SHYSTER-MYCIN

SHYSTER-MYCIN is a hybrid legal expert system, combining two other expert systems: SHYSTER (a legal expert system) and MYCIN (a medical expert system). SHYSTER-MYCIN was developed by Tom O'Callaghan as part of his honours research at the Department of Computer Science, Australian National University.

Tom's research work on SHYSTER-MYCIN is explained (in reverse chronological order, but in ascending order of detail) in:

• a paper by Tom, James Popple and Eric McCreath that Tom presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-03) in Edinburgh in June 2003 (available as a PDF file: 95K/2 pages; Tom's presentation is available as a PowerPoint file: 1.7M/5 slides);
• a technical report by Tom, James and Eric (available as a PDF file: 326K/18 pages); and
• Tom's honours thesis (also available as a PDF file: 896K/121 pages).

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