An application of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), a computer-aided method used to assist groups in studying and analyzing complex problems, was used to develop a hierarchy of various components taught in the Teacher and Practicum Elementary (TAPE) program, a 24-semester hour undergraduate teacher training option. The ISM process breaks…

This paper describes NEOMYCIN, a computer program that models one physician's diagnostic reasoning within a limited area of medicine. NEOMYCIN's knowledge base and reasoning procedure constitute a model of how human knowledge is organized and how it is used in diagnosis. The hypothesis is tested that such a procedure can be used to simulate both…