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Evidence-based practice has become the cornerstone of high quality clinical care. However, producing evidence of sufficient quantity and quality is hampered by the high cost and complexity of conducting research, the numbers of clinicians and patients willing to participate in clinical trials. The Learning Healthcare System initiative creates routes for knowledge transfer between different parts of...
About two thirds of the energy consumed in buildings originates household appliances. Nowadays, appliances are often intelligent and networked devices that form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. Reducing energy is therefore a matter of managing and optimizing the energy utilization on a system level. These systems need standardized interfaces on a sensor and device level...
The proliferation of sensor and actuator networks in the urban environment is directly associated with an increasing volume of data, relating to various aspects of the city. Synchronously, the heterogeneity of data formats, sensory observations, measuring capabilities and accompanying contextual information is substantially growing. Aggregating immense amounts of data feeds from different networks...
In healthcare IT environment there are disparate functional systems and they need to collaborate to support healthcare enterprise workflow. While messaging standard and service-oriented approach provides general interoperability practice, they lack sufficient support for semantic interoperability. Semantic web service technology has proved useful to improve semantic interoperability by annotating...
It is very important first to state that the emergence of the e-commerce and e-government or the electronic libraries perform a necessity to have an access to multiple resources of information. Otherwise, these sources are not necessarily homogenous, either on the syntactic or semantic standard. For the semantic component, the conflicts appear when the systems don't have the some interpretation of...
Cloud computing is a promising IT paradigm which enables the Internet¢s evolution into a global market of collaborating services. Cloud computing semantic interoperability plays a key role in making this a reality. Towards this direction, a comprehensive and systematic survey of Cloud computing interoperability efforts by standardization groups, industry and research community is carried out. The...
Effective chronic disease management ensures better treatment and reduces medical costs. Representing knowledge through building an ontology for Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is important to achieve semantic interoperability among healthcare information systems and to better execute decision support systems. In this paper, an ontology-based EMR focusing on Chronic Disease Management is proposed...
Business automation continues to be a strategic target for IT investment. However, business automation involves inherent challenges, such as system integration issues. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business-to-business (B2B) integration standards are two approaches used for creating business automation solutions. In this paper a systematic literature analysis is conducted to explore the...
This paper focuses on the emerging problem of semantic interoperability between heterogeneous cooperating Cloud platforms. We try to pave the way towards a Reference Architecture for Semantically Interoperable Clouds (RASIC). To this end, three fundamental and complementary computing paradigms, namely Cloud computing, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and lightweight semantics are used as the main...
Semantic interoperability challenges emerged when comes to financial system integration and information exchange. This paper presents a component-based approach for financial information semantic interoperability. In the approach, taxonomies in XBRL GL have been modeled as core components in CCTS, which act as common understandings for interoperability participants. Additionally, guidelines for selecting...
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), through its Standards Coordinating Committee 20 (SCC20), is developing interface standards focusing on Automatic Test System-related elements in cooperation with a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to define, demonstrate, and recommend such standards. One of these standards-IEEE Std 1232-2002 Artificial Intelligence Exchange and Service...
e-Business standards are recognised as one of the most important drivers of Business to Business Integration. These standards seek to provide unambiguous specifications for error-free exchange of documents and information between trading partners. These standards are however, syntax based and do not guarantee semantic interoperability between partners. This paper proposes the utilisation of semantic...
Web services integration has been a vigorous research area for the last years. With the introduction of the semantic Web the publication of expressive metadata in a shared knowledge framework enables the deployment of services that can intelligently use Web resources. Syntactic and semantic interoperability of services is crucial for services integration and complex scientific workflows creation....
The creation of an integrated healthcare information infrastructure depends on all parties involved; consumers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and insurers, having systems, tools, and information that are complete, correct, secure and interoperable. The basis for achieving this rests with the availability of healthcare information standards that are complete, implementable, testable, and that...
This paper presents the results of the STASIS (www.stasis-project.net) project and applies it to the area of semantic interoperability within technology enhanced learning platforms. Within the paper an innovative approach for creating a comprehensive application suite is introduced which allows partners to simplify the mapping process between data schemas of different e-learning platforms. This mapping...
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), through its Standards Coordinating Committee 20 (SCC20), is developing interface standards focusing on Automatic Test System-related elements in cooperation with a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to define, demonstrate, and mandate such standards. One of these standards - IEEE Std 1232-2002 Artificial Intelligence Exchange and Service...
Effective use of electronic healthcare records (EHRs) has the potential to positively influence both the quality and the cost of health care. Consequently, sharing patient's EHRs is becoming a global priority in the healthcare information technology domain. This paper addresses the interoperability of EHR structure and content. It describes how two different EHR standards derived from the same reference...
Key to the appropriate use of data is the knowledge of data quality. This knowledge is critical for products and decision-support tools that utilize real-time data, and it is also essential for the longer term application of data as well. Guidance by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for appraising observational data for archive states that factors favoring long-term or permanent...
Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive heterogeneity in all levels of information systems. A robust solution to this problem needs to be adaptable, extensible,...
The role of metadata is gaining importance due to today's growth of multimedia content. Currently, XML is the standard for data interchange. However, as XML Schemas do not express semantics but rather the document structure, there is a lack of semantic interoperability regarding current (XML-based) metadata standards. By using semantic Web technologies, ontologies can be created to describe the semantics...
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