A probabilistic ontology-based platform for self-learning context-aware healthcare applications

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7629-7646

  Ongenae, Femke ^a   Claeys, Maxim ^a   Dupont, Thomas ^a   Kerckhove, Wannes ^a   Verhoeve, Piet ^b   Dhaene, Tom ^a   De Turck, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMinds   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Context aware; eHealth; Nurse call system; Ontology; Probability; Self learning

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARE HEALTHCARE; CONTEXT-AWARE PLATFORMS; EHEALTH; NURSE CALL SYSTEMS; SELF-LEARNING; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROMES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION SERVICES; NURSING; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84882373348     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.07.038     Document Type: Article

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