Decision making based on quality-of-information a clinical guideline for chroni...

• Author(s): Lima, Luís ; Novais, Paulo ; Costa, Ricardo ; Cruz, José Bulas ; Neves, José
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19010
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Quality of information; Clinical guidelines; Artificial intelligence
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Springer - Series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 79 In this work we intend to advance towards a computational model to hold up a Group Decision Support System for VirtualECare, a system aimed at sustaining online healthcare services, where Extended Logic Programs (ELP) will be used for knowledge re-presentation and reasoning. Under this scenario it is possible to evaluate the ELPs making in terms of the Quality-of-Information (QoI) that is assigned to them, along the several stages of the decision making process, which is given as a truth value in the interval 0…1, i.e., it is possible to provide a measure of the value of the QoI that supports the decision making process, an end in itself. It will be also considered the problem ofQoI evaluation in a multi-criteria decision setting, being the criteria to be fulfilled that of a Clinical Guideline (CG) for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.