METU will be a subcontractor to MDA.
Company Profile
Middle East Technical University (METU) is the leading technical university in Turkey. The Software Research and Development Center (SRDC) was 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 center is twofold: to lead large-scale software research and development projects and to foster international cooperation. 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 realized a part of the prototype for AWACS Man-Machine Interface Prototype for NATO Mid-Term Modernization Program in cooperation with Gallium Software Inc. (Canada); developed a health care information system which has been successfully commercialized in Turkey; and currently is the scientific coordinator of the European Commission supported MARIFlow project which intends to develop an agent based workflow management system for document flow over the Internet.
SRDC has experience in developing large scale software projects: METU Interoperable DBMS (MIND) Project is a multidatabase system based on OMG's distributed object management architecture. METU Object-Oriented DBMS (MOOD) Project is an object-oriented DBMS prototype. Both MIND and MOOD are considerably large size and complex software projects and hence provided the institution the necessary coding and management experience in large scale software development.
CV's of METU's key persons to be involved in LEVER
Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac is a full professor of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Middle East Technical University and the founding director of the Software Research and Development Center. She is a graduate of Department of Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University and was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981. Her research interests are electronic marketplaces, integration of electronic catalogs and the automation of supply chain processes, agent based workflow management systems, distributed object management, multidatabase systems, object-oriented databases, interoperability of heterogeneous systems, query optimization, and transaction processing. She has published more than 70 papers in refereed international conferences and journals. Prof. Dogac is in the list of "Top 5000 cited authors in Computer Science" at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/5000cited.html and is the recipient of 1991 Mustafa Parlar Research Award, 1994 Husamettin Tugac Research Award, 1999 METU Achievement award.
