Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Qualitative Knowledge, Causal Reasoning, and the Localization of Failures
Qualitative Knowledge, Causal Reasoning, and the Localization of Failures
"Physical negation": integrating fault models into the general diagnostic engine
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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This paper shows how order of magnitude reasoning has been successfully used for troubleshooting complex analog circuits. The originality of this approach was to be able to remove the gap between the information required to apply a general theory of diagnosis and the limited information actually available. The expert's ability to detect a defect by reasoning about the significant changes in behavior it induces is extensively exploited here: as a kind of reasoning that justifies the qualitative modeling, as a heuristic that defmes a strategy and as a working hypothesis that makes clear the scope of this approach.