Title: Bcaus project description and consideration of control isolation issues
Abstract: Our experience with the development of a diagnostic expert system has caused us to examine the commonly stated truths that data may be segregated from program control in “generic” expert system shells and that such tools support straightforward knowledge representation. We believe that the ideal of separation of data from program control in expert systems is difficult to realize for a variety of reasons. One approach to achieving this goal is to integrate hybrid collections of specialized shells and tools instead of producing custom systems built with a single “all purpose” expert system tool. In this report, we try to examine aspects of these issues in the context of a specific diagnostic expert system application, the Backup Control Mode Analysis and Utility System (BCAUS), being developed for the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) spacecraft. We present a description of the project, our experience to date, and plans for the on-going system development. A more detailed description of the BCAUS prototype development has already appeared (CSC, 1988).
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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