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This summer I helped to bring together a group to dis cuss something that we called Multilingual Informa tion Discovery and Access We shared a belief that the topic was in some sense larger than the prob lem of cross language information retrieval that has mo tivated the work of many of those who participated and towards that end we sought to include researchers from a broad range of related di...

OBJECTIVES To provide an editorial introduction to the 2008 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. METHODS A brief overview of the main theme of "Access to Health Information", and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2008 IMIA Yearbook. RESULTS This 2008 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highligh...

We report on an ongoing project aimed at providing an exemplary architecture for an electronic dissemination environment for scientific handbooks. We focus on our way of facilitating navigation through and access to electronic handbooks by using a WordNet-like concept hierarchy consisting of synsets that are connected to each other and to external sources by semantic relations for navigational ...

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Pervasive-computing infrastructures necessarily collect a lot of context information to disseminate to their contextaware applications. Due to the personal or proprietary nature of much of this context information, however, the infrastructure must limit access to context information to authorized persons. In this paper we propose a new access-control mechanism for event-based contextdistributio...