Expert Internet Searching

Local Searching the Internet

Recent improvements in search technology allow users to extract structural information from Web data at a global level.1,2 Typically, in such a search — sometimes called global searching — a user submits a keyword query, and the search engine performs a global analysis on the link structure to reduce the number of hits returned to the user. This type of searching depends on sending information ...

Internet-based expert systems

The Internet offers a large potential for delivery of various information-based services, including the services of intelligent applications. As the availability of the Internet has grown, its value as a medium for the delivery of expert systems in particular has increased. There are now a large number of expert systems available on the Internet, including applications in industry, medicine, sc...

Searching for the Semantic Internet

Search engines, directories and web browsers all deal with the Internet at the level of individual web-pages. We argue that this is too low a level of resolution for many, including the non-casual surfer, who has detailed knowledge of his/her topic of interest. We present the shopping-mall metaphor that is based on identifying tightly integrated communities of web pages, where pages procure inf...

Expert Searching in the Google Age

Searching Potential Conflicts in Medical Expert Systems

We will present a new approach to the problem of the Medical Expert Systems Validation. This method is based on the central role played by the conflicts base introduced by the experts in the appearance of potential conflicts, reducing the problem to the capture of the deductive closure of these conflicts base. The method is illustrated in a simple case: a knowledge base with a rule base modeled...