Thesis: With respect to the fault diagnosis and repair problem,• experts who are not programmers can work alone to specify test and repair plans and make use of a natural idiom;• a graphical interface can be built which limits keyboard input and avoids natural language headaches;• consistency checking to prevent cycles and redundancies in test/repair sequences can be carried out during knowledge acquisition prior to running the resulting diagnostic routines;• a current version of the (output) diagnostic routine may be run easily during knowledge acquisition to verify the knowledge base while it is being built;• diagnostic testing can be deterministic but need not be fully-ordered, and probably should not be;• rules and uncertainty measures are not necessary.
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