Computer-Based Diagnostic Systems [Paperback]

This book addresses the issue of the best way to build effective knowledge-based systems for handling different types of diagnostic problems. It presents examples of different solutions to building effective diagnostic systems, and helps the reader to decide on an appropriate strategy for building a system. The book makes the material easy to understand and goes through the different options for constructing diagnostic systems.Computer-based diagnostic systems are among the most successful applications of knowledge-based systems (KBS) technology. Chris Price shows the best way to build effective diagnostic systems for different types of diagnostic problems by: - giving examples of different solutions to the problem of building effective diagnostic systems - helping you to decide on an appropriate strategy for building a diagnostic system to aid troubleshooting of that diagnostic problem - showing how to use diagnostic fault trees as a common representation for discussing different ways of approaching diagnosis. Computer-Based Diagnostic Systems is written in such a way as to make the material easy to understand even when you do not have easy access to the commercial tools.1. Introduction.- 1.1 Diagnostic Systems.- 1.2 Diagnosis Using Diagnostic Fault Trees.- 1.3 Building a Diagnostic System from a Diagnostic Fault Tree.- 1.4 Problems with the Diagnostic Fault Tree Approach.- 2. Disciplines for Complex Diagnostic Systems.- 2.1 Adding Structure to the Fault Tree.- 2.2 Characterizing Troubleshooting Better.- 2.3 Sources of Diagnostic Material.- 2.4 Design for Diagnosability.- 3. Tools for Complex Fault Trees.- 3.1 Graphical Fault Tree Building: A Simple Example.- 3.2 TestBench.- 3.3 GRADE .- 3.4 Summary and Conclusions.- 4. Case-Based Diagnostic Systems.- 4.1 What Is Case-Based Reasoning?.- 4.2 CBR for Help Desk Systems.- 4.3 CBR for Complex Diagnostic Systems.- 4.4 Summary of Case-Based Reasoning.- 5. Model-Based Diagnostic Systelc7