Have a project to do for school --- CIO Certification --- outlining the development of an "expert system" (ES). Essentially, an ES tries to capture the knowledge of a series of experts and convert it into an interactive tool to allow less qualified individuals to quickly and directly access the collective wisdom of the experts on a specific issue or question when the real folk are not available. Lots of "if this, then this" and some "if this, this and not this" algorithms in an ES. Anyway, rather than doing it on selecting paint chips or something, I'm talking my study group into doing our ES on hypothermia. The result --- at least in theory --- could be a laptop- or PDA-based interactive checklist ES on the do's and don't's of treating hypothermia. (It may well just become an interesting academic issue, but I'm wondering if any PaddleWisers are familiar with anything similar to this idea in the real world, or if you can pass along any Web sites that would be good for collecting the info? Thanks for any ideas. You'll be foot-noted. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Hi Jack, think I know what you mean. About 6 weeks ago, we got a discussion on hypothermia in our german seakayakforum and Arnd G. give us a link to the "Charité", Berlins biggest hospital. They got a kind of online therapy book and there is an algorithm on hypothermia therapy. It is clearly structured ( "hof to threat hypothermia in all diff. kinds an levels.. " or so) and made for med-people, but most of it is quite clear understandable for normal persons. http://www.charite.de/rv/nephro/Lehre/aspn_3b5.jpg OK, it is german. Maybe Ralph H. or Ulli or someone else got enough vocabulary to make a translation comment on it. Hope it helps, by Jochen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Joq, What a great idea! Will you be creating your ES in XML so that it can be used on various platforms? And will you eventually make this a public knowledge base? Neysa Narena *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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