Representation of context-dependant knowledge in ontologies: A model and an application

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1899-1908

  Bobillo, Fernando ^a   Delgado, Miguel ^a   Gómez Romero, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context aware systems; Knowledge representation; Medical informatics; Mobile systems; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; HEALTH; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

COMMON PROBLEMS; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FORMAL MODELING; HAND-HELD DEVICES; INFORMATION OVERLOADING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE DECISION SUPPORT; MOBILE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGIES; POST-PROCESSING; RELEVANT INFORMATION; SYSTEM RESPONSES;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 48749084147     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.090     Document Type: Article

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