Using agents to parallelize a medical reasoning system based on ontologies and description logics as an application case

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 13085-13092

  Rodríguez González, Alejandro ^a   Torres Niño, Javier ^a   Hernández Chan, Gandhi ^a   Jiménez Domingo, Enrique ^a   Alvarez Rodríguez, Jose Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed; Expert system; Medical diagnosis; Ontologies; Parallel; Reasoning; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTION LOGIC; DISTRIBUTED; GLOBAL EFFICIENCY; HARD TASK; MASTER-SLAVE ARCHITECTURE; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; MULTI-THREADING; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; REASONER; REASONING; REASONING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUES USED; TIME EFFICIENCIES;

ARCHITECTURE; DIAGNOSIS; EFFICIENCY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

DATA DESCRIPTION;

EID: 84865207508     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.093     Document Type: Article

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