Analogical and inductive inference. International workshop AII '89, Reinhardsbrunn Castle, GDR, October 1-6, 1989. Proceedings (Q1187687)

The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. ``Analogical and inductive inference, Proc. Int. Workshop, Reinhardtsbrunn Castle/GDR 1989, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 397 (1989)''. From the preface: ``AII '89 is the second workshop in the AII series started with AII '86 [cf. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 265 (1987; Zbl 0624.00018)]. These workshops are focused on all formal approaches to algorithmic learning particularly emphasizing analogical reasoning and inductive inference. Learning is obviously an important phenomenon of natural intelligence. Therefore, despite restricted specifications of the area of artificial intelligence, learning is a central issue of artificial intelligence research. There is abundant evidence of the human ability to learn from possibly incomplete information. In human communication one usually provides only incomplete information with respect to some target phenomenon to be described or specified. Inductive inference originating from Gold's seminal paper [\textit{E. M. Gold}, Language Identification in the Limit, Inf. Control 10, 447-474 (1967; Zbl 0259.68032)] offers a firm mathematical basis for investigating the crucial problems of learning from possibly incomplete information. Similarly to learning from possibly incomplete information, human communication exhibits an amazing ability to draw analogical conclusions or to perform analogical constructions. This works although there is not much agreement about the gist of analogy. Analogical reasoning has recently found a couple of firm approaches allowing formally well-based investigations. The AII events are intended to concentrate research work on analogical reasoning, inductive inference and other formal approaches to algorithmic learning for developing a well-based theory of artificial intelligence. It is particularly desirable to extend and deepen the communication between researchers from artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science. Bridging this gap is one of the main aims of AII '89''.