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An efficient strategy for fault diagnosis relies upon specific symptoms to activate only a small portion of the available diagnostic knowledge. However, expert systems and humans using this strategy often commit characteristic errors. These errors occur because significantly different faults may manifest similar symptoms. If these symptoms are confused, the wrong portion of diagnostic knowledge can be activated. This paper discusses such errors and describes a strategy for reducing their incidence based upon an investigation of expertise in the Galen expert system.
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Johnson, P.E., Moen, J.B., Thompson, W.B. (1988). Garden Path Errors in Diagnostic Reasoning. In: Bolc, L., Coombs, M.J. (eds) Expert System Applications. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83314-4_7
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