Agents Software with Ontologies in Expert Systems to Support Dental Prosthesis Design Decisions

Abstract

This paper presents a research that is developed inside “Products and Systems Design and Development” research group of Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC-PR). This research shows a study that are made to know the viability of develop an agents expert system with ontologies, to support dental prosthesis design decisions in dental prosthesis processes. Will be shown an overview of agent systems, approaching a framework used to provide agents software environment, the JADE. The planned expert system aims to analyses DICOM files with software agents and ontologies, specifically, when professionals need to choose a dental prosthesis by it characteristics. The methods used to guide this research were, the bibliographical survey to list de concepts, and, state of art for the expert system layout project and ontologies map and tests procedures. As a result, this paper shows that using agents and ontologies in expert systems development, allows better software scalability and modularization for complex and specialized software solutions.