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Abductive and inductive reasoning: report of the ECAI'96 workshop
P.A. Flach
and A.C. Kakas.
Logic Journal of the Interest Group on Pure and Applied Logic,
5(5):773--778, 1997. More behind this link.
Abstract
This workshop brought together some 20 researchers -- with varying backgrounds
in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Logic Programming and
Philosophy -- to discuss the relations and differences between abductive and
inductive reasoning as perceived in each of those disciplines. As this
workshop was the first in its kind, and also because of the widely different
backgrounds of the participants, the main emphasis lay on identifying and
clarifying the main issues in the debate, rather than on trying to reach a
general consensus on the issues raised. In order to stimulate the exchange of
ideas and viewpoints, ample time was devoted to plenary discussions, some of
which continued until days after the workshop in impromptu bi- and
multilateral meetings. More specifically, the purpose of the workshop was to
address the following two central questions: (i) how are the two forms of
reasoning different (if indeed they can be distinguished) and (ii) how can
they be integrated together in an Artificial Intelligence enviroment? The
workshop was therefore structured around two panel discussions, one on each
of these central issues, together with an invited talk for each session. In
each of the panel discussions four of the submitted papers were briefly
presented by their authors raising problems and questions for the subsequent
discussion.
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