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title: "An Expert System for Understanding Expressions from Electric Circuit Analysis"
authors:
  - "Rostam Joobbani"
  - "Sarosh Talukdar"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/5"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0005.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "23-24"
track: "AI and Education"
keywords:
---

# An Expert System for Understanding Expressions from Electric Circuit Analysis

Rostam Joobbani, Sarosh Talukdar

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 23-24.

## Abstract

Circ uit an alysis is central to elcc lrical engin eering . It is important ihat students master th e skills it req~ir os . Most of circu it ar;Jlysis i~; co nce rn ed with writing cxpn;:';sions that r; rnbu,i;r transfnr.n cttions, con ~;e rvation laws an cl \1 re elec trical behaviors of 'J CHi:.:us devices. This paper describes work in !l r<l cJress o•·· cu t ,:x pc rt sysiem tlw t can exami ne til e ex pressions tha t. stuli:') ilts vn it e, cliag no sn the errors in th em ancl sug\)es t currt:c tion:o. fhe c x p ~~ rt sys tem is implemented in OPS5 and uses llw 0irate qit')S oi divide-:l!lcl -co nquer, forwa rd chaininy ancl ilypoihesize·•.i:lcl -l es l. Th e systt; rn c<J n now r eclCg ni zc most of itre C"l!Prno n e•rors tb at s tu rl r· nts rr1ake in dealing with linear resistive circuits an d operates at about the level of a competent hurnan srade r.