An Agile Semantic Web Platform for Knowledge-Centric Decision Support

Knowledge-based decision support systems provide situation-specific strategic recommendations to assist users to (a) make sound decisions in complex situations to achieve quality outcomes; and (b) plan a course of actions to achieve optimal efficiency. The objective of this research program is to develop knowledge management tools to help the computerization of paper-based knowledge so that one can derive knowledge-based decision support. The knowledge management tools are to be applied to the domain of healthcare which is facing a number of knowledge gaps in the delivery of healthcare. The intent of the project is to computerize clinical guidelines to develop disease-specific decision support systems for healthcare practitioners so that they are able to provide evidence-based care services. The project will help enhance our ability to dynamically update and interconnect knowledge resources to offer up-to-date and 'complete' knowledge that in operation will have a profound impact on the awareness, response, competitiveness and readiness of individuals, industry and institutions. From the healthcare perspective, the research directly contributes to the provision of evidence-based chronic disease management.