Ontology-Based Negotiation of Dental Therapy Options

Absract Negotiation is a decision making process through which several individuals, with differing points of view, attempt to interactively reach an agreement. It involves the discussion and evaluation of the problem as well as the consideration of alternatives. Therefore, a large number of possibilities should be evaluated by the decision makers, which is time-consuming and difficult (Chiu, Hung, Cheung and Leung). A negotiation support system can be used to facilitate interactions between different individuals. In this chapter, we propose using semantic web concepts such as ontologies and semantic reasoning to implement a system to facilitate negotiation. The target domain of this project is negotiation between dental experts over the treatment of wisdom teeth.

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