Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-solving

Peng, Yun; Reggia, James A.

ISBN 10: 0387973435 / ISBN 13: 9780387973432

Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1990

Talks about reasoning with causal associations during diagnostic problem-solving. This book develops a mathematical model called parsimonious covering theory and links it with probability theory. Series: Symbolic computation/Artificial Intelligence. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UYA; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597. . 1990. Hardback. . . . . Codice articolo V9780387973432

Riassunto:

Making a diagnosis when something goes wrong with a natural or m- made system can be difficult. In many fields, such as medicine or electr- ics, a long training period and apprenticeship are required to become a skilled diagnostician. During this time a novice diagnostician is asked to assimilate a large amount of knowledge about the class of systems to be diagnosed. In contrast, the novice is not really taught how to reason with this knowledge in arriving at a conclusion or a diagnosis, except perhaps implicitly through ease examples. This would seem to indicate that many of the essential aspects of diagnostic reasoning are a type of intuiti- based, common sense reasoning. More precisely, diagnostic reasoning can be classified as a type of inf- ence known as abductive reasoning or abduction. Abduction is defined to be a process of generating a plausible explanation for a given set of obs- vations or facts. Although mentioned in Aristotle's work, the study of f- mal aspects of abduction did not really start until about a century ago.

Contenuti: 1 Abduction and Diagnostic Inference.- 2 Computational Models for Diagnostic Problem Solving.- 3 Basics of Parsimonious Covering Theory.- 4 Probabilistic Causal Model.- 5 Diagnostic Strategies in the Probabilistic Causal Model.- 6 Causal Chaining.- 7 Parallel Processing for Diagnostic Problem-Solving.- 8 Conclusion.

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Titolo: Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic ...
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Data di pubblicazione: 1990
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