title: META-GLARE: a shell for CIG systems.
abstract: In the last twenty years, many different approaches to deal with Computer-Interpretable clinical Guidelines (CIGs) have been developed, each one proposing its own representation formalism (mostly based on the Task-Network Model) execution engine. We propose META-GLARE a shell for easily defining new CIG systems. Using META-GLARE, CIG system designers can easily define their own systems (basically by defining their representation language), with a minimal programming effort. META-GLARE is thus a flexible and powerful vehicle for research about CIGs, since it supports easy and fast prototyping of new CIG systems.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bottrighi
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rubrichi
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Institute, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Terenziani
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards; D007558:Italy; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards*; D012985:Software Design