As Hammond has argued, traditional explanations for disagreement among experts (incompetence, venality, and ideology) are inadequate. The character and fallibilities of the human judgement process itself lead to persistent disagreements even among competent, honest, and disinterested experts. Social Judgement Theory provides powerful methods for analysing such judgementally based disagreements ...

Root cause analysis is a critical part of the diagnostics expert system. The goal of root cause analysis is to allocate root cause by analyzing fault information with observed data. After gathering all data the two important questions that one needs to answer are: • Does the available data provide enough information to allocate root causes? • How to organize the data into meaningful structures ...

In this paper, both the general necessary conditions for all synthesis strategies and the speciic necessary conditions for each synthesis case in distributed expert systems are identiied. Based on these necessary conditions, several synthesis strategies in non-connict cases are proposed which include strategies in inclusion synthesis cases, in overlap synthesis cases, and in disjoint synthesis ...