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scientists, social partners, elected officials and administrations with the aim to elaborate together laws, regulations and administrations with the aim to elaborate together laws,
Essentially, this has involved the Government working together with trade unions, business and employers, farming organisations and community and voluntary bodies to determine key aspects of economic and social policy.
This aims to enhance the capacity of the social partners to build a stronger commitment to workplace innovation and change.
Government and union representatives, is driving implementation of these recommendations; this is focused on five areas: taxation, health and safety, environment statistics, employment and company law. 33 h Innovation in Ireland Summary 200833innovation in Ireland Conclusiontracking our Progressthroughout this document, we have identified the depth and breadth
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‘save as you earn'share option schemes, approved profit sharing schemes, restricted share schemes and employee share ownership trusts.
business and union representatives, chaired by the DJEI, which is responsible for identifying ways of reducing the burden of red tape on business.
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Research Board HPSU High Potential Start-ups HSE Health Service Executive IBEC Irish Business and Employers'confederation ICMR Irish centre for Manufacturing Research ICT
experts from European, national and international standards organisations, industry, SMES, NGOS, trade unions, academia, fora and consortia and public authorities from EU member states and EFTA countries.
This may include community and residential organizations, trade unions, etc. o Non-governmental organizations o Community Organizations and Trade unions Sponsors and Private Investors As HE diversifies its income sources, the role of benefactors, sponsors,
philanthropy and private giving grows. These groups, which include alumni, are likely to use benchmarking data to identify potential‘investment'opportunities,
The trade union capacity to give voice to this problem is linked perhaps to the concrete historical process going on in Uruguay where neglected workers such as rural workers
if under another correlation of forces rural workers'trade unions continued to be unrecognized. From Demand to Research Stage At a cognitive level, the demand unraveled in the previous stage must be recognized by researchers with the capacity to generate appropriate knowledge in relation to an associated problem.
Only as a way of example, actors of the first type included representatives of cooperatives of hand garbage collectors and of rice rural workers trade unions.
Elsewhere in Europe, institutional and regulatory frameworks include the continental corporatist models of central-West europe with strong social partners but rigid labour markets, the low social transfer models of southern Europe countries
and social care Productivity in a labour-intensive sector coupled with declining availability of the workforce Policy drive towards self management,
support of home care and preventive care, increasing self management. Systemic innovation focusing on healthcare outcomes.
however, the effective and efficient implementation of these policies depends on the action of other stakeholders (other public authorities, employers'organisations, companies, trade unions, workers'associations, etc..
but in many cases they can only be put into effect in cooperation with other stakeholders (other public authorities, employers'organisations, companies, trade unions, workers'associations, etc.).
which was signed by trade union organisations and employers'organisations in November 2011. Operational objective Employment and training Social cohesion Innovation and knowledge Entrepreneurism Internationalisation Green economy STRATEGIC LINE 1. Improving employability 1. 1. Improving
in cooperation with employers'organisations and social stakeholders, the Government also provides advisory services on SME funding. 6. 3. 1. Improving companies'access to finance In view of the difficulties that companies encounter these days with regard to obtaining access to credit,
& BOK Hung Hoong SHEARN DELAMORE & CO. Ray Chong Kok Hou SHOOK LIN & BOK Michael Chiam Tow Hui COMMERCIAL EMPLOYERS'ASSOCIATION OF PENINSULAR
and higher quality information reduction in medication errors through eprescribing more timely access by health professionals to the right medical information at the right time improved support for patient self management.
We will therefore collaborate closely with the German Bundestag, the Länder and local authorities, civil society, industry and science, as well social partners, those responsible for data protection,
Working together with the social partners, we will develop new, economically and socially viable approaches for working in the digital space. 1. Supporting
The possible effects of digitisation on employee co determination must also be taken into account. Furthermore a noticeable impact on employment trends is to be expected.
and discuss these issues together with the social partners and the scientific community to enable it to carry out a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of the opportunities
and social partners to evaluate if the political framework currently in place is suited to helping more families achieve a better work-life balance
000 people were involved in consultations which included surveys of citizens, interviews with experts, consultation committees and talks with organisations such as trade unions and business representatives.
Complementary to the efforts by Member States, civil society organisations, regions and social partners, the European union's primary tool for achieving these targets is cohesion policy.
