Approximations in diagnosis: motivations and techniques

Frank van Harmelen
Annette ten Teije

We argue that diagnosis should not be seen as solving a problem with a unique definition, but rather that there exists a whole space of reasonable notions of diagnosis. These notions can be seen as mutual approximations. We present a number of reasons for choosing among different notions of diagnosis. We also present an exhaustive categorisation of techniques that can be employed to obtain approximations, as well as a number of specific example techniques for each category. We also show that it is possible to characterise the relations between the approximations obtained by these techniques.

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@InProceedings{SARA95,
  author = 	 "F. van Harmelen and A. ten Teije",
  title = 	 "Approximations in diagnosis: motivations and techniques",
  editor =	 "",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation
                  and Approximation, (\uc{SARA}'95)",
  year =	 1995,
  address =	 "Ville d'Esterl, Canada",
  month =	 "August",
  keywords = {Approximate Reasoning, Diagnostic Reasoning},
  urlPaper = "http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/SARA95.pdf"
}

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