The European Commission (EC) Digital Decade strategy to gain by 2030 autonomy in the digital economy
requires more and more data to be processed in the Cloud-Edge-IoT computing continuum, instead of
only in the central cloud. This requires advanced automation and intelligence of the continuum. At
the same time, recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research have shown unprecedented
results in handling creative tasks. Such human-like intelligence will eventually disrupt how people use
the cloud and continuum. The European Union (EU) -funded project INTEND aims at bringing such
human-like intelligence into the cognitive continuum, to achieve the novel concept of intent-based data
operation. The project will deliver 11 novel software tools, which integrate into an INTEND toolbox.
The outputs pave the way of migrating EU’s data industry from cloud to the continuum, and implement
EC’s strategy of human-centric AI in the domain of data processing and computing continuum
