Currently, most demonstrationai systems are built from scratch, typically by individuals, and are all quite unique and distinct from each other. It is still desirable to build more such small-scale systems in the future. However, the key to a larger-scale, collaborative and interdisciplinary effort is in defining a common representation for user tasks, and in defining a common i put format for ...

For my thesis work I am developing a method for evaluating and standardizing ontologies based on an integration of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and OntoClean. BFO serves as the upper ontology for the domain ontologies of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry1. The OBO Foundry initiative is a collaborative effort for developing interoperable, science-based ontologies. OntoClean is an a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Absence of guidelines on umbilical arterial catheter (UAC) and umbilical venous catheter (UVC) use and inability to predict the hospital course may sway the frontline staff to overuse umbilical catheters in preterm infants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of implementing guidelines standardizing the use of umbilical catheters and its impact on the incidenc...

A prolific number of different Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and associated applications have been developed in numerous research institutes and industrial laboratories world-wide. Perhaps the most important barrier to MAS making a successful transition from this research environment towards widespread adoption for consumer products and businesses, is the lack of interoperability between heterogene...

Over the last six years the Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group (OHSWG) has been working in a coordinated effort to produce a protocol which will allow components of an Open Hypermedia System to talk to one another in a standardised manner. In this paper we reflect on this work and the knowledge that has come out of it, evaluating the differant approaches to standardisation in the light of ou...

The lack of a standard image intensity scale in MRI causes many difficulties in image display and analysis. A two-step postprocessing method is proposed for standardizing the intensity scale in such a way that for the same MR protocol and body region, similar intensities will have similar tissue meaning. In the first step, the parameters of the standardizing transformation are "learned" from a ...

The administration of behavioral and experimental paradigms for psychology research is hindered by lack of a coordinated effort to develop and deploy standardized paradigms. While several frameworks (Mason and Suri, 2011; McDonnell et al., 2012; de Leeuw, 2015; Lange et al., 2015) have provided infrastructure and methods for individual research groups to develop paradigms, missing is a coordina...