On Friday 11 April 2008 01:59:42 am, Steve Richfield wrote: > > Your experience with the medical community is not too surprising: I > > believe that the Expert Systems folks had similar troubles way back when. > > IMO the Expert Systems people deserved bad treatment!
Actually, the medical expert systems of the 80s I had any conection with, such as the glaucoma expert from Rutgers, beat out human doctors in diagnoses within their field of expertise. (And still weren't adopted...) BTW, the attached paper included some remarks about Jay Forrester & System Dynamics. Forrester came out of exactly the same background as Cybernetics -- working on automatic radar-directed fire-control systems, at MIT, during WWII. And both his stuff and Cybernetics consists basically of applying feedback and control theory (and general differential analysis) to things ranging from neuroscience to economics. Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I (and presumably Richard) are much more likely to be interested... Josh ps -- of course, you know that if you're using Excel to integrate dynamical systems, you are in a state of sin. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
