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Abductive Inference

Abductive Inference

Abductive Inference

Computation, Philosophy, Technology
John R. Josephson , Ohio State University
Susan G. Josephson , Ohio State University
August 1996
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    This book is about abduction, 'the logic of Sherlock Holmes', and about how some kinds of abductive reasoning can be programmed in a computer. The work brings together Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of science and is rich with implications for other areas such as, psychology, medical informatics, and linguistics. It also has subtle implications for evidence evaluation in areas such as accident investigation, confirmation of scientific theories, law, diagnosis, and financial auditing. The book is about certainty and the logico-computational foundations of knowledge; it is about inference in perception, reasoning strategies, and building expert systems.

    • Analyses abduction as an information-processing phenomenon
    • The work brings together artificial intelligence and philosophy of science and is rich with implications for other areas

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    "This book breaks new ground in the scientific, philosophical, and technological study of abduction." Peirce Project Newsletter

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    Product details

    August 1996
    Paperback
    9780521575454
    320 pages
    227 × 152 × 16 mm
    0.434kg
    59 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Conceptual analysis of abduction: what is abduction?
    • 2. Knowledge-based systems and the science of AI:
    • 3. Two RED systems
    • 4. Generalizing the control strategy
    • 5. More kinds of knowledge: TIPS and PATHEX/LIVER TIPS
    • 6. Better task analysis, better strategy
    • 7. Computational complexity of abduction
    • 8. Diagnostic systems MDX2 and QUADS
    • 9. Practical abduction
    • 10. Perception and language understanding
    • Appendices.
      Contributors
    • Dean Allemang, Tom Bylander, B. Chandrasekaran, Donna Erickson, Charles Evans, Olivier Fischer, Richard Fox, Osamu Fujimura, Ashok K. Goel, Todd Johnson, John R. Josephson, Susan G. Josephson, Kevin Lenzo, Terry Patten, William F. Punch III, P. Sadayappan, Sheldon R. Simon, Jack W. Smith, John Sticklen, Patricia L. Strohm, John Svirbely, Michael C. Tanner, Susan T. Korda, Michael Weintraub

    • Editors
    • John R. Josephson , Ohio State University
    • Susan G. Josephson , Ohio State University