Abstract
Intensive-Help (IH) is a distributed real time expert system for critical care environments (CCE-ES for short) with an open system architecture. In this paper, two design aspects of IH are considered: the transferability of a CCE-ES and its explanation component.
Transferability is the degree to which a system retains its reliability and usefulness when applied to another organizational environment. This paper presents the most important factors influencing the transferability of a CCE-ES. The system structure of IH makes it possible for the system to adapt its behaviour to the local environment. This is illustrated through a user interface specification which allows the automatic adaptation of the user interface of IH.
The explanation component in IH uses hyper-inference networks. It resembles the Abstract Hyper-Text Machine of Campbell&Goodmann [2]. Hie difference is that in our context, the nodes in the hyper-text network can be proof trees. It is the first step towards a combination of hyper-text system and rule-based system.
Part of this research has been supported by the TANIT project (AIM Project A2036).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bailey, JJ. and Duban, S., Explanation and learning in Medicine, Computer Assisted Learning Conference, Surry 1989.
Campbell, B., Goodmann, J.M., HAM: A General Purpose Hypertext Abstract Machine, Communication of ACM, Vol 31, No. 7, July 1988.
Nolan J., McNair P. and Brender J., Factors Influencing the Transferability of Medical Decision Support Systems, Int. J. Biomed Comput., 27 (1991), 7–26
Wang K., Intensive-Help: User’s guide, Internal report (IH-l), Bremen, 1991.
Wielinga B. J. and Guus Schreiber, KADS: Model Based KBS Development. In: GWAI-90. 14th German Workshop on AI (H. Maiburger, ed.), Springer Verlag.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1993 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Wang, K., Wischnewsky, M.B. (1993). The Design of Transferable and Explainable Expert Systems - The Intensive-Help Project -. In: Puppe, F., Günter, A. (eds) Expertensysteme 93. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78073-8_22
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78073-8_22
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-56464-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-78073-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive