Conference
Merging Healthcare Ontologies: Inconsistency Tolerance and Implementation Issues
Abstract
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent the logic from becoming explosive) which may cause valuable information loss. However, inconsistent information may serve as an integral component in healthcare systems to give a full clinical perspective: any information loss is undesirable. In this paper we discuss …
Authors
Imam FT; MacCaull W; Kennedy MA
Pagination
pp. 530-535
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Date
June 1, 2007
DOI
10.1109/cbms.2007.71
Name of conference
Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'07)
Conference proceedings
19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06)
ISSN
2372-918X