Enterprise simulation and modelling using a language knowledge-base

Author

Tansley, Jeff

Author_Institution

An Teallach Ltd., Edinburgh Technol. Transfer Centre, UK

fYear

1993

fDate

34066

Firstpage

42370

Lastpage

42373

Abstract

Contracting is a complex decision process that involves the sifting and evaluation of masses of information, culminating in a set of contracts, each of which is a concise summary of: healthcare needs and outcomes; and the work-load for a lot of people over a long period of time. The author describes the use of Ep:Script knowledge base for planning evaluating and testing contracts. EpiScript is a clinically oriented computer language that can be used to describe, separately for each disease, the medical and resource related activities that take place during any healthcare treatment programme. EpiScript has well defined semantics and a sound type system. Its structure is such that parsing can ensure syntactic correctness. Most importantly, EpiScript is a process language

Keywords

decision support systems; digital simulation; health care; high level languages; knowledge based systems; medical administrative data processing; Ep:Script; clinically oriented computer language; complex decision process; concise summary; contracts; disease; enterprise simulation/modelling; healthcare needs; healthcare treatment programme; parsing; process language; resource related activities; sound type system; syntactic correctness; well defined semantics; work-load;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Enterprise Modelling, IEE Colloquium on (Digest No.078)

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

Filename

241273