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From: burke@cs.uchicago.edu (Robin Burke)
Subject: Re: Help newbie - Case-based reasoning
In-Reply-To: Rosemary Gilligan's message of 20 Sep 1995 16:13:29 GMT
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In article <43pej9$r9i@helios.herts.ac.uk> Rosemary Gilligan <eleqreg@dragon.herts.ac.uk> writes:

   I am just starting research into creating a expert system for Equine Vets 
   to use in a teaching environment.

   The idea being that not only could the system be used to help vets make a 
   diagnosis, it could also be used in the college environment to teach the 
   principles of how to make a diagnosis by letting the student try their 
   skills on the computer and then use the computer to explain any 
   differences between the two results.

   I have just started to read about Case-Based Reasoning, which would 
   appear to be of great interest as the experienced vet makes their 
   dignosis based on experience gained from seeing previous cases.

One source that might be of interest to you in the "case-based
reasoning in medicine" mailing list. I don't know off-hand of anyone
else involved in veterinary stuff, but there should be plenty of
similarities. 

Info on the mailing list can be found at:

http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/discussions/cbr-med/

or simply send mail to 

listproc@cs.uchicago.edu

with the subject blank and

subscribe cbr-med

as the text.

Janet Kolodner's comprehensive text "Case-Based Reasoning",
Morgan-Kaufman, 1993 is good reference and introduction.

You should also know that the Institute for the Learning Sciences at
Northwestern University has a small army of researchers many of whom
are working on teaching systems inspired by case-based
reasoning. Their web page is at

http://www.ils.nwu.edu/

Along these lines, another good source might be the Journal of
Learning Sciences vol. 3, no. 4, which includes articles on a number
of systems built by the folks at ILS (including myself).

Good luck,

-- 

robin
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university of chicago, computer science department
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