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Despite the successful operation of expert diagnosis systems in various areas of human activity these systems still show several drawbacks. Expert diagnosis systems infer system faults from observable symptoms. These systems usually are based on production rules which reflect so called ‘shallow knowledge’ of the problem domain. Though the explanation subsystem allows the program to explain its reasoning, deeper theoretical justifications of program's actions are usually needed. This may be one of the reasons why in recent years in knowledge engineering there has been a shift from rule-based systems to model-based systems. Model-based systems allow us to reason and to explain a system's physical structure, functions and behaviour, and thus, to achieve much better understanding of the system's operations, both in normal mode and under fault conditions. The domain knowledge captured in the knowledge base of the expert diagnosis system must include deep causal knowledge to ensure t he desired level of explanation. The objective of this paper is to develop a causal domain model driven approach to knowledge acquisition using an expert–acquisition system–knowledge base paradigm. The framework of structural modelling is used to execute systematic, partly formal model-based knowledge acquisition, the result of which is three structural models–one model of morphological structure and two kinds of models of functional structures. Hierarchy of frames are used for knowledge representation in topological knowledge base (TKB). A formal method to derive cause–consequence rules from the TKB is proposed. The set of cause–consequence rules reflects causal relationships between causes (faults) and sequences of consequences (changes of parameter values). The deep knowledge rule base consists of cause–consequence rules and provides better understanding of system's operation. This, in turn, gives the possibility to construct better explanation fa cilities for expert diagnosis system. The proposed method has been implemented in the automated structural modelling system ASMOS. The application areas of ASMOS are complex technical systems with physically heterogeneous elements.
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GRUNDSPENKIS, J. Causal domain model driven knowledge acquisition for expert diagnosis system development. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 9, 547–558 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008840303610
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