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The National Sleep Research Resource: towards a sleep data commons Open
Objective The gold standard for diagnosing sleep disorders is polysomnography, which generates extensive data about biophysical changes occurring during sleep. We developed the National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR), a comprehensive syste…
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Interoperability in Internet of Things: Taxonomies and Open Challenges Open
In the last few years, many smart objects found in the physical world are interconnected and communicate through the existing internet infrastructure which creates a global network infrastructure called the Internet of Things (IoT). Resear…
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Enabling IoT Ecosystems through Platform Interoperability Open
Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) comprises vertically oriented platforms for things. Developers who want to use them need to negotiate access individually and adapt to the platform-specific API and information models. Having to perform …
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Recent Developments in Clinical Terminologies — SNOMED CT, LOINC, and RxNorm Open
Objective: To discuss recent developments in clinical terminologies. SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is the world's largest clinical terminology, developed by an international consortium. LOINC (Logical Obs…
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Development of manufacturing execution systems in accordance with Industry 4.0 requirements: A review of standard- and ontology-based methodologies and tools Open
This work presents how recent trends in Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions are influencing the development of manufacturing execution systems (MESs) and analyzes what kinds of trends will determine the development of the next generation of thes…
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Semantic Interoperability in Heterogeneous IoT Infrastructure for Healthcare Open
Interoperability remains a significant burden to the developers of Internet of Things’ Systems. This is due to the fact that the IoT devices are highly heterogeneous in terms of underlying communication protocols, data formats, and technol…
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Unified IoT ontology to enable interoperability and federation of testbeds Open
After a thorough analysis of existing Internet of Things (IoT) related ontologies, in this paper we propose a holistic and a light-weight ontology that aims to achieve semantic interoperability among various fragmented testbeds (that store…
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IoMT Platform for Pervasive Healthcare Data Aggregation, Processing, and Sharing Based on OneM2M and OpenEHR Open
Pervasive healthcare services have undergone a great evolution in recent years. The technological development of communication networks, including the Internet, sensor networks, and M2M (Machine-to-Machine) have given rise to new architect…
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A systematic review on semantic interoperability in the IoE-enabled smart cities Open
Smart cities have emerged as a result of smart interconnections of people, processes, data, and things, representing an excellent case study of the Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm. One of the main challenges in realizing the smart ci…
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INTEROPERABILITY ANALYSIS OF IFC-BASED DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS BIM SOFTWARE Open
Traditionally, the one-to-one interaction between heterogeneous software has become the most commonly used method for multi-disciplinary collaboration in building projects, resulting in numerous data interfaces, different data formats, and…
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A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends Open
Blockchain interoperability is emerging as one of the crucial features of blockchain technology, but the knowledge necessary for achieving it is fragmented. This fact makes it challenging for academics and the industry to achieve interoper…
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Digital Health and the State of Interoperable Electronic Health Records Open
Digital health systems and innovative care delivery within these systems have great potential to improve national health care and positively impact the health outcomes of patients. However, currently, very few countries have systems that c…
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A Methodology for Modeling Interoperability of Smart Sensors in Smart Grids Open
Smart sensors in smart grids provide real-time data and status of bidirectional flows of energy for monitoring, protection, and control of grid operations to improve reliability and resilience. Smart sensor data interoperability is a major…
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Ontologies and Semantic Web for the Internet of Things - a survey Open
Fog Computing ó La computación de niebla ha despertado gran interés en la academia, debido a la separación de procesos que se realizan en Cloud Computing (la computación en la nube) permitiendo esto el ahorro de costos en las tecnologías d…
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Survey of Interoperability in Electronic Health Records Management and Proposed Blockchain Based Framework: MyBlockEHR Open
Interoperability in Electronic Health Records (EHR) is significant for the seamless sharing of information amongst different healthcare stakeholders. Interoperability in EHR aims to devise agreements in its interpretation, access, and stor…
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Ontology, Ontologies and the “I” of FAIR Open
According to the FAIR guiding principles, one of the central attributes for maximizing the added value of information artifacts is interoperability. In this paper, I discuss the importance, and propose a characterization of the notion of S…
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Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology Open
Life science researchers use computational models to articulate and test hypotheses about the behavior of biological systems. Semantic annotation is a critical component for enhancing the interoperability and reusability of such models as …
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Ontoserver: a syndicated terminology server Open
Ontoserver has been designed to overcome some of the challenges that have hindered adoption of standardised clinical terminologies and is used in several organisations throughout Australia. Increasing adoption is an important goal because …
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Data Handling in Industry 4.0: Interoperability Based on Distributed Ledger Technology Open
Information-intensive transformation is vital to realize the Industry 4.0 paradigm, where processes, systems, and people are in a connected environment. Current factories must combine different sources of knowledge with different technolog…
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Building IoT-Based Applications for Smart Cities: How Can Ontology Catalogs Help? Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an ever-increasing role in enabling Smart City applications. An ontology-based semantic approach can help improve interoperability between a variety of IoT-generated as well as complementary data needed t…
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Do You Need a Distributed Ledger Technology Interoperability Solution? Open
Entrepreneurs, enterprises, and governments are using distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a component of complex information systems, and therefore interoperability capabilities are required. Interoperating DLTs enable network effects a…
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Towards Interoperable Blockchains: A Survey on the Role of Smart Contracts in Blockchain Interoperability Open
The slower than expected adoption rate of blockchain technology has highlighted that there are barriers due to the diversity of its applications and its users. To overcome this limitation and take full advantage of the novel technology, re…
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Standards in Healthcare Data Open
Clinical data interoperability requires shared specifications of meaning. This is the rationale for clinical data standards. Up until now, the adoption of such standards has been varied, although they are increasingly advocated in an area …
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Standards-Based Worldwide Semantic Interoperability for IoT Open
Global IoT services (GIoTS) are combining locally available IoT resources with Cloud-based services. They are targeting world-wide services. GIoTS require interoperability between the locally installed heterogeneous IoT systems. Semantic p…
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Building an interoperable space for smart agriculture Open
The digital transformation in agriculture introduces new challenges in terms of data, knowledge and technology adoption due to critical interoperability issues, and also challenges regarding the identification of the most suitable data sou…
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An interoperable clinical decision-support system for early detection of SIRS in pediatric intensive care using openEHR Open
We found the use of openEHR Archetypes and AQL a feasible approach to bridge the interoperability gap between local infrastructures and CDSS. The designed concept was successfully transferred into a clinically evaluated openEHR based CDSS.…
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Industrial ontologies for interoperability in agile and resilient manufacturing Open
Ontologies provide an opportunity to tackle the interoperability challenge in digital manufacturing. Although ontologies have been used in numerous industrial projects, the problem of semantic interoperability in the industry is still unre…
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A survey on 3D CAD model quality assurance and testing tools Open
[EN] A new taxonomy of issues related to CAD model quality is presented, which distinguishes between explicit and procedural models. For each type of model, morphologic, syntactic, and semantic errors are characterized. The taxonomy was va…
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Smart City Ontologies and Their Applications: A Systematic Literature Review Open
The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion of available urban data, and the need for multidisciplinary analysis and decision making for city sustainability require new technological solutions to cope with such complexi…
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OpenBIM: An Enabling Solution for Information Interoperability Open
The expansion of scale and the increase of complexity of construction projects puts higher requirements on the level of collaboration among different stakeholders. How to realize better information interoperability among multiple disciplin…