Call for Proposal
Basic information of the Research Area
[Society 5.0 System Software]Creation of System Software for Society 5.0 by Integrating Fundamental Theories and System Platform Technologies
Research Supervisor
Yasuo OkabeProfessor, Director, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Strategic Objective
System software technology to support safety, security, and trust in the era of Society 5.0
Overview
Society 5.0 proposed by Japan is a data-driven society in which people and things are connected, a variety of knowledge and information is shared, and new, never-before-seen value is produced. The spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will led to further progress in the digital transformation of society. As a result, a variety of data that could potentially lead to violation of confidentiality and privacy will likely be stored in public cloud-based systems, which raises concerns of increased security and privacy risks.
The realization of a safe, secure, and reliable data-driven society requires the implementation of a framework that balances free information sharing and personal information protection. In the construction of increasingly ingenious and complex social systems, it is necessary to run system software based on "Security-by-Design" and "Privacy-by-Design" on various execution environments composed by hybrid hardware and operating systems. The new vulnerabilities in state-of-the-art hardware and OS reported in recent years are becoming more serious issues for Japan, which relies on overseas technologies. It has become difficult to solve fundamental issues with conventional individual responses. It is essential to view the entire social system from the perspective of "by-design", to research and develop innovative technologies with a view to integrating them with theories such as distributed cooperative parallel processing and AI, and to create open system software that is safe, secure, and reliable in principle, and that has no black box in it and does not rely on other countries.
This research area aims to produce innovative, foundational system software that is safe, secure, and trusted in the era of Society 5.0. This will be realized by promoting research and development that integrates and fuses fundamental theories and system platform technologies in a cross-cutting manner. Specifically, it aims to achieve the following three goals:
(1)The creation of security technologies that make it possible to build secure services even in platform environments that include non-trusted hardware and operating systems.
(2)The creation of advanced information sensing, sharing, and analysis technologies that ensure privacy even in open and malicious environments.
(3)The creation of sophisticated architecture, design, and implementation technologies of system software that enables to deploy adaptive information sensing, sharing, and analysis in secure and privacy preserving manner.
This research area will be operated as part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)’s Artificial Intelligence/Big Data/IoT (Internet of Things)/Cybersecurity Integration Project (AIP Project : Advanced Integrated Intelligence Platform Project).
Research Area Advisors
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Schedule of Selection Process
| Deadline for application | 2023/06/06 at 12:00 noon, Japan time |
|---|---|
| Document-based review | 2023/07/14 |
| JST will contact to the interviewees no later than | 2023/07/21 |
| Interview-based review（※） ※Interview date and time will be assigned by JST. |
2023/08/04 |
Research Supervisor's Policy
Research Supervisor's Policy of this Research Area can be downloaded from below.
Japanese-French (JST-ANR) Joint Research Calls
JST and the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche; “ANR”) concluded a Framework Agreement in December 2017.
The purpose of this Agreement is to foster Japanese-French collaboration in scientific research and to fund joint research projects conducted by Japanese and French partners eligible for funding from each agency, within the framework of the JST-CREST program.
In FY2023, JST has agreed with ANR to establish the following three CREST Research Areas as common priority research areas and to invite Japanese-French joint research proposals, as well as regular (non-joint) proposals:
Exploring Innovative Materials in Unknown Search Space
Creation of System Software for Society 5.0 by Integrating Fundamental Theories and System Platform Technologies
Research on Multi-sensing Biosystems and Development of Adaptive Technologies
Excellent joint research projects, in which complementarities of research expertise and synergetic effects of research groups of the two countries can be expected, are highly welcome to apply. For selected joint research projects, JST(CREST) will fund Japanese research groups and ANR will fund French research groups in accordance with the regulations and policies applicable to each agency.
Please refer to “Overview” and “Research Supervisor’s Policy on Call for Application, Selection, and Management of the Research Area” of each Research Area for details.
“Overview” and “Research Supervisor’s Policy on Call for Application, Selection, and Management of the Research Area”
Exploring Innovative Materials in Unknown Search Space
Creation of System Software for Society 5.0 by Integrating Fundamental Theories and System Platform Technologies
Research on Multi-sensing Biosystems and Development of Adaptive Technologies
Application Process
- To apply, principal investigators (PIs) from the Japanese and French sides will write a common joint research proposal and submit it to JST and ANR in parallel. The joint research proposal should be written in English using the Common Application Form.
- PI from French side will apply and submit the common joint research proposal to ANR.
- Deadline for proposal submission to ANR is June 5th, 10AM CEST.
- Please refer to ANR’s website.
- PI from Japanese side will apply and submit the common joint research proposal to CREST via the e-RAD system with a summary of research proposal in Japanese.
- JST and ANR will evaluate proposals in parallel and make common funding decisions.
- Funded research projects will start in October or later.
Attentions
- Only applications submitted to both JST and ANR will be considered for evaluation.
- Although the above two CREST research areas also invite regular proposals, PIs on the Japanese side may submit only one application with either a joint or regular proposal.
- The proposal submitted to ANR cannot be changed when submitting to CREST. Neither joint nor regular proposals have an advantage during evaluation and will be evaluated equally.
- Make sure that the file size of your application form converted to PDF format is smaller than 3MB. It is impossible to hand in a file via e-Rad if the file size is larger than 10MB.
- FAQ about Japanese-French Joint Research Proposal [PDF]