PPT Slide
Amarel, Saul; Fabens,William;
Kulikowski, Casimir; Schmidt,
Charles; Srinivasan, Chitoor;
COMPUTERS IN BIOMEDICINE; A
SPECIAL RESEARCH RESOURCE
Rutgers, The State University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
National Institutes of Health
sciences. It is expected that in the
medical systems area new disease
complexes will be incorporated as the
study progresses and general schemes
for disease description will be devel-
oped that will be useful for both deci-
sion making theory formation and medi-
cal instruction and testing. In ecologi-
cal systems model verification and the
study of system complexity will be em-
phasized while in the area of belief sys-
tems there will be a study of the inter-
pretation of dialogue situations. Prob-
lems of diagnosis and formation will be
investigated with artificial intelligence
with special attention paid to domain of
discourse dependencies. Question
answering systems will be examined
both as formal logical stuctures and
as heuristic programs and data base
structures. Work on description sys-
tems will emphasize general schemes
for handling descriptions in new do-
mains and methods for abstracting from
comprehensive data bases specific
models that are appropriate for work
with given algorithms. In interactive
language processing, work will focus
on schemes for diagnosing and correc-
Primary purpose of the research re-
source is to stimulate the application
of advanced computer aided inquiry
methods to biomedical investigations.
Six general areas of study are con-
cerned with the development of (1) diag-
nostic and theraputic strategies based
on explicit models of physiology and
function, (2) a computer based facility
for the modeling of the acquatic ecosys-
tem,(3) a model of human beliefs about
observed social reality, (4) representa-
tion and modeling of machine problem
solving procedures, (5) a metadescrip-
tion scheme for different domains of
discourse, (6) appropriate languages
for man-machine interaction in the bio-