Schema matching is a fundamental task in the data integration pipeline and has been studied extensively in the past decades, leading to many novel schema matching methods. However, these methods do not follow a standard evaluation process, leading to uncertainty in which one performs best in matching accuracy and runtime constraints, and in which s...
Published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BackgroundRecord linkage is the process of identifying and combining records about the same individual from two or more different datasets. While there are many open source and commercial data linkage tools, the volume and complexity of currently available datasets for linkage pose a huge challenge; hence, designing an efficient linkage tool with r...
Scalability is one of the characteristics of reconfigurable manufacturing systems, which aim to adapt the production capacity, quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Our goal in this chapter is to propose a global analysis of all configurations possible for a system on the point of view of scalability. For a fixed balancing of operations on the...
With the increase in the complexity of software systems, the size and the complexity of underlying models also increases proportionally. In a low-code system, models can be stored in different backend technologies and can be represented in various formats. Tailored high-level query languages are used to query such heterogeneous models, but typicall...
Published in Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundWhile known efficacious preventive health interventions exist, the current capacity to scale up these interventions is limited. In recent years, much attention has focussed on developing frameworks and methods for scale-up yet, in practice, the pathway for scale-up is seldom linear and may be highly dependent on contextual circumstances. ...
Le Big Data représente un défi non seulement pour le monde socio-économique mais aussi pour la recherchescientifique. En effet, comme il a été souligné dans plusieurs articles scientifiques et rapports stratégiques, lesapplications informatiques modernes sont confrontées à de nouveaux problèmes qui sont liés essentiellement austockage et à l’exploi...
Published in Life Sciences, Society and Policy
Freezers with biospecimen deposits became biobanks and later were networked at the pan-European level in 2013 under the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure—European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC). Drawing on document analysis about the BBMRI-ERIC and multi-sited fieldwork with biobankers in Spain from a sc...
Published in Biostatistics (Oxford, England)
With the increased availability of large electronic health records databases comes the chance of enhancing health risks screening. Most post-marketing detection of adverse drug reaction (ADR) relies on physicians' spontaneous reports, leading to under-reporting. To take up this challenge, we develop a scalable model to estimate the effect of multip...
Published in Computer Science Review
Contact Tracing is considered as the first and the most effective step towards containing an outbreak, as resources for mass testing and large quantity of vaccines are highly unlikely available for immediate utilization. Effective contact tracing can allow societies to reopen from lock-down even before availability of vaccines. The objective of mob...
The ongoing demand for bigger and more efficient ships pushes their designs towards the strength limits. Sometimes, ship structures are pushed beyond their limits with the possibility of significant negative economic and environmental impact or, in the worst case, impact on human life. This makes it explicitly clear why the development of accurate ...
