Previous research in decision making has proposed the use of a case based reasoning approach to accumulate, organize, preserve, link and share diverse knowledge coming from past experiences. However, existing CBR systems lack semantic understanding, which is important for intelligent knowledge retrieval in decision support system. To develop an intelligent CBR system which can not only carry out data matching retrieval, but also perform semantic associated data access, and improve the traditional keyword-based search. .An effective case representation method as well as an appropriate case retrieval approach must be found. Ontology technology is an ideal selection for realizing our system because owing to the good semantic understanding offered by ontology. Thus, we adopt ontology approach as a means to acquire domain knowledge and construct a case-base and use ontological semantic retrieval as the case retrieval method. The resulting ontology based CBR tool is experimented in fault diagnosis and repairing domain, a semi-structured decision-making environment involving multiple attributes. The results showed the feasibility and the applicability of our approach, and the benefit of the ontology support.
-In industrial plants, the profitability of the plant is significantly affected by the quality of machines maintenance. To ensure continuous production, the high valued machines should be kept in good working conditions. This brings plants to search for means to control and reduce equipment failures. When faults emerge in plants, appropriate actions for fault diagnosis and troubleshooting must be executed promptly and effectively to prevent large costs due to breakdowns. To provide reliable and effective maintenance support, the aid of advanced decision support technology utilizing previous repair experience is of crucial importance for the expert operators as it provides them valuable troubleshooting clues for new faults. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology, particularly, knowledge-based approach is promising for this domain. It captures efficiency of problem solving expertise from the domain experts; guides the expert operators in rapid fault detection and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the design and development of a Knowledge-Intensive Decision Support System (KI-DSS) for Maintenance, Repair and Service in industrial plants to support better maintenance decision and improve maintenance efficiency. With integration of case-based Reasoning and ontology, the Ki- DSS not only carries out data matching retrieval, but also performs semantic associated data access which is important for intelligent knowledge retrieval in decision support system. A case is executed to illustrate the use of the proposed KI-DSS to show the feasibility of our approach and the benefit of the ontology support.
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