An Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) for Nutrition Therapy

In this paper, the authors have presented an expert system to support decision makers in nutrition therapy planning. This system is an extended version of a fuzzy decision support system for nutrition therapy. The presented expert system is equipped with an updated knowledge base component by using a set of rules. Also in order to deal with vagueness and uncertainty, fuzzy set theory could provide a suitable framework for data management, modelling and decision support. Therefore, fuzzy rules empower this system to be implemented more realistically. In addition, for developing knowledge management component, artificial neural network (ANN) is applied to survey the input data and information in the long term. The integration of ANN with the expert system provides the possibility for a set of novel rules to be generated and consequently adds new knowledge to the system.