Systemic approach for supervision systems design

This paper approaches the problem of plant supervision in a global way, and it insists on two phases: definition of the project field, and definition of a general knowledge transfer process from the source (the domain expert) to the target (a knowledge-based system, or KBS); this process must satisfy the constraints applied by the field specified in the first phase. We use a systemic analysis of the system, considering both human and technical aspects in plant operation: it allows the emergence of the different levels of abstraction of a complex system, and prepares the knowledge acquisition phase