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Knowledge Elicitation and Acquisition.- The Role of Clinical Judgement Analysis in the Development of Medical Expert Systems.- The Development of a Knowledge System for Surveillance of Anti-Epileptic Medication.- Medical Analysis of Automatically Induced Diagnostic Rules.- Machine Learning as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool: Application in the Domain of the Interpretation of Test Results.- Architectures for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems (1).- A Model-Based Diagnostic Expert System for Skeletal Dysplasias.- KIDS: A Specialized Architecture for Medical Image Interpretation.- A Symbolic Theory of Decision-Making Applied to Several Medical Tasks.- Some Issues in the Control of Interactive Differential Diagnosis.- Clinical Applications (1).- Attributed Conditional Rewriting Systems as a Tool for ECG Description and Interpretation.- An Expert System for Automatic Phonomechanocardiographic Diagnosis.- Implementing ESTROPID: An Expert System for TROPIcal Diseases.- The Benefits of Expert Systems in Health Care. Practical Experiences from CATEG05-ES.- An Explanation Driven Architecture for a Knowledge Based System in Post-Operative Care.- Design of a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System for Anaesthesia Using Simulators Suporting Knowledge Acquisition and Validation.- Methodology (1).- Connectionist Models in Medicine: An Investigation of their Potential.- Therapy Planning by Combining AI and Decision Theoretic Techniques.- The Quantitative Management of Linguistic Terms in a Knowledge Engineering Tool: Application to Medical Reasoning.- Reasoning Based on Physiological Models.- A Qualitative Model of Iron Metabolism.- Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Implementation and Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based System for the Interpretation of Laboratory Data.- Simulating Generic Situations on Causal Models.- Clinical Applications (2).- A PC-Based Decision Support/Patient Management System for Thyroid Disease.- SADE - A Support Tool for the Diagnosis of Liver Diseases.- A Consultation System for Transplantation Medicine.- A Microcomputer-Based Expert System for the Explanation of Oliguria.- Architectures for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems (2).- Design of a Generic Information System and its Application to Primary Care.- A Knowledge System Architecture for Diagnostic Reasoning.- Uncertainty.- The ALARM Monitoring System: A Case Study with Two Probabilistic Inference Techniques for Belief Networks,.- General Session.- An Analysis of Uncertainty in British General Practice: Implications of a Preliminary Survey.- The Use of a Production System for Simulation Analysis of Tumour Cell Migration in vitro: Development of a Specialized Control Strategy.- GAUSS: A Generalised Approach to Updating Scanner Strategies.- Explanation Improvement to Enhance Acceptance of the PLEXUS System.- Methodology (2).- Diagnostic Decision Support Based on Generic Disease Descriptions and Detailed Anatomical Knowledge.- MEDES as a Tool for Different Reasoning Strategies.- Knowledge Acquisition using Syntactic Time Patterns.- A Concurrent Navigational System among Distributed Knowledge Sources.