- Software, Grids, service-distribution architecture, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for developing and validating high-quality dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities and for high-quality distribution services and technologies, tools and methods for development and validation ; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, including domain-specific platforms, network-centric operating systems; open source software; open platforms and collaborative approaches for ...[+++] development and validation of software including free, libre and open source software , services and systems; composition tools including programming languages ; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models; introduction of software models in industry .

- Software, Grids, service-distribution architecture, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for developing and validating high-quality dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities and for high-quality distribution services and technologies, tools and methods for development and validation; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, including domain-specific platforms, network-centric operating systems; open source software; open platforms and collaborative approaches for ...[+++]development and validation of software including free, libre and open source software, services and systems; composition tools including programming languages; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models; introduction of software models in industry.

Priorities have been set following extensive consultations that included input from a series of European Technology Platforms and industrial initiatives in areas such as nano-electronics, microsystems, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, electronic media, photonics, robotics and software, services and grids, including Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

36. Recognises that the Indian software and services industry has trebled in size in the past five years and is now worth EUR 20 billion; notes that much of this growth has come from Western vendors outsourcing development work to India; considers that the EU can take advantage of a major movement of highly qualified and skilled Indian workers but should avoid creating a "brain drain" effect on the development capacities of India; calls on the High Level Trade Group to explore an agreement on the movement of skilled workers under Mode 4, so that Indian IT experts can work in the EU after their studies, providing a source of qualified ...[+++]manpower and justifying the investments of EU higher education systems; notes that software companies are a magnet for associated companies and the service industry and infrastructure requirement that will accompany them, which can boost regional economies and provide other employment opportunities for local people;

36. Recognises that the Indian software and services industry has trebled in size in the past five years and is now worth EUR 20 billion; notes that much of this growth has come from Western vendors outsourcing development work to India; considers that the EU can take advantage of a major movement of highly qualified and skilled Indian workers but should avoid creating a "brain drain" effect on the development capacities of India; calls on the High Level Trade Group to explore an agreement on the movement of skilled workers under Mode 4, so that Indian IT experts can work in the EU after their studies, providing a source of qualified ...[+++]manpower and justifying the investments of EU higher education systems; notes that software companies are a magnet for associated companies and the service industry and infrastructure requirement that will accompany them, which can boost regional economies and provide other employment opportunities for local people;

34. Recognises that the Indian software and services industry has trebled in size in the past five years and is now worth EUR 20 billion; notes that much of this growth has come from Western vendors outsourcing development work to India; considers that the EU can take advantage of a major movement of highly qualified and skilled Indian workers; calls on the High Level Trade Group to explore an agreement on the movement of skilled workers under Mode 4, so that Indian IT experts can work in the EU after their studies, providing a source of qualified manpower and justifying the investments of EU higher education systems; n ...[+++]otes that software companies are a magnet for associated companies and the service industry and infrastructure requirement that will accompany them, which can boost regional economies and provide other employment opportunities for local people;