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title: "Temporal Decision Trees or the lazy ECU vindicated"
authors:
  - "Luca Console"
  - "Claudia Picardi"
  - "Daniele Theseider Dupré"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/76"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0076.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2001
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Temporal Decision Trees or the lazy ECU vindicated

Luca Console, Claudia Picardi, Daniele Theseider Dupré

*Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

The automatic generation of diagnostic decision trees from qualitative models is a reasonable compromise between the advantages of using a modelbased approach in technical domains and the constraints imposed by on-board applications. In this paper we extend the approach to deal with temporal information. We introduce a notion of temporal diagnostic decision tree, in which nodes have a temporal label providing temporal constraints on the observations, and we present an algorithm for compiling such trees from a model-based diagnostic system.