Papers by Ashraf Abusharekh
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Generally, the therapeutic option... more Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Generally, the therapeutic options for managing AF include the use of anticoagulant drugs that prevent the coagulation of blood. New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) are not optimally prescribed to patients, despite their efficacy. In Canada, NOAC medications are not directly available to patients who belong to provincial benefits programs, rather a NOAC special authorization process establishes the eligibility of a patient to receive a NOAC and be paid by the provincial Pharmacare program. This special authorization process is tedious and paper-based which inhibits physicians to prescribe NOAC leading to suboptimal AF care to patients. In this paper, we present a computerized NOAC Authorization Decision Support System (NOAC-ADSS), accessible to physicians to help them (a) determine a patient eligibility for NOAC based on Canadian AF clinical guidelines, and (b) complete the special authorization form. We present a semantic ...
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2018
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. It is well understood that if modifiab... more Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. It is well understood that if modifiable risk factors are targeted, most chronic diseases can be prevented. Lifetime health is an emerging health paradigm that aims to assist individuals to achieve desired health targets, and avoid harmful lifecycle choices to mitigate the risk of chronic diseases. Early risk identification is central to lifetime health. In this paper, we present a digital health-based platform (PRISM) that leverages artificial intelligence, data visualization and mobile health technologies to empower citizens to self-assess, self-monitor and self-manage their overall risk of major chronic diseases and pursue personalized chronic disease prevention programs. PRISM offers risk assessment tools for 5 chronic conditions, 2 psychiatric disorders and 8 different cancers.
Scientific notes of Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University. Series: Technical Sciences, 2019
Conference on Systems …
Page 1. CSER 2007, Stevens Institute of Technology , ISBN - 0-9787122-1-8 1 PROCEEDINGS CSER 2007... more Page 1. CSER 2007, Stevens Institute of Technology , ISBN - 0-9787122-1-8 1 PROCEEDINGS CSER 2007 , March 14-16, Hoboken, NJ , USA Paper #56 Modeling Time in DoDAF Compliant Executable Architectures1 Ashraf ...
ECMS 2016 Proceedings edited by Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann, Michael Manitz, Oliver Rose, 2016
An approach for constructing an Enterprise Service Bus based Service Oriented Architecture for in... more An approach for constructing an Enterprise Service Bus based Service Oriented Architecture for individual clouds and then considering workflows where services from multiple clouds are used is formulated and a systematic methodology for performance evaluation of the architecture is presented. The participation in this environment is achieved by allowing the SOA to dynamically federate with services through Community of Interest registries, i.e., different clouds, and by utilizing these services to share enterprise-level information. The performance prediction methodology is based on multiformalism modeling.
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction
An algorithm for designing multinational organizations that takes into account cultural dimension... more An algorithm for designing multinational organizations that takes into account cultural dimensions is presented and an example from the command and control field is used to illustrate the approach.
2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Security and Defense Applications, 2007
An extension to the lattice algorithm for designing decision-making organizations subject to cult... more An extension to the lattice algorithm for designing decision-making organizations subject to cultural constraints is presented. Hofstede dimensions have been used to incorporate cultural attributes in the design process in the form of constraints on the allowable interactions within the organization. An example is used to illustrate the approach.
Systems Engineering, 2011
This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service ... more This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based systems engineering across a federation of information domains. It addresses the necessity and benefits of a repeatable service design framework and its ability to consistently yield quantifiable results for SOA performance evaluation. An illustrative example of the approach is presented.
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, 2008
An algorithm for designing multi-national organizations that takes into account cultural dimensio... more An algorithm for designing multi-national organizations that takes into account cultural dimensions is presented and an example from the command and control field is used to illustrate the approach. Copyright © 2002 IFAC
Systems Engineering, 2011
This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service ... more This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based systems engineering across a federation of information domains. It addresses the necessity and benefits of a repeatable service design framework and its ability to consistently yield quantifiable results for SOA performance evaluation. An illustrative example of the approach is presented.
The paper describes some challenges and pitfalls in the derivation of the executable model from t... more The paper describes some challenges and pitfalls in the derivation of the executable model from the DoDAF products, especially when temporal and queuing issues are involved. The presence of ambiguities or lack of information in the architecture description may result in different modeling assumptions for the executable model being constructed. These assumptions -untraceable to the information contained in the DoDAF productsare shown to yield models with a variety of behavioral properties. The paper describes some of these cases with the help of an illustrative example. (Prior knowledge of DoDAF and Colored Petri Nets is required to fully understand the material in this paper.)
2015 IEEE First International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, 2015
2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, 2015
2010 6th World Congress on Services, 2010
We present an E-Research platform for studying the impact of changes in the ecosystem on oceans a... more We present an E-Research platform for studying the impact of changes in the ecosystem on oceans and marine life. We have developed the Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management (POKM) that offers a suite of services for researchers to (a) access, share, integrate and operationalize the data, models and knowledge resources available at multiple sites; (b) collaborate in joint scientific research experiments by sharing resources, results, expertise and models; and (c) form a virtual community of researchers. We take a knowledge management approach to establish conceptual, terminological and data level interoperability between ocean and marine life science communities so that they can collaborate to conduct complex experiments. POKM is supported by the CANARIE high bandwidth network that allows rapid sharing of highvolume data from distributed repositories across the world.
The 18th IASTED …, 2007
Accurate forecasts of cash market prices for agricultural commodities are of a great value to mar... more Accurate forecasts of cash market prices for agricultural commodities are of a great value to market participants who are looking to reduce the risk involved in buying and selling commodities. This paper discusses the use of" The Synthesis" model to forecast cash ...
Abstract: The initial objectives of the" Computational Modeling of Cultural Dimensions in Ad... more Abstract: The initial objectives of the" Computational Modeling of Cultural Dimensions in Adversary Organizations" were:(a) To relate an adversary's organizational structure to behavior when both structure and behavior are conditioned by cultural and social characteristics, as they always are in realistic settings.(b) To address basic research questions centered on locating the points of influence and characterizing the processes necessary to influence organizations in diverse cultures.(c) To explore, through a ...
Systems Engineering, 2010
This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service ... more This paper discusses the specifications, methods, and constructs to implement end-to-end Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based systems engineering across a federation of information domains. It addresses the necessity and benefits of a repeatable service design framework and its ability to consistently yield quantifiable results for SOA performance evaluation. An illustrative example of the approach is presented. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 14: 56–72, 2011
An extension to the lattice algorithm for designing decision-making organizations subject to cult... more An extension to the lattice algorithm for designing decision-making organizations subject to cultural constraints is presented. Hofstede dimensions have been used to incorporate cultural attributes in the design process in the form of constraints on the allowable interactions within the organization. An example is used to illustrate the approach.
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