http://www.hcklab.org/ The Hck Laboratory is the place where I can keep track of my talks, projects and personal research. My name is Paolo Ciccarese. Paolo Ciccarese Copyright 2005-2006 Paolo Ciccarese. All rights reserved. http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2007/march13cambridge.htm The SWAN project 2007-03-23 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2007/february13cambridge.htm This has been the second chat about the SemanticWeb at MIT in Cambridge. The idea is to get together people in the local area who are interested in and/or working in the Semantic Web. A typical form will be a few presentations of recent work or recent problems discovered, some moderated discussion in the round, and a large amount of unmoderated chat. 2007-02-15 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2007/january31cambridge.htm In this talk Prof. Carole Goble shared her experiences of applying Semantic Web and ontology based approaches to represent and classify metadata and discuss the Semantic Grid using the S-OGSA as an illustration. She also took the opportunity to voice some concerns and raise some challenges that we have to overcome, not many of which are technical. 2007-01-25 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2007/january22cambridge.htm Tim Berners Lee sent an invitation to chat about the SemanticWeb at MIT in Cambridge, MA USA on 22 Jan 2007. The idea is to get together people in the local area who are interested in and/or working in the Semantic Web. A typical form will be a few presentations of recent work or recent problems discovered, some moderated discussion in the round, and a large amount of unmoderated chat. 2007-01-25 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2006/november11washington.htm AMIA 2006 features an outstanding program of scientific papers, posters, tutorials and other educational events that provide information about cutting-edge work in health care informatics. AMIA 2006 meets the diverse interests of attendees, including those who have conceptual and theoretical perspectives, and those with needs for practical knowledge of real-world systems. 2006-11-12 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2006/november8baltimore.htm This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from a broad range of fields that are related to formal ontology and medical informatics. The goal is to show how current research can be brought to bear on the practical problems associated with the development of applications supported by these ontologies, i.e., to show biomedical ontology "in action". 2006-11-06 http://www.hcklab.org/talks-events/2006/november6athens.htm Workshop for W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group - The 5th International Semantic Web Conference 2006-11-06 http://www.hcklab.org/research/computerized-clinical-guidelines/careflow-systems.htm Careflow Management Systems (CfMSs) are WfMSs supporting medical knowledge management in clinical domains. 2006-11-3 http://www.hcklab.org/research/computerized-clinical-guidelines/organizational-knowledge.htm The goal of knowledge management is not only increasing the performance of individuals within the organization but of the organization as a 'whole'. 2006-10-30 http://www.hcklab.org/research/computerized-clinical-guidelines/systems-review.htm Two detailed reports about CPGs systems has been published in 2004 on JAMIA and on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Some of the system are briefly introduced here. 2006-10-30 http://www.hcklab.org/research/computerized-clinical-guidelines/computerizable-cpg-lifecycle.htm In the last years, many research groups put efforts in the computerized CPGs field and developed tools for the representation and execution of CPGs, and recently two comprehensive papers has been published about the comparison of the different formalisms and tools. The computerization of guidelines could lead to several improvements with respect to the traditional textual format: the text disambiguation, the possibility of viewing the guideline at different levels of detail without loosing the entire view, and the possibility of generating patient-tailored suggestions. 2006-08-20 http://www.hcklab.org/projects/tempo/index.htm Tempo is a framework for the definition, generation and execution of data processing procedures including filtering, qualitative and temporal abstractions. The overall architecture is build upon a specific data model and organized on pipelines of modules assembled according to a data processing meta-model. Each pipeline module conforms to well defined communication rules and wraps one or more data processing algorithms. The set of algorithms provided by default as reusable blocks can be extended with custom solutions through a plug-in mechanism. The data processing procedures can be delivered both as web-services and as software library. 2006-09-19