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Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems IV

Special Issue on Database Systems for Biomedical Applications

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Abdelkader Hameurlain

    1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse Cedex, France

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  2. Josef Küng

    1. University of Linz, FAW, Linz, Austria

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  3. Roland Wagner

    1. University of Linz, FAW, Linz, Austria

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  4. Christian Böhm

    1. Department of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

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  5. Johann Eder

    1. Institut für Informatik-Systeme, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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  6. Claudia Plant

    1. Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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  • Focuses on the integration of database technology and biomedical research
  • Discusses the challenges arising in the face of the huge quantities of heterogeneous data available today
  • Of interest to both biomedical researchers and the database community

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6990)

Part of the book sub series: Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems (TLDKS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Database Systems for Biomedical Applications

    1. A Database System for Electrophysiological Data

      • Philipp L. Rautenberg, Andrey Sobolev, Andreas V. M. Herz, Thomas Wachtler
      Pages 1-14

    2. Management of Genotyping-Related Documents by Integrated Use of Semantic Tagging

      • Alessio Bechini, Riccardo Giannini
      Pages 15-39

    3. MEDCollector: Multisource Epidemic Data Collector

      • João Zamite, Fabrício A. B. Silva, Francisco Couto, Mário J. Silva
      Pages 40-72

    4. Supporting BioMedical Information Retrieval: The BioTracer Approach

      • Heri Ramampiaro, Chen Li
      Pages 73-94

    5. Electronic Health Record Data-as-a-Services Composition Based on Query Rewriting

      • Idir Amine Amarouche, Djamal Benslimane, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Michael Mrissa, Zaia Alimazighi
      Pages 95-123

    6. A Modular Database Architecture Enabled to Comparative Sequence Analysis

      • Paola Bonfante, Francesca Cordero, Stefano Ghignone, Dino Ienco, Luisa Lanfranco, Giorgio Leonardi et al.
      Pages 124-147

    7. [KD3] A Workflow-Based Application for Exploration of Biomedical Data Sets

      • Andreas Dander, Michael Handler, Michael Netzer, Bernhard Pfeifer, Michael Seger, Christian Baumgartner
      Pages 148-157

    8. A Secured Collaborative Model for Data Integration in Life Sciences

      • Hasan Jamil
      Pages 158-187

    9. Flexible-ICA Algorithm for a Reliable Iris Recognition

      • Imen Bouraoui, Salim Chitroub, Ahmed Bouridane
      Pages 188-208

  3. Back Matter

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About this book

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between Grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This special issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems highlights some of the major challenges emerging from the biomedical applications that are currently inspiring and promoting database research. These include the management, organization, and integration of massive amounts of heterogeneous data; the semantic gap between high-level research questions and low-level data; and privacy and efficiency. The contributions cover a large variety of biological and medical applications, including genome-wide association studies, epidemic research, and neuroscience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Abdelkader Hameurlain

  • University of Linz, FAW, Linz, Austria

    Josef Küng, Roland Wagner

  • Department of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

    Christian Böhm

  • Institut für Informatik-Systeme, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Johann Eder

  • Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Claudia Plant

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