EAGOL: an artificial intelligence system for process monitoring, situation assessment and response planning

Abstract

EAGOL is an artificial intelligence system for process monitoring, situation assessment, and response planning in the management of complex, engineered systems in real time. Understanding the behavior of complex systems requires two basic types of analysis, both of which are incorporated within the EAGOL model: (1) first-principles cause-and-effect analysis of the engineered system, and (2) analysis of the types of interventions that may introduced into the engineered system from (a) built-in automatic safeguard mechanisms, and (b) human operators, who are often guided by pre-defined written procedures. EAGOL includes a goal-based model of procedure generation which allows the program (1) to generate procedures based on its assessment of real or potential system states and events, and (2) to use its internal representation of procedures and goals to reason along with human operators in pursuit of an emergency resolution.<>