Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2016 by Yen-Wei Chen Satoshi Tanaka Robert J. Howlett & Lakhmi C. Jain

Author:Yen-Wei Chen, Satoshi Tanaka, Robert J. Howlett & Lakhmi C. Jain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Finally, current systems do not properly deal with the full spectrum of issues concerning interoperability of resources, which span from organizational to semantic and technological ones. The semantic underpinning of the underlying resources does not shape a unified space of data sets, services and stakeholders.

CoHeRe provides contemporary research communities with an innovative web-based working environment that abolishes the above limitations. It serves the different resource integration requirements through alternative integration types. It offers a highly flexible and customizable solution, enabling any researcher to easily define his/her own workflow and accordingly assemble his/her working environment with the corresponding resources without worrying about technical details. Adopting a generic approach, based on a unified and virtualized view of resources that may come from different providers, it is able to serve the highly evolving needs of healthcare researchers.

CoHeRe promotes and maximizes sharing and reuse of existing resources towards serving the diverse needs of a research community. In addition, CoHeRe provides a set of innovative resource management services, enabling researchers to locate the data and services they need through system-generated recommendations, as well as innovative competence management services, aiming to sustain the involvement of appropriate stakeholders in successful collaborative research activities.

As regards scientific workflow management, CoHeRe will collect requirements to capture the analytical steps describing computational experiments in healthcare research. Different alternatives will be analyzed among scientific and business workflow management systems, and additional tools will be developed based on widely adopted standards. Also, the possibility of generating automatic data-driven links among different tools by using domain specific vocabularies and ontologies will be studied. A portal-based tool will provide access to specific healthcare workflows that will allow researchers to easily automate large-scale processes, including data management, analysis, simulation and visualization.

As far as semantics underpinning is concerned, CoHeRe elaborates the role of semantic tags to guarantee the conceptual integration of associated data, models, services, and stakeholders. Exploiting sustainable semantic web technologies and Linked Open Data initiatives, CoHeRe meaningfully addresses the diversity of resource interoperability issues (at the data, knowledge and collaboration layers). Through this unified view of research resources, CoHeRe also offers a sustainable solution to the issues of data and research provenance and attribution, by developing and appropriately deploying novel mechanisms for handling provenance metadata.

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