The need for information integration is paramount in many biological disciplines, because of the large heterogeneity in both the types of data involved and in the diversity of app...
Subgroup discovery aims at finding interesting subsets of a classified example set that deviates from the overall distribution. The search is guided by a so-called utility function...
Increased concern about bioterrorism and emerging diseases is driving the development of systems for early epidemic detection. These systems have different requirements than tradit...
David L. Buckeridge, Martin J. O'Connor, Haobo Xu,...
The world wide web(WWW)has becomecritical for storing and disseminatingbiological data. It offers an additional opportunity, however,to support distributed computation and sharing...
Richard O. Chen, Ramon M. Felciano, Russ B. Altman
Expert systems (ESs) are complex information systems that are expensive to build and difficult to validate. Numerous knowledge representation strategies such as rules, semantic net...