An expert system approach to control system design and analysis

The architecture of CONEX-expert system for control system design and analysis-is presented. The important features of CONEX are discussed and they include: a structured organization of the short-term database, a clustering criteria for partitioning the rule-base into connected rule-spaces, a language for representing the domain-specific rules, and an inference engine that can adopt different search strategies for different rule-spaces. Additionally, an explanation generation module gives CONEX the attribute of user friendliness.<
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