Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Abstract
The first aim of this article is to provide readers informally with the basic notions of defeasible and non-monotonic reasoning, logics borrowed from artificial intelligence. It then describes argumentation theory, a paradigm for implementing defeasible reasoning in practice as well as the common multilayer schema upon which argument-based models are usually built. The second aim is to describe the selection of argumentbased applications in the medical and health-care sectors. Finally, the paper will conclude with a summary of the features, which make defeasible reasoning and argumentation theory attractive, that emerge from the applications under review. The target reader is a medical or health-care practitioner, with limited skills in formal knowledge representation and logic, interested in enhancing evidence modelling and aggregation.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.126
Recommended Citation
Longo, L. & Dondio, P. (2014). Defeasible reasoning and argument-based systems in medical fields: an informal overview. Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): 27th International Symposium, 27-29 May, Mount Sinai, New York. doi:10.1109/CBMS.2014.126
Publication Details
Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium