BASMATI - D2.1 State of the art and Requirements Analysis

This deliverable examines the state-of-the-art solutions, both focusing on the scientific literature and on the existing, cutting-edge, technologies that relate to the activities that will be conducted in BASMATI project. Along with the presentation and discussion of the existing approaches and solutions, this report describes possible future trends and presents the project requirement analysis, both the one considering the use cases technical requirements as well as taking into account the technology insight coming both from linked research initiatives and interactions with innovation experts. This document is essentially aimed at a first snapshot resulting from the activity aimed at the identification of research paths and potentially useful approaches. The idea for this report was to comprise a "live document", continuously updated by the consortium members. Changes were incorporated during the first year with the purpose to include new interesting technologies and solutions that were proposed and released. In fact, during the whole course of the project, the technologies and requirements related to BASMATI will continue being investigated in order to ensure that the objectives and innovations of the project are valid, work is performed taking into account the latest state-of-the-art and developments fulfill the identified goals and requirements. However, this stable version of the document will serve as a guide for the baseline technologies and initial requirements upon which BASMATI builds. As such the report comprises a central document that drives the project processes and it is directly linked to the project vision implementation.