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This deliverable reports about the requirements for the development of the Quality of Experience (QoE) model for ACCORDION. The document focuses on a parametric-based monitoring models that can predict the mean opinion scores measuring the impact of impairments introduced by typical networks and compression on the quality experienced by users. The deliverable focuses on the OVR, PLEX and ORBK applications and its main objective is to plan the necessary steps supporting the development of QoE models. The deliverable includes information on the scope of the model, list of influencing factors, range of parameters per use case, model structure, test structure, and information about test setup, test participants, selection of stimuli, considered quality features, test procedure, condition plan and the tool that will be used for the subjective test. This report also provides the plan for future work.

ACCORDION project aims at unlocking the full potential of a big class of applications that are too latency- sensitive, or data-dependent, to be moved to the public cloud. ACCORDION couples efficient, decentralized and AI-based solutions for cloud and edge resource federation with novel approaches for application definition management and generation at runtime. This deliverable provides a broad overview of the communication, dissemination and exploitation activities implemented within the ACCORDION project within the first 18 months of the project and a detailed market analysis. A detailed exploitation strategy for the project, as well as exploitation plans for individual partners, was presented in the previous deliverable D7.1. Based on those plans, in this deliverable we carry out an evaluation of the ACCORDION project's dissemination and exploitation activities made so far.

This deliverable describes the implementation and operation of real-life experiments from the virtual reality, multiplayermobile gaming and QoE in digital content delivery domains in order to demonstrate how the ACCORDION solution has been applied in real-world environments. It provides a report on the progress of the operational experiments' specification; the preparation of the datasets and experimentation environment to be exploited in each pilot prototype; and the indicators to be measured in order to validate both the operational (business) and technical performance of the ACCORDION platform, according to the ACCORDION pilot plans and experimentation protocol. Furthermore, this deliverable provides the guidelines for the execution and evaluation of pilots, in order to serve as proof of concept for the effectiveness of ACCORDION offerings. This is the first out of two implementation cycles that will validate the promised impact delivery.

ACCORDION project aims at unlocking the full potential of a big class of applications that are too latency- sensitive, or data-dependent, to be moved to the public cloud. In particular, ACCORDION couples efficient, decentralized and AI-based solutions for cloud and edge resource federation with novel approaches for application definition management and generation at runtime. This deliverable provides the ACCORDION Dissemination and Exploitation plan. Exploitation activities seek to generate new revenue streams for consortium members by introducing new products and services to the market, increasing the market share of existing offerings, securing intellectual property rights through standardization, as well as reducing costs by adopting new processes. These gains can be enjoyed by a single beneficiary or shared among several ACCORDION partners. But in order for these benefits to materialize, selected pieces of information need to be disseminated to external parties that can influence the quality of ACCORDION outputs (such as the research community) or communicated with end users, the media and third parties (e.g., policy makers) in an easy-to-digest way. The ACCORDION dissemination, communication and exploitation plan has been broken down into three consecutive phases: a) the Development phase during the first 2 years of the project where all envisioned ACCORDION products will be specified, developed, integrated, validated and finetuned where necessary. Communication and dissemination will gradually evolve from explaining our vision and approach followed to results obtained and progress beyond the state-of-the-art. Exploitation activities will start with an initial market analysis for each ACCORDION asset/product for revealing end-users' pain points and technology gaps and evolve towards the preliminary formation of individual and joint exploitation plans by consortium members. b) the pre-commercialisation/"result wrap-up" phase during the last year of the project where maturity of ACCORDION outputs will increase and dissemination and communication strategy will continue to be results-oriented in order to stimulate further the market for ACCORDION platform. Regarding exploitation activities, consortium members will perform a techno-economic analysis for assessing the sustainability of individual and joint commercialization plans and discuss details about the business plan(s) to be followed. c) The commercialisation/"follow-up" phase that will commence at the end of the project and targets the launch of products and services based on ACCORDION results; most likely a subset of these as not all ACCORDION outputs are expected to be ready for prime time. This will allow European telecommunication operators, cloud and edge infrastructure providers, as well as service providers of any vertical industry and size, to capitalize on their local resource and other advanced technologies, such as 5G, for enhancing the quality of experience, cost effectiveness and security offered to end-users. To this end, the marketing and business development departments of consortium members, either individually or as part of a joint venture, will continue interacting with targeted audience and explore the path for future upgrades to those product offerings. For each of those phases we outline a set of clear activities and tools through which we will be able to interact with targeted stakeholder groups in an effective way. Acknowledging that ACCORDION members' business development departments, infrastructure providers, service providers in several vertical markets, end-users, policy makers, standardization bodies and research communities (including other research projects) have different backgrounds and objectives, separate (yet linked) strategies and roadmaps have been defined for dissemination, communication and exploitation purposes. Furthermore, a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) has been defined for benchmarking these activities, as well as an approach utilizing internal tools for monitoring progress and taking corrective measures when necessary.

This deliverable provides an account of the work done for the specification of the ACCORDION ecosystem architecture, which is mainly comprised of two artefacts: the infrastructure to support the cloud-edge continuum and the platform to manage the resources and the applications hosted in that infrastructure. The main outcomes of the work described in this deliverable are: a) the definition of components that comprise the architecture as well as their interactions, and; b) the assignment of the implementation of those components to specific project Tasks and partners. The deliverable describes the process for reaching to those outcomes, starting with the delineation of the scope of the described artefacts and working down to their specifics. The main approach used is the analysis of the platform use case scenarios. In practice, we analyze the scenarios and extract the required functionality. Then we cluster and map this functionality to components. Finally, we schematically present the interactions of those components using block and sequence diagrams. These outcomes are then validated against the use case requirements, especially those linked to the applications operation itself. This is meant to provide a proof-of-concept that the ACCORDION architecture is able to support the ACCORDION applications.

Background Amyloidosis encompasses a group of disorders sharing the common feature of intercellular deposition of amyloid protein by several different pathogenetic mechanisms. Primary solitary amyloidosis, or amyloidoma, is a rare subset of amyloidosis in which amyloid deposition is focal and not secondary to a systemic process or plasma cell dyscrasia. Case description This 84-year-old female presented with history of multiple syncopal episodes, dysphagia, and ataxia. Motor strength was 3+/5 in the right upper extremity. Rheumatoid factor, cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP), and anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) were normal. Serum and urine immune-electrophoresis detected no abnormal bands. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a non-enhancing soft-tissue mass extending from the retro-clivus to C2 posteriorly, eccentric to the right with severe mass effect on the upper cervical medullary junction. Endoscopic trans-nasal debulking of the retro-clival mass was performed with occiput to C5 posterior instrumentation for spinal stabilization. Conclusions Primary solitary amyloidosis, unlike other forms of amyloidosis, has an excellent prognosis with local resection. Diagnosis requires special stains and a degree of suspicion for the disease. This is the first report to document an endoscopic trans-nasal approach for removal of a primary solitary amyloidosis of the retro-clivus. Management of vertebral amyloidoma involves aggressive local resection of the tumor when feasible and spine stabilization as the degree of tumor involvement mandates. Complete evaluation for the diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis is essential for the management and prognostication. Surgeons encountering such lesions must maintain high suspicion for this rare disease and advise pathologists accordingly to establish the correct diagnosis.