Clinicians would benefit from decision support systems incorporating the knowledge of clinical practice guidelines. However, the unstructured form of the guidelines makes them unsuitable for formal representation. To remedy this shortcoming we translated a set of pediatric guidelines into Attempto Controlled English (ACE). An experienced pediatrician and a knowledge engineer assessed that ACE c...

Recently, wireless self-organizing networks are attracting a lot of interest in the research community. Moreover, in the last decade many mobile devices have appeared in the market. Exploiting mobility in a wireless environment, instead of considering it as a kind of disturbance, is a fundamental concept that the research community is beginning to appreciate now. Of course, the advantages obtai...

BACKGROUND In 2010, the US Drug Enforcement Administration issued regulations allowing electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), a practice previously prohibited. OBJECTIVE To carry out a survey of the experience of prescribers in the nation's first study of EPCS implementation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prescribers were surveyed in a community setting before and after implementat...

Sovereign is a novel collection of resources for authoring(1), annotating(2) and accessing(3) knowledge on the Social Semantic Desktop. With respect to (2), the Sovereign Semantic Annotator allows the non-expert user in a novel way to semi-automatically author and annotate meeting minutes and status reports simultaneously using Controlled Natural Language(CNL). The metadata is captured as knowl...

Many domain specialists are not familiar or comfortable with formal notations and formal tools like theorem provers or model generators. To address this problem we developed Attempto Controlled English (ACE), a subset of English that can be unambiguously translated into first-order logic and thus can conveniently replace first-order logic as a formal notation. In this paper we describe how ACE ...

In this paper we propose the components, the general architecture and application areas for a controlled natural language based multilingual semantic wiki. Such a wiki is a collaborative knowledge engineering environment that makes its content available via multiple languages, both natural and formal, all of them synchronized via their abstract form that is assigned by a shared grammar. We also...

        Controlled release swellable tablets of phenobarbital were prepared by a simple direct compression process using hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) as the matrix former. The effects of the viscosity grades of HPMC and HPMC/lactose ratio and ethylcellulose (EC)/sodium carboxymethylcellulose (NaCMC) and their concentrations on the release behavior of phenobarbital from HPMC matrices wer...