SPICE

The SPICE project addresses the growing scale and complexity of the Cloud, which has led to the emergence of Edge and IoT computing within the “compute continuum” — an ecosystem crucial for applications relying on sensor data and time-critical, AI-assisted data processing. The aim is to enable intelligent decision-making and provide deeper insights across this continuum, while overcoming the numerous technical, operational, and organizational challenges in assembling and maintaining robust data pipelines.

SPICE

Objectives

The SPICE project’s core mission is to radically simplify complex, distributed data processing and deliver a secure, trustworthy, and adaptable platform for SMART data pipelines.

Key objectives include:

  1. AI-assisted composition of smart data pipelines for streamlined and automated configuration of complex workflows.
  2. Optimized execution environments and resource management to enable secure, smart, and efficient data processing across IoT–Edge–Cloud.
  3. Secure and trustworthy design ensuring quality, performance, and dependability in data analytics.
  4. Establishing an innovation transformation incubator to foster adoption and exploitation of the project’s outcomes.

UIBK contribution

As a key contributor to the SPICE project, UIBK is advancing a next-generation runtime system for intelligent and autonomous data pipelines, enabling seamless data analytics, processing, access, and transfer across the edge-cloud continuum. Our work focuses on:

  • Portable Enactment Engine delivering a flexible, high-performance engine that manages complex data workflows with real-time SLO monitoring and automated alerts.

  • Pipeline Predictor anticipating workload patterns, performance metrics and resource availability to ensure efficient, sustainable operation.

  • Cognitive Mapper designing a dynamic, decentralized orchestration framework that uses AI and heuristics to negotiate SLOs, optimize performance, and minimize costs—adapting intelligently at runtime.

Through these innovations, UIBK supports SPICE’s mission to build a federated, AI-driven data platform, strengthening Europe’s leadership in data sovereignty, digital innovation, and sustainable cloud-edge infrastructure.

Learn more about the SPICE project at https://spice-platform.eu/