utseende av justeringsman
Förutsättningar samt diskussion om styrelsens roll och arbete
ACCESS graduate school (beslutspunkt)
Verksamhet och budget 2007 (beslutspunkt)
Industrial Partnership Program
ACCESS hemsida
Nästa möte

3. 4. Förutsättningar samt diskussion om styrelsens roll och arbete
VR Linnestöd om 20 MSEK med tillhörande forskarskola 2,3 MSEK kronor för perioden
Bidragets totala längd kan uppgå till 10 år
( ).
Skolan för Elektro- och systemteknik medfinansierar centret med 2,2 MSEK/år
Första utvärderingen av VR efter 2 år.
Forskningsprogrammet ACCESS med tillhörande forskarskola ska drivas inom ramen
för ett center vid skolan för elektro- och systemteknik. Centret skall även kunna
utgöra en plattform för samverkan med industripartners.
Ordinarie styrelseledamot Personlig Suppleant
Anders Flodström, rektor ordf Gunnar Landgren vice rektor
Bastiaan Kleijn, vice-ordf Mikael Skoglund
Bo Wahlberg Anders Lindquist
Gunnar Karlsson Rolf Stadler
Föreståndare: Björn Ottersten

4. Short Term (2 year) Objectives
Results and Dissemination:
Joint Projects: Several joint projects will be initiated. Provide a platform for entering into and extending our EU project portfolio. We will be partners in at least three new EU projects within FP7.
Joint Publications: More joint journal publications will be added to our already strong publication record.
Invited Sessions and Special Issues: Organize special sessions at the main conferences and to be guest-editors for special issues in the main scientific journals.
Graduate Education: Graduate education will be restructured providing students with a broader expertise as outlined in the ACCESS graduate school application.
Interaction with Applied Research: Industrial research projects (some of these may be EU projects) related to ACCESS will be initiated with two or three test-bed activities demonstrating key technologies.

5. Short Term (2 year) Objectives
Renewal:
Faculty Positions: At least two new faculty positions in the field of the proposal.
Hiring of Post-docs: These positions will be openly announced, and the best candidates will be hired independent of group structure. We will focus on candidates that complement our current research competence.
Mobility Program: An exchange program for guest researcher to KTH as well as funding of sabbaticals at international top universities for our faculty will be initiated. All graduate students in ACCESS will have the opportunity to spend three to six months at an international research laboratory (in academia or industry). This effort will be coordinated by corresponding STINT proposals.
Workshop & Lecture Series

6. 5. ACCESS Graduate School Planned activites
Statistical Mechanics of Distributed Information Systems
ACCESS PhD School Intensive course
With support from NORDITA, which recently moved to Stockholm, and the Academy of Finland we organize a meeting in Mariehamn Åland, July 15-18, 2007.
Linear Stochastic Systems, VT 07 – Per Enqvist, Math
A geometric approach to modeling, estimation and identification.
Combinatorial Optimization, VT 07 – Anders Forsgren, Math

7. 5. ACCESS Graduate School Planned activites
Wireless Sensor Networks – Lang Tong, Cornell
Short course in the spring
Intellectual Property - Marianne Levin, SU
Summer School jointly with GST, June, 2007
Intellectual Property and related issues (legal, commercial, technical, modern media, etc.)
Course held by Institutet för Immaterialrätt och Marknadsrätt (IFIM) SU
VINNPRO planning application approved
Partner: KTH Executive School

8. 5. ACCESS Graduate School
Finansiering: 1,15 MSEK per år
Förslag till struktur
Studierektor / Program Director: Mikael Skoglund
Studiekommitte / Study Committee:
Bo Wahlberg, chairman
Mikael Skoglund
Björn Ottersten
Ulf Jönsson
Budget för 2007
* Salaries, program coordination:
Program director at 10% 100 kkr
Study committee chairman at 5% kkr
* Course development: kkr
* Travel and housing, guest lecturers: kkr
* Teaching facilities: kkr
* Summer school: kkr
Total = 1725 kkr
Not: vi har prioriterat medel för kursutveckling (enl VRs instruktioner kan del av pengarna användas till 50% av en studierektor)

9. 6. Verksamhet och Budget Management Center board
Researchers, External members, KTH rector/management
Center director and co-director
Executive committee
Director, co-director and research leaders for thematic research areas
Center administration
Minimal admin and dedicated office requirements
Professional PR assistance to add visibility
Partnership program, graduate school, website etc.

