Lab4 Exercise Rules: Facts
Uploaded by
olivukovicLab4 Exercise Rules: Facts
Uploaded by
olivukovicLab4 Exercise
Rules:
Facts:
Ed has a very high fever.
Ed has a cough.
Alice doesn't have poison ivy.
Max says Alice has poison ivy.
Grace says Don is healthy.
Grace is a doctor.
Whooping cough is contagious.
Ed contacts Alice.
Step 1. Start by analysing at rules, identify the pieces of information that drive
the rules. Look at the effects that firing the rule has.
Rule 1: If a patient has a very high fever, the patient has a high fever.
LHS: patient->fever value very high
RHS: patient->fever value high
Rule 2: If a patient has whooping cough, the patient has a cough.
LHS: patient->whooping cough value true
RHS: patient->cough value true
Rule 3: If a patient has poison ivy, the patient has a rash.
LHS: patient->poison ivy value true
RHS: patient->rash value true
Rule 4: If a patient has a high fever and congestion, the patient has the flu.
LHS: (patient->fever value high) AND (patient-> congestion value true)
RHS: (patient->flu value true)
Rule 5: If a patient has a rash and no high fever, the patient has poison ivy.
LHS: (patient->cough value true) AND (patient-> fever value not very high)
RHS: (patient->whooping cough value true)
Rule 6: If a patient has no fever, no cough, and no rash, the patient is healthy.
LHS: (patient->fever value false) AND (patient->cough value false) AND (patient->
rash value false)
RHS: (patient->healthy value true)
Rule 7: If a patient has a cough and a very high fever, the patient has whooping cough.
LHS: (patient->cough value false) AND (patient-> fever value very high)
RHS: (patient->whooping cough value true)
Rule 8: If one patient has a particular disease which is contagious and that patient contacts
another patient, then the other patient has the disease.
LHS: (patient->contagious disease value true) AND (patient->contact with
otherpatient true)
RHS: (otherpatient->disease value patient->disease)
Rule 9: If a doctor says that a patient has a particular disease or is healthy, then what the
doctor says is true.
LHS: (otherperson indicates patient->disease value x) AND (otherperson->doctor
value true)
RHS: (patient->disease value x)
Rule 10: If a person says that a patient has a particular disease or is healthy and that is not
true of the patient, then that otherperson is not a doctor.
LHS: (otherperson indicates patient->disease x AND patient->disease value not= x)
OR (otherperson indicates patient->healthy value true and patient->healthy
value false)
RHS: (otherperson->doctor value false)
Step 2. Refine Rules. Pick out alternate values for same fields. Group together
fields describing entities to pick out entities.
Entities: e.g. patient, otherperson
Patient (fever, whooping cough, cough, poison ivy, rash, disease, otherperson
contact, otherperson comment)
Otherperson(doctor, disease) (doctor values true or false)
Alternate values for fields: e.g. fever – very high, high, none
Whooping cough – true, false
Step 3: Refine Again. Look at fields – find commonality, find identity.
E.g. Whooping cough, poison ivy, flu are all diseases. Have field disease.
Amend possible values for disease to be whooping cough, poison ivy, flu
Patient(name, fever, cough, disease, rash, otherperson contact, otherperson
comment)
Otherperson(name, doctor, disease) doctor values (true or false)
Disease(name, contagious) contagious values (true or false)
Step 4: Identify Rules that require user interaction.
Rule 9 and Rule 10 possibly.
Step 5: Build rules and test against data given. Then refine, test, refine test ….
