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Influence Diagrams (ID) are widely known to be a useful tool in Decision Analysis (DA). However, when facing a complex real-world problem, we often encounter many difficulties. Namely, the evolution of the ID skeleton until a final version is attained, provides interesting issues related to problem modelling. We also come up against computational difficulties caused by the size of the problem. Our motivation is a real medical problem of neonatal jaundice management, and we present the solution we have implemented in the Decision Support System (DSS) developed.
Paper supported by DGESIC project PB97-0856 and CAM project 07T/0009/1997. We are grateful to doctors M. Sánchez Luna and S. Caballero, the experts in the structuring and elicitation processes.
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Bielza, C., Ríos-Insua, S., Gómez, M. (1999). Influence Diagrams for Neonatal Jaundice Management. In: Horn, W., Shahar, Y., Lindberg, G., Andreassen, S., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIMDM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48720-4_13
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