Title :
MyHealthCentral.com: Integrating knowledge based system in personalized diet plan and menu construction
Author :
Jothi, Neesha ; Husain, Wahidah ; Damanhoori, Faten
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia
Abstract :
The rising awareness on weight gain has resulted in the creation of MyHealthCentral.com, a health portal that provides a complete weight management solution for users. There are various websites and web application which provide weight management application to its users but most of them are for generic users. Therefore, a personalized weight management solution would be a great way in helping users to manage their weight in a better way. The unique innovation of this portal is the capability to recommend personalized diet plan and menu construction to its users. The solutions to recommend a personalized diet plan and menu construction is to apply a knowledge-based approach that allows fast and dependable decision making process. A knowledge based framework is proposed to solve the recommendation tasks for personalized diet plan and menu construction.
Keywords :
Web sites; decision making; health care; medical computing; portals; MyHealthCentral.com; Web sites; decision making process; health portal; knowledge based system; menu construction; personalized diet plan; personalized weight management solution; weight gain; Cognition; Databases; Knowledge based systems; Obesity; Planning; Portals; Problem-solving; diet plan; knowledge-based; menu construction; personalized;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-295-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICRIIS.2011.6125751