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   From: kirtu@earthlink.net   
      
   Take a look at :   
      
   James H. Andrews and Yingjun Zhang, General Test Result Checking with   
   Log File Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 29,   
   no. 7, July 2003, pp. 634-648.   
      
   http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/andrews/papers/index.html   
      
   Now this isn't going to be appropriate for most of the domains you have   
   listed but it can be useful when dealing with problems including some   
   kind of log analysis (and several of the problems you have listed can   
   be addressed through log analysis).   
      
   Kirt Undercoffer   
      
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