DISXPERT: A rule-based vocational rehabilitation risk assessment system

This paper reports on the development and implementation of DISXPERT, a rule-based expert system tool for referral of social security disability recipients to vocational rehabilitation services. The growing use of paraprofessionals as caseworkers responsible for assessment in the social services are...

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Published in:Expert systems with applications 1997-05, Vol.12 (4), p.465-472
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