School of Information Sciences

Douglas Metzler

Professor Emeritus

metzler@sis.pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
PhD, University of California Davis

Research Interests:

Knowledge representation and reasoning; natural language and communication; intelligent tutoring systems; human and machine learning and datamining; problem solving; reasoning and expert systems.

Recent Publications:

Metzler, D.M., and V. Payne. June 23-24, 2005. Hospital Care Watch (HCW): An Ontology and Rule-Based Intelligent Patient Management Assistant. Proceedings of The 18thIEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2005). Trinity College: Dublin, Ireland.

Metzler, D.M. and C. Martincic. April 22-23, 2005. An Expert System Development Environment For Introductory AI Course Projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference. Providence, RI.

Metzler, D.M., Kolluri, V., Provost, F., and Buchanan, B. December 4-6, 2004. Knowledge Discovery Using Concept-Class Taxonomies. Proceedings of 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, eds. Geoffrey I. Webb and Xinghou Yu. Cairns, Australia.

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