Assuring the quality of an expert system is critical. A poor quality system may make costly
errors resulting in considerable damage to the user or owner of the system, such as financial …

Little significance is attached by medical informatics workers to the many practical issues
which affect the development of clinical decision-support systems. We examine the current …

En las dos últimas décadas se ha producido un notable desarrollo en el área de la
inteligencia artificial y, en particular, en la de los sistemas expertos. Debido a su carácter …

Validation is important to the decision-making success and to the continued use of a
Decision Support System (DSS). Without proper validation, DSSs may cause costly errors …

The competence of a case-based system (the range of problems it can solve) depends
critically on the cases in the case-base. However, the precise relationship between cases …

Experience with the growing number of large-scale CBR systems has led to increasing
recognition of the importance of case-base maintenance. Multiple researchers have …

Organization theory is a positive science; organizational design is a normative science
“concerned with how things ought to be, with devising structures to attain goals.” The …

As case-based reasoning systems are deployed in real-world situations the issue of case
maintenance becomes more and more critical. Uncontrolled case-base growth can cause …

Efficiency and innovative problem solving are contradictory requirements for product
development (PD), and both requirements must be satisfied in companies that strive to …

This paper presents an expert system for a nutrition care process tailored for the specific
needs of elders. Dietary knowledge is defined by nutritionists and encoded as Nutrition Care …