Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving PDF
by Yun Peng, James A. Reggia
Part of the Symbolic Computation series
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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.
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