Explanation and diagnosis in business assessment

Author

Daniels, H.A.M. ; Feelders, A.J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Language Technol. & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands

Volume

22

Issue

2

fYear

1992

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

402

Abstract

An architecture for the diagnosis of a firm that combines quantitative methods with qualitative reasoning is presented. The system consists of a problem identification module and a diagnostic module. The problem identification module operates in quantitative mode to discover deviations from norm values for key variables. The diagnostic module uses both quantitative and qualitative relations to generate intuitively appealing explanations for the symptoms discovered. This architecture provides a convenient and flexible way of coding different kinds of knowledge and reasoning methods of human financial experts

Keywords

commerce; inference mechanisms; knowledge representation; planning (artificial intelligence); problem solving; business assessment; coding; diagnostic module; financial experts; knowledge; norm values; problem identification module; qualitative reasoning; quantitative methods; reasoning methods; Artificial intelligence; Companies; Decision making; Degradation; Diagnostic expert systems; Financial management; Humans; Medical expert systems; Phase detection; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9472

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/21.148416

Filename

148416