This course provides students with essential concepts of ontologies, building ontologies, and knowledge representation as they pertain to health care, and biomedical research. With the ubiquitous nature of computer systems, and information-based systems in health care (and everywhere!) there is a critical need to be able to represent information.
Outcomes: Understand the role of ontologies in knowledge representation; Understand the differences between realist and anti-realist ontologies; Understand and describe the importance of propositional and predicate logic in knowledge representation and discovery; Understand basic principles of developing ontologies in health care; Build ontologies using computer ontology-building tools; Understand and describe how ontologies affect biomedical informatics systems and how we discovery new knowledge.
Outcomes: Understand the role of ontologies in knowledge representation; Understand the differences between realist and anti-realist ontologies; Understand and describe the importance of propositional and predicate logic in knowledge representation and discovery; Understand basic principles of developing ontologies in health care; Build ontologies using computer ontology-building tools; Understand and describe how ontologies affect biomedical informatics systems and how we discovery new knowledge.