• Ad-Hoc InfoWare: Middleware Services for Information Sharing in Ad-hoc Networks. Distributed Multimedia Systems Group, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
• "FleetNet - Internet on the Road", a German project aiming at providing middleware services based on adhoc vehicles networks.
• Aithne: Middleware for Sentient Computing. An Irish project from the Distributed Systems Group, Computer Science Department of Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland.
• SECURE: Secure Environments for Collaboration among Ubiquitous Roaming Entities. An IST project investigating the design of dynamic and self-configuring security mechanisms that are appropriate for global computing based on the human notion of trust.
• Ubi-bus: a concrete application of the work of the ACES team from IRISA on digital ubiquity, and more specifically on the Spread technology (Spatial PRogramming Environment Ambient computing Design). This technology is meant to be integrated into objects to implicitly constitute information systems based on the interactions between these objects. In the case of Ubi-Bus, the objects are bus stops, busses and transportation system users.
• Cortex: The key objective of CORTEX is to explore the fundamental theoretical and engineering issues necessary to support the use of sentient objects to construct large-scale proactive applications and thereby to validate the use of sentient objects as a viable approach to the construction of applications that operate independently of direct human control. Key characteristics of these applications include sentience, autonomy, large scale, time and safety criticality, geographical dispersion, mobility and evolution.
• The MMAPPS (Market Management of Peer to Peer Services) project is researching how to use techniques from economics and social science to tackle some of the fundamental difficulties in creating well-founded, and therefore sustainable, P2P applications. The project's central approach is to extend techniques such as market management so that cooperation between peers can be encouraged without damaging the community-oriented structure of P2P architectures. Schemes combining micro-payment and reputation (called ratings in this project) are supported.
• P2P_Architect: The main objective of the P2P_Architect project is to enable software developing organisations to build dependable software systems conforming to a P2P (peer-to-peer) architecture. This will be achieved by defining and implementing a tool supported methodology for ensuring at architectural level that dependability requirements for software systems conforming to a P2P architecture are met and validating it in real life applications from the operation of typical enterprise (sub-) systems in a P2P computing environment.

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