Abductive inference has long been associated with the logic of scientific discovery and automated abduction is now being used in real scientific tasks. But few methods can exploi...
We introduce a general formalism of production inference relations that posses both a standard monotonic semantics and a natural nonmonotonic semantics. The resulting nonmonotonic...
This paper presents a novel approach to diagnosis which addresses the two problems - computational complexity of abduction and device models - that have prevented model-based diag...
Abduction is usually carried out on partially-defined predicates. In this paper we investigate abduction applied to fully-defined predicates, specifically linear arithmetic cons...
Using constraint logic techniques, it is made possible to use a wellknown metainterpreter backwards as a device for generating programs. A metainterpreter is developed, which prov...