A state-based knowledge representation approach for information logical inconsistency detection in warning systems

Detecting logical inconsistency in collected information is a vital function when deploying a knowledge-based warning system to monitor a specific application domain for the reason that logical inconsistency is often hidden from seemingly consistent information and may lead to unexpected results. Existing logical inconsistency detection methods usually focus on information stored in a knowledge base by using a well-defined general purpose knowledge representation approach, and therefore cannot fulfill the demands of a domain-specific situation. This paper first proposes a state-based knowledge representation approach, in which domain-specific knowledge is expressed by combinations of the relevant objects’ states. Based on this approach, a method for information logical inconsistency detection (ILID) is developed which can flexibly handle the demands of various domain-specific situations through reducing some restrictions in existing methods. Finally, two real-case based examples are presented to illustrate the ILID method and its advantages.