Iti Mathur¹, Hemant Darbari² and Nisheeth Joshi¹, ¹Banasthali University, India and ²Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India

Web has become the very first resource to search for any kind of information. With the emergence of semantic web, our search queries have started generating more informed results. Ontologies are at the core of any semantic web application. They help in rapid development of distributed systems by providing information on the fly. This key feature of distribution and sharing of information has made ontologies as a new knowledge representation mechanism. A mechanism which is strongly backed by a sound inference system. In this paper, we shall discuss the development, verification and validation of an ontology in a health domain.

Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Engineering, Ontology Development, Health, Communicable Disease.