Marina Zanella - Böcker

This monograph describes an innovative prototyping framework for data and knowledge intensive systems. The proposed approach should prove useful for advanced and research-oriented projects that aim to develop a traditional database perspective into fully-fledged advanced database approaches and knowledge engineering technologies. The book is organized in two parts. The first part, comprising chapters 1 to 4, provides an introduction to the concept of prototyping, to database and knowledge-based technologies, and to the main issues involved in the integration of data and knowledge engineering. The second part, comprising chapters 5 to 12, illustrates the proposed approach in technical detail.

This book is a comprehensive work on model-based diagnosis of a broad class of discrete-event systems, called active systems. The diagnostic approach, developed over several years by the authors, is surveyed along with introductory elements and related contributions. Each subject is dealt with both informally and formally, so that, based on a variety of examples, the reader can understand the basic ideas at an intuitive level first, while possibly delving into formal details afterwards.

This book is an up-to-date self-contained compendium of the research carried out by the authors on model-based diagnosis of a class of discrete-event systems called active systems. After defining the diagnosis problem, the book copes with a variety of reasoning mechanisms that generate the diagnosis, possibly within a monitoring setting.

This book is an up-to-date self-contained compendium of the research carried out by the authors on model-based diagnosis of a class of discrete-event systems called active systems. After defining the diagnosis problem, the book copes with a variety of reasoning mechanisms that generate the diagnosis, possibly within a monitoring setting. The book is structured into twelve chapters, each of which has its own introduction and concludes with bibliographic notes and itemized summaries. Concepts and techniques are presented with the help of numerous examples, figures, and tables, and when appropriate these concepts are formalized into propositions and theorems, while detailed algorithms are expressed in pseudocode. This work is primarily intended for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the fields of artificial intelligence and control theory.

This book is a comprehensive work on model-based diagnosis of a broad class of discrete-event systems, called active systems. The diagnostic approach, developed over several years by the authors, is surveyed along with introductory elements and related contributions. The area is new and the presented material is not collected in any other outlet. Each subject is dealt with both informally and formally, so that, based on a variety of examples, the reader can understand the basic ideas at an intuitive level first, while possibly delving into formal details afterwards. Based on an insight into an advanced technology, researchers and system engineers are likely to draw inspiration to cope with conceptual and practical aspects of the complex task of diagnosis. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers in the field of model-based diagnosis, both in academic and industrial contexts, and to students of artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and algorithms and data structures, and to system engineers involved in the monitoring and diagnosis of industrial apparatus.