A model of inexact reasoning in medicine

@article{Shortliffe1990AMO,
  title={A model of inexact reasoning in medicine},
  author={Edward H. Shortliffe and Bruce G. Buchanan},
  journal={Bellman Prize in Mathematical Biosciences},
  year={1990},
  volume={23},
  pages={259-275},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118063112}
}
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