Abstract
The goal of this paper is to present an ontology for hospital scenarios (called OntHoS). It was developed by a couple of research projects dealing with the application of agent systems in hospital scenarios. The aim of OntHoS is to establish a basis for a description of these scenarios and to facilitate their inter-operability. Therefore, we classify types of ontologies and approaches to ontology design, we focus on constructing a domain ontology and discuss the proceeding as well as the encountered problems. Finally, an overview about the future work is given, focussing especially on opening the scope to task ontologies for special project-specific purposes
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Gruninger, M.; Lee, J.: Ontology - Applications and Design. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, February 2002.
Holsapple, C. W.; Joshi, K. D.: A Collaborative Approach to Ontology Design. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, February 2002.
Kim, H.W., Lammers, D., Lippe, W.: Predicting how Ontologies for the Seman-tic Web evolve. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, February 2002.
Everett, J- O.; Bobrow, D. G.; Stolle, R.; Crouch, R.; de Paiva, V.; Condoravdi, C.; van den Berg, M.; Polanyi, L.: Making Ontologies work for resolving Redun-dancies across Documents. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, Febru-ary 2002.
Guarino, N.; Welty, C.: Evaluating Ontological Deciscions with Ontoclean. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, February 2002.
Noy, N. F.; Fergerson, R. W.; Musen M. A.: The knowledge model of Protégé-2000: combining interoperability and flexibility. 2th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW’2000), Juan-les-Pins, France, 2000.
Noy, N. F.; Sintek, M.; Decker, S.; Crubezy, M.; Fergerson, R. W.; Musen. M. A.: Creating Semantic Web Contents with Protégé-2000. IEEE Intelligent Sys-tems 16(2): 60–71, 2001.
Musen, M. A.; Fergerson, R. W.; Grosso, W. E.; Noy, N. F.; Crubezy, M.; Gen-nari, J. H.: Component-Based Support for Building Knowledge-Acquisition Sys-tems. Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (TIP 2000) of the Interna-tional Federation for Information Processing World Computer Congress (WCC 2000), Beijing, 2000.
Grosso, W. E.; Eriksson, H.; Fergerson, R. W.; Gennari, J. H.; Tu, S. W.; Musen, M. A.: Knowledge Modeling at the Millennium (The Design and Evolution of Protégé-2000). 1999.
Devedzic, V: Ontologies: Borrowing from Software Patterns. Communications of the ACM, 1999.
AI Watch - The Newsletter of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 4–6. AI Intelligence, Oxford, UK.
Knuth, D. E.: The Art of Computer Programming; Volume 2: Semi numerical Algorithms. Addison Wesley, 1981.
Guarino, N.; Giaretta, P.: Ontologies and Knowledge Bases - Towards a Termi-nological Clarification. In: Mars, N.J.I. (ed.): Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing. Amsterdam 1995, 25–32.
Guarino, N.: The Ontological Level. In: Casati, R.; Smith, B.; White, G. (eds.): Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences. Wien, 1994 (revised version 1995).
Guarino, N.: Understanding, Building, And Using Ontologies. International Jour-nal of Human-Computer Studies 46 (1997), 293–310.
Studer, R.; Fensel, D.; Decker, S.; Benjamins, V.R.: Knowledge Engineering: Survey and Future Directions. In: Puppe, F. (ed.): XPS-99: Knowledge-Based Systems - Survey and Future Directions. 5th Biannual German Conference on Knowl-edge-Based Systems, 03.05.09.1999 in Würzburg, Proceedings. Berlin et al. 1999, 1–23.
Gruber, T.R.: A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications. Knowledge Acquisition 5 (1993) 2, 199–220. See also: Gruber, T.R.: A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications. Knowledge Systems Laboratory Technical Report KSL 92–71, Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Stanford 1993 (revised version).
Chimæra Home Page:http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/
OILEd Home Page:http://oiled.man.ac.uk/
Fikes, R.; Farquhar, A.; Rice, J.:. Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua. Knowledge Systems Laboratory, April, 1997.
Protégé Home Page:http://www.protege.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/
OntHoS Home Page:http://16-spike-dos.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/Ontologie/
Dharma Guideline Model:http://smi-web.stanford.edu/projects/eon/DharmaUserGuide/
Samuelson, P. A.; Nordhaus, W. D.: Economics, Boston et al. 1998, 80–101.
Russel, S. J.; Norvig, P.: Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach, London et al. 1995, 31–50.
Seidensticker, A.: Organisation des Operationsbereiches im Krankenhaus - Eine empirisch-explorative Studie zur Beurteilung zentralisierter versus dezentrali-sierter Operationsbereiche, Frankfurt a.M. et al 1984.
Czap, H.: Policy-Agents as Personal Assistants: The Case of Hospital Schedul-ing. D-CSCW 2000 Deutsche Computer Supported Cooperative Work Fachtagung - Verteiltes Arbeiten - Arbeit der Zukunft, Workshop-Proceedings: Agents and CSCW: A Fruitful Marriage?, München 2000.
SeSAm Home Page:http://www.simsesam.de/
Klügl, F.; Herrler, R.; Oechslein, C.: From Simulated to Real Environments: How to use SeSAm for software development accepted at: First German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES03), Erfurt, 2003
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer Basel AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Becker, M., Heine, C., Herrler, R., Krempels, KH. (2003). OntHoS — an Ontology for Hospital Scenarios. In: Moreno, A., Nealon, J.L. (eds) Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7976-7_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7976-7_7
Publisher Name: Birkhäuser, Basel
Print ISBN: 978-3-7643-2662-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-0348-7976-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive