Adapting clinical ontologies in real-world environments

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3767-3780

  Stenzhorn, Holger ^a,b   Schulz, Stefan ^a   Boeker, Martin ^a   Smith, Barry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical ontologies; Formal ontologies; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949115543     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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