The work of software engineers is inherently cognitive. Integral to their duties is understanding and developing several artifacts. Each one is based on a specific model and a given level of abstraction. What distinguishes Software Engineering is the logical complexity of some artifacts (especially programs), the high dependency among them, and the fact that the success of the software project ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a division of USA’s Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives. The NIH is the Department of Health and Human Service’s medical research agency. The aim of the NIH is to improve health and save lives through medical discoveries. The roadmap website for the NIH commenced after the Director of the NIH, Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, convened a series...

CAMbrella was the first pan-European research project that systematically evaluated the state of usage, motivation, provision, and regulation of CAM usage in European countries. It also documented the need and the way forward for research in Europe. Some of the finest minds in European CAM research were either part of the consortium or were invited as experts to some of the specialist meetings....

Model transformations are widely used by Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) platforms to apply different kinds of operations over models, such as model translation, evolution or composition. However, existing solutions are not designed to handle very large models (VLMs), thus facing scalability issues. Coupling MDE with cloud-based platforms may help solving these issues. Since cloud-based platform...

Reverse logistics is constantly gaining in importance for both research and practice. Research on RFID has so far concentrated on the use of RFID in order to support forward logistics processes, but is beginning to realize the specific potentials and benefits of RFID systems in this evolving research area. IS research has so far addressed individual and rather isolated aspects of this topic. In...

The translation of hypothesis-driven research laboratory findings about basic disease mechanisms into clinically useful tests or therapies, particularly in pediatric diseases, is time-consuming, expensive, and not well supported by traditional research grant mechanisms. Accordingly, the development of new drugs and clinical assays has typically been largely the domain of the pharmaceutical indu...

Roadmapping became quite popular in the USA in the late 1990’s, and more recently in Europe, especially in terms of technology roadmaps, as an approach to strategic planning for the future of technology in different sectors. However, a common definition for roadmapping or roadmap does not exist, and an observation of roadmaps that have been created so far indicates that there is considerable di...