A Precedence Scheme for Selection and Explanation of Therapies

Abstract

A general scheme to aid in the selection of therapies is described. A topological sorting procedure within a general production rule representation is introduced. The procedure is used to choose among competing therapies on the basis of precedence rules. This approach has a degree of naturalness that lends itself to automatic explanation of the choices made. A system has been implemented using this approach to develop an expert system for planning therapies for patients diagnosed as having ocular herpes simplex. An abstracted example of the system s output on an actual case is given.

Cite

Text

Kastmer and Weiss. "A Precedence Scheme for Selection and Explanation of Therapies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.

Markdown

[Kastmer and Weiss. "A Precedence Scheme for Selection and Explanation of Therapies." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/kastmer1981ijcai-precedence/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kastmer1981ijcai-precedence,
  title     = {{A Precedence Scheme for Selection and Explanation of Therapies}},
  author    = {Kastmer, John K. and Weiss, Sholom M.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1981},
  pages     = {908-909},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/kastmer1981ijcai-precedence/}
}