Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems

The vision of Digital Ecosystems was initiated by the European Commission, with the purpose of constructing an information and communication technology environment to facilitate the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises. As a key subdomain of Digital Ecosystems, Digital Health Ecos...

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Main Authors: Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45588
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Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
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description The vision of Digital Ecosystems was initiated by the European Commission, with the purpose of constructing an information and communication technology environment to facilitate the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises. As a key subdomain of Digital Ecosystems, Digital Health Ecosystems provide crucial services to maintain the health of the main participants of Digital Ecosystems. We are concerned with the large-scale, ambiguous, heterogeneous, and untrustworthy health service information in Digital Health Ecosystems. An intensive survey found that current research cannot support accurate and trustworthy matchmaking between health service requests and health service advertisements in Digital Health Ecosystems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a framework of a semantic service matchmaker, by taking into account the ambiguous, heterogeneous nature of service information in Digital Health Ecosystems. This framework is designed to make four major contributions, which are health service domain knowledge modeling, online health service information disambiguation, health service query disambiguation and health service quality evaluation and ranking. In order to thoroughly evaluate this framework, we implement a prototype – a Semantic Health Service Search Engine, and execute a series of experiments on the prototype using a functional testing and simulation approach.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-455882019-02-19T04:25:45Z Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems Dong, Hai Hussain, Farookh Khadeer Digital Ecosystems semantic service matchmaking Digital Health Ecosystems semantic search The vision of Digital Ecosystems was initiated by the European Commission, with the purpose of constructing an information and communication technology environment to facilitate the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises. As a key subdomain of Digital Ecosystems, Digital Health Ecosystems provide crucial services to maintain the health of the main participants of Digital Ecosystems. We are concerned with the large-scale, ambiguous, heterogeneous, and untrustworthy health service information in Digital Health Ecosystems. An intensive survey found that current research cannot support accurate and trustworthy matchmaking between health service requests and health service advertisements in Digital Health Ecosystems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a framework of a semantic service matchmaker, by taking into account the ambiguous, heterogeneous nature of service information in Digital Health Ecosystems. This framework is designed to make four major contributions, which are health service domain knowledge modeling, online health service information disambiguation, health service query disambiguation and health service quality evaluation and ranking. In order to thoroughly evaluate this framework, we implement a prototype – a Semantic Health Service Search Engine, and execute a series of experiments on the prototype using a functional testing and simulation approach. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45588 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.02.005 Elsevier BV fulltext
spellingShingle Digital Ecosystems
semantic service matchmaking
Digital Health Ecosystems
semantic search
Dong, Hai
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title_full Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title_fullStr Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title_full_unstemmed Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title_short Semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
title_sort semantic service matchmaking for digital health ecosystems
topic Digital Ecosystems
semantic service matchmaking
Digital Health Ecosystems
semantic search
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45588