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title: "Intelligent Monitoring and Control"
authors:
  - "Barbara Hayes-Roth"
  - "Richard Washington"
  - "Rattikorn Hewett"
  - "Micheal Hewett"
  - "Adam Seiver"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/39"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0039.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1989
pages: "243-248"
track: "Real-time and High Performance"
keywords:
---

# Intelligent Monitoring and Control

Barbara Hayes-Roth, Richard Washington, Rattikorn Hewett, Micheal Hewett, Adam Seiver

*Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 243-248.

## Abstract

Intelligent monitoring and control involves obse rving and guiding the behavior of a physical system toward some objective, with realtime constraints on the utility of particular actions . Generic functional requirements for this task include : integration of perception, reasoning , and action; integration of multiple reasoning activities; reasoning about complex, timevarying systems; coordination of multiple response modes; dynamic allocation of limited c omputational resources . We illustrate these re quirements in the domain of patient monitoring in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU). We propose a generic architecture, designed and implemented in layers: top-level system organization ; reasoning architecture; generic reasoning skills and knowledge representation; firstprinciples knowledge of physical systems; domain knowledge . We illustrate the architecture in the " Guardian" system for SICU monitoring and describe Guardian's performance on an illustrative scenario . Finally, we discuss the generality and limitations of the proposed archite c ture.