Component-ontological representation of function for reasoning about devices

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 399-415

  Kumar, Amruth N ^a   Upadhyaya, Shambhu J ^b  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Model based reasoning; Reasoning about function; Representation

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPONENT ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; MODEL BASED REASONING;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0032188399     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(97)10012-7     Document Type: Article

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