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Abstract
The industrial revolution brought forward a whole new organization of modern society. Production was moved from the homes of ordinary people to factories, where machines started taking over the jobs of humans. Controlling the operation of a factory, whether a textile factory or nuclear power plant, has posed many a challenging problem to engineers.
In order to control modern process plants, hundreds of variables are monitored during process operation. These variables interact in complicated ways. An understanding of how these variables interact is necessary in order to control process opertion and distinguish abnormal situations from normal operation. The identification of critical situations is mainly done by human operators who have developed heuristic knowledge about situation classification. Heuristic knowledge is knowledge in the form of rules-of-thumb. Rule induction is an important tasks to extract knowledge from data. In rule induction, the representation of knowledge is defined as IF-THEN rules which are easily undestandable and applicable by problem-domain experts.