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CoML: Yet Another, But Simple Component Composition Language

Components offer various advantages, such as platform and tool independence but composition languages do not address the same independence. We present a platform independent component composition language called Component Markup Language. CoML offers abstractions for component composition and for meta information. We envision different usage scenarios for CoML as a resource script or input for ...

Combating Disease Mongering: Daunting but Nonetheless Essential

T he challenge of combating the current epidemic of disease mongering is daunting, and anyone looking for ready solutions should read no further. Those seeking a way forward fi nd themselves ranged against powerful economic, political, and professional interests. There is an apparently limitless amount of money to be made from marketing pharmaceutical remedies for diseases and even more from re...

Yet Another Matcher

Discovering correspondences between schema elements is a crucial task for data integration. Most matching tools are semi-automatic, e.g. an expert must tune some parameters (thresholds, weights, etc.). They mainly use several methods to combine and aggregate similarity measures. However, their quality results often decrease when one requires to integrate a new similarity measure or when matchin...

Yet another steal syndrome.

TO THE EDITOR: The “curse of Kelvin” casts its shadow over most medical research.1 This curse means that one’s insight, unless clothed with numbers, is unlikely to be widely accepted. This phenomenon ensures that matters that are obvious to children (like the Emperor’s new clothes) can be published only as a “Point of View” or a “Letter to the Editor”, instead of a scientific paper. One such ob...