Abduction and induction. Essays on their relation and integration (Q5956943)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] Publisher's description: From the very beginning of investigation of human reasoning, philosophers had identified -- along with deduction -- two other forms of reasoning which we now call abduction and induction. Whereas deduction has been widely studied over the years and is now fairly well understood, these two other forms of reasoning have, until now, eluded a similar level of understanding. This book presents a collection of papers addressing the issues of the relation between abduction and induction, as well as their possible integration. These issues are approached sometimes from a philosophical perspective, sometimes from a (purely) logical perspective, but also from the more task-oriented perspective of Artificial Intelligence. This is the first book to address explicitly the problem of understanding the relation and interaction between abduction and induction in the various fields of study where these two forms of reasoning appear. It should be relevant to a variety of students and researchers from these different areas of study, such as philosophers, logicians, and people working in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science more generally. Contents: \textit{P. A. Flach} and \textit{C. Kakas}, ``Abductive and inductive reasoning: Background and issues'' (pp. 1-27); \textit{J. R. Josephson}, ``Smart inductive generalizations are abductions'' (pp. 31-44); \textit{A. Aliseda}, ``Abduction as epistemic change: A Peircean model in artificial intelligence'' (pp. 45-58); \textit{S. Psillos}, ``Abduction: Between conceptual richness and computational complexity'' (pp. 59-74); \textit{B. Bessant}, ``A relationship between induction and abduction: A logical point of view'' (pp. 77-87); \textit{P. A. Flach}, ``On the logic of hypothesis generation'' (pp. 89-106); \textit{N. Lachiche}, ``Abduction and induction from a non-monotonic reasoning perspective'' (pp. 107-116); \textit{P. Wang}, ``Unified inference in extended syllogism'' (pp. 117-129); \textit{L. Console} and \textit{L. Saitta}, ``On the relations between abductive and inductive explanation'' (pp. 133-151); \textit{D. Poole}, ``Learning, Bayesian probability, graphical models, and abduction'' (pp. 153-168); \textit{A. Abe}, ``On the relation between abductive and inductive hypotheses'' (pp. 169-180); \textit{R. J. Mooney}, ``Integrating abduction and induction in machine learning'' (pp. 181-191); \textit{H. Christiansen}, ``Abduction and induction combined in a metalogic framework'' (pp. 195-211); \textit{K. Inoue} and \textit{H. Haneda}, ``Learning abductive and nonmonotonic logic programs'' (pp. 213-231); \textit{E. Lamma}, \textit{P. Mello}, \textit{F. Riguzzi}, \textit{F. Esposito}, \textit{S. Ferilli} and \textit{G. Semerano}, ``Cooperation of abduction and induction in logic programming'' (pp. 233-252); \textit{C. Sakama}, ``Abductive generalization and specialization'' (pp. 253-265); \textit{A. Yamamoto}, ``Using abduction for induction based on bottom generalization'' (pp. 267-280).