Representing Causality and Reasoning about Controllability of Multi-level Flow-Systems

Kai Heussen; Morten Lind

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642272

Representing Causality and Reasoning about Controllability of Multi-level Flow-Systems

Kai Heussen, Morten Lind

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Safe operation of complex processes requires that operators maintain situational-awareness even in highly automated environments. Automatic reasoning can support operators as well as the automation system itself to react effectively and appropriately to disturbances. However, knowledge-based reasoning about control situations remains a challenge due to the entanglement of process and control systems that co-establish the intended causal structure of a process. Due to this entanglement, reasoning about such systems depends on a coherent representation of control and process. This paper explains modeling of controlled processes with multilevelflow models and proposes a new framework for modeling causal influence in multilevel flow models on the basis of a flow/potential analogy. The results are illustrated on examples from the domain of electric power systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics : Intelligent Systems for a Safe and Secure World
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2010
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-6586-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642272
Publication status	Published - 2010
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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics : Intelligent Systems for a Safe and Secure World
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Keywords

Causality
Knowledge-based Systems
Functional Modeling
Model-based reasoning
Power Systems
Intelligent Control
Means-ends

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Heussen, K & Lind, M 2010, Representing Causality and Reasoning about Controllability of Multi-level Flow-Systems. in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Intelligent Systems for a Safe and Secure World. IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics : Intelligent Systems for a Safe and Secure World, Istanbul, 01/01/2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642272

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