Debugging knowledge-based applications with a generic toolkit

Author

Craw, Susan ; Boswell, Robin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Robert Gordon Univ., Aberdeen, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

185

Abstract

Knowledge refinement tools assist in the debugging and maintenance of knowledge based systems (KBSs) by attempting to identify and correct faults in the knowledge that account for incorrect problem-solving. Most refinement systems target a single shell and are able to refine only KBSs implemented in this shell. Our KRUSTWorks toolkit is unusual in that it provides refinement facilities that can be applied to a number of different shells, and is designed to be extensible to new shells. The paper outlines the components of the KRUSTWorks toolkit and how it is applied to faulty KBSs. It describes its application to two real aerospace KBSs implemented in CLIPS and POWER-MODEL to demonstrate its flexibility of application

Keywords

aerospace computing; knowledge based systems; knowledge engineering; program debugging; CLIPS; KRUSTWorks toolkit; POWER-MODEL; aerospace knowledge-based systems; fault correction; fault identification; generic toolkit; knowledge based system debugging; knowledge based system maintenance; knowledge refinement tools; shells; Application software; Debugging; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Filters; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge engineering; Logic; Power system modeling; Problem-solving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2000. ICTAI 2000. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0909-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.2000.889866

Filename

889866