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Fuzzy Logic in Clinical Practice Decision Support Systems
Computerized clinical guidelines can provide significant benefits to health outcomes and costs, however, their effective implementation presents significant problems. Vagueness and ambiguity inherent in natural (textual) clinical guidelines is not readily amenable to formulating automated alerts or advice. Fuzzy logic allows us to formalize the treatment of vagueness in a decision support architecture. This paper discusses sources of fuzziness in clinical practice guidelines. We consider how fuzzy logic can be applied and give a set of heuristics for the clinical guideline knowledge engineer for addressing uncertainty in practice guidelines. We describe the specific applicability of fuzzy logic to the decision support behavior of Care Plan On-Line, an intranet-based chronic care planning system for General Practitioners
Peirce's sign theory as an open-source R package.
Throughout Peirceās writing, we witness his developing vision of a machine that scientists will eventually be able to create. Nadin (2010) raised the question:Why do computer scientists continue to ignore Peirceās sign theory? A review of the literature on Peirceās theory and the semiotics machine reveals that many authors discussed the machine;however, they donot differentiate between a physical computer machine and its software. This paper discusses the problematic issues involved in converting Peirceās theory into a programming language, machine and software application. We demonstrate this challenge by introducing Peirceās sign theory as a software application that runs under an open-source R environmen
A review on the integration of artificial intelligence into coastal modeling
Author name used in this publication: Kwokwing Chau2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe
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