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White paper
About: White paper is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3852 publications have been published within this topic receiving 51169 citations. The topic is also known as: White paper & White papers.
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01 Jan 2011
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a directory of performance monitoring and evaluation tools for grid applications, which can help grid users, developers, and administrators in finding an appropriate tool according to their requirements.
Abstract: This white paper is aimed at creating a directory of existing performance monitoring and evaluation tools. The detailed categorization enables finding relevant properties, similarities and differences, and comparing the tools. The paper is neutral: there are no comments or assessment. The catalogue helps grid users, developers, and administrators in finding an appropriate tool according to their requirements. The white paper is intended to be updated by the APART community until the end of the APART-2 project and possibly beyond. Grid monitoring and performance analysis tool developers are supposed to check the categorization of their product and modify it if they find anything incorrect in our classification. Moreover, they are expected to send update messages of new versions and prototypes and the white paper will be updated accordingly. Finally, feedback about practical experiences learned from deploying and testing these tools are intended to be added to the paper in the future so that it will show a real classification among development trends. ∗This work is funded by the European Commission via the working group on Automatic Performance Analysis: Real Tools (APART), www.fz-juelich.de/apart
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TL;DR: The Lisbon strategy is seen as key to the lifelong chances of every citizen linked to the need for Europe to compete on the basis of a knowledge-based economy if it is to maintain its high social standards as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This article traces the Lisbon strategy back to the White Paper issued by President Jacques Delors in 1993 on Growth, Competitiveness, and Jobs as the launching point for the structural reform agenda needed to turn around the massive unemployment crisis and proposing a combination of policies for the structural reform of the labour market and stability-oriented macroeconomic policies designed to stimulate economic growth. The centrality of education and training in the Lisbon strategy is seen as key to the lifelong chances of every citizen linked to the need for Europe to compete on the basis of a knowledge-based economy if it is to maintain its high social standards. Describing the first years of the Lisbon strategy as ‘a stuttering start’, the mid-term stock-taking which offered European leaders the opportunity to fine-tune or radically modify the strategy is analysed. The article highlights the paradox that, although human capital is claimed to be Europe's most precious resource, there is inadequate focus on the weakest aspects of current systems. It also focuses on policy and financial levers which need to be mobilised within Member States as well as the implications for national budgets. It suggests the prioritisation of a small number of areas on which to concentrate efforts and echoes the Council calling for a ‘quantum leap’ in the ambition of the EU to ensure that the necessary follow-up is given to meet the challenges. Finally, a strong argument is put forward to take steps to move towards a unified set of proposals for lifelong learning.
55 citations
TL;DR: This White Paper results from the collaboration of Design for All (DfA) and e-Accessibility expert bodies representing the European Union member states to outline a roadmap for future initiatives and bring forward a set of suggestions and recommendations regarding the activities of EDeAN, aiming to support the creation of a fully inclusive European Information Society.
Abstract: This White Paper results from the collaboration of Design for All (DfA) and e-Accessibility expert bodies representing the European Union member states [ref: the coordination centres of the national European Design for All e-Accessibility network (EDeAN) in 23 European Union Member States, in this document referred to as NCCs]. The objectives of this White Paper are threefold: (1) to present the current state of affairs of EDeAN, active since 2002 as part of the European Commission’s action line supporting the development of the European Information Society; (2) to outline a roadmap for future initiatives, actively reflecting views of the EDeAN network in specific domains related to DfA, e-Accessibility and e-Inclusion; and (3) to bring forward a set of suggestions and recommendations regarding the activities of the network, aiming to support the creation of a fully inclusive European Information Society. The paper is organised as follows: Section 1 provides a short introduction to DfA and Accessibility in Information Society (IS) and Information Society Technology (IST) developments in Europe. Section 2 provides an overview of policy as well as R&D activities related to DfA and accessibility in IST in Europe. Section 3 briefly describes the role of EDeAN and the new challenges that emerge as a result of the changing European policy environment. Section 4 presents current challenges that emerge in five domains directly related to DfA and accessibility, such as policy and legislation, industry, monitoring and evaluation—benchmarking, standardisation, R&D, and education and training. Finally, Sect. 5 puts forward a number of recommendations with regard to future activities for EDeAN. The contents of this paper reflect results from the open discussion forums supported in the EDeAN website (ref: EDeAN Special Interest Groups, SIGs). The draft paper was written by the EDeAN Secretariat for 2005, FORTH-ICS (Greece), and completed with the support of all NCCs. Support was also provided by the European Commission DG Information Society and Media and by the D4ALLnet project (ref: an EC funded project with the code IST-2001-38833). (Institutional author: EDeAN Secretariat for 2005)
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TL;DR: The extent to which gender mainstreaming is constitutionally embedded in the legal framework of the European Union is examined in this article, where the authors examine three sub-questions concerning the robustness and constitutionalised nature of the E.U.'s ''equality regime'' and the extent of adaptation to mainstreaming methodologies by supranational institutions such as the Court of Justice.
Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which gender mainstreaming is constitutionally embedded in the legal framework of the European Union. Within the framework of that broad question it examines three sub-questions concerning the robustness and constitutionalised nature of the E.U.'s `equality regime', the extent of adaptation to mainstreaming methodologies by supranational institutions such as the Court of Justice, and the extent of the gender dimension in the debates which are shaping the future of the European Union, especially the 2002–3Convention on the Future of the Union and the Commission's Governance White Paper of 2001.The E.U. is analysed in this article as an emergent, non-state, postnational constitutionalised polity. The first section presents this perspective, and the succeeding three sections engage with the three` sub-questions' outlined above. The conclusion suggests that as yet, while gender concerns maybe constitutionally embedded in the Treatyframe work, they are less prominent in the constitutional politics of the Convention and the Governance White Paper.
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