META-GLARE: a shell for CIG systems.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

In the last twenty years, many different approaches to deal with Computer-Interpretable clinical Guidelines (CIGs) have been developed, each one proposing its own representation formalism (mostly based on the Task-Network Model) execution engine. We propose META-GLARE a shell for easily defining new CIG systems. Using META-GLARE, CIG system designers can easily define their own systems (basically by defining their representation language), with a minimal programming effort. META-GLARE is thus a flexible and powerful vehicle for research about CIGs, since it supports easy and fast prototyping of new CIG systems.

Authors

  • Alessio Bottrighi
    Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
  • Stefania Rubrichi
    Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
  • Paolo Terenziani
    Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.