Ontology development for pharmaceutical tablet production expert system

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a tablet production ontology to support a generic drug tablet production expert system. The ontology is used to model the information about pharmaceutical tablet production that consist of a list of ingredients and its quantity, a set of instructions that explain how to manufacture tablet in laboratory scale, standard quality control that follow USP requirements, and equivalent quality controls (dissolution profile and disintegration time). It can reusable and sharable with others pharmaceutical dosage forms production such as capsule, cream, gel and injection. ©2008 IEEE.