GAMES-II PROJECT - A GENERAL ARCHITECTURE FOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE-BASEDSYSTEMS

GAMES II aims at developing a comprehensive and commercially viable me thodology to avoid problems ordinarily occurring in KBS development. G AMES II methodology proposes to design a KBS starting from an epistemo logical model of medical reasoning (the Select and Test Model). The de sign is viewed as a process of adding symbol level information to the epistemological model. The architectural framework provided by GAMES I I integrates the use of different formalisms and techniques providing a large set of tools. The user can select the most suitable one for re presenting a piece of knowledge after a careful analysis of its episte mological characteristics. Special attention is devoted to the tools d ealing with knowledge acquisition (both manual and automatic). A panel of practicing physicians are assessing the medical value of such a fr amework and its related tools by using it in a practical application.