Title P age -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Keynote Addresses -- In Pursuit of Time's Arrow: Temporal Reasoning in Medical Decision Support -- Criteria for the acceptance of decision-support systems by clinicians -- lessons from ECG interpretation systems -- Model Based Reasoning -- A tool for pathophysiological knowledge acquisition -- Model Based Image Interpretation of Spiral CT Scans of the Abdomen -- Applying Qualitative Reasoning to Commonsense Physiology -- Implementation of a learning procedure for multiple observations in a Diabetes Advisory System based on causal probabilistic networks -- Reasoning with Causal Networks at Variable Depths -- Transformation of Compartmental Models into Sequences of Causal Probabilistic Networks -- A Prototype Decision Support System for Diagnosing Polyneuropathies -- Expert Systems and Mathematical Simulation -- Strategies for Medical Reasoning -- Knowledge Based Systems and Techniques for the Health Sector -- A Knowledge-Based Advisor Supporting to Deal with Rare Diseases -- On higher-level operational facets of diagnostic expert systems -- A framework for computer assisted medical decision making -- CLINICAL APPLICATION OF A GENERAL METHOD FOR DECISION - SUPPORT SYSTEMS -- Employment of Dr. Watson Type Systems (Dr. WTS) in medicine on the example of supporting decision making by a physician of the Regional Children Reanimation Consultative Centre -- Strategies for Medical Reasoning - Applications -- GAZE: An Attentional Mechanism for the Extraction of Prominent Facial Features -- PHARMNEPH: COMPUTER-SYSTEM FOR DRUG DOSAGE ADJUSTMENT IN RENAL FAILURE -- Building a Medical Knowledge Base: Tricks Facilitating the Simulation of the Expert's Reasoning -- Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Support by Analysis and Visualization of Multimodal Images