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title: "Failure Processing in a System for Designing Complex Assemblies"
authors:
  - "Jean-Claude Latombe"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/114"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0114.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# Failure Processing in a System for Designing Complex Assemblies

Jean-Claude Latombe

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

We believe that the capacity to recover intelligently from intermediate failures and to learn from these failures is an essential ingredient of attempting to solve complex real-wor~d problems. Intelligent failure recovery requires the problem-solver not only to diagnose the causes of its failures, but also to cmrcumscribe carefully the propagation of recovery updating . Learning from failures requires that the problem-solver remember the conditions of its failures in such a way that it will not recreate these conditions. In this paper, we describ e method s providing such capabilities. We have implemented and eXPerimented with thes e methods in a rulebased system used for designing complex assembli e s such as electromechanical e quipment.