An algorithm for computing probabilistic propositions : Gregory F. Cooper Medical Computer Science Group, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Medical School Office Building, Room 217, Stanford, California 94305

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-613X
• DOI: 10.1016/0888-613x(88)90136-3

✦ Synopsis

The paper discusses a medical expert system called MUM, for Managing Uncertainty in Medicine, that plans diagnostic sequences of questions, tests, and treatments, describes the kinds of problems that MUM was designed to solve, and gives a brief description of its architecture. More recently, an empty version of MUM called MU has been built and used to reimplement MUM and a small diagnostic system for plant pathology. Certain features of MU make it appropriate for building expert systems that manage uncertainty.