Automatic generation of diagnostic expert systems from fault trees

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 143-147

  Assaf, Tariq ^a   Dugan, Joanne Bechta ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagrams; Diagnosis; Expert systems; Fault trees; Importance factors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

FAULT TOLERANCE DESIGN; FAULT TREE MODEL; SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 0037258498     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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