A method for determining an oil wear in an internal combustion engine, electric means for controlling and / or regulating an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine

The method (10, 20) for determining an oil wear in an internal combustion engine, especially in a diesel or gasoline engine, comprising the steps of: - receiving (I) at least one relevant to the oil wear company size; - deriving (II) of a criterion (9) for an oil change from the at least a significant operating variable; - outputting (III) on an information (16) an oil change, depending on the criterion (9) characterized, in that - for deriving the criterion (9) (A) a number of significant operating variables of the internal combustion engine, which are selected from the group consisting of: Oil Run Time (OIL (h)), engine power (Pmot), exhaust gas recirculation rate (AGRR) as input variables (E1 ... E6) of your neural and / or probabilistic computing network (1) by the computing network (1) into a number characterizing of the oil state variables as output variables (A) of the computing network (1) to be converted, and (B) at least a portion of the number of output variables (A) of a control is subjected to the criterion (9) from the control derived ...