Using Ontologies for the Emergency Response Support: A Survey

Abstract

Ontology is an efficient and an adequate way of conceptualization of knowledge representation for real world applications. Ontologies are successfully used in varieties of knowledge domains. In this paper, we focus on the field of medical ontology knowledge construction and representation. We identified three different medical ontologies classes: Generic, Specific and Mass Casualties Incidents (MCI) medical ontologies. This survey should support the construction of medical Ontologies in future for a better patient treatment. In particular, we survey and focus on the existing medical related ontologies and investigate their suitability for use in Mass Casualties Incidents (MCI).