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An evolutive alert system for diagnosis of nosocomial infections based on archiving distributed databases -- A knowledge-based system to classify and diagnose HIV-pneumonias -- How to appreciate expert principles for antibiotic prescription in a fuzzy context -- Strategies for Medical Reasoning - ICU Applications -- ILE-VT: An Intelligent Learning Environment in Ventilator Therapy -- Oxygen Status Model for the Ventilatory and Circulatory Contribution to Tissue Oxygenation -- VIE-VENT: Knowledge-Based Monitoring and Therapy Planning of the Artificial Ventilation of Newborn Infants -- ICONS: Cognitive basic functions in a case-based consultation system for intensive care -- Digital lung mechanics simulator as a validation tool -- Interpreting Physiopathological States under Environment Temporal Restrictions -- Strategies for Medical Reasoning - Patient Management -- Medical system design and knowledge acquisition using cooperating intelligent agents A case study for breast cancer diagnosis -- Cooperative Medical Problem Solving -- Demo of FreeCall, a System for Ambulance Dispatching -- CAR E: A Knowledge-Based System for Assisting the Physician in Patient Management -- Knowledge Representation - Protocols -- CARE PROTOCOLS AND HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS -- Generic GP-guidelines and reasoning -- Sharing and reusing therapeutic knowledge for managing leukemic children -- A decision support system for test request screening -- Knowledge Representation - Tenninology -- Interfacing Conceptual Graphs (CG) and the Galen Master Notation (MN) for medical knowledge representation and modelling -- Compositional Classification Based on Conceptual Graphs -- Needs and constraints in modelling medical knowledge using semantic networks: A medical point of view -- A Model of Patient Related Data and a Structure of Medical Terms for Knowledge-Based Systems in Medicine