SAPHIRE Newsletter Issue nr.1 - R&D Projects in METU-SRDC

METU-SRDC is involved in a number of research and development projects supported by the government, industrial companies, international organisations and the European Commission.

Apart from the local projects supported by the Turkish State Planning Organisation, the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and by METU, METU-SRDC has:

•	realised a part of the prototype for AWACS Man-Machine Interface Prototype for NATO Mid-Term Modernisation Programme in co-operation with Gallium Software Inc. (Canada);
•	developed a health care information system which has been successfully commercialized in Turkey.

METU-SRDC has experience in developing large scale software projects: METU Interoperable DBMS (MIND) Project is a multi-database system based on OMG's distributed object management architecture.

METU Object-Oriented DBMS (MOOD) Project is an object-oriented DBMS prototype.

METU-SRDC has successfully completed several European Commission supported projects, including, INCO-DC 97 2496 MARIFlow project (as a Scientific and Technical Coordinator of the project) and IST-1999-20216 LEVER (as a subcontractor), IST-2000-26429 HERMES project (as the scientific and technical coordinator), IST-2000-31050 Agent Academy (as a partner), and IST-2000-31046 HUMANTEC (as a partner), EUMEDIS MEDFORIST (as a partner). MARIFlow project has produced an inter enterprise workflow management system for data and control flow over the Internet. METU-SRDC has recently produced an ebXML compliant e-Business infrastructure prototype.

Currently METU-SRDC is the coordinator of the following four projects in FP6 IST program:

•	IST-1-002104-STP SATINE: Semantic-based Interoperability Infrastructure for Integrating Web Service Platforms to Peer-to-Peer Networks
•	IST-1-002103-STP ARTEMIS: A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information Systems
•	IST-4-027074-STP SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform
•	IST-4-027065-CA RIDE: A Roadmap for Interoperability of eHealth Systems in Support of COM 356 with Special Emphasis on Semantic Interoperability

Additionally, METU-SRDC has partner roles on the following ongoing projects:

•	EUMEDIS DAEDALUS: Delivery of Mediterranean Destination Links in Unified Environments
•	IST-3-015871-SSA IST-BONUS: Identify and Support Research and Business Excellence to Enhance NMS - ACC Participation in the Development and Pilot Implementation-Demonstration of ICT Business Applications and Services
•	IST-4-027306-STP ABILITIES: Application Bus for InteroperabiLITy In enlarged Europe SMEs