GERTIS: a Dempster-Shafer approach to diagnosing hierarchical hypotheses

  • Authors:
  • John Yen

  • Affiliations:
  • USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Gertis—a prototype expert system—not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying the Dempster-Shafer-based reasoning model to diagnosing hierarchically related hypotheses, but also suggests ways to generate better explanations by using knowledge about the structure of the hypothesis space and knowledge about the intended effects of the rules.