1. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” State of the art and Grand Challenges for Nature-inspired Data Technologies D.Anguita Palma de Mallorca – 8 June 2006

2. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Problems related to Data Technology n Missing / partial data n Noisy / uncertain data n Heterogeneous data n High dimensionality n Spatial and temporal issues (e.g. delays) n Hierarchy / structure n Representation / Coding n … and Data flood ! n Missing / partial data n Noisy / uncertain data n Heterogeneous data n High dimensionality n Spatial and temporal issues (e.g. delays) n Hierarchy / structure n Representation / Coding n … and Data flood !

3. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood … paper Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

4. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood… film Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

5. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood… magnetic media (& flash) Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

6. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood… optical media Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

7. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood… broadcasting and telephony Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

8. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data flood… Internet Source: UC Berkeley School of Information Source: How much information 2003

9. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data Technology – Information flow Data acquisition Data (pre)processing Data mining Data storage/ Memory Data transfer Data visualization

10. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data Acquisition Data acquisition Auditory / Vision models Evolutionary and self-organizing sensors Neuromorphic architectures Attention/perception modelling Silicon retina – Inst. of Neuroinformatics, Zurich Amorphous Computing: Paintable sensors, MIT

11. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data Technologies Data (pre)processing Data mining Data storage Modularization / Decomposition / Hierarchies Spatial temporal structures Morphological structures Autonomic systems Learning and adaptive systems Heterogeneous databases

12. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” “Traditional” Data Technologies Data (pre)processing Data mining Data storage Artificial life Artificial Neural networks Artificial Autonomous Agents and Adaptive Behavior Evolutionary Computation Fuzzy Systems D.Cliff, Bio-inspired computing approaches, HP Labs

13. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data mining (web mining) Artificial Immune System for Interesting Information Discovery A.Secker, University of Kent

14. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data processing through Natural Computing Adleman’s DNA Computing (but also Paun’s Membrane Computing, etc.)

15. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data storage IBM’s Millipede – 1Tbit/in^2

16. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data distribution / Cooperation Query processing for sensor networks, Cornell University

17. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Data Visualization Data visualization Visualization concepts Evolvable interfaces Programmable material, MIT Nature-inspired visualization, Univ. of Maryland Univ. of Minnesota

18. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Industries… IBM: Autonomic computing Microsoft: Non classical computation (including bio-inspired)

19. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges (Smart Information Systems) How do we bring together all these technologies under a common framework ? Brain metaphor Focus on functionality Artificial brain Distributed brain Digital brain

20. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges I The artificial brain Keywords: “Intelligent” behaviour Self assembly Self repairing Nature-inspired data coding Nature-inspired data processing Nature-inspired data mining Adaptive “Internal representation” of environment (artificial consciousness ?) Information System = Artificial Brain

21. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges I Information System = Artificial Brain David Rumelhart, Hugo de Garis, John Taylor, …

22. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges II The artificial brain Keywords: Sensor networks Distributed Micro/Nano Intelligence Nature-inspired Collaborative Architectures for Complex Adaptive Systems. “Internal representation” of data (artificial consciousness ?) Nature-inspired Distributed Data Processing and Mining Information System = Distributed Brain

23. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges II Information System = Distributed Brain System IS the brain (Autonomic Computing. GRID,…) Cooperation of (tiny?) brains (Swarm intelligence, Amorphous computing, …)

24. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges III Information System = Digital Brain Keywords: Same as “Artificial Brain” but emphasis on artificial computation Nanotechnology Combinatorial intelligence Discrete computation Rationale: artificial computation is digital natural computation is analog

25. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Grand Challenges III Information System = Digital Brain Likharev et al. Stony Brooks University

26. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” “Mallorca” proposals (NiDT session) Artificial Brain Applications in Speciality Chemistry Industry – Waiting for Ni Solutions Ni Methods for Knowledge Generation from Data in Real-Time Ni Methods for Automatic Detection and Classification in Cytogenetic Systems Ni Methods for Local Pattern Detection Digital Brain Discrete and Continuous Aspects of Ni Methods Physically-inspired Artificial Learning Methods Distributed Brain Ni Robustness of Networks

27. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Acknowledgments and more refs.: NiSIS Survey on Nature-inspired Data Technologies (January 2006) Cecilio Angulo, Giovanni Bozza, Francisco Bonachela, Emilio Corchado, Michael Haddrell, Bogdan Gabrys, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Dariusz Król, Kauko Leviskä, Katarzyna Musial, Diego Pardo, David Pelta, Janusz Sobecki, Jose Luis Verdegay, Filip Zelezny NiDT Roadmap - Existing and Future Challenges (February 2006) Plamen Angelov, Davide Anguita, Cecilio Angulo, Emilio Corchado, Przemysław Kazienko, Daniel Keim, Katarzyna Musial, David Pelta, José Luis Verdegay, Alejandro Sancho Royo, Juan R.González

28. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme 6th Framework Programme - “Information Society Technologies” Conclusion Grand Challenges: Artificial Brain, Distributed Brain, Digital Brain Research on Nature-inspired data-related technologies is widespread both in Europe and worldwide Vast amount of both established and new/emerging technologies There is little coordination among research groups/areas: NiSIS is a big step in this direction We need some sort of “Yellow Pages”, listing: Technologies Research groups Research Institutions Courses Conferences Publications … ???