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The Saphire Gazette is a quarterly publication of the Saphire project for dissemination purposes. Saphire is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-financed by the European Commission and the Sixth Framework Programme, under Priority 2.4.13 for “Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe” Focus: eHealth. Project full title is: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform. Contract no.: IST-27074. Project start: January 2006. Project duration: 30 months. Project web site: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire
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We welcome you to this fourth issue of the Saphire project newsletter.
It is a sad reality that we all suffer from large amounts of information that populate our InBoxes – and this is in a great extent justly regarded as spam. Therefore, we consciously decided to keep this communication with you as measured (only 4 issues per year) and limited to a strict template so that at least selective readability is possible.
As usual, the idea for this newsletter is that each time a different partner is responsible for the preparation of its content, the style of the articles and the selection of topics.
This time hosting partner is ALTEC from Greece. In the following sections you can learn more about us, about our projects, our views on the current developments in the area.
Have a nice reading!
The ALTEC team
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| Some information on ALTEC and the Research Division |
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ALTEC (www.altec.gr) is one of the biggest ICT actors in Greece, with activities on software, system integration, services and products and telecommunications, while also o perating subsidiary companies in Romania and Bulgaria.
The Software Business Unit of ALTEC involved in the project stems from Unisoft S.A. which was founded in 1983 and had quickly developed into one of the more dynamic software companies in Greece, leaving a positive mark in the national market for the quality of its products - it is worth to mention that KEFALAIO, a software suite for enterprise accounting still remains the only case of a killer application in Greece though more than 20 years have passed since its introduction in the market. 
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It is now more than 10 years that the World Health Organization (Regional Office for Europe) published its report on “Health Care Systems in Transition: Greece” (1996). In the concluding remarks of this now rather historic report, it was recognized that “a key objective of the 1983 reforms in Greece was to increase equity in access to health care services. This was to be achieved through the establishment of an NHS guaranteeing universal coverage and access to health care services.” Read More
Some pointers for further reading … The May 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM contained an extremely worth to read article entitled Innovation as Language Action by Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham. There, amongst many other interesting things, the authors recognize that: Read More |
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| State of the art on IPR and Exploitation |
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The links between R&D, technological change, and economic growth have been demonstrated theoretically and have also been empirically established at the firm, industry and national levels.
In particular, R&D has led to subsequent gains in productivity, earnings, and shareholder value. The findings suggest that the R&D and technological change expenditures may help drive economic growth, and that these expenditures should be capitalized in order to present a better, cumulative, picture of the totality of a firm’s assets that may help drive the future growth of the firm. Read More
Some links and bibliography worth to read on Intellectual Capital Management Sveiby K.E. (1997), The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-based Assets, Barrett-Kohler Publishers, San Francisco
Sveiby K.E. (2001), Methods for Measuring Intangible Assets http://www.sveiby.com/articles/IntangibleMethods.htm )
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| State of the art on Software Evaluation |
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Software is judged by its quality. But quality means different things to different people, causing no single measure of software quality to be acceptable for everyone. Defining quality in a measurable way eases a specific viewpoint to be understood by other people and relates specific notions to the notions of these people. Often, the aim in software development is to relate these quality notions to the business goals as effective as possible.
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Some links and bibliography worth to read on Software Evaluation Huo, M. et al. (2004). Software Quality and Agile Methods: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC’04)
Ali Babar, M. Zhu, L. Jeffery, R.(2004). A Framework for Classifying and Comparing Software Architecture Evaluation Methods. Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC’04)
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