och @ cs.colorado.edu ABSTK~CT Megaprogramming. module interconnection languages, and mediator-based approaches built on standard distributed object technologies such as CORBA and DCOM have provided promishzg ad,ances in enterprise-level data intt~razion. These distributed object technologies, however, still require relatively low-leveL technology-dependem implementations to achieve object (or module) intereonneczion, communication, and coordination. The Component Object Interconnection Language (COIl.) is a language designed specificaEy to facilitate rapid and flexible data integration through high-level object interconnections. COIL is an extensible language, with both declarative and imperative aspects, tt has been designed to provide broad fimctionaiRy in declaring and controlling structural and semantic data integration, and includes constructs for speci~,ing updates, constraint enforcement, and update propagations. This paper presents an overview of COIL and a so,lined ca'ample showing an application of the CO1L language and its components.

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The MIMIC II database contains 1,237,686 clinical documents of various kinds. A common task for researchers working with this database is to run MetaMap, which uses the UMLS Metathesaurus, on those documents to identify specific semantic types of entities mentioned in them. However, this task is computationally expensive and time-consuming. Research in many groups could be accelerated if there were a community-accessible set of outputs from running MetaMap on this document collection, cached and available on the MIMIC-II website. This paper describes a repository of all MetaMap output from the MIMIC II database, publicly available, assuming compliance with usage agreements required by UMLS and MIMIC-II. Additionally, software for manipulating MetaMap output, available on SourceForge with a liberal Open Source license, is described.

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This paper discusses recent developments in asset‐backed financing and proposes a method for securitizing the bankers' acceptance market. It then derives a model for the pricing of these securitized bankers' acceptances (SECBAs) incorporating a random arrival and maturity process. The paper concludes with a discussion of institutional factors and alternative methods for implementing our proposal.