Effective partnership means that all stakeholders national or regional authorities, social partners, civil society-can influence
and yy involving the social partners in examining how the knowledge economy can be spread to all occupational levels
and facilitate a partnership approach between stakeholders (civil society, social partners, Member States). This flagship initiative identified commitments for the Commission in five areas, two of which relate very directly to social innovation:‘
regional and local authorities, social partners and employers, service providers, etc. a joint Guide to Social Innovation was published under the responsibility of the European Commissioners for employment and social policy (László Andor) and for charge of regional policy (Johannes Hahn) in February 2013.
and are founded on employee participation. yy Innovation will be fostered by the new partnership procedure where the contracting authority shall cooperate with a company selected in a regular competitive tender procedure-to develop an innovative product, work or service,
of employees either through profit sharing or employee share ownership (ESO). Extensive research confirms that companies partly
By bringing together stakeholders such as social partners, chambers of commerce, industry and crafts, education and training providers, youth organisations and businesses under one umbrella, innovative partnerships are created,
So, for example, there is more innovation around self management of diseases and public health than around hospitals; more innovation around recycling and energy efficiency than around large scale energy production;
Similar practices are now being introduced into some spheres of public service (notably in healthcare) as well as closer engagement with trade unions in the improvement of service quality. 391) Public sector unions
management and trade unions in a quality programme for upgrading public services. 392) Supporting front line workers as innovators such as the joint IDEO/Kaiser permanente (KP) project in the US.
It works at the local, national and regional level, with organisations including non-governmental organisations, trade unions, faith-based networks, professional associations, nonprofit capacity development organisations, philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies, businesses,
Italy 49,71, 183 Toffler, Alvin 204 Toronto Atmospheric Fund 160 Toyota 18,33-34,164 Trade Fairs 95,99, 126 Trade unions 164,178 Transition
mutual self-help, microcredit, building societies, cooperatives, trade unions, reading clubs, and philanthropic business leaders creating model towns and model schools.
the acceleration of social innovation is aided by practitioner networks, allies in politics, strong civic organizations (from trade unions to hospitals) and the support of progressive foundations and philanthropists.
and his/her bargaining power in profit sharing, and the value of reusing. They also refer to the importance of all actions that lead to professional advantages for the contributor,
employee participation in job design; and modifying criteria for promotion to reward new ideas and innovation.
which it is seen as a competitor by some of the others organization in the region, such as CTA, the Employers association and even the universities,
The most significant for existing SMES are the Andalusia Employers association (CEA), the main independent business association subdivided into territorial and sectoral associations,
They have built also on a long tradition of collective organisation into business associations and trade unions in
Maskell, 1998): 80 percent of workers are in trade unions while members of employer associations account for 55 percent of private sector employees (Anderson and Mailand, 2005).
While most vocational trading is administered outwith the state, through collective agreement between the social partners, the Danish labour market model often referred to as=Flexicurity‘also provides generous provision for vocational training and retraining both for those in work and the unemployed.
The executive board consists of representatives of the Austrian social partners (trade union chamber of labour, chamber of commerce) and major Austrian companies.
and a weaker influence of trade unions compared to traditional industry regions. Within France, Montpellier has one of the lowest overall costs of employment,
but also formal institutions like the local government, trade unions, and trade associations are being helpful by‘sustaining
independent living and better self management, and should result in fewer emergency admissions. ICT's Role in Healthcare Transformation Report of the Health ICT Industry Group Page 12 4. How ICT can help A recent publication,
or patient flow sheet from the system to help a patient set and meet self management goals;
and substantial efforts were made to foster self management. The most frequently cited effect of ICTS on efficiency is reduced related to utilisation of health care services On efficiency,
Second, the Government introduced legislation to deliver better protection for members of Australia's trade unions
and consider new measures for promoting staff-driven innovation in collaboration with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade unions
If you belong to a trade union or other kind of association, then this may be a useful way of searching for benchmarking partners.
and from the social partners, participated in the design and implementation of the Innovative Upper Austria 2010 program.
Entrepreneurial Associations and Trade unions together negotiated and approved the strategic document. Regional, national and international policies that have been decisive for prioritisation of domains The innovation system in Andalusia evolves on the base of Innovation Infrastructure:
and from the social partners (with the involvement of the members of the Upper Austrian Research and Technology Council) in Upper Austrian participated.
industry and social partners, identify and produce information about new activities and develop roadmaps to realise the potential. 3 Common Provisions Regulation for the European Structural and Investment funds (ESIF),
meaning national public administrations, NGOS and social partners, involved in the sector of employment and social inclusion. http://ec. europa. eu/employment social/emplweb/esf projects 117/search. cfm Regarding the convergence objective,
The Fifth Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion prepared by the European commission (2010) has advocated further the importance of engaging fully relevant local and regional stakeholders, social partners,
especially in the context of local development measures (9). The same evaluation study indicated the increased use of partnerships in the EU15 (10) in the period from 2000 to 2006 with a significant improvement in the involvement of local and regional bodies, businesses, social partners
Researchers and practitioners generally agree about the importance of building research and innovation strategies based on the involvement of local and regional bodies, businesses, social partners and other organisations.
but rather the whole system, including representatives from trade unions, NGOS, government, political leaders, and educators. For example, fully 30 to 40%of the identified programmes in the NCI agenda draft were being undertaken by private entities and NGOS..
