Verification of confliction and unreachability in rule-based expert systems with model checking

Abstract: It is important to find optimal solutions for structural errors in rule-based expert systems .Solutions to discovering such errors by using model checking techniques have already been proposed, but these solutions have problems such as state space explosion. In this paper, to overcome these problems, we model the rule-based systems as finite state transition systems and express confliction and unreachability as Computation Tree Logic (CTL) logic formula and then use the technique of model checking to detect confliction and unreachability in rule-based systems with the model checker UPPAAL.