论文信息 - Answer Justification in Diagnostic Expert Systems - Part II: Supporting Plausible Justifications

Answer Justification in Diagnostic Expert Systems - Part II: Supporting Plausible Justifications

This paper describes how a new method for answer justification in abductive diagnostic expert systems, presented in a preceding companion paper (Part I), can be supported in a domain-independent fashion. Both the issues of explaining why a disorder is included in a differential diagnosis and why it is ranked the way it is relative to its "competitors" are addressed. This approach to answer justification is then compared to previous work on answer justification in medical expert systems.

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