[net.ai] Expert System for Hardware/Software Debugging

Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA (03/10/84)

From:  Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>

The March issue of IEEE Computer has an article by Roger Hartley
of Kansas State University on the CRIB system for fault diagnosis.
The article starts with a discussion of expertise among experts
vs. that among practitioners, and about the process of building
a knowledge base.  Hartley then introduces CRIB and discusses, at
a fairly high level, its application to fault diagnosis in ICL 2903
minicomputers.  He then briefly mentions use of the same hierarchical
diagnostic strategy in debugging the VME/K operating system.

This article is an expanded version of the paper "How Expert Should an
Expert System Be?" in the 7th IJCAI, 1981.

                                        -- Ken Laws