Meeting on Current UB Ontology Projects

'Toward Ontology-based Representation of Cancer Clinical Guidelines' Jonathan Bona and Carmelo Gaudioso

We are developing ontology-based computable representations of NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines realized as OWL documents that explicitly represent the logical structure of the guidelines' contents (workflows, recommendations, etc) for use in automated decision support and compliance metrics within the context of multidisciplinary cancer care. This work uses existing Open Biomedical Ontologies where possible, and other resources such as the NCBI Taxonomy, to build representations of the relevant entities. Our goal is to improve the usability and accuracy of healthcare processes and informations systems that use the guidelines.

Fernanda Farinelli:

Francesco Furini: Ontology in Manufacturing: The Example of Functionally Graded Materials I will use BFO as a starting point for formulating mid-level descriptions of manufacturing activities, using the steps involved in manufacturing functionally graded materials as case study.

Rahul