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ESDAT is a decision support system designed for the application in primary medical care. It represents domain knowledge in a semantic net. Instantiation of the concepts of the net is performed by activating nodes. They form hypotheses on a global blackboard. The inference process utilizes the hypothesize-and-test paradigm. Major emphasis is put on focussing mechanisms, which restrict the number of hypotheses the system is currently concentrating on. The current version of the system utilizes detailed knowledge from the subfield rheumatology.
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Horn, W. (1983). ESDAT - An Expert System for Primary Medical Care. In: Neumann, B. (eds) GWAI-83. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69391-5_1
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