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Abductive reasoning
About: Abductive reasoning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1917 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44645 citations. The topic is also known as: abduction & abductive inference.
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, an agency-inspired inferential game is proposed in which two agents (abductive and deductive) interact in a hybrid inferencial context where deductive and abductive steps are mixed.
Abstract: An agency-inspired inferential game is proposed in which two agents (abductive and deductive) interact. It depicts hybrid inferencial contexts where deductive and abductive steps are mixed. The abductive agent can use results obtained by the deductive one but not vice versa due to the abductive process do not always generate deductive valid formulas..
18 Dec 2007
TL;DR: The paper describes an abductive framework for mining spatio-temporal patterns using the spatial representation language RCC-8 and a fragment of Prepositional Spatio-tem temporal Logic to implement the heuristic that changes should only occur when forced to.
Abstract: The paper describes an abductive framework for mining spatio-temporal patterns. The spatial representation language RCC-8, often referred to as Region Connection Calculus and its spatio-temporal extension, ST0, a fragment of Prepositional Spatio-temporal Logic is used as the knowledge representation formalism. Abductive reasoning may yield more than one possible answer and is accompanied by some preference criteria. Here, the abduction technique is circumscription which implements the heuristic that changes should only occur when forced to.
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a study of abductive reasoning from an epistemic and dynamic perspective, making special emphasis on non-ideal agents, and explore the different kinds of abduction problems and abductive solutions that arise when we consider agents whose information is not closed under logical consequence, and agents whose reasoning abilities are not complete.
Abstract: Among the non-monotonic reasoning processes, abduction is one of the most important. Usually described as the process of looking for explanations, it has been recognized as one of the most commonly used in our daily activities. Still, the traditional definitions of an abductive problem and an abductive solution mention only theories and formulas, leaving agency out of the picture. Our work proposes a study of abductive reasoning from an epistemic and dynamic perspective, making special emphasis on non-ideal agents. We begin by exploring what an abductive problem is in terms of an agent’s information, and what an abductive solution is in terms of the actions that modify it. Then we explore the different kinds of abductive problems and abductive solutions that arise when we consider agents whose information is not closed under logical consequence, and agents whose reasoning abilities are not complete.
01 Jan 2023