Abduction and Induction
essays on their relation and integration
Peter Flach and Antonis Kakas, editors
Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2000
ISBN 0-7923-6250-0
- Foreword by Johan van Benthem
- Contributing Authors
- Editors' Preface
- Abduction and Induction: Background and Issues (Peter Flach and Antonis Kakas, UK and Cyprus)
- Part 1: The Philosophy of Abduction and Induction
- Smart inductive generalizations are abductions (John Josephson, USA)
- Abduction as Epistemic Change: A Peircean Model in Artificial Intelligence (Atocha Aliseda, Mexico)
- Between conceptual richness and computational complexity (Stathis Psillos, UK)
- Part 2: The Logic of Abduction and Induction
- On relationships between induction and abduction: a logical point of view (Brigitte Bessant, France)
- On the logic of hypothesis generation (Peter Flach, UK)
- Abduction and Induction from the non-monotonic logic perspective (Nicolas Lachiche, UK)
- Unified inference in extended syllogism (Pei Wang, USA)
- Part 3: The Integration of Abduction and Induction: an Artificial Intelligence perspective
- On the relations between abductive and inductive explanations (Luca Console and Lorenza Saitta, Italy)
- Learning, Bayesean Probability, Graphical Models, and Abduction (David Poole, Canada)
- The Relation between Abductive Hypotheses and Inductive Hypotheses (Akinori Abe, Japan)
- Integrating abduction and induction in Machine Learning (Raymond Mooney, USA)
- Part 4: The Integration of Abduction and Induction: a Logic Programming perspective
- Abduction and induction combined in a metalogic framework (Henning Christiansen, Denmark)
- Learning Abductive and Nonmonotonic Logic Programs (Katsumi Inoue and and Hiromasa Haneda, Japan)
- Cooperation of abduction and induction in logic programming (Evelina Lamma et al, Italy)
- Abductive generalization and specialization (Chiaki Sakama, Japan)
- Using Abduction for Induction based on Bottom-set Generalization (Akihiro Yamamoto, Japan)
- Bibliography
- Index
Peter Flach,
Peter.Flach@bristol.ac.uk.
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