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A user of the caBIG® Clinical Information Suite uses the 7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Classification system to stage cancer patients. The 8th Edition has now come out and they would like to upgrade the system to meet the requirements of the state cancer registry. The investment for re-coding the infrastructure for all cancer types in Java is expected to be quite expensive and time conusming. They query the ECCF registry for "AJCC Cancer Classification" and find a plugin reasoner service that implements an OWL version of the AJCC 8th Edition classification system capable of inferring an anatomic stage based on data directly from pathology, imaging and clinical exam input through a service. Their system is now able to move with the speed of the Cancer Registry requirements rather than the pace of the software vendor.

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