Knowledge Base Verification Based on Enhanced Colored Petri Net

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering) ;
  • Seong, Poong-Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering)
  • Published : 1997.10.01

Abstract

Verification is a process aimed at demonstrating whether a system meets it's specified requirements. As expert systems are used in various applications, the knowledge base verification of systems fakes an important position. The conventional Petri net approach that has been studied recently in order to verify the knowledge base is found that it is inadequate to verify the knowledge base of large and complex system, such as alarm processing system of nuclear power plant. Thus, we propose an improved method that models the knowledge base as enhanced colored Petri net. In this study. we analyze the reachability and the error characteristics of the knowledge base and apply the method to verification of simple knowledge base.

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