Knowledge based expert analysis system

摘要

A rules-based expert analysis system for networks includes a combination of algorithmic and heuristic rules which are grouped in hierarchies in one or more related categories of network performance criteria. Each rule is interdependent in a prioritized manner with one or more other rules, and although the interdependencies are fixed the rule priorities are adaptable based on the user entered objective of the analysis. This allows the rules that are used in the analysis to be defined at run time, instead of fixed rules which are defined at design time and which use fixed threshold values