{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Device Representation and Reasoning with Affective Relations","authors":[{"name":"James M. Crawford","slug":"james-m-crawford","given":"James M.","family":"Crawford","affiliation":""},{"name":"Daniel Dvorak","slug":"daniel-dvorak","given":"Daniel","family":"Dvorak","affiliation":""},{"name":"Diane J. Litman","slug":"diane-j-litman","given":"Diane J.","family":"Litman","affiliation":""},{"name":"Anil Mishra","slug":"anil-mishra","given":"Anil","family":"Mishra","affiliation":""},{"name":"Peter F. Patel-Schneider","slug":"peter-f-patel-schneider","given":"Peter F.","family":"Patel-Schneider","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Device representation and reasoning with affective relations occupies a middle ground between classical model-based diagnosis and heuristic expert systems. A device is modeled by specifying a set of diagnostically motivated affective relations among its components. Reasoning is then performed by a set of inference rules that reason with the model to propagate symptoms through the components. Representation and reasoning with affective relations extends several benefits of classical model-based diagnosis- the model as a unifying framework for knowledge, methodical coverage of the domain , and diagnostic reasoning based on equipment design and causality-to a class of problems where classical model-based diagnosis cannot be applied because the required models cannot be reasonably obtained or represented . Our work evolved from our redesign of a heuristic expert system for monitoring long-distance telephone switching systems, and is applicable to highly complex self-checking systems.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/233","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0233.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/233.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/bibtex/233","volume":{"slug":"1995","title":"Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1995","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/","year":1995,"location":"Montréal, Québec, Canada","dates":"","editors":"Chris S. Mellish","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis","track":"Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis","number":233,"pages":{"first":1814,"last":1819},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}