Stakeholders from several domains with local terminologies have to work together to develop and operate softwareintensive systems, like production automation systems. Ontologies support the translation between local terminologies via common domain concepts. Unfortunately, the ontology models can become large and complex if they include several aspects on a domain and some parts of the data mode...

In this paper we are giving an overview of automatic test data generation. The basic objective of this paper is to acquire the basic concepts related to automated test data generation research. The different implementation techniques are described with their relative merits and demerits. The future challenges and problems of test data generation are explained. Finally we describe the area where...

Building a medical registry upon an existing infrastructure and rooted practices is not an easy task. It is the case for the BNDMR project, the French rare disease registry, that aims to collect administrative and medical data of rare disease patients seen in different hospitals. To avoid duplicating data entry for health professionals, the project plans to deploy connectors with the existing s...

The high cost of IT operations has led to an intense focus on the automation of processes for IT service delivery. We take the heretical position that automation does not necessarily reduce the cost of operations since: (1) additional effort is required to deploy and maintain the automation infrastructure; (2) using the automation infrastructure requires the development of structured inputs tha...

Statistical genetics software packages for linkage analysis have their own unique constraints on the size and shape of the pedigrees they can process. As a result, researchers are often forced to exclude from analysis some individuals in a given family. Existing procedures for reducing pedigree size to fit computational constraints use arbitrary rules and are not interactive. However, judicious...

conclusions despite rapidity, automation, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, high sensitivity, and high specificity of molecular techniques, each type of molecular technology has its own advantages and disadvantages. results various types of molecular biology tools can be used to detect and quantify viral genomic elements and analyze the sequences. these molecular assays are proper technologies for ...

EUROPA (External Use of Robotics for Payload Automation) is a robotic experiment formerly designed to fly on the International Space Station (ISS) and to perform a realistic end-to-end robotic technology demonstration in exposed environment. The overall scenario is depicted in Figure 1. The robotic workcell design includes: • the robotic arm, based on the existing ASI 7 dof SPIDER arm, used to ...