International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments
Towards a Grid-Based Architecture for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Seattle, Washington
June 21-June 21
ISBN: 0-7695-1984-9
Huajun Chen, College of Computer Science of Zhejiang University
Zhaohui Wu, College of Computer Science of Zhejiang University
Chang Huang, College of Computer Science of Zhejiang University
Jiefeng Xu, College of Computer Science of Zhejiang University
We present a TCM-Grid for Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM). The purpose of the TCM-Grid is to aid the development of distributed systems that help health professionals, researchers, enterprises and personal users to retrieve, integrate and share TCM information and knowledge from geographically decentralized TCM database resources and knowledge base resources in China. Our approach involves developing a Database Grid for discovering and accessing TCM database resources and a Knowledge Base Grid supporting for TCM knowledge sharing globally. With our application experience, we argue that nowadays? Grid architecture is not enough: we need Database Grid to support finely granular data sharing and integration, and we also need a Knowledge Base Grid to support knowledge-intensive task. We also recommend a Grid Ontology effort to enable Grid intelligence.
Citation:
Huajun Chen, Zhaohui Wu, Chang Huang, Jiefeng Xu, "Towards a Grid-Based Architecture for Traditional Chinese Medicine," clade, pp.62, International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, 2003