Paper Info
Title
Using agents to parallelize a medical reasoning system based on ontologies and description logics as an application case
Abstract
Reasoning over ontologies is a hard task where the efficiency in terms of time usually depends on the ontology expressivity and the reasoner used. Depending on the domain and the techniques used to design the ontology, this fact could be a decisive factor to decide if the reasoning platform is useful or not. In this paper we describe an application case of a multi-agent architecture to parallelize a medical diagnosis system based on ontologies and description logics. The aim of this paper is to show the improvement of the time efficiency of the system in which is based this work using the proposed architecture. Results show that the use of the new architecture (which is based in the use of a master-slave architecture and the use of multi-threading) shows that global efficiency can be highly improved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.093
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
description logic,application case,new architecture,reasoning platform,medical diagnosis system,time efficiency,master-slave architecture,medical reasoning system,ontology expressivity,global efficiency,multi-agent architecture,proposed architecture,reasoning,medical diagnosis,expert system,semantic web,ontologies,parallel
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Ontology,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Semantic reasoner,Computer science,Expert system,Description logic,Semantic Web,Reasoning system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
18
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alejandro Rodríguez-González1877.70
Javier Torres-Niño2172.46
Gandhi HernáNdez-Chan350.84
Enrique Jiménez-Domingo4262.60
Jose Maria Alvarez-RodríGuez5282.33