We describe the application of a generic workflow management system to the problem of metadata processing in the library domain. The requirements for such a framework and acting real-world forces are examined. The design of the framework is layed out and illustrated by means of two example workflows: fuzzy data deduplication and data reconciliation with authority data. Fuzzy data deduplication ...

As mobile computing devices become more and more popular, mobile databases have started gaining popularity. An important feature of these database systems is their ability to allow optimistic replication of data by permitting disconnected mobile devices to perform local updates on replicated data. The fundamental problem in this approach is the reconciliation problem, i.e. the problem of serial...

The technique of dynamic data reconciliation has been previously studied in the literature and shown to be an effective tool to better estimate the true values of process variables by using information from both measured values and process models. Real-time implementation of dynamic data reconciliation involves solving complex optimization problem, leading to large computation time. This paper ...

A consistent conclusion in reconciliation research is that animals that reconcile are likely to have strong social bonds. This has led to the hypothesis that reconciliation occurs most often between valuable social partners. We tested this hypothesis in a group of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) living near a temple in Assam, India. Using focal sample and ad libitum data collection, we re...

As mobile computing devices become more and more common, mobile databases are becoming popular. An important feature of these database systems is their ability to allow optimistic replication of data by providing disconnected mobile devices the ability to perform local updates. The key problem to this approach is the reconciliation problem, i.e. the problem of serializing potentially conflictin...

Optimistic reconciliation allows, multiple update of shared data without synchronization. The assumption is that the vast majority of the actions will not conflict. In those systems, write availability is raised in the presence of network failures, high latencies or parallel development. However, in order to remain consistent, optimistic systems repair divergences. To produce a new consistent s...

INTRODUCTION Inadequate medicines reconciliation on admission is often identified as a major cause of patient morbidity, with poor access to patient's regular medications often cited as a barrier to care. In the surgical admission unit of our district general hospital, drug charts are completed by junior doctors who do not have access to the Emergency Care Summary (ECS) thus making it difficult...

Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my first supervisor, Dr. Emiel Caron, for his valuable guidance, support and recommendations during my master thesis and my second supervisor, Dr. Hans Le Fever, for assisting me in the initial phase of the master thesis and for his recommendations. In addition, I would like to thank my manager at ING, Anabel Almagro, for giving me the opport...

Two methods, one based on Iterative Principal Components Analysis(IPCA) and the other based on Data Reconciliation have been developed for estimating a model from a data matrix containing missing data. These algorithms are iterative in nature and analogous to the method based on PCA for treating missing data. The methods incorporate information about the measurement errors to develop the models...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Since the initiation of the Children's Asthma Care (CAC) core measures in 2008, hospitals have struggled to achieve a high rate of compliance with the CAC-3 measure of the Home Management Plan of Care (HMPC). At inception of this project in 2009, the national average was 65% compliance, which has now increased to 80%. These rates are below the Hospital Corporation of Am...