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.

The first thorough treatment of the different options for constructing diagnostic systems

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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 Systems.- 5.1 Choosing what to Model for Model-Based Diagnosis.- 5.2 Choosing which Aspects of the Domain to Model.- 5.3 Summary and Conclusions.- 6. Applying Model-Based Diagnosis.- 6.1 RAZ'R from OCC'M.- 6.2 Automotive Diagnosis from Design Models.- 6.3 Autonomous Spacecraft Diagnosis.- 7. Real-Time Diagnostic Systems.- 7.1 Characteristics of Real-Time Diagnosis.- 7.2 Monitoring Real-Time Applications.- 7.3 Diagnosing Real-Time Applications.- 7.4 Commercial Real-Time Tools.- 7.5 Tiger: Diagnosing Gas Turbines.- Appendix 1: Full Listing of Adviser Expert System.- Appendix 2: Details of GRAF2 Generated Programs.- Pascal Code Generated for Car Diagnosis Application.- C Code Generated for Car Diagnosis Application.- Execution of Text-Based Car Diagnosis Application.- Execution of PalmPilot-Based Car Diagnosis Application.- Appendix 3: Further Information.- Chapters 1 and 2: Rule-Based Diagnostic Tools.- 2: Diagnosability.- 3: Graphically Oriented Tool Builders.- 4: Case-Based Reasoning Tools.- Chapters 5 and 6:Model-Based Reasoning Tools.- 7: Real-Time Diagnostic Tools.- References.