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The cooperation between Hitachi and Fraunhofer FOKUS is much more than a contract-based mutually beneficial arrangement. It is a true partnership which in some cases has certainly grown into a friendship. I am proud and happy to have been part of this partnership over the past ten years, and I would dearly wish for it to continue and prosper not just for the next five or ten years, but indefinitely.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS

In each phase of the collaboration, we tried to create technologies and systems of practical use. Placing prime importance on developing operational technologies/systems is one of the deep-rooted values of Systems Development Laboratory, which played a major role in the partnership. We believe FOKUS has the similarity in its own culture, and sharing this sense of values has been the key factor in our successful collaboration.

Dr. Akira Maeda

Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

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COOPERATION

Not a Marriage of Convenience!

Nowadays where can we find long-term, stable, harmonious and mutually beneficial relationships between business enterprises and research institutes? In our fast-moving times with their obsession with disposable alliances geared to short term – and often short-sighted! – success, the lengthy relationship between Hitachi in Tokyo and Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin which is now in its tenth year can even appear a little unworldly! In 1997, the year that marked the start of our rich cooperation, there were just four million Internet users in Germany and eight million in Japan. SIP as the base for voice-over-IP was still in the pipeline, iPods were unheard of and so was SOA! But what we did have back then were pioneering researchers and spirited entrepreneurs – on both sides of the globe! And it is thanks to such visionaries that topics such as platforms for one-stop-shopping, ambient intelligence and the automation and optimization of software development and testing first stood a chance of being researched and developed on a joint basis. The bottom line of this close working alliance, equally animated by the spirit of research and the entrepreneurial spirit, is not just delivery of research results. Of equal importance was, and still is, the process of mutual learning – the growing awareness and understanding we gain of one another’s culture – and I say this not just with reference to globalization.

The cooperation between Hitachi and Fraunhofer FOKUS is much more than a contract-based mutually beneficial arrangement. It is a true partnership which in some cases has certainly grown into a friendship. I am proud and happy to have been part of this partnership over the past ten years, and I would dearly wish for it to continue and prosper not just for the next five or ten years, but indefinitely.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS

Not only in Technologies but in Actual Business

During the past 10 years of Hitachi-FOKUS collaboration, we have produced a number of achievements not only in technologies but in actual business. Starting with development of ADSS (Autonomous Decentralized Service System) and OMG standardization activities, we have covered topics from software engineering to system architecture, including active networks, IP metering system, car-to-car communication, and model-driven architecture.

In each phase of the collaboration, we tried to create technologies and systems of practical use. Placing prime importance on developing operational technologies/systems is one of the deep-rooted values of Systems Development Laboratory, which played a major role in the partnership. We believe FOKUS has the similarity in its own culture, and sharing this sense of values has been the key factor in our successful collaboration.

Hitachi is now striving to expand business in Europe, and we are sure leading-edge information technologies will be indispensable to establish our competitive position. In this sense, the strategic importance of Hitachi-FOKUS collaboration will increase since FOKUS is one of the centers of excellence with its advanced information technologies and also with market channels and business experience.

We expect the fruitful collaboration to continue, and also our win-win relationship as strategic partners to be strengthened for coming years.

Dr. Akira Maeda

Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

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HISTORY

10 Years Cooperation between Hitachi and FOKUS – A Short History

1997     1st Cooperation Agreement Hitachi – GMD signed at Schloss Birlinghoven

1995 – 1998    Wide Area Autonomous Decentralized Information System

1997 – 1998    Mobile Intelligent Agents for Network Management (NIMA)

1998 – 2001    Autonomous Decentralized Service System (ADSS I – III)

1998 – 2000    Mobile Intelligent Agents based Fault Management Solution for Broadband SDH and ATM Network Services (MAFSAN)

1998 – 2000    Programming the Active Broadband IP Networks using Intelligent Mobile Agent and ORB Technologies (BANG)

1999 – 2001    Policy-based IP Meter Modules Project (IPMM I + II)

1999 – 2001    Open Service Collaboration Platform (OSCAR), jointly with NTT,

NTT DATA, Hitachi SDL and FOKUS

2001 – 2004    Super Distributed Objects (SDO I – III)

2002    New Measurement Architecture for Mobile and Contents Delivery Networking and Application (NANA)

2003    Pre-Research Project on Components in Ad hoc Networks for Rapid Establishment of Emergency Communication (Pre-Care)

2003 – 2004    Components in Ad hoc Networks for Rapid Establishment of Emergency Communication (CARE)

2003 – 2004    Model Driven Architecture Assessment – An Evaluation Example (MoDAss)

2004 – 2007    Advanced Content Management for Next Generation PVRs (AvCoMa I – III)

2004 – 2005    Model based Validation and Testing (ModVal)

2004 – 2005    PIM Based Simulation Environment (PISIM)

2005 – 2006    Model Based Testing (ModTest)

2005 – 2006    UML2 based Modeling and Simulation Environment (U2Motion)

2006 – 2007     Business Process Monitoring (BP-Moni)

2006 – 2007    Business Process Optimization (BP-Opti)

2006 – 2007    Study on Market Potential for the Certification Validation Server, in Germany

2007 – 2008     Security System for Networked Vehicles – Operating Platform Architecture (Sec_OPA)

2007 – 2008    Demonstration CVS in the eGovernment Laboratory (Lab-CVSec)

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PEOPLE

People Working Together

Masahiro Abe

Motohisa Funabashi

Kazuo Furukawa

Chiaki Hirai

Yutaka Ikeda

Yuri Itoh

Masanori Kataoka

Junzo Kawakami

Norikiyo Koide

Minoru Koizumi

Michitaka Kosaka

Hiroshi Kuwahara

Akira Maeda

Tomoji Matsui

Michiharu Nakamura

Keiichi Nakane

Toshikazu Nishino

Hiroshi Ota

Shigetoshi Sameshima

Osamu Takada

Junichi Toyouchi

Fumio Wakamori

Stefan Arbanowski

Marc Born

Georg Carle

Stefan Covaci

Dirk Elias

Andreas Hoffmann

Thomas Luckenbach

Eckhard Moeller

Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Angela Scheller

Ina Schieferdecker

Stephan Steglich

Linda Strick

Volker Tschammer

Tanja Zseby

Exchange of Research Scientists

In the course of our cooperation Hitachi and FOKUS also organized an exchange program for research scientists who wished to spend some time abroad on project work.

Visiting Research Scientists from Hitachi at FOKUS

Mr. K. Sugauchi, 1999 for MAFSAN, MIAMI

Mr. S. Kawano, 2000 for ADSS

Ms. Akane Sato, 2007 for CVS

Visiting Research Scientists from FOKUS at Hitachi

Mr. Marcus Nietfeld 1998 – 1999 for Network Management

Mr. Hajo Eichler 2004 for MDA projects