A standards-based, service-oriented architecture for clinical decision support (CDS) has the potential to significantly enhance CDS scalability and robustness. To enable such a CDS architecture, the Health Level 7 CDS Work Group reviewed the literature, hosted multi-stakeholder discussions, and consulted domain experts to identify and prioritize the services and capabilities required from clini...

Exposing computer algebra systems as computing services allow their further development and integration in complex service-oriented architectures. While existing standards may be used for service deployment and interaction, particularities of services to be built require more specialized solutions. We present recently implemented technical approach aimed to integrate legacy computational algebr...

A new generation of information systems is emerging that is shaped by an object-oriented approach to design. This article describes a managerial approach to planning business applications that share data. The nine-step systems development strategy is based on the establishment of a businesswide definition of information resources and an organizationwide set of standards for the new object-orien...

In Germany the results of the international PISA study disclosed a demand for an increase in the quality and an improvement in the comparability of educational results. In the subjects German, maths and first language (i.e. English) this demand already resulted in the development and publication of first educational standards. With the aim to prepare educational standards for the Informatics fi...

The active use of Access Grid systems by many scientific and engineering communities over several years has uncovered a number of architectural and usability problems of this technology. After examining the system architecture of the current Access Grid and the recent trend in the instant messaging systems, we devised an alternative advanced collaboration system using an established standard pr...

In constantly changing and dynamic markets enterprises are in an even greater need to maintain adequate IT support for their core competencies. This support requires integrating heterogeneous systems and applications that are built using different technologies and infrastructures, which hamper interoperability and seamless integration. The problems are aggravated additionally by the need to cro...

Background: In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector accounts for 35% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 82% of the active population. The agri-food industries must apply the requirements of the management systems to improve their economic position and ensure sustainable development. The present study aimed to highlight the similarities and particularities of these repositories gro...

Research on multidimensional sexual perfectionism differentiates four forms: self-oriented, partner-oriented, partner-prescribed, and socially prescribed. Self-oriented sexual perfectionism reflects perfectionistic standards people apply to themselves as sexual partners; partner-oriented sexual perfectionism reflects perfectionistic standards people apply to their sexual partner; partner-prescr...

Building ad-hoc design processes and methodologies has become a key challenge in Software Engineering, and several efforts are being made for developing appropriate meta-models both for methodologies and development processes. The Software Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) – an OMG objectoriented standard – is a natural candidate for representing, comparing and reusing design processes in a...