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Abductive Reasoning and Learning

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  • © 2000

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  1. Dov M. Gabbay

    1. King’s College, London, UK

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  2. Rudolf Kruse

    1. Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. On the Relation between Abduction and Inductive Learning

    1. On the Relation between Abduction and Inductive Learning

      • Peter A. Flach, Antonis C. Kakas
      Pages 1-33

  3. Logical Approaches

    1. AI Approaches to Abduction

      • Gabriele Paul
      Pages 35-98

    2. Abduction in Labelled Deductive Systems

      • D. M. Gabbay
      Pages 99-154

    3. Logical Characterisations of Inductive Learning

      • Peter A. Flach
      Pages 155-196

    4. Abduction in Machine Learning

      • F. Bergadano, V. Cutello, D. Gunetti
      Pages 197-229

  4. Numerical Approaches

    1. An Overview of Ordinal and Numerical Approaches to Causal Diagnostic Problem Solving

      • Didier Dubois, Henri Prade
      Pages 231-280

    2. Abductive Inference with Probabilistic Networks

      • Christian Borgelt, Rudolf Kruse
      Pages 281-314

    3. Learning from Data: Possibilistic Graphical Models

      • Jörg Gebhardt
      Pages 315-389

    4. Independence in Uncertainty Theories and Its Applications to Learning Belief Networks

      • Luis M. De Campos, Juan F. Huete, Serafín Moral
      Pages 391-434

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 435-442
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This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.

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  • King’s College, London, UK

    Dov M. Gabbay

  • Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

    Rudolf Kruse

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