Date: Mon, 19 Aug 85 18:32 EST To: irdis at vpi Subject: IRList V 1 No. 3 Reply-to: IRList%vpi@csnet-relay.arpa (or fox@vpics1 on BITNET) US-Mail: Dr. Edward A. Fox, Dept. of Computer Science, VPI&SU (also called Virginia Tech), Blacksburg VA 24061 Phone: (703) 961-5113 or 6931 Subject: IRList Digest V1 #3 IRList Digest Monday, 19 Aug 1985 Volume 1 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: Query - comments on knowledge engineering Research Interests - medical AI and decision support EMAIL - error in BITNET address in earlier welcome message - startup of local distribution lists Presentation - Medical Management Advice System Humor - new temporal logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Scott Date: Sat, 20 Jul 85 12:46:51 edt Ed: Congratulations on the IRList newsgroup. It's an excellent idea. Please add me to the mailing list. Have you read my article in Ken Laws's AIList (volume 3 #92)? Your comments on the vision of knowledge engineering that I'm preparing are welcome. ... [Perhaps you would like to send an excerpt of your AIList article? We can then all make comments. IRList is to help each of us obtain a broader vision of the field! - Ed] Jai Guru Dev, Tom Scott UUCP: cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!scott Dept. of Math. & Stat. CSNET/ARPANET: scott@bgsu Bowling Green State Univ. ATT: 419-372-2636 Bowling Green, OH 43403-0221 ------------------------------ Subj: From: klahr@NYU-CSD2 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 85 16:45:26 edt Your IRList sounds like a good idea. Could I subscribe to it? I am an MD-PhD student working on medical AI and decision support systems. Thank you. Sincerely...Phillip Klahr KLAHR@NYU ------------------------------ From: Anton Tomas Date: 23-JUL-1985 23:26:17 MET Subject: NEW MEMBER IRLIST Following your message in AIlist, I should be able to reach you on BITNET, but irlist-request@vpics1 didn't work. [Thanks for informing me! I have corrected the Welcome message accordingly. fox@vpics1 & sigir@vpics1 DO work for BITNET. - Ed] Anton J Tomas University of Leiden School of Medicine BITNET: TOMAS@HLERUL5 Medical Informatics ARPA: TOMAS%HLERUL5.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA P.O.Box 9604, 2300RC Leiden Phone: +31 71 148333 ext 4187 or 3610 The Netherlands ------------------------------ From: Christopher Schmidt Date: Thu 18 Jul 85 10:04:31-PDT Subject: sigir list To: fox.vpi@CSNET-RELAY Please add Incoming-IRList@SUMEX-AIM to the IRLIST distribution. This forwards into a bboard locally where our users will pick it up. At the same time, please remove Richer@SUMEX-AIM from the list. Thanks, --Christopher [IRList members at SUMEX-AIM please note: I will remove all addresses of people at SUMEX-AIM as per the above request, before the next issue. Other members please note: several locations have groups of people working on information retrieval (ex. faculty, students, staff, programmers). You may wish to have local redistribution set up, open to all interested parties. - Ed] ------------------------------ From: Glenn Rennels Date: Thu 25 Jul 85 09:07:46-PDT Subject: Orals - Deep Models from Clinical Literature (SU) ReSent-From: Ken Laws University Orals Examination "A Structured Representation of the Clinical Literature and its Use in a Medical Management Advice System" Glenn Rennels Medical Information Sciences Wednesday, July 31, 2:15 pm M-112 Stanford Medical Center ABSTRACT Published reports of clinical trials are important to medical practice. This biostatistical literature allows physicians to keep abreast of rapidly changing medical knowledge. There has been little or no integration of the clinical literature with computer-based medical advice systems. More commonly, these programs use human pathophysiology to explain disease and to direct physicians in their decision making. This "causal modelling" work has correlates in non-medical AI research: programs that can diagnose faults in electronic equipment. In medical AI, the representation of multi-layered causal models has been called "deep models" and continues to be a major research focus. The thesis of this research is that the clinical literature forms the basis of a deep model of clinical decision making. A computer system ignoring this model will be severely lacking in its relevance to the practitioner. The goals of this research are to conceptualize the model and to test the conceptualization by implementing a computer program that draws upon structured representations of the clinical literature in order to critique plans for medical management. The application domain is the management of primary breast cancer, but it is emphasized that the issues are general and arise in every medical management domain. There are at least three problems that are relevant to building a computer system such as the one proposed; these are the principal topics of this talk. First of all, using the literature for clinical advice requires assessing the distance from a study to the clinical decision at hand. Second, there must be a method for resolving conflicts between studies. Finally, it is desirable that the system have at least a rough understanding of the physicians objectives and how therapy choice incorporates those, so that the system can discuss study results with reference to those objectives. [ PhD Oral Examinations in Medical Information Sciences are administered approximately 1 year prior to the completion of the dissertation. ] ------------------------------ From: Ken Laws Date: Wed 7 Aug 85 22:29:48-PDT Subject: [Robert Sansom@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA: Time Machines?] This note from the CMU bboard may amuse IRList readers. -- Ken Laws Return-Path: Date: Tue 06 Aug 85 11:46:45-EDT From: Robert Sansom@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA Subject: Time Machines? Received: from CMU-CS-K.ARPA by CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA; 6 Aug 85 11:28:21 EDT Received: from CMU-CC-TE.ARPA by CMU-CS-K.ARPA; 6 Aug 85 11:28:22 EDT Received: ID ; 6 Aug 85 11:29:27 EDT Date: 6 Aug 85 11:29:27 EDT The mail starts at Tops-E at 11:29:27. A little more than a minute earlier it is received by the K Vax. A second earlier it is received by the Spice Vax. Isn't computer science wonderful? ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************