Tools for intelligent automation

Outlines the motivation, developments and achievements within ESPRIT project p820: Design and Experimentation of a Real-Time Knowledge Based System Toolkit for Process Control Applications. The project has developed a kernel of the toolkit, now called the QUIC Toolkit (QUalitative Industrial Control) and is being validated on three important demonstrator applications relevant to industrial control and diagnosis problems. Within the QUIC Toolkit architecture five conceptual abstractions or layers have been defined: strategic, tactical, teleological, functional and object, each providing a set of primitives consistent with the given architectural properties.<
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