Semantic layer based ontologies to reformulate the neurological queries in mobile environment
A crucial requirement for the context-aware service provisioning
is the dynamic retrieval and interaction with local resources, i.e.,
resource discovery. The high degree of dynamicity and
heterogeneity of mobile environments requires to rethink and/or
extend traditional discovery solutions to support more intelligent
service search and retrieval, personalized to user context
conditions. Several research efforts have recently emerged in the
field of service discovery that, based on semantic data
representation and technologies, allow flexible matching
between user requirements and service capabilities in open and
dynamic deployment scenarios. Our research work aims at
providing suitable answering mechanisms of mobile requests by
taking into account user contexts (preferences, profiles, physical
location, temporal information).
This paper proposes an ontology, culled O'Neurolog, to capture
semantic knowledge a valuable in Neurology domain in order to
assist users (doctor, patient, administration) when querying
Neurology knowledge bases in mobile environment. The
increasing diffusion of portable devices with wireless
connectivity enables new pervasive scenarios, where users
require tailored service access according to their needs, position,
and execution/environment conditions.
Keywords: Neurology, ontology, context-aware, semantic web,
query answering, mobile environment
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