10. 6. Verksamhet och Budget Thematic research activities Project funding
Post-docs, Research visits (incoming/outgoing)
Mobility programs academia/industry
Workshops
Distinguished Lecture Series
Scalability is key, a single radio link is trivial.
Creating coverage over a large area, accomodating many users, different requirements
(data rates, latencies
Interactivity, control

11. 6. Verksamhet och Budget Research Organization Thematic research areas
Essential areas for the success of the center. 1-2 coordinator for each area. Evaluated every 2-3 years by center board based on indicators (research excellence, cooperation, renewal) and peer review. Funding redistributed and themes redefined based on evaluation.
From proposal
Autonomic Communication and Computing
Opportunistic and Collaborative Communications
Network Coding
Resource Optimization
Distributed Processing for Sensor and Actuator Networks
Architectures, Performance, and Complexity

12. 6. Verksamhet och Budget ACCESS Distinguished Lecture Series
Started fall 2006
One lecture per month during the semester
Responsible: Bo Wahlberg
Internal Workshops
1-2 per semester
2 mini-workshops during fall 2006
2 workshop scheduled during spring 2007

13. 6. Verksamhet och Budget 2007 Thematic Research Area (TRA) funding
10 MSEK (5 MSEK from 2006 and 50% of 10 MSEK from 2007)
18 researchers kkr per researcher according to
Automatic Control Håkan Hjalmarsson, Karl Henrik Johansson, Mikael Johansson, Bo Wahlberg
Communication Network Gunnar Karlsson, Rolf Stadler
Communication Theory Mikael Skoglund, Erik Larsson
Formal Methods Mads Dam
Optimization and System Theory Xiaoming Hu, Ulf Jönsson, Anders Lindquist
Sound and Imagine Processing Bastiaan Kleijn
Theoretical Biological Physics Erik Aurell
Signal Processing Peter Händel, Magnus Jansson, Björn Ottersten, Petre Stoica

14. 6. Verksamhet och Budget 2007 Post-docs
500 kkr/year (not fully funded) – 1+1 year commitment
Open call during spring 2007
Priority to joint appointments (supported financially by more than one group)
Decision by director after consultation with executive committee
Mobility
Visiting faculty (ACCESS visiting professor)
Mobility for researchers and PhD students?
Details must be defined

15. 6. Verksamhet och Budget 2007 Project funding
Complement to Thematic research funding
Should span multiple groups and/or thematic areas
Duration approx. 2 years
Could be a way to associate researchers/expertise not currently associated with ACCESS – renewal aspect
Solicit projects or ”call” - evaluation?
Decision by board after recommendation by director and executive committee
Co-funding of third party projects
Incentive to create more research activity in ACCESS area
Could take the form of “No center OH” + percentage
Different categories?

16. 6. Verksamhet och Budget 2007 Management and Admin
Director and co-director 25% 350
Admin support and PR assist 75% 575
Lecture series
Workshops, joint activities
OH (HSG, Offices, IT, EE OH)
Total

17. 6. Verksamhet och Budget 2007 Income VR 11.15 x 1.5 = 16.725 KTH 2.200
18.925
Expenses
TRA
Grad school
Post-docs, 4x500 (1+1 year commitment)
Mobility
Project funding
Co-funding of partner projects (15%-20%)
Management and Admin

18. 7. Industrial Partnership Program Existing Cooperation in Consortium

19. 7. Industrial Partnership Program
Major industrial partners informed about Linnaeus Center – Center description distributed to Ericsson, TeliaSonera, Skype, …
Project based cooperation
Simple Partnership Agreement – all difficult matters pushed to project contracts
Initiate negotiations with Ericsson ongoing

20. 8. ACCESS hemsida