Isomorphic Transformations of Uncertaintiesfor Incorporating EMYCIN-Style andPROSPECTOR-Style Systems intoa Distributed Expert System

摘要

In the past, expert systems exploited mainly the EMYCIN modeland the PROSPECTOR model to deal with uncertainties. In other words, a lot ofstand-alone expert systems which use these two models are available. If we can usethe Internet to couple them together, their performance will be improved throughcooperation. This is because the problem-solving ability of expert systems is greatlyimproved by the way of cooperation among different expert systems in a distributedexpert system. Cooperation between different expert systems with these two het-erogeneous uncertain reasoning models is essentially based on the transformations ofuncertainties of propositions between these two models. In this paper, we discoveredthe exactly isomorphic transformations uncertainties between uncertain reasoningmodels, as used by EMYCIN and PROSPECTOR.