Abstract
To facilitate health surveillance, flexible ways to represent, integrate, and deduce health information become increasingly important. In this paper, an ontology is used to support the semantic definition of spatial, temporal and thematic factors of health information. The ontology is realized as an interchangeable RuleML knowledge base, consisting of facts and rules. Rules are also used for integrating geographical and health information. The implemented eHealthGeo system uses the OO jDREW reasoning engine to deduce implicit information such as spatial relationships. The system combines this with spatial operations and supports health information roll-up and visualization. The eHealthGeo study demonstrates a RuleML approach to supporting semantic health information integration and management.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web : International Symposium, RuleML 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, October 30-31, 2008. Proceedings |
Editors | Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke |
Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
Publication date | 2008 |
Pages | 174-181 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-540-88807-9 |
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Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications - Orlando, United States Duration: 30 Oct 2008 → 31 Oct 2008 Conference number: 2008 |
Conference
Conference | 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications |
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Number | 2008 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Orlando |
Period | 30/10/2008 → 31/10/2008 |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Number | 5321 |