Summary: Diagnostic reasoning either automated or conducted by diagnosticians relies on having a set of symptoms and trying to match them against a (sparse) matrix containing the complete set of diseases and their corresponding symptioms. Whenever a symptom manifests itself, the diagnostician activates in this matrix several possible diseases which could manifest that symptom. The reasoning proceeds up to the point in which a very small subset of diseases (ideally one) are known to cause those symptoms.

Publication year: 2009

Types of publication: Paper in annals and proceedings

Unit: Embrapa Digital Agriculture

Keywords: Concept Lattices, Corn, Doença, Doença de Planta, Formal Concept Analysis, Knowledge representation, Lattice, Milho, Ontologia, Ontology, Plant diseases and disorders, Representação do conhecimento