---
title: "Time-Oriented Features for Medical Consultation Systems"
authors:
  - "Teruo Koyama"
  - "Shigekoto Kaihara"
  - "Tadatoshi Minamikawa"
  - "Toshiaki Kurokawa"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/173"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0173.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "910-911"
track: "Medical Application"
keywords:
---

# Time-Oriented Features for Medical Consultation Systems

Teruo Koyama, Shigekoto Kaihara, Tadatoshi Minamikawa, Toshiaki Kurokawa

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 910-911.

## Abstract

Medical consultation system is one of the major application of artificial intelligence research, and in this field, it is important to treat time-oriented data. The authors developed a system named MECS-AI(MEdical Consultation System by means of Artificial Intelligence), which is designed as a general purpose tool for constructing systems with capability to treat time-oriented data. The basic idea of this system is to describe the time flow as a chain of discrete events. As a general purpose tool, the system consists of an inference-engine and a knowledge-base editor, so that consultation systems in any field can be easily defined and tested.