title: Hycones: a hybrid approach to designing decision support systems.
abstract: Hycones II is a tool that facilitates the construction of hybrid connectionist expert systems to solve problems in classification. Hycones II provides a hybrid system that integrates frames with three types of neural network: the "combinatorial" neural model (CNM), the "Fuzzy ARTMAP" model, and the "Semantic ART" (SMART) model, a combination of the CNM and Fuzzy ART-MAP. We will compare the ability of these three models to solve diagnostic problems in two medical domains.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cardiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Leão
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Reátegui
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guazzelli
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Mendonça
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003199:Computer Systems; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012984:Software