An entropy-based evaluation method for knowledge bases of medical information systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 262-273

  Hempelmann, Christian F ^a   Sakoglu, Unal ^a   Gurupur, Varadraj P ^b   Jampana, Seetaramaraju ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information entropy; Knowledge base evaluation; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS;

EVALUATION RESULTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION DENSITY; INFORMATION ENTROPY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84946780967     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.023     Document Type: Article

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