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Attribute grammars were devised by Knuth as a tool for the formal specification of programming languages {2}. Almost concomitant with their development, has been their use in applications which cannot be thought as formal specifications in the strict sense. Recently, attribute grammars were proposed as a tool for knowledge representation and logic programming {5,32}. A theoretical study of the relations between attribute grammars and logic programming is provided in {7}. The use of arbitrarily complex attribute evaluation schemes is also discussed in {7} from the viewpoint of logic program’s flow control. However practical implementations of this approach have not so far appeared in the literature. The use of attribute grammars for knowledge representation was firstly proposed in {5}, where it was shown that the parsing mechanism and the semantic notation of attribute grammars can be combined to represent the control knowledge and the knowledge base of logic programs, repsectively. The practical implementation of this approach in situations where the knowledge can be expressed in the form of logic rules was described in {6,32}. Some further theoretical aspects of this last approach are included in {20}. On the application side two problems have so far been considered by the authors via the attribute grammar approach; the first concers a car-fault diagnosis problem using the possibility-necessity inexact reasoning model, and the second treats the fault diagnostic problem of a full adder circuit using the full theorem proving capabilities of an extended attribute grammar model {22,33}.
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Papakonstantinou, G., Tzafestas, S. (1989). Attribute Grammar Approach to Knowledge-Based System Building — Application to Fault Diagnosis. In: Tzafestas, S.G. (eds) Knowledge-Based System Diagnosis, Supervision, and Control. Applied Information Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2471-1_7
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