An artificial network simulating cause-to-effect reasoning: Cancellation interactions and numerical studies

DOI10.1007/PL00011661MaRDI QIDQ1606551zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. B. Romdhane, Béchir Ayeb, Shengrui Wang

Publication date 25 July 2002

Published in Knowledge and Information Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00011661

zbMATH Keywords

AbductionCausal interactionsCausesCompetitionDiagnosisEffects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Database theory (68P15) Information storage and retrieval of data (68P20) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99)

Review text

During the last few decades, a variety of models have been proposed to address causal reasoning (known also as abduction); most of these dealt with a probabilistic or a logical framework. Recently, a few models have been proposed within a neural framework. The investigation of neural approaches is mainly motivated by the computational burden of the causal reasoning task and by the satisfactory results given by neural networks in solving hard problems in general. A particular class of causal reasoning that raises several difficulties is the cancellation class. From an abstract point of view, cancellation occurs when two causes (hypotheses) cancel each other's explanation capabilities with respect to a given effect (observation). The present work is twofold. First, we extend an existing neural model to handle cancellation interactions. Second, we test the model on a large database and propose objective criteria to quantitatively evaluate the scenarios (explanations) produced. Simulation results show good performance and stability of the model.

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