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Parts, Locations, and Holes — Formal Reasoning about Anatomical Structures
We propose an ontology engineering framework for the anatomy domain, focusing on mereotopological properties of parts, locations and empty spaces (holes). We develop and formally describe a basic ontology cons...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Search Engine for Morphologically Complex Languages
Document retrieval on natural languages with a rich morphology — particularly in terms of derivation and (single-word) composition — suffers from serious performance degradation with the direct query-term-to-t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Turning Lead into Gold? Feeding a Formal Knowledge Base with Informal Conceptual Knowledge
We describe an ontology engineering methodology by which conceptual knowledge is extracted from an informal medical thesaurus (UMLS) and automatically converted into a formal description logics system. Our app...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Frame of Interest Approach on Quality of Prediction for Agent-Based Network Monitoring
We present an approach to compute the quality of prediction for network monitoring. The monitoring is part of a proactive mobile agents based management system for network health (magmaNH). To allow prediction...
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TAKEUP: Trust-Based Agent-Mediated Knowledge Exchange for Ubiquitous Peer Networks
Agent-mediated Knowledge Management is a promising approach to handle and maintain knowledge, especially in a distributed and mobile environment. One example for such an environment is a mobile community: mobi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Ontologies Can Improve Semantic Interoperability in Health Care
The main rationale of biomedical terminologies and formalized clinical information models is to provide semantic standards to improve the exchange of meaningful clinical information. Whereas terminologies shou...