: A unified controlled medical vocabulary has been cited as one of the grand challenges facing Medical Informatics. We would restate this challenge as ‘achieving a re-usable and ...
Different kinds of agents in a multi-agent system have different knowledge structure, which results in difficulties of interaction and coordination among agents. At present, ontol...
We present a novel system and methodology for browsing and exploring topics and concepts within a document collection. The process begins with the generation of multiple taxonomie...
W. Scott Spangler, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, Justin Less...
Biomedical ontologies provide a commonly accepted scheme for the characterization of biological concepts that enable knowledge sharing and integration. Updating and maintaining an ...
Ontology matching is currently a key technology to achieve the semantic alignment of ontological entities used by knowledge-based applications, and therefore to enable their inter...