Episodic Monitoring of Time-Oriented Data for Heuristic SkeletalPlan Refinement (1989)
| Venue: | Communications of the ACM |
| Citations: | 1 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Tu89episodicmonitoring,
author = {Samson W. Tu and Michael G. Kahn and Mark A. Musen and Jay C. Ferguson and Edward H. Shortliffe and Lawrence M. Fagan},
title = {Episodic Monitoring of Time-Oriented Data for Heuristic SkeletalPlan Refinement},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
year = {1989},
volume = {32},
pages = {90--02}
}
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Abstract
ONCOCIN is a medical expert system that extends the skeletal-planning technique to an application area where the history of past events and the duration of actions are important. The system's knowledge base is designed to reflect a hierarchical model of the domain, and its control and inference mechanisms encourage a mixed-initiative style of interaction between the computer and the user. 1. INTRODUCTION ONCOCIN is a therapy-advice system designed for use by physicians in the treatment of cancer patients. It has two objectives: (1) the extension of the skeletal-planning technique to an application area where the history of past events and the duration of actions are important, and (2) the development of an interactive decision-support system acceptable to computer-naive users in a busy environment. Satisfying the requirements of these two objectives has led us to make several modifications to the traditional expertsystem technology. These modifications include the integration of a ru...
