Agents and clinical guidelines:Filling the semantic gap

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 163, Issue , 2007, Pages 67-76

  Isern, David ^a   Sánchez, David ^a   Moreno, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical guidelines; Knowledge representation; Multi agent systems; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349100902     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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