{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Precedence Scheme for Selection and Explanation of Therapies","authors":[{"name":"John K. Kastmer","slug":"john-k-kastmer","given":"John K.","family":"Kastmer","affiliation":""},{"name":"Sholom M. Weiss","slug":"sholom-m-weiss","given":"Sholom M.","family":"Weiss","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A general scheme to a1d in the select1on of therapies IS descnbed . A topolog1cal sort1ng procedure with1n a general product1on rule representation IS 1ntroduced The procedure IS used to choose among compet1ng therap1es on the bas1s of precedence rules Th1s approach has a degree of naturalness that lends 1tself to automat1c explanat1on of the cho1ces made A system has been Implemented us1ng th1s approach to develop an expert system for plann1ng ther ap1es for pat1ents d1agnosed as hav1ng ocular herpes s1mplex An abstracted example of the systems output on an actual case IS given.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/172","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0172.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/172.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/172","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Medical Application","track":"Medical Application","number":172,"pages":{"first":908,"last":908},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}