Ontology-Centered Syndromic Surveillance for Bioterrorism
IEEE Intelligent Systems
An Ontology-Driven Mediator for Querying Time-Oriented Biomedical Data
CBMS '06 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Knowledge-Based System for Managing Complex Clinical Trials
CBMS '06 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Supporting rule system interoperability on the semantic web with SWRL
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
PowerMap: mapping the real semantic web on the fly
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Editorial: Using ontologies with UML class-based modeling: The TwoUse approach
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Model driven engineering with ontology technologies
ReasoningWeb'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Semantic technologies for software engineering
PV-TONS: A photovoltaic technology ontology system for the design of PV-systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can be very useful in meeting these requirements. However, most biomedical data are stored in relational databases, a practice that will continue for the foreseeable future. Using these data in knowledge-driven applications requires approaches that can form a bridge between relational models and knowledge models. Accomplishing this task efficiently is a research challenge. To address this problem, we have developed an end-to-end knowledge-based system based on Semantic Web technologies. It permits formal design-time specification of the data requirements of a system and uses those requirements to drive knowledge-driven queries on operational relational data in a deployed system. We have implemented a dynamic OWL-to-relational mapping method and used SWRL, the Semantic Web Rule Language, as a high-level query language that uses these mappings. We have used these methods to support the development of a participant tracking application for clinical trials and in the development of a test bed for evaluating biosurveillance methods.