Title : Evidence-Based Medical Guidelines in SemanticCT

Presenter Qing Hu
Abstract Most of the traditional Evidence-Based Medical(EBM)guidelines are textual, which can’t be understood by computers. But computer understandable EBM guideline is the foundation of medical decision support systems. So we briefly introduce the main structure in EBM guidelines and the process of transforming the textual EBM guidelines into computer reasonable EBM guideline knowledge in RDF. Based on the RDF EBM guideline knowledge, we will propose an approach of finding relevant evidences for EBM guideline update with different strategies.

Title : Can provenance actually help speed query performance?

Presenter Paul Groth
Abstract Yes! Come by Monday and I'll tell you how. With a dose of morning philosophy on the benefits of empiricism.