Jack W. Smith
Ohio State University
59 Papers
832 Citations
Jack W. Smith is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Abductive reasoning & Expert system. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 59 publications.
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Papers
A Mechanism for Forming Composite Explanatory Hypotheses
John R. Josephson,B. Chandrasekaran,Jack W. Smith,Michael C. Tanner +3 more
- 01 May 1987
TL;DR: A general problem-solving mechanism is described that is especially suited for performing a particular form of abductive inference, or best explanation finding, and a problem solver embodying this mechanism synthesizes composite hypotheses by combining simple hypotheses to satisfy explanatory goals.
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The secreted and somatic antigens of the third stage larva of Anisakis simplex, and antigenic relationship with Ascaris suum, Ascaris lumbricoides, and Toxocara canis.
Malcolm W. Kennedy,Jayne F. Tierney,Puzeng Ye,Fiona McMonagle,Anne McIntosh,David McLaughlin,Jack W. Smith +6 more
TL;DR: In contrast to oral infection, intraperitoneal exposure of rats with living parasites induced a strong response to both ES and somatic antigen preparations, which might have application in the estimation of the age and degree of penetration by the nematodes in human infection.
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An approach to medical diagnosis based on conceptual structures
B. Chandrasekaran,F. Gomez,Sanjay Mittal,Jack W. Smith +3 more
- 20 Aug 1979
TL;DR: The principles governing the design of conceptual structures are presented and the ideas are applied to the designs of MDX, a system to perform diagnoses in a syndrone called Cholestasis, and the performance of the system is discussed.
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A catalog of errors
TL;DR: This paper reviews various errors that have been described by comparing human behavior to the norms of probability, causal connection and logical deduction and cautions researchers and practitioners in referring to well known biases and errors.
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RED: A red-cell antibody identification expert module
Jack W. Smith,John R. Svirbely,Charles A. Evans,Pat Strohm,John R. Josephson,Michael C. Tanner +5 more
TL;DR: A software module in an expert system RED, which interprets data related to red cell antibody identification, is described, which combines the atomic hypotheses judged favorably by the antibody programs into a unified judgment concerning the case.
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