An Object-Oriented Approach to Knowledge Representation in a Biomedical Domain

Ensing, M. and Paton, R. and Speel, P.H.W.M. and Rada, R. (1994) An Object-Oriented Approach to Knowledge Representation in a Biomedical Domain. Artificial intelligence in medicine, 6 (6). pp. 459-482. ISSN 09333657

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Abstract:	An object-oriented approach has been applied to the different stages involved in developing a knowledge base about insulin metabolism. At an early stage the separation of terminological and assertional knowledge was made. The terminological component was developed by medical experts and represented in CORE. An object-oriented knowledge acquisition process was applied to the assertional knowledge. A frame description is proposed which includes features like states and events, inheritance and collaboration. States and events are formalized with qualitative calculus. The terminological knowledge was very useful in the development of the assertional component. It assisteed in understanding the problem domain, and in the implementation stage, it assisted in building good inheritance hierarchies.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1994 Elsevier Science
Research Group:	Information Systems (IS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/18210
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0933-3657(94)90025-6
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