[Attempto] ACE and spatio-temporal biomedical informatics

[Albert Burger]

Dear all, 

I am starting to explore ACE is the context of describing spatial and temporal 
aspects in the biomedical domain. In particular, I want to extend our capabilities 
of describing spatial and temporal aspects of biomedical atlases in a qualitative 
way (in addition to 3D volumetric models). ACE might be able to play a role in 
the high-level description of these spatio-temporal aspects and thus help with 
the formalisation of that knowledge, but also with the interaction with
the domain experts, who are generally biologist/medics not trained in formal logics. 

Any information/pointers to work that deals with describing spatial and/or temporal
aspects (of any domain) in ACE would be greatly appreciated. 

Best wishes,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Burger,
Bioinformatics Research Scientist:  Human Genetics Unit, MRC
Senior Lecturer: Dept. of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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