Rudolf Kruse

Abductive Reasoning and Learning - Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems Rudolf Kruse 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: On the Relation between Abduction and Inductive Learning; P. A. Flach, A. C. Kakas. Part I: Logical Approaches. AI Approaches to Abduction; G. Paul. Abduction in Labelled Deductive Systems; D. M. Gabbay. Logical Characterisations of Inductive Learning; P. A. Flach. Abduction in Machine Learning; F. Bergadano, V. Cutello, D. Gunetti. Part II: Numerical Approaches. An Overview of Ordinal and Numerical Approaches to Causal Diagnostic Problem Solving; D. Dubois, H. Prade. Abductive Inference with Probabilistic Networks; C. Borgelt, R. Kruse. Learning from Data: Possibilistic Graphical Models; J. Gebhardt. Independence in Uncertainty Theories and its Applications to Learning Belief Networks; L. M. de Campos, J. F. Huete, S. Moral. Index. Publisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Kruse, Rudolf Kruse-Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany