Expert system for medicine diagnosis using software agents

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1825-1834

  Arsene, Octavian ^a   Dumitrache, Ioan ^a   Mihu, Ioana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bayesian Network; Ontology; Software agents

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DIAGNOSIS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY;

AUTOMATED INFORMATION; BELIEF PROPAGATION; COLLABORATION FRAMEWORK; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; PROBABILISTIC KNOWLEDGE; UNCERTAINTY REASONING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84910659207     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.10.026     Document Type: Article

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