Supporting complex inquiries
Aldo Franco Dragoni, Mauro Di Manzo · International Journal of Intelligent Systems · 1995
INTRODUCTION Much of the detectives' and magistrates' task can be regarded as "knowledge processing." They have, typically, to acquire knowledge chunks, find the contradictions inside and across the various depositions, link the consistent hypotheses in a causally connected lattice and judge the credibility of the information and the reliability of the witnesses. * Sometimes, the complexity of the case could justify the assistance of an appropriate Decision Support System (DSS); we call Inquiry Support System (ISS) this specialized DSS. A first task of an intelligent ISS could be that of generating stereotypical hypotheses about the case under consideration. However, the ultimate task of an ISS should be that of providing a most credible and coherent set of beliefs about the case. Part of these beliefs comes from investigations on the spot and verified facts, part from the depositions of the various witnesses, part from hypotheses introduced by the detective him