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This paper presents a framework for representing knowledge with a functional approach which potentially extends recently appeared proposals. After overviewing several formalisms to model causal reasoning, we discuss the advantages of a functional approach, namely on medical domains, and present its basic requirements. Then we describe, by means of some examples, how domain knowledge may be specified in the proposed framework and its reasoning capabilities, namely anatomic, physiological and temporal.
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Barahona, P., Veloso, M. (1991). A Framework for Causal Reasoning with a Functional Approach. In: Stefanelli, M., Hasman, A., Fieschi, M., Talmon, J. (eds) AIME 91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48650-0_6
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