April 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 4

The second Communications Regional Special Section spotlighting European countries and Israel highlights selected research and innovation projects in areas of traditional European CS strengths.

European institutes provide major worldwide contributions to research in multiple computer science domains.

A new generation of wearable devices, so-called epidermal devices modeled after human skin, promises significantly better compatibility with the human body.

Mobility data can provide near real-time insights before, during, and after a disaster, when understanding population movements and mobility is important to the efficient provision of aid.

The UiPath platform provides core capabilities that make it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans' interactions with information systems to perform certain tasks in business processes.

The Gaia-X project, with more than 300 members, aims at a federated data architecture that comprises not only data and smart services, but also cloud infrastructure services.

Six leading European supercomputing centers are harmonizing and federating their e-infrastructure services portfolio with the goal of supporting a variety of science and engineering communities.

The Excellence Cluster "Internet of Production," started in 2019, aims at a new level of digital collaboration with data, models, and knowledge in production. The core idea is establishing a "worldwide lab" for cross-domain learning.

Traditional management solutions for telco networks are reaching their limits in dealing with today's complex ecosystem. Novel solutions are required to guarantee strict service requirements and effective resource management.

The AI, Data and Robotics Association was founded to strengthen European competitiveness, societal well-being, and environmental sustainability.

AI research and machine learning in particular aims at a new level of AI with considerably enhanced and broader capabilities for skill acquisition and problem solving.

The transition of energy systems toward renewable sources has led to a strong need for essential contributions from the computer science community to maintain stability and security of supply, particularly for the electric power grid.

With the EU Regulatory Framework for AI, the European Commission aims at introducing the first comprehensive legal framework on AI.

The European MobiGuide project aimed to develop a generic architecture to support chronic patients and their clinicians.

We describe process mining's European roots as well as developments in the field, and show how it differs from traditional process management and automation.

We present highlights of EU-level quantum computing initiatives, argue the need for quantum software engineering, and shed light on possible research directions.