FPNES: fuzzy Petri net based expert system for bridges damage assessment

Author

Liu, Kevin F R ; Lee, Jeyull ; Chiang, Weiling ; Yang, Shanchieh Jay

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan

fYear

1998

fDate

10-12 Nov 1998

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

309

Abstract

A framework of integrated expert systems based on fuzzy Petri net, called fuzzy Petri net based expert system (FPNES) are proposed for bridge damage assessment. Major features of FPNES include: reasoning for uncertain and imprecise information; knowledge representation through the use of hierarchical fuzzy Petri nets; reasoning mechanism based on fuzzy Petri nets; and explanation of reasoning process through the use of hierarchical fuzzy Petri nets. FPNES offer several important benefits: (1) providing reasoning mechanism for uncertain and fuzzy information, (2) improving the efficiency of rule based reasoning by constructing relationship of concurrency among rule activation, and (3) explaining how to reach conclusions through the movements of tokens in fuzzy Petri nets. An application to the damage assessment of the Da-Shi bridge in Taiwan is used as an illustrative example of FPNES

Keywords

Petri nets; civil engineering computing; expert systems; fuzzy set theory; inference mechanisms; knowledge representation; uncertainty handling; Da-Shi bridge; FPNES; Taiwan; bridge damage assessment; explanation; fuzzy Petri net based expert system; hierarchical fuzzy Petri nets; imprecise information; integrated expert systems; knowledge representation; reasoning; reasoning mechanism; reasoning process; rule activation; rule based reasoning; tokens; uncertain information; Bridges; Civil engineering; Computer science; Expert systems; Fuzzy reasoning; Fuzzy systems; Hybrid intelligent systems; Knowledge representation; Petri nets; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1998. Proceedings. Tenth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5214-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1998.744858

Filename

744858