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Fault diagnosis by means of diagnostic trees is of considerable interest for industrial applications. The drawbacks of this approach are mostly related to the knowledge elicitation through laborious enumeration of the tree structure and ad hoc threshold selection for symptoms definition. These problems can be alleviated if a more profound knowledge of the process is brought into play. The main idea...