HOLON/CADSE: Integrating Open Software Standards and Formal Methods to Generate Guideline-Based Decision Support Agents 

Authors:
B.G. Silverman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania,
A. Wong, Sun Microsystems,
L. Lang, MD, Kaiser Permenente
A. Khoury, MD, Kaiser Permanente
K. Campbell, MD, PhD, Kaiser Permanente
V. Tannen, PhD, University of Pennsylvania,
A. Sahuguet, MS, University of Pennsylvania,
C. Qiang, MS, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract:

This paper describes the efforts of a consortium that is trying to
develop and validate scalable methods and a meta-environment for
authoring, checking, and maintaining a large repository of machine
executable practice guidelines. The goal is to integrate and extend a
number of open software standards so that guidelines in the
meta-environment become a resource that any vendor can plug their
applications into and run in their proprietary environment provided
they conform to the interface standards.