Nowadays, chronic heart failure (CHF) affects an ever-growing segment of population, and it
is among the major causes of hospitalization for elderly citizens. The actual out-of-hospital …

We propose CONFlexFlow (Clinical cONtext based Flexible workFlow) as a novel approach
for integrating clinical pathways into Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). It …

The insider threat is one of the most pernicious in computer security. Traditional approaches
typically instrument systems with decoys or intrusion detection mechanisms to detect …

In light of the ongoing transformation from a traditional industrial society to a post-industrial
society as a service society, it is unquestionably required to improve efficiency and quality of …

This paper provides an overview of the UMass/Baystate Medical Safety project, which has
been developing and evaluating tools and technology for modeling and analyzing medical …

This paper presents the results of exploratory research that investigated how people
describe software processes in natural language. We conducted a small field study with four …

Embedded systems pose special challenges to system evolution: they're embedded in a
changing environment, often interacting with evolving processes of human organizations …

In this paper, we describe some of the key observations resulting from our work on using
software engineering technologies to help detect errors in medical processes. In many ways …

Objectives: To demonstrate a technology-based approach to continuously improving the
safety of medical processes. Methods: The paper describes the Little-JIL process definition …

The main addition that this paper makes to the previous version is to note a potentially key
contribution that Empirical Methods could make to these understandings. In the paper we …