rule-based systems

MYANUS ``represents'' most of its dia-gnostic know-ledge as a "set of rules". Each rule has associated with it a certainty factor, which is a measure of the extent to which the evidence that is described by the antecedent of the rule supports the conclusion that is given in the rule's consequent. A typical MYANUS rule looks like:


If: (1) the stain of the organism is gram-positive, and
    (2) the morphology of the organism is coccus, and
    (3) the growth conformation of the organism is clumps,
 then there is suggestive evidence that
  the identity of the organism is staphlyococcus. {0->1}

^{using these rules,} _{among other}/prog/^{willriseagain}

_{fuck sexp}

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