Context-Based Intelligent Service for Healthcare Applications

View Sample PDF

Author(s): Alexander Smirnov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)and Tatiana Levashova (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ashish N. Dwivedi (University of Hull, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2.ch009

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

Purchase

View Context-Based Intelligent Service for Healthcare Applications on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

The chapter presents an approach to implementation of an intelligent service for decision support in healthcare logistics taking an advantage of the knowledge logistics idea. The approach is based on synergistic integration of knowledge acquired from distributed sources in order to obtain new or complement insufficient knowledge. The approach is based on the methodology that assumes three levels of information integration. The application domain is described via an application ontology using the formalism of object-oriented constraint networks. The problem is represented by an abstract context that is obtained as a result of the slicing operation on the application ontology. Finally, filling the abstract context with up-to-date information about the current situation produces an operational context. Contexts of both types share the same knowledge representation formalism that is used by the application ontology. As a result the operational context can be considered as a constraint satisfaction problem. Solving this task produces feasible decisions in the current situation.

The IRMA Community

Research IRM

Context-Based Intelligent Service for Healthcare Applications

Purchase

Abstract

Related Content

IRMA Sponsors