Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 213-227 , March 2008

Nutri-Educ, a nutrition software application for balancing meals, using fuzzy arithmetic and heuristic search algorithms

  • Jean-Christophe Buisson

      Affiliations

    • University of Toulouse, INPT, IRIT (ENSEEIHT), 2 rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France
    • Rangueil University Hospital, Toulouse, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: University of Toulouse, INPT, IRIT (ENSEEIHT), 2 rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France. Tel.: +33 561 588 200; fax: +33 561 588 306.

Received 22 June 2007 ,Revised 10 December 2007 ,Accepted 11 December 2007.

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PII: S0933-3657(07)00163-7

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2007.12.001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 213-227 , March 2008

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