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AITEC Contract Research Project Announcement for Advanced Software for FY 1997 |
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A I T E C
Contract Research Project Announcement
for Advanced Software for FY 1997
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1. Introduction
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The Research Institute for Advanced Information Technology
(AITEC) was established in the Japan Information Processing
Development Center (JIPDEC) as one of its sub-organizations.
One of its roles is the dissemination of the Fifth Generation
Computer Systems (FGCS) Technology which was developed through
Japanese national projects, ``Fifth Generation Computer Systems
Project (1982 - 1992)", and ``FGCS Follow-on Project (1993 - 1995)".
To realize this purpose, AITEC distributes the software (IFS:
ICOT Free Software) which was developed in these two national
projects. It also maintains the software, and promotes development of
new software related to IFS. Through those activities, it intends to
expand and disseminate parallel symbol processing and knowledge
processing technologies.
AITEC started offering contract research projects in FY 1995
by the support of The Mechanical Social Systems Foundation, with the
aim of software resources in the field of parallel symbol processing
and knowledge processing.
This contract research project will be continued untill FY
1998.
This announcement informs you of ``call for proposals" to
contract research project which supports research and development
software for parallel symbol processing and/or parallel processing as
its central technology.
2. Purpose of the Contract Research
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The purposes of the Contract Research Project are as follows:
(1) To promote research on parallel symbol processing and knowledge
processing.
(2) To exchange research ideas in the related fields through opening
software developed in this contract research.
(3) To promote the use of the software as tools.
3. Instructions for Proposal Preparation
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Your Proposals should be received by AITEC no later than
9th June, 1997 Monday (JST)
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All submissions should be done by e-mail.
3.1 Who may apply
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Researchers who will open the software under the terms and
conditions similar to IFS can submit proposals. Please refer
http://www.icot.or.jp/AITEC/IFS/list/using-IFS-J.html
for the terms and conditions, or please contact us to get it.
The researchers are not restricted to Japanese, and residents
in Japan.
3.2 Topics of Interest
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Related to parallel symbol processing and/or knowledge
processing technologies.
Proposals on experimental application systems are especially
welcome.
3.3 Number of Contract Research to be awarded
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In FY 1997, we will support
* Approximately 15 one-year research proposals
* Approximately 5 two-year research proposals
3.4 Scope and Type of Support
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(1) Approximately 1,500,000 yen will be given to each awarded project.
This support will be provided by Japanese Yen. This amount will
include all of overhead if necessary.
(2) Contractor will be informed of the method of payment, handling of
resulting software, afterward.
(3) Even two-year project, contractors are requested to provide us
intermediate results of the software, and intermediate report,
etc. at the end of the first fiscal year.
(4) The contractor is requested to open the software to the public
under the terms and conditions similar to ICOT Free Software
(IFS), and the copyright of the software remains with the
contractor. Please refer to
http://www.icot.or.jp/AITEC/IFS/list/using-IFS-E.html
for terms and conditions for IFS, or please contact us to get it.
3.5 Contractor Expectations
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(1) Intermediate Progress Report of 250 words in English is expected
to be sent to AITEC around the end of November 1997 (the precise
deadline will be informed later) by e-mail. This report should
include
* The purpose
* The research method
* The intermediate result
* The future plan
(2) Project Final Report of about 30 pages written in English is
expected to be sent to AITEC at the end of February 1998. This
report should be sent even if the project is a two-year project.
The report should be sent by e-mail. Besides the report, resulting
software and files describing README, user manuals, installation
manuals are also expected to be sent to AITEC by ftp.
Copyright of the report should be transferred to AITEC, and the
Mechanical Social Systems Foundation, and the copyright of the
software will remain with the contractor.
(3) If your software is splended enough, AITEC may invite you to the
``Workshop on awarded projects" which will be held around the end
of February 1998 for the presentation of your research with
demonstration of the resulting software.
(4) Expense plan is expected to be sent to AITEC. Contractors are
expected to expend according to ``Expense guideline" which will be
informed later.
(5) Adjustment of the accounts, and keeping copies of receipts are
expected, and they are expected to be sent to AITEC until the end
of March 1998.
(6) Besides the above, progress of research etc. is expected to be
reported to AITEC if we request.
3.6 Period of Support
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Expence of awarded projects will start at June 1st, 1997.
Thus, the period of support is from June 1st 1997 to 31st March 1998.
4. Proposal Processing and Review
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Proposals will be reviewed by peer reviewer who are
researchers from appropriate research fields, and award will be
determined by the refereeing committee.
