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The present paper responds to an attempt to interpret the inference process and ultimately the output of the medical expert system CADIAG2. We first provide a formalization of the inference process by means of a set of logical rules and later attempt to provide an interpretation (i.e., semantics) for them. Two semantics are taken as reference for our purpose: probabilistic semantics and fuzzy (t-norm-based) semantics.
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Muiño, D.P., Ciabattoni, A., Vetterlein, T. (2013). Towards an Interpretation of the Medical Expert System CADIAG 2. In: Seising, R., Tabacchi, M. (eds) Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36527-0_22
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