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title: "Drastic Cut of Man's Work in Reliability Studies by Using an Expert System"
authors:
  - "M. Bouissou"
  - "N. Villatte"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/108"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0108.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "541-543"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# Drastic Cut of Man's Work in Reliability Studies by Using an Expert System

M. Bouissou, N. Villatte

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 541-543.

## Abstract

We show here how we have been able, thanks to the use of artifical intelligence techniques, to find a neat solution to the problem of the automation of reliability studies . We have introduced rule-based representation at two levels : - the modelling of the studied system, which is very general and versatile, and nevertheless quantifiable because of the rule-base representation . - the storage of the reliability engineers' knowledge about failure modes and effects · for conventional components . The productivity of the reliability studies has been substantially improved with this approach .