How granularity issues concern biomedical ontology integration

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 136, Issue , 2008, Pages 863-868

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Boeker, Martin ^a   Stenzhorn, Holger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Lower Dangan   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Domain ontology; Formal ontology

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; DATA SHARING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; DIFFERENT GRANULARITIES; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; INTEGRATION PROBLEMS; UPPER ONTOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

CONFERENCE PAPER; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY;

EID: 44349160112     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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