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AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2011

Natural Language Processing (NLP) enables access to deep content embedded in medical texts. To da... more Natural Language Processing (NLP) enables access to deep content embedded in medical texts. To date, NLP has not fulfilled its promise of enabling robust clinical encoding, clinical use, quality improvement, and research. We submit that this is in part due to poor accessibility, scalability, and flexibility of NLP systems. We describe here an approach and system which leverages cloud-based approaches such as virtual machines and Representational State Transfer (REST) to extract, process, synthesize, mine, compare/contrast, explore, and manage medical text data in a flexibly secure and scalable architecture. Available architectures in which our Smntx (pronounced as semantics) system can be deployed include: virtual machines in a HIPAA-protected hospital environment, brought up to run analysis over bulk data and destroyed in a local cloud; a commercial cloud for a large complex multi-institutional trial; and within other architectures such as caGrid, i2b2, or NHIN.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... 2 The Vine Toolkit The Vine Toolkit, like the upcoming SAGA Java reference implementation or ... more ... 2 The Vine Toolkit The Vine Toolkit, like the upcoming SAGA Java reference implementation or the Intel Grid Programing Environment [20], is a Java-based framework that offers developers an easy-to-use, high-level API for Grid-enabling applications. ...

7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), 2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006

... 693 to develop custom Grid portal web applications. ... The File Browser Port-let also suppor... more ... 693 to develop custom Grid portal web applications. ... The File Browser Port-let also supports the ability to create new directories, delete files and directories, edit text files online, upload files to remote file systems and download files to a user's local host, so long as the files ...

Proceedings 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2003

Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users, mostl... more Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users, mostly due to the lack of a “critical mass” of widely deployed and reliable higher-level Grid services, tailored to application needs. The GridLab project aims to provide fundamentally new capabilities for applications to exploit the power of Grid computing, thus bridging the gap between application needs and existing Grid middleware. We present an overview of GridLab, a large-scale, EU-funded Grid project spanning over a dozen groups in Europe and the US. We first outline our vision of Grid-empowered applications and then discuss GridLab’s general architecture and its Grid Application Toolkit (GAT). We illustrate how applications can be Grid-enabled with the GAT and discuss GridLab’s scheduler as an example of GAT services.

Abstract We discuss the problem of resource brokering in a Grid environment from the perspective ... more Abstract We discuss the problem of resource brokering in a Grid environment from the perspective of general application needs. Starting from a illustrative scenario, these requirements are broken down into the general areas of computation, data, network, ...

… : Practice and Experience, 2004

SUMMARY Grid-enabled portals are becoming increasingly popular as a platform for providing access... more SUMMARY Grid-enabled portals are becoming increasingly popular as a platform for providing access to Grid services and resources. Unfortunately, much of the work done in portal development has led to vertically layered solutions that work for a particular project but are difficult to ...

7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), 2006

This paper examines the problem of giving mobile users a possibility to access interoperability s... more This paper examines the problem of giving mobile users a possibility to access interoperability services based on ontologies and predefined concepts providing various meaningful objects and mechanisms to search, discover, invoke, compose and monitor appropriate grid-based services, applications as well as data sources in the Virtual Organization (VO) from any place in the world using mobile devices. Since mobiles as end devices are naturally used by humans to see a human-readable content, in our opinion, they should also allow them to specify human-readable queries instead of direct computer-interpretable queries to unknown remote service providers or databases. Based on the knowledge located in the interoperability space users requests from mobile devices can be mapped and forwarded automatically to appropriate remote interfaces to take advantages of various functionalities offered by the grid and service providers available today in the Internet. Therefore, more efficient int...

Journal of Controlled Release, 1997

Infectious diseases continue to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Increa... more Infectious diseases continue to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Increased awareness of the fact that mucosal membranes are the most frequent portals of entry of pathogenic microorganisms has prompted studies aimed at the development of vaccination protocols and antigen delivery systems that would lead to an increased protection of mucosae. Although systemic and strictly local (e.g.,