Showing papers by "Bouchaib Bounabat published in 2012"

Integrated Public E-Services Interoperability Assessment

Abstract: Delivering added value public e-services often requires cooperation between two or more government departments In general, such cooperation is ensured by implementing interoperability between automated business processes In spite of the existence of several works interested in public online services in general, only few of them were focused on measuring interoperability degree, whether used or required, to deliver them In this context, the objective of this paper is to propose a new quality indicator for interoperability assessment of public integrated e-services This indicator takes into account three main aspects: interoperation potentiality, interoperation compatibility and operational performance Finally, to better illustrate how to use the proposed measurement method, we present a practical example of integrated public e-service This work takes the case of a national library which proposes an online registration service

Interoperability optimization in healthcare collaboration networks.

Abstract: Interoperability is one of the most challenging concerns that face healthcare information system (HIS) actors. Interoperability implementation in this context may be a data exchange interfacing, a service oriented interaction or even a composition of new composite healthcare processes. In fact, optimizing efforts of interoperability achievement is a key requirement to effectively setup, develop and evolve intra- and interorganizational collaboration. To ensure interoperability project effectiveness, this paper proposes a modeling representation of health processes interoperability evolution. Interoperability degrees of involved automated processes are assessed using a ratio metric, taking into account all significant aspects, such as potentiality, compatibility and operational performance. Then, a particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) is used as a heuristic optimization method to find the best distribution of effort needed to establish an efficient healthcare collaborative network.

Formal specification of humanitarian disaster management processes

Abstract: Disaster situations are dynamic and demanding a change in response, and information is received in a fragmented manner during the early stages of the event. Therefore, a Rapid Assessment and Intervention Team (RAIT Team) is established to respond quickly to the event, by achieving an initial assessment helping to understand the nature and scope of the incident and to determine the required assistance. The RAIT Team can be considered as a Reactive Collaborative Network, having to coordinate numerous actors and two or more reactive parallel sub-processes. Therefore, formal specification and validation methods and tools are needed while specifying and verifying RAIT processes to detect and correct deficiencies and faults In this perspective, the present paper proposes to use the Decisional Reactive Agents (DRA) based approach for the formal modeling and checking of RAIT system processes, so that they can be directly implemented in software environments with the maximum of logical correctness. The proposed approach is illustrated by formally checking temporal constraints of a transversal RAIT process acting in case of medical or humanitarian emergency.

Healthcare Strategic Alignment through Interoperability Reinforcement

Abstract: This paper aims to clarify how to foster healthcare alignment in integrated delivery network (IDN) through interoperability enhancement. It presents an approach for assessing alignment of integrated healthcare information systems (HIS). In the case of alignment gaps in the integrated delivery network due to a lack of interoperability, it is quite important to have the means to plan point to point interoperability scenarios. This paper proposes a novel approach of processes interoperability evolution, which aims at finding the best effort distribution needed to establish efficient Integration Delivery Network (IDN). Keywords: Strategic Alignment, Healthcare Information System (HIS), Integrated Delivery Network (IDN), Interoperability planning.

A Smartphone-Based Healthcare Monitoring System—PHY Challenges and Behavioral Aspects

Abstract: Within the broad theme of wireless healthcare systems, this paper focuses on emergency interventions. Specifically, we address one of the aspects of this problem, namely sensing and transmitting to a health center data regarding an emergency status. No dedicated infrastructure is assumed—rather, the premise is that existing wireless networks be utilized. Our goal is to enable quick and reliable access whenever an emergency arises. For system design, we describe an integrated solution based on the use of wireless/mobile technologies and of smartphones integrated by ad hoc sensors. We examine the possible use of licensed or unlicensed spectrum through two separate techniques: Interweaved Cognitive Radio and a novel version of Interference Alignment, that we call Interference Priority and is tailored to the specific problem of this paper. Validation based on the behavioral aspects of the system is also discussed.