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In the engineering context of control or measurement systems, there is a growing need to incorporate more and more intelligence towards sensing/actuating components. These components achieve some global service related with an intended goal through a set of elementary services intended to achieve atomic goals. There are many possible choices and non-trivial relations between services. As a consequence, both novices and specialists need assistance to prune the search space of possible services and their relations. To provide a sound knowledge representation for functional reasoning, we propose a method eliciting a goal hierarchy in Intelligent Control Systems. To refine the concept of goal with sub-concepts, we investigate a formalization which relies on a multilevel structure. The method is centered both on a mereological approach to express both physical environment and goal concepts, and on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to model concept aggregation/decomposition. The interplay between mereology and FCA is discussed.
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Dapoigny, R., Barlatier, P., Foulloy, L., Benoit, E. (2005). Formal Goal Generation for Intelligent Control Systems. In: Ali, M., Esposito, F. (eds) Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3533. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11504894_99
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