Meetings with experts, universities, research centres, clusters, companies, chambers of commerce Public consultation Advice and review from several consultative bodies with participation of social, education, trade union
The UGT and CCO are the main trade unions. Three Chambers of commerce and industry also play an important role in Zaragoza (www. camarazaragoza. com), Huesca and Teruel.
Four meeting of information of stakeholders in July (economic and social partners, research, innovation, education) Aragon on the S3 platform Sevilla Meeting S3 platform Core working group Ministry
Government of Cantabria Business Associations University Tecnology Centers Trade unions What have done we already? We Have identified 18 debate groups
All types of actors involved (companies, business associations, universities, research & technology centres, public administration, trade unions) More difaicult now (disappointment.
The forum brings together large corporations, SMES, trade unions, civil society, policy makers academia, as well as digital entrepreneurs.
and Carsten Schmoll Table of contents XV Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment 259 Apostolos Kousaridas George Katsikas, Nancy Alonistioti, Esa Piri, Marko Palola,
The Towards In-Network Clouds in Future Internet chapter explores the architectural co-existence of new and legacy services and networks, via virtualisation of connectivity and computation resources and self management capabilities,
This paper aims to explore the architectural co-existence of new and legacy services and networks, via virtualisation of connectivity and computation resources and self management capabilities,
In-Network Clouds, Virtualisation of Resources, Self management, Service plane, Orchestration plane and Knowledge plane. 1 Introduction The current Internet has been founded on a basic architectural premise, that is:
This paper aims to explore the architectural co-existence of new and legacy services and networks, via virtualisation of resources and self management capabilities,
therefore essential in guaranteeing both a degree of self management and adaptation as well as supporting context-aware communications that efficiently exploit the available network resources.
The meta-context carries information that supports better the self management functionalities of the context-aware applications.
Self management of virtual networks (In-Network Cloud Management; Autonomic service provisioning on In-Network Clouds (Service Computing Clouds.
which includes self management. The optimization of resources 15 16 17 using federation in the future Internet relies on classify
considering end-user requirements and acting in autonomous forms offering added value services (Autonomics) 6 7 25 where traditional definitions describing self management emerged.
These consumer valued networks acting ideally as independent self management entities must combine efforts Review and Designs of Federated Management in Future Internet Architectures 57 to offer common and agreed services even with many technological restrictions
and mainly resolve negotiations (represented as transition processes normally) not considered between individual or autonomous self management domains.
Management systems should support self management by local resources in a given domain ensuring that this self-managed behaviour is coordinated across management boundaries.
Finally the chapter Kousaridas et al. entitled Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment reports on the network management protocol test that exploited the availability of different administrative domains in federated testbeds
and develop a self management solution for the selection of the appropriate network or service level adaptation to improve end-to-end behaviour
The Author (s). This article is published with open access at Springerlink. com. Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment Apostolos Kousaridas1, George Katsikas1, Nancy Alonistioti1
in order to experiment on the improvement of Qos features by using the Self-NET software for self management over a Wimax network environment.
in order to test network and service layers cooperation for more efficient end-to-end self management. The performance results from the experiments that have been performed prove that the proposed self management solution
and the mechanisms for the selection of the appropriate network or service level adaptation improve end-to-end behaviour
Experimentation, Testing Facilities, Self management, Future Internet, Wimax, Quality of Service 1 Introduction Several network management frameworks have been specified during the last two decades by various standardization bodies
, packet loss, delay, jitter) by using a self management framework over a live network environment and exploiting monitoring
and the improvement of the performance by using the self management mechanisms are highlighted in section 4,
There are also some contributory entities that assist in improving the traffic simulation by providing log information Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment 261 Fig. 1. Octopus testbed Wimax
The traffic sent from the Uoa BS Connector (10.1.1.1) is routed over the IPIP tunnel to the Wimax BS Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment 263 Fig. 3. Network topology
and routes. 264 A. Kousaridas et al. 3 Mechanism for Service-Aware Network Self management The allocation of Monitoring-Decision making-Execution (Cognitive) Cycle phases at the NECM
and service layers cooperation for more efficient end-to-end self management (Fig. 1). The term cooperation is used to describe the collection of the service-level monitoring data and the usage of service-level adaptation actions for efficient network adaptation.
