Probabilistic temporal reasoning and its application to fossil power plant operation
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- 作者：Arroyo-Figueroa ; Gustavo ; Sucar ; Luis Enrique ; Villavicencio ; Aljandro
- 关键词：Bayesian networks ; Power plants ; Temporal reasoning ; Diagnosis ; Prediction
- 刊名：Expert Systems with Applications
- 出版年：1998
- 出版时间：October 11, 1998
- 年：1998
- 卷：15
- 期：3-4
- 页码：317-324
- 全文大小：234 K
文摘
Many real-world applications, such as industrial diagnosis, require an adequate representation and inference mechanism that combines uncertainty and time. In this work, we propose a novel approach for representing dynamic domains under uncertainty based on a probabilistic framework, called temporal nodes Bayesian networks (TNBN). The TNBN model is an extension of a standard Bayesian network, in which each temporal node represents an event or state change of a variable and the arcs represent causal–temporal relationships between nodes. A temporal node has associated a probability distribution for its time of occurrence, where time is discretized in a finite number of temporal intervals; allowing a different number of intervals for each node and a different duration for the intervals within a node (multiple granularity). The main difference with previous probabilistic temporal models is that the representation is based on state changes at different times instead of state values at different times. Given this model, we can reason about the probability of occurrence of certain events, for diagnosis or prediction, using standard probability propagation techniques developed for Bayesian networks. The proposed approach is applied to fossil power plant diagnosis through two detailed case studies: power load increment and control level system failure. The results show that the proposed formalism could help to improve power plant availability through early diagnosis of events and disturbances.