Building optimal information systems automatically: Configuration space exploration for biomedical information systems

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1421-1430

  Yang, Zi ^a   Sinnia, Elmer Garduno ^a   Fang, Yan ^b   Maiberg, Avner ^a   McCormack, Collin ^c   Nyberg, Eric ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical question answering; Configuration space exploration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION; BIOMEDICAL QUESTION ANSWERING; CONFIGURATION SPACE; DISTRIBUTED SOLUTIONS; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE RESEARCH; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889589507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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