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The motivation for investigating the transformation between the EMYCIN model and the PROSPECTOR model lies in a realistic con- sideration. In the past, expert systems exploited mainly the EMYCIN model and the PROSPECTOR model to deal with uncertainties. In other words, a lot of stand-alone expert systems which use these two models are available. If there are reasonable transformations of uncertainties between the EMYCIN model and the PROSPECTOR model, we can use the Internet to couple them together so that the integrated systems are able to exchange and share helpful information with each other, thereby improving their performance through cooperation. In this paper, we discovered a class of exactly isomorphic transformations between uncertain reasoning models used by EMYCIN and PROSPECTOR. More interestingly, among the class of isomorphic transformation functions, different ones can handle different degrees to which domain experts are optimistic or pessimistic if they perform such a transformation task.
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Luo, X., Zhang, C., Leung, Hf. (1999). A Class of Isomorphic Transformations for Integrating EMYCIN-Style and PROSPECTOR-Style Systems into a Rule-Based Multi-Agent System. In: Nakashima, H., Zhang, C. (eds) Approaches to Intelligence Agents. PRIMA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46693-2_16
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