However, the Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment 267 increase rate is not linear
Testing End-to-end Self management in a Wireless Future Internet Environment 269 Table 6. Qos features improvement after partial (70%)Voip codec change from G. 711.1
Octopus testbed) for the experimentation on networks self management, by using the mechanisms that the Self-NET project has designed.
An experimental path towards Self management for Future Internet Environments. In: Tselentis, G.,Galis, A.,Gavras, A.,Krco, S.,Lotz, V.,Simperl, E.,Stiller, B. eds.
Inherent network management functionality, specifically self management functionality. Cost considerations, whereby the overhead of management should be kept under control
Autonomicity, cognitive networks, Future Internet (FI), network manageability, Network Management (NM), self-configuration, self-manageability, self management, situation awareness (SA.
and Self management Features in Modern Network Design The face of the Internet is continually changing,
autonomicity, including self management. Conversely, services themselves are becoming network-aware. Networking-awareness means that services are executed
Self management capabilities may relate to a great variety of significant issues, such as:(i) Cross-domain management functions, for networks, services, content,
v) Mechanisms for conflict and integrity-issues detection/resolution across multiple self management functions;(vi) Mechanisms, tools and methodology construction for the verification and assurance of diverse self-capabilities that are guiding systems and their adaptations, correctly;
xii) Capabilities for the control relationships between self management and self-governance of the FI. In such an evolving environment,
In the scope of these challenges, the Self-NET Project (https://www. ict-selfnet. eu/)aims to integrate the self management
Self management and autonomic capabilities can so alleviate this drawback by: providing inherent management capabilities; increasing flexibility, and;
along with a hierarchical distribution over the network can map self management capabilities over FI architectures 23.
In the context of the Self-NET Project, the introduction of a hierarchical cognitive cycle to enable multi-tier self management in various NES
Furthermore, it is essential to perform NM activities in a distributed way by incorporating self-organization and self management principles 28.
and influencing available definition on self management related work 29, the term self management is applied here as the general term describing all autonomic and cognition-based operations in a system.
Six distinct methods are identified with specific realizations and purposes; they all serve to demonstrate concepts inherent in the system properties (19,22.
That is, by applying self management techniques intending to optimize the network in terms of coverage, capacity, performance etc.
on a real-time basis. Self management can offer decentralized monitoring and proper decision-making techniques so that appropriate optimization hints can be extracted,
self management techniques pave the way towards automated network processes such as the deployment of new NES, the network reconfiguration (in whole or in part) and the selection/execution of the optimal corresponding solution (or response) based on specific
The Self-NET initiative develops self management features that alleviate consequences of events for which the system would require various invocations of remedy actions and/or significant human intervention.
The present work has been composed n the context of the Self-NET (Self management of Cognitive Future Internet Elements) European Research Project
Cognition and Self management Design Issues. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication systems, pp. 1 6 (2008) 21.
Architectural Principles for Synergy of Self management and Future internet Evolutions. In: Proceedings of the ICT Mobile Summit 2009, pp. 1 8. IMC Ltd, Dublin (2009) 23.
Self management in Future Internet Wireless Networks: Dynamic Resource Allocation and Traffic Routing for Multi-Service Provisioning.
delivery guarantee, Qos, security and others. 2. 1 Collaboration to the Autoi Planes One of the Autonomic Internet project expectations is to support the needs of virtual infrastructure management to obtain self management
FINLAN allows to create the Net-Ontology interface with Autoi to support the contextaware control functions for the self management and adaptation in the CISP (Context Information Services Platform) needs.
a combined approach to self management. In: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software engineering for adaptive and self-managing systems (2008) 8. Villa, F.,Athanasiadis,
So, for example, there is more innovation around self management of diseases and public health than around hospitals; more innovation around recycling and energy efficiency than around large scale energy production;
Similar practices are now being introduced into some spheres of public service (notably in healthcare) as well as closer engagement with trade unions in the improvement of service quality. 391) Public sector unions
management and trade unions in a quality programme for upgrading public services. 392) Supporting front line workers as innovators such as the joint IDEO/Kaiser permanente (KP) project in the US.
It works at the local, national and regional level, with organisations including non-governmental organisations, trade unions, faith-based networks, professional associations, nonprofit capacity development organisations, philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies, businesses,
Italy 49,71, 183 Toffler, Alvin 204 Toronto Atmospheric Fund 160 Toyota 18,33-34,164 Trade Fairs 95,99, 126 Trade unions 164,178 Transition
so that they (through their union representatives) approve the adjustment plan; and (2) to preserve intact the city's art collection,
The trade unions which had been taken into confidence, understood the resentment ordinary citizens felt towards SMC workers,
Managing directors of subsidiaries of US companies operating in these 16 countries, leading representatives of industrial and employers'associations, labor unions, economic and social institutes;
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