Designing for explanation in health care applications of expert systems

SAGE Open

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Darlington, Keith W ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support; Expert systems; Explanation; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874842004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244011408618     Document Type: Article

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