Hybrid Advisory Systems and the Possibilities of IT Usage in the Process of Industrial Flooring Repairs

Abstract

It is very often the case that the units responsible for the maintenance of the building have to repair industrial flooring. The large number of available materials and technologies as well as some other factors, make it necessary to use tools which would help to make good decisions. Hybrid advisory system is a tool which supports the process of decision making and is responsible for generating possible solutions and related technological and economical information. From the point of view of the decision-maker such information is necessary in order to make the right choices. The system generates answers based on the input vector which accounts for factors such as the type of the damage, its size, the time during which the floor was affected by various influences and the possibilities of reparation. Emphasized hybridity refers to the fact that within one system there are numerous intelligent tools connected to the individual system modules. There are also some aspects of "methodological" hybridity, which is represented by the two ways of approaching the methods of knowledge acquisition in the system.