Knowledge model reuse: Therapy decision through specialisation of a generic decision model

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-135

  Manjarrés, Ángeles ^a   Pickin, Simon ^b   Mira, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

AI software development methodologies; Generic task and method libraries; Reuse; Therapy decision systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GENERIC DECISION MODEL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036696774     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(02)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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