To obtain the right rules for an expert system such as DENDRAL, Feigenbaum and his students had to conduct extensive interviews with experts to ascertain the implicit and often unconscious knowledge used in reaching a decision.
But as best as organized-crime experts can ascertain, Wall Street and brokerage firms by the late 90's were a major moneymaker.
Dror and Hampikian sent the exact same DNA mixtures to 17 different experts to ascertain whether they would arrive at the same conclusion as the original forensic analysis.
Home Office sources said yesterday they were looking at various models and programmes during a consultation period over a new drugs strategy and that the government was talking to a number of experts to ascertain what worked.
Currently development of a patient decision aid is resource intensive: it requires a decision-specific review of the scientific literature by experts to ascertain the potential outcomes under different treatments.
If this proved impossible, they said, the experts should ascertain whether the original tests had been carried out correctly by Italy's forensic police.
As it is difficult to interpret variations in management between black and white men diagnosed with prostate cancer, a 'Delphi' consensus approach was used by a panel of experts to ascertain whether management was appropriate for a large number of clinical scenarios in each group.
"OMG," people squealed "is this going to be like Japan??" Nuclear safety expert Bob Alvarez quickly ascertained that Lake Anna was only designed to withstand up to a 5.9 to 6.1 earthquake on the Richter scale.
Critical appraisal relevant to the study design was planned, however no research studies were identified and the expert guidance documents ascertained contained no methods to allow critical appraisal.
Points to consider, regarded relevant for individual treatment decisions as well as their assessment methods, were ascertained by experts' consensus applying the Delphi technique.
The content validation was ascertained via expert validity and the inclusion criteria were set at a CVI larger than 0.80; in addition, the CVI of above selected thirty-eight nursing intervention items was 1.0.
