Process algebras for systems diagnosis

  • Authors:
  • Luca Console;Claudia Picardi;Marina Ribaudo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new characterization of model-based diagnosis based on process algebras, a framework which is widely used in several areas of computer science. We show that process algebras provide a powerful modelling language which allows us to capture, in an uniform way, different types of models of physical systems, including models of time-varying and dynamic behavior. Then we provide a characterization of diagnosis which is equivalent to the "classical" abductive one. This suggests new interesting opportunities for research on relations between model-based reasoning and process algebras.