Representation of factual and temporal unawareness in electronic patient records

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Chountas, Panagiotis^{a; *} | Petrounias, Ilias^b | El-Darzi, Elia^a | Kodogiannis, Vassilis^a

Affiliations: [a] School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, London, HA1 3TP, UK | [b] School of Informatics University of Manchester PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: In this paper we are concerned with the problem of designing of a conceptual framework for the construction of a flexible data warehouse that is adequate for accommodating multi-source data and selecting useful answers to queries, posted to a conflicting community of Patient-Record sources. We put forward a proposal to provide representations with that kind of functionality through flexible reasoning mechanisms for handling perception based descriptions and retrieving intentional answers. We start by positioning conceptual schema, data-warehouses with regard to this problem.

Keywords: Temporal indeterminacy, information and conflict encoding

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2005-5403

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 243-261, 2005