Hello FIWARE team,

I am a faculty member in Computer Science and Engineering at the University
of Michigan. I'm reaching out to explore the possibility of collaboration
between your team and ours.

A few of my colleagues and I have just started working on a new project
aimed at reducing user-perceived latencies when interacting with online
services over the Internet. The premise of our work is that, while it is
easy today to construct complex mobile-cloud apps by reusing public APIs,
microservices, libraries, etc., optimizing latency requires significant
development expertise. We seek to reduce the bar for development of low
latency apps by automating the process of discovering optimizations that
can help reduce user-perceived latency.

We are currently in the process of putting together a proposal requesting
support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for this project. As
part of this proposal, we are looking around to identify projects that can
benefit from our work, and given the NSF's recent emphasis on Smart Cities,
the FIWARE platform caught our attention.

We believe that applying our work to FIWARE can be of help in optimizing
latency for services that use your platform. Many studies have shown in the
past that users are more likely to use an app if the latency of interacting
with it is low, and so, we believe that the application of our research can
help the FIWARE community.

At this point in time, I'm reaching out to see if collaborating with our
team at the University of Michigan would be of interest to you, if our
proposal is funded.

If this is of interest, it would be great to get a letter stating your
support, so that we can submit this letter along with our proposal. I would
be glad to send you a draft of the letter, which you can edit as
appropriate.

I would be happy to provide more detail about our proposed research. Look
forward to your reply!

Cheers,

Harsha V. Madhyastha
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~harshavm/

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