The CancerGrid experience: Metadata-based model-driven engineering for clinical trials

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 89, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 126-143

  Davies, Jim ^a   Gibbons, Jeremy ^a   Harris, Steve ^a   Crichton, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical informatics; Electronic government; ISO IEC 11179; Metadata; Model driven engineering; Semantic frameworks

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLINICAL INFORMATICS; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; ISO/IEC; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK;

METADATA;

EID: 84900510971     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2013.02.010     Document Type: Article

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