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title: "Goal-Directed Diagnosis-Diagnostic Reasoning in Exploratory-Corrective Domains"
authors:
  - "Ron Rymon"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/206"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0206.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1993
pages: "1488-1492"
track: "Qualitative Reasoning and Naive Physics"
keywords:
---

# Goal-Directed Diagnosis-Diagnostic Reasoning in Exploratory-Corrective Domains

Ron Rymon

*Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1488-1492.

## Abstract

In many diagnosis-and-repair domains, diagnostic reasoning cannot be abstracted from repair actions, nor from actions necessary to obtain diagnostic information. In general, in exploratory-corrective domains an agent has to interleave exploratory activity with activity aimed at achieving its goals. In TraumAID 2.0, a consultation system for multiple trauma management, we implement a reasoning framework for such domains which integrates diagnostic reasoning with planning and action. This paper presents Goal-Directed Diagnosis (GOD), a formalization of TraumAID 2.0's diagnostic reasoning. Taking the view that a diagnosis is only worthwhile to the extent that it can affect repair decisions, GOD uses goals to focus on such. Goals are also useful as a means of communicating with its accompanying planner.