title: Apollo: giving application developers a single point of access to public health models using structured vocabularies and Web services.
abstract: This paper describes the Apollo Web Services and Apollo-SV, its related ontology. The Apollo Web Services give an end-user application a single point of access to multiple epidemic simulators. An end user can specify an analytic problem-which we define as a configuration and a query of results-exactly once and submit it to multiple epidemic simulators. The end user represents the analytic problem using a standard syntax and vocabulary, not the native languages of the simulators. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this design by implementing a set of Apollo services that provide access to two epidemic simulators and two visualizer services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Levander
authors.affiliation: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Millett
authors.affiliation: Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
authors.forename: Josh
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hanna
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D064229:Biological Ontologies; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D058872:Epidemics; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D012984:Software