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- Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin, et al.
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A Case-Based Reasoning System for Knowledge and Experience Reuse
- 2007
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 24th annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society. ; , s. 70-80
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Experience is one of the most valuable assets technicians and engineer have and may have been collected during many years and both from successful solutions as well as from very costly mistakes. Unfortunately industry rarely uses a systematic approach for experience reuse. This may be caused by the lack of efficient tools facilitating experience distribution and reuse. We propose a case-based approach and tool to facilitate experience reuse more systematically in industry. It is important that such a tool allows the technicians to give the problem case in a flexible way to increase acceptance and use. The proposed tool enables more structured handling of experience and is flexible and can be adapted to different situations and problems. The user is able to input text in a structured way and possibly in combination with other numeric or symbolic features. The system is able to identify and retrieve relevant similar experiences for reuse.
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- Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin, et al.
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Case-Based Reasoning for Medical and Industrial Decision Support Systems
- 2010
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Ingår i: Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer. - 9783642140778 ; , s. 7-52
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The amount of medical and industrial experience and knowledge is rapidly growing and it is almost impossible to be up to date with everything. The demand of decision support system (DSS) is especially important in domains where experience and knowledge grow rapidly. However, traditional approaches to DSS are not always easy to adapt to a flow of new experience and knowledge and may also show a limitation in areas with a weak domain theory. This chapter explores the functionalities of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to facilitate experience reuse both in clinical and in industrial decision making tasks. Examples from the field of stress medicine and condition monitoring in industrial robots are presented here to demonstrate that the same approach assists both for clinical applications as well as for decision support for engineers. In the both domains, DSS deals with sensor signal data and integrate other artificial intelligence techniques into the CBR system to enhance the performance in a number of different aspects. Textual information retrieval, Rule-based Reasoning (RBR), and fuzzy logic are combined together with CBR to offer decision support to clinicians for a more reliable and efficient management of stress. Agent technology and wavelet transformations are applied with CBR to diagnose audible faults on industrial robots and to package such a system. The performance of the CBR systems have been validated and have shown to be useful in solving such problems in both of these domains.
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- Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin, et al.
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Efficient Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis Using a Case-Based Experience Sharing System
- 2007
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Ingår i: The 20th International Congress and Exhibition on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics Engineering Management, COMADEM 2007, Faro, Portugal. ; , s. 305-314
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Industry has to adjust quickly to changes in their surroundings, for example reducing staff during recession and increasing staff when the market demands it. These factors may cause rapid loss of experience, collected during many years, or require experienced staff to spend considerable resources in training new staff, instead of focusing on production. This is recognised as very costly for companies and organisations today and also reduces competitiveness and productivity. Condition Monitoring, diagnostics and selection of efficient preventive or corrective actions is a task that often requires a high degree of expertise. This expertise is often gained through sometimes very expensive mistakes and can take many years to acquire leading to a few skilled experts. When they are not available due to changes in staff or retirements the company often faces serious problems that may be very expensive, e.g. leading to a reduced productivity.If some deviation occurs in a machine, a fault report is often written; an engineer makes a diagnosis and may order spare parts to repair the machine. Fault report, spare parts, required time and statistics on performance after repair are often stored in different databases but so far not systematically reused. In this paper we present a Case-Based experience sharing system that enables reuse of experience in a more efficient way compared with what is mostly practiced in industry today. The system uses Case-Based-Reasoning (CBR) and limited Natural Language Processing. An important aspect of the experience management tool is that it is user-friendly and web-based to promote efficient experience sharing. The system should be able to handle both experiences that are only in house as well as sharing experience with other industries when there is no conflicting interest. Such a CBR based tool enables efficient experience gathering, management and reuse in production industries. The tool will facilitate the users with an interactive environment to communicate with each other for sharing their experiences. Depend on the user; the security level of the system will be varied to share knowledge among the collaborating companies.The system identifies the most relevant experiences to assess and resolve the current situation. The experience is stored and retrieved as a case in the collaborative space where experience from various companies may have been stored under many years. Reusing experience and avoiding expensive mistakes will increase the participating companies' competitiveness and also transfer valuable experience to their employees. One of the benefits is also the opportunity and facility to identify people with similar tasks and problems at different companies and enable them to share their experience, e.g. if a technician has solved a similar problem recently and is in the near, the most efficient solution may be to call the expert and ask for assistance. In future, one may access this tool through his/her mobile device via wireless or mobile communications using Global Positioning System, GPS, enables the system to suggest experts nearby, willing and able to share the knowledge and quickly assist in resolve the problem.
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- Begum, Shahina, et al.
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Development of a Stress Questionnaire : A Tool for Diagnosing Mental Stress
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Stress and its relation with health, behavioral and environmental factors are known today. The stress questionnaire is a scientific screening instrument to understand individual’s causes of stress in different parts of life e.g. in the work place and at home. The 38-item stress questionnaire (SQ) is developed to assess the appraisal of stress personally experienced in a patient’s life. This questionnaire cannot diagnose any illness or psychological disorder. However it can be a helpful tool for developing the individual stress management plan by assessing data about the current demands of individual’s life and work.
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- Olsson, Erik, et al.
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A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM IN A FACTORY PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A Distributed Multi-Agent System representing the behaviour of a machine maintenance procedure in a factory production environment is modelled using the BRIC language. The model provides an overview and simplification of the communication in the maintenance procedure. The model involves two distributed factory environments, each equipped with a Maintenance Agent and an Experience Sharing Agent. Maintenance agents can be seen as experts in interpreting local sensor data from the machine being observed. They have some basic domain knowledge about when to bring the findings to the attention of an agent, human or system. An agent is also autonomous and may have the trust to shut down a process. The maintenance agent will ask other agents or humans for assistance if bringing the macine ito working order is beyond the agent's ability. Necessary information about what maintenance actions to perform is provided by an Experience Sharing Agent which has the ability to identify past experience relevant for the current situation and thus beeing able to help the human to make a better and more informed decision avoiding previously, sometimes very costly mistakes.
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- Olsson, Erik, et al.
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EXPERIENCE REUSE BETWEEN MOBILE PRODUCTION MODULES - AN ENABLER FOR THE FACTORY-IN-A-BOX CONCEPT
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today's increased demand for flexible and fast reconfiguration of production systems is seen as one of the key factors for survival by many branches, especially small and medium sized enterprises. To enable adaptable and flexible production, we propose an integrated experience reuse system assisting in setup, operation, maintenance and repair. We present three subsystems that facilitate experience reuse between different engineers and operators working with standardised production modules. It is composed of three separate software components enabling: a) easy programming and control of robot cells, b) monitoring and condition based maintenance, c) distributed experience reuse. The results presented in this paper have been developed within the Factory-in-a-Box project, the ExAct project and the Eken project.
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