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Abductive reasoning

Known as: Abductive validation, Retroduction, Inference to the best explanation 
Abductive reasoning (also called abduction, abductive inference or retroduction) is a form of logical inference which goes from an observation to a… 
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2013
2013
The influence of mixing speed (80, 160 and 250 rpm) on dough microstructure and dough rheology has been investigated using… 
2009
2009
For logical artificial intelligence to be truly useful,its methods must scale to problems of realistic size.An interruptible… 
2007
2007
We propose a framework and tractable algorithms for semantic-based automated Web service composition, fully compliant with… 
2004
2004
Intelligence agencies are under increasing pressure to “connect the dots” between fragments of evidence from disparate sources to… 
1998
1998
Abductive reasoning is •used in a bidirectional framework for syntactic realization and semantic interpretation. The use o f the… 
1994
1994
The aim of this paper is to explore modelling a more non standard interaction between a human and a database We try to equip the… 
1994
1994
The goal of this work is to develop a single uniform theory, which enables us to describe many different diagnostic systems. We… 
1993
1993
Different ways of representing probabilistic relationships among the attributes of a domain ar examined, and it is shown that the… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The authors formulate the general task of abduction as a nonlinear nonmonotonic constrained optimization problem. They then… 
1986
1986
There has been much concern in recent linguistic theory for definition of restrictions on the class of grammars which might help…