Preface

Section I: Foundations of Knowledge Media

The Concept of Knowledge Media: The Past and Future

Experience With a Functional-Logic Multi-Agent Architecture for Medical Problem Solving

Cross-Fertilizing Logic Programming and XML for Knowledge Representation

Section II: Knowledge Representation and Human-Computer Interaction

Four Different Types of Classification Models

Towards Improved Representation and Communication of Pharmaceutical Expert Information

A Semantically Advanced Querying Methodology for Medical Knowledge and Decision Support

Section III: Secure Healthcare Application and Data

Towards a Secure Web-Based Healthcare Application

Secure Internet Access to Medical Data

Section IV: Knowledge Transfer and Management

Poems in the Information Jungle-How Do Physicians Survive?

The Medical Journal Club-A Tool for Knowledge Refinement and Transfer in Healthcare

Using On-Line Medical Knowledge To Support Evidence-Based Practice: A Case Study of a Successful Knowledge Management Project

Section V: Towards a Global Knowledge Medium

Structured Content and Connectivity of Medical Information-The Medical Data Web

An Extensible Approach for Modeling Ontologies in RDF(S)

Towards a Semantic Web of Evidence-Based Medical Information

About the Authors

Index