Successful machine diagnosis consists not only of sound diagnostic reasoning, but also the selection of appropriate repairs, sequencing the repairs correctly, interactively validating the success of each repair, and performing follow-on diagnosis in case of repair failure. We discuss some of the issues involved in formulating a repair strategy for an expert system, review some aspects of expert...

Many problems require minimally perturbing an initial state in order to repair some violated constraints. We consider two search spaces for exactly solving this minimal perturbation repair problem: a standard, difference-based search space, and a new, commitment-based search space. Empirical results with exact search algorithms for a mincost virtual machine reassignment problem, a minimal pertu...

The authors have been involved in developing an automated inspection system, based on machine vision, to improve the repair coating quality control (RCQ control) in can ends of metal containers for fish food. The RCQ of each end is assesed estimating its average repair coating quality (ARCQ). In this work we present a fuzzy model building to make the acceptance/rejection decision for each can e...

abstract   background: different methods of surgical treatment for acromioclavicular(ac) joint injury were considered in the literature. the purpose of the study was to compare intra- articular ac repair technique with the extra-articular coracoclavicular repair technique for the patients with rockwood type iii and vac joint injury when indicated.   methods: nineteen consecutive patients with r...