Domain-specific design of patient classification in cancer-related cachexia research

Abstract

We apply an IDE for user-level process design and composition to a real-life case study: a complex workflow from an ongoing global cancer-related cachexia research project. Originally buried in a manually operated spreadsheet, the process is now fully automated and integrated into the project database, ensuring the immediate availability, consistency and reproducibility of the outcomes. Our integrated solution enables the scientists to immediately execute the processes and easily customize both processes and data model to continuously changing experimental setups. The data modeling is provided by the Dynamic Web Application framework and the process modeling functionalities by the Java Application Building Center, both following the paradigm of eXtreme Model-Driven Design for model-driven software development.