Towards a framework for a decision support system for integrated information retrieval in biomedical computing

Information retrieval in a medicallhealth care environment is complex. Various frameworks have becn developed such as the standard DBMS (databe management system). the extended DBMS and the integrated DBMS approaches, which are essentially integrated IR-DB (information redeval-database) models [l]. These models do not fit into the paradigm of AI& models (mtificial intelligence) which have evolved as a result of the increasing use of expcrt systems [2,4]. I n c o p d o n of mathematical and simulation models which are common place in a biomedical computing envirunment[Sf necessitates an approach which can inaxpoxate IR-DB-AI dau types. We pesent a DSS (decision suppon system) framework as they relate to our AIDS research applicadons.

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