SENSORIA is an IST project funded by the European Union as an Integrated Project in the 6th framework programme as part of the Global Computing Initiative.
The aim of SENSORIA is to develop a novel comprehensive approach to the engineering of software systems for service-oriented overlay computers where foundational theories, techniques and methods are fully integrated in a pragmatic software engineering approach.

IST Programme "Global computing, cooperation of autonomous and mobile entities in dynamic environments" The Global Computing is a key action of the IST Programme, under the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative.
The objective of the DEGAS project is to define and design a development environment for global applications based on a modelling language such as UML (Unified Modelling Language). Such a development environment should allow a developer of global applications to evaluate his applications from a qualitative and quantitative point of view.