M-Zones -

Sven van der Meer

D3.1 - Modelling and Design Report

vdmeer@tssg.org

This document is the first deliverable of work package three - Modelling and Design. It covers white papers that have been produced and peer-reviewed by the M-Zones partners by the end of July 2003. Purpose of this document is to provide a holistic view of accomplished work regarding the modelling and design of management concepts/systems for smart spaces and to evaluate the research quality of this work. The methodology for the quality assurance is defined in a quality document developed by all partners for the work packages two, three and four.

Following the Technical Annex, the white papers have been published for the Research Themes. This document includes only white papers that reflect modelling and design aspects, while other aspects are covered by the deliverables D2.1 and D4.1 for the work packages two and four respectively. The aims of this process are:

To provide feedback to researchers on how their research work as presented in the whitepapers can be improved to represent high-quality research work.

To provide a mechanism for the project, theme leaders, researchers and supervisors to monitor improvement in the research output of individuals, theme teams and the project as a whole.

To provide an opportunity for individual researchers to be involved in peer-review of research output.

To provide an accurate view of the progress of individual items of research over the course of the project.

To provide a mechanisms for selecting whitepaper to be published on the M-Zones web-site

To help groom whitepapers into a form suitable for submission to publications, conferences, workshops etc.

The rest of the paper is organised as follows. Section 2 gives an overview of the general methodology that was discussed on M-Zones meetings and gives the criteria for including white papers in this deliverable. Section 3 introduces the quality criteria that are used to assess the white papers.