Title :
An expertise in the field of nutrition with an object oriented language ´KEOPS´
Author :
Romanczuk, A. ; Comyn, Gérard ; Beuscart, Regis
Author_Institution :
CRIL-France, Colombes, France
Abstract :
Expert systems with a large volume of data are difficult to implement for an expert system in the field of nutrition; the knowledge (400 foodstuffs and 28 nutrients) which must be represented and handled is extensive and involves a very large number of relations. In order to solve this problem, the authors have chosen a formalism for the knowledge base that relies on object structuring. The authors justify the choice of an object-oriented language, KEOPS. The static knowledge representation and inference mechanism of the expert system is then presented.<>
Keywords :
expert systems; high level languages; knowledge representation; medical computing; object-oriented programming; KEOPS; expert system; foodstuffs; inference mechanism; knowledge base formalism; nutrients; nutrition; object oriented language; object structuring; static knowledge representation;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.95132
