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GERTIS: a Dempster-Shafer approach to diagnosing hierarchical hypotheses

By John Yen
Communications of the ACM, May 1989, Vol. 32 No. 5, Pages 573-585
10.1145/63485.63488
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Gertis—a prototype expert system—not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying the Dempster-Shafer-based reasoning model to diagnosing hierarchically related hypotheses, but also suggests ways to generate better explanations by using knowledge about the structure of the hypothesis space and knowledge about the intended effects of the rules.

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