The number of datasets in the Linking Open Data (LOD) cloud as well as LOD-based applications have exploded in the last years. However, because of data source heterogeneity, published data may suffer of redundancy, inconsistencies, or may be incomplete; thus, results generated by LOD-based applications may be imprecise, ambiguous, or unreliable. We demonstrate the capabilities of LiQuate (Linke...

Long before reaching diagnostic cut off levels for type 2 diabetes (T2D), fasting glucose can be a powerful risk marker for this disease. We conducted a genome-wide search for fasting glucose as a quantitative trait in 412 young Europeans sib-pairs including obese children, with adjustment for sex, age and BMI. We identified more QTLs specific of fasting glucose and more significant than would ...

Open Self Medication is a Web application that aims to accompany the general public in his initiative to self-medicate, i.e. the act of treating undiagnosed medical ailments with unprescribed drugs. The application achieves this goal by providing a set of functionalities that ensure safety and efficiency of this practice. With safety, we mean that the system guides the end-user from a set of co...

The rendering performance of an image-based rendering (IBR) system depends on the number of images and the amount of geometry information used. In this paper, we propose the layered lumigraph representation that is configured for optimized rendering performance given the rendering platform (e.g., processor speed, memory, etc.) and the output image resolution. The layered lumigraph is produced b...

Social sustainability risk management in supply chains has to include a multitude of factors in a broad environment. Beside, Linked open Data (LoD) has become a major element of the semantic web being potentially relevant for the topic. This paper analyses LoD's usefulness in this specific context differentiating two dimensions, methods of LoD and data published as LoD. While the usefulness of ...