A Service Oriented Architecture for Biomedical Question Answering System

Author

Makar, Rosaline ; Kouta, Mohamed ; Badr, Amr

Author_Institution

IBM Cairo Technol. Dev. Center, Cairo

fYear

2008

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

80

Abstract

Medical practitioners consider online medical resources as one of the important sources to answer their biomedical questions. Finding the answer to a certain question among large amount of medical documents - available on the Web - is very time consuming. In this paper we present a biomedical question answering system that is based on service oriented architecture and Web services. Service oriented architecture facilitates this system development by providing modular design, loosely coupled application integration, asset reuse, system agility, and interoperability.

Keywords

Web services; medical information systems; software architecture; Web services; asset reuse; biomedical question answering system; interoperability; online medical resources; service oriented architecture; system agility; Access protocols; Application software; Biomedical computing; Computer architecture; Electronic mail; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Web services; World Wide Web; XML; BPEL; Biomedical Question Answering System; Service Oriented Architecture; Web Services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Congress on Services Part II, 2008. SERVICES-2. IEEE

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3313-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3313-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES-2.2008.7

Filename

4700502