OC-0606: μIMRT – Bringing small animal irradiations closer to clinical standards

MLO 0606 Clinical Issues.indd

For more than a decade, the race has been on to identify genes that predispose patients to common diseases. The Holy Grail arising from such discoveries would be a “theranostic,” a term for the use of diagnostic testing to diagnose the disease, to choose the correct treatment regime, and to monitor the patient response to therapy. This is often referred to as personalized medicine (see Figure 1...

Bringing Enterprise Modeling Closer to Model-Driven Development

Enterprise Modeling (EM) provides the means for using models to represent organizational knowledge from different perspectives. When information systems (IS) are involved, Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach that focuses on the use of models as primary development artifacts. By observing that EM provides the context for high level requirements, which in turn are the input to MDD, we p...

Bringing Model Checking Closer To Practical Software Engineering

Bringing the Semantic Web closer to the User

As the current Semantic Web (SW) activities focus mainly on making the Web machine understandable, the end-user needs are often neglected. Providing an appropriate entry point for the enduser to the technologies introduced by the SW activity would be beneficial both for the end-users and the SW developers. Taking advantage of the semantic descriptions available on the SW endusers would achieve ...

Bringing BLINK Closer to the Full Power of SQL

BLINK is a prototype of an in-memory based query processor that exploits heavily the underlying CPU infrastructure. It is very sensitive to the processor’s caches and instruction set. In this paper, we describe how to close two major functional gaps in BLINK, which arise from real-world workloads. The manipulation of the data maintained by BLINK require specialized data structures. Another aspe...