A casual model for fluctuating sugar levels in diabetic patients
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A causal model for fluctuating sugar levels in diabetes patients.
BACKGROUND Causal models of physiological systems can be immensely useful in medicine as they may be used for both diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning. AIM In this paper we investigate how an agent may use the theory of belief change to rectify simple causal models of changing blood sugar levels in diabetes patients. METHOD We employ the semantic approach to belief change together with a p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1836-1935
DOI: 10.4066/amj.2012.1392