A deliberative and reactive diagnosis agent based on logic programming

Abstract

We briefly overview the architecture of a diagnosis agent. We employ logic and logic programming to specify and implement the agent: the knowledge base uses extended logic programming to specify the agent's behaviour and its knowledge about the system to be diagnosed. The inference machine, which provides algorithms to compute diagnoses, as well as the reactive layer that realises a meta interpreter for the agent behaviour are implemented in PVM-Prolog, that enhances standard Prolog by message passing facilities.