Notification will be made until
1st July, 1997 Tuesday (JST)
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by e-mail. All of comments from reviewers will be sent to all
applicants.
Criteria by which the proposals will be judged include the
followings:
(1) Contribution for stimulating other researchers.
(2) Resulting software is expected to be used by researchers as tools.
(3) Research plan and participants of the project are expected to be
suitable for developing the resulting software.
5. Submission of Proposals
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All proposals are expected to be written in prepared proposal form
attatched at the end of this article and are expected to be sent to
* Akira Aiba (aiba@icot.or.jp)
* Tomoaki Moro (moro@icot.or.jp)
by e-mail no later than
9th June, 1997 Monday (JST)
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6. Proposal Form for FY 1997
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The followings are instructions on items in the Proposal Form.
Please fill in the form, and send it by e-mail.
(1) Contractor or Principal Investigator
Please fill in the name and address of contractor or Principal
Investigator.
(2) Title of the proposed project
Please fill in the research topic as concrete as possible
together with research background, purpose, and contents. Please
designate whether the proposed project is a one-year project or a
two-year project.
(3) Project Participants/Research Method/Schedule
Please fill in the names, affiliations, and mail addresses of
project participants. Please describe research method and research
schedule as concrete as possible.
(4) Resulting Software
Please fill in the name, functions, features, structure of
resulting software. Especially, please fill in ``Expected way of use
of the software" from the users' point of view.
(5) Bases of Funding Money
This contract research is expected to provide approximately
1,500,000 Japanese Yen. Please fill in required amount of money in
item by item, and how you use them.
Proposals is expected to be sent to
* Akira Aiba (aiba@icot.or.jp)
* Tomoaki Moro (moro@icot.or.jp)
at AITEC, FGCS Department by e-mail no later than
9th June, 1997 Monday (JST)
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Research Proposal Form
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Date: XX June, 1997
1. Contractor or Principal Investigator
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Organization:
Address of the Organization:
Title:
Name:
Contact
Address:
TEL:
FAX:
e-mail:
2. Title of the Proposed Project
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(1) Title of the Proposed Project:
(2) Research Period (one-year project or two-year project):
(3) Background of the research (about a half page):
(4) Purpose of the research (about a half page):
(5) Contents of the research (around 1 to 2 pages):
3. Project Participants/Research Method/Scedule
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(1) Project Participants
+----------------------+------+-------------+----------------+
| | Name | Affiliation | e-mail address |
+----------------------+------+-------------+----------------+
|Principal Investigator| | | |
+----------------------+------+-------------+----------------+
|Cooperate Researcher | | | |
+----------------------+------+-------------+----------------+
% Please add arbitrary number of line for cooperate researchers.
(2) Research Method
(3) Research Schedule: schedule for two years for two-year project
4. Resulting Software
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(1) The name of the software
(2) Functions and features of the software (more than a half page)
(3) Structure of the software (about a half page)
* Structure of the software
* If the resulting software will be a part of larger system,
please explain the relation of the software to the total
system.
* If the resulting software will be improvement of existing
software by adding new functions and etc., please explain
what kind of functions are added.
(4) If the software is related to specific IFS programs, please
specify their names.
(5) Please specify the programming language/OS/software packages for the
execution of the software, and please explain the portability of
resulting software.
(6) Expected size of the software (restricted to newly developed part)
(7) Expected way of use of the software (more than a half page)
* How this software will be used, who will be expected users.
* Advantage of the software from users' point of view.
(8) Expected intermediate result at the end of the first fiscal year
(if the project is a two-year project)
% This item is not necessary for one-year project.
(9) Documents which will be added to the software
* Specification, User manual, etc.
% Please include attractive points for the above (1) to (7).
5. Bases of Funding Money
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| Item | Amount | Bases | Remarks |
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|Personnel Expenses | | | |
+---------------------------+--------+-------+---------+
|Traveling Expenses | | | |
+---------------------------+--------+-------+---------+
|Materials Purchase Expenses| | | |
| (Books, Reports, etc.) | | | |
+---------------------------+--------+-------+---------+
|Expendables Expenses | | | |
+---------------------------+--------+-------+---------+
|Miscellaneous Expences | | | |
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7. Contact
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Please contact to the followings for this contract research:
Research Institute for Advanced Information Technology (AITEC)
Shiba Tokyo Kaijo Bldg. 2F
3-3 Shiba 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan
TEL: +81-3-3456-2514
FAX: +81-3-3455-4877
Akira Aiba (aiba@icot.or.jp) for research contents
Tomoaki Moro (moro@icot.or.jp) for contract procedure