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This article discusses the use of constraints to build quantitative physiological models and the application of these models to assist anaesthetists in decision making. The constraint formalism is a declarative form of knowledge representation. Each constraint embodies a model equation. A set of constraints constitutes a model. Constraint models can be extended and modified easily and the representation of model knowledge is separated from its use. The model knowledge is used by means of a constraint satisfaction mechanism. This allows the application of the same knowledge for different purposes.
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de Geus, F., Rotterdam, E., van Denneheuvel, S., van Emde Boas, P. (1991). Physiological modelling using RL. 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_16
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