The
Middle East Technical University (METU) is the leading technical university in Turkey. The
Software Research and Development Center (SRDC) is established by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in October 1991 and is operating under the Faculty of Engineering in METU. The aim of this centre is twofold: to lead large scale software research and development
projects and to foster international co-operation. SRDC is involved in a number of research and development projects supported by the government, industrial companies, international organizations and the European Commission.
Apart from the local projects supported by the Turkish State Planning Organization, the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and by 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 healthcare information system which has been successfully commercialized in Turkey. 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), METU-SRDC has experience in developing large scale software projects: METU Interoperable DBMS (MIND) Project is a multi-database system based on OMGs distributed object management architecture. METU Object Oriented DBMS (MOOD) Project is an object-oriented DBMS prototype. 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. METU-SRDC has expertise on Semantic Web Technologies, Web Services, Ontologies, P2P networks, Agent Technologies. Currently METU-SRDC is the coordinator of the following two projects in FP6 IST program and therefore has the necessary expertise for coordination:
- IST-1-002104-STP SATINE: Semantic-based Interoperability Infrastructure for Integrating Web Service Platforms to Peer-to-Peer Networks, Priority: IST 2.3.1.9 Networked Businesses and Governments
- IST-1-002103-ST Artemis: A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the Interoperability of Medical Information Systems, Priority: 2.3.1.11 eHealth
METU, SRDC will be led by
Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac.
Webpage: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/