SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CONDITIONS LEADING TO A PARTICULAR RESULT IN A MULTI-VARIANT SYSTEM

A system and method develops an indication of a cause of a particular result of a process from values associated with attributes which arise during runs of the process. The system includes a data entry device which permits a user to enter data indicating the values of the attributes and a class associated with each of the runs of the process, a memory which stores the data, a processing unit which produces an induction tree having multiple nodes and an output device which provides an indication of the induction tree to a user. At each of a plurality of the nodes of the induction tree, the processing unit divides the values associated with the attributes into value groups, allows a user to select any one of the attributes and designates a value group of the selected attribute as an endpoint of an induction tree when the value group satisfies an endpoint criterion and, otherwise, designates the value group of the selected attribute as a branching point of the induction tree.