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<Reference n.: PMI7-EU-BSGSME-22>
<Deadline: 29/08/2007>
<Programme: >
<Project Title: PACMAN >
<Financial Scheme: >
<Description: Abstract:
The lack of cross-platform support for mobile content leads to
suboptimal use of the mobile media substrate and hence to reduced
competitiveness of businesses in the mobile content space, especially
when compared to content-providers that are mainly Internet-based.  It
is also likely that these problems can at least partially explain the
simplistic nature of the majority of mobile content compared to that
of content for fixed platforms.  The objective of the project is to
develop and prototype an approach to general-purpose middleware
support that will allow media content on mobile devices to become
significantly more portable and interoperable than the current
generation of content.  The consortium consists of three media
partners (SMEs) and three technology partners (universities) for this
purpose.

Main Objectives and Research Results Sought:
 The PACMAN project will produce know-how and prototype for a
general-purpose middleware and toolkit solution that allows mobile
content (graphics, audio, video and code) to be adapted automatically
across three of the four main platforms currently used by mobile
handsets.  The solution will also allow adaptation within each
platform to support intra-platform fragmentation.  The PACMAN platform
will also allow better interoperability between applications running
on different handsets, for example to allow viral distribution of
content and support multi-user content.  In this fashion, the proposed
work improves portability as well as interoperability.

Innovative Aspects:
A comprehensive approach to addressing the platform fragmentation
problem on mobile handsets.
Main Advantages (Impact):
 Dramatically reduced development cost for multi-platform mobile
content.

<Organisation Type: Università>
<Partner Sought: SME: The required skills and facilities are
technical expertise in the relation to development of content for
mobile platforms (one or more of Java ME, BREW, Symbian and Windows
Mobile) and desire to increase the availability of contents across
platforms as well as the interoperability of such content.  The
intended role for this partner is to help drive the drive the research
and development by offering technical expertise about the problem,
such that it can be solved with the technical expertise of the
researchers.  The partner will also be expected to help evaluate the
technology produced and, if successful, integrate it into their own
product lines.>