Plenary Lecture

Ontological Engineering for Medical Knowledge Management

Professor Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem
Head of BioMedical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering Research Lab
Faculty of Computer and Information sciences
Ain Shams University
Abbasia, Cairo
Egypt
E-mail: asalem@eun.eg

Abstract: Ontological engineering have become an efficient methodology for knowledge representation and management in many domains and tasks.Ontologies have a range of potential benefits and applications in medical domain including the sharing of medical information across medical systems, enabling reuse of medical knowledge and providing intelligent and personalized researcher support.This paper presents the research results of the author and his colleagues that have been carried out in recent years at theBioMedical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering Research Lab in Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, on using ontological engineering in medical informatics.Examples of the research performed for developingweb-based ontologies for breast, lung, and liver cancers ,and viral hepatitis are discussed. The developed ontologies were encoded in OWL-DL format using the Protégé-OWL editing environment. In addition the talk discusses several directions for future research.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. Dr. Abdel-Badeeh M Salem He is a Professor of Computer Science since 1989 at Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences ,Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt. He is a professor emeritus since October 2007 . He was a Director of Scientific Computing Center at Ain Shams University (1984-1990). His research includes intelligent computing, expert systems, biomedical informatics, and intelligent e-learning technologies. He has published around 250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved in more than 300 conferences and workshops as an Int. Program Committee , organizer and Session Chair. He is author and co-author of 15 Books in English and Arabic Languages.
He was one of the founders of the following events, First Egyptian Workshop on Expert Systems 1987, Int. Cairo Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications in 1992 and Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems 2002, and one of the main sustainers of annual Int. Romanian Internet Learning Workshop Project (RILW), 1997.
In addition he was Secretary of Egyptian Computer Society (1984-1990), Member of National Committee in Informatics – Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (1992-200), Member of Egyptian Committee in the Inter-Governmental Informatics Program, IIP-UNISCO, Paris (1988-1990) and Coordinator of the Annual International Conference for Statistics, Scientific Computing, and Social and Demographic Research (1983-1990). In addition he was a partner of a MEDCAMPUS Projects on Methodologies and Technologies for Distance Education in Mediterranean (1993-1995). In addition He is a Member of the Editorial Board of 15 international and national Journals in the following countries: Canada; Italy, Romania, Japan, Turkey, UK and Egypt. Also, He is member of many Int. Scientific Societies and associations in USA, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Canada and Egypt.