GOALS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN-BODY - AN MFM MODEL FOR FAULT-DIAGNOSIS

This correspondence describes the use of explicit models of goals and functions for monitoring and diagnosis of intensive-care patients. The method is based on multilevel Row models (MFM) and used in the Guardi an system. It provides this system with alarm analysis, fault diagnosi s, and automatic generation of explanations. Advantages include a rela tively easy knowledge engineering effort and good properties for use i n a system with hard real-time deadlines. The results of some experime nts are also reported.