A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations

By William R. Swartout. 1977

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1. Abigail Emrey
2. William R. Swartout
3. Richard W. Southwick
4. Shane T. Mueller
5. Alun David Preece
6. Robert R. Hoffman
7. Johanna D. Moore
8. Nadia Papamichail

Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, methodology): “The inadequacies of the first generation of expert systems gave birth to the first generation of explanation systems, including Mycin and its related systems (see Clancey, 1986a, for a detailed history), the Digitalis Therapy Advisor (Swartout, 1977); BLAH (Wiener, 1980), and other special-purpose e”
• Explaining and Justifying Expert Consulting Programs (1981, background): “Another approach to explanation is to produce explanations directly from the program [Davis76, Shortliffe76, Swartout77, Wmograd71).”
• XPLAIN: A System for Creating and Explaining Expert Consulting Programs (1983, background): “Domain principle explanations In the original version of the Digitalis Advisor, when we wanted to give a more abstract view of what was going on, we just described a higher level procedure [29,30].”