Expert System to Diagnose Appendicitis with the Certainty Factor Method

Health is the main key to human life, for that the author also needs health in writing a thesis entitled appendicitis so that readers can understand and recognize appendicitis more quickly. According to Kusrini, S.Kom (2006:11). An expert system is a computer-based system that uses knowledge, facts and reasoning techniques in solving problems that can usually only be solved by an expert in the field. Basically expert systems are applied to support problem solving activities. According to (T. Sujoto, Edy Mulyanto, Dr. Vincen Suhartono, 2011: 125) the Certainty Factor (CF) theory is to accommodate the inexact reasoning of an expert proposed by Shortliffe and Buchanan in 1975. Here the author will discuss on the Expert System for Diagnosing Appendicitis, Certainty Factor Method is one of the Expert System Methods for diagnosing appendicitis. To make the application the author uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.