Dispositions and the infectious disease ontology

Albert Goldfain; Barry Smith; Lindsay G. Cowell

doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-400

Dispositions and the infectious disease ontology

Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith, Lindsay G. Cowell

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This paper addresses the use of dispositions in the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). IDO is an ontology constructed according to the principles of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. After providing a brief introduction to disposition types in BFO and IDO, we discuss three general techniques for representing combinations of dispositions under the headings blocking dispositions, complementary dispositions, and collective dispositions. Motivating examples for each combination of dispositions is given along with a specific use case in IDO. Description logic restrictions are used to formalize statements relating to these combinations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	400-413
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781607505341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-400
State	Published - 2010

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Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume	209
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8314

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Basic formal ontology
Dispositions
Infectious disease ontology

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Artificial Intelligence

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