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Decision Support Systems for Guideline and Knowledge Navigation Over Different Levels of Abstraction of the Guidelines

  • US 20080097965A1
  • Filed: 09/22/2005
  • Published: 04/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing system for executing an executable practice or professional guideline or knowledge base to receive guidance and/or knowledge contained in the guideline at a proper level of abstraction to meet a context definition appropriate for the slated use of the practice information or knowledge, the computing system comprising:

  • a guideline repository for storage and retrieval of a plurality of executable technical practice guidelines;

    at least one interface providing for entry of one of context data and a control signal defining context of the information/guidance needs;

    a display, a system server, which upon receipt of said context data, automatically chooses an appropriate technical practice guideline and displays the guideline with a visual navigator on the display, and which upon receipt of a user input choosing/changing the guideline results in a new guideline displayed at a particular level of abstraction, and wherein the level of abstraction may be changed by user input in both manual and automatic mode.

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