Ockham's razor, empirical complexity, and truth-finding efficiency

DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2007.04.009zbMATH Open1124.68093OpenAlexW2121662692MaRDI QIDQ2383597FDOQ2383597

Authors: Kevin T. Kelly 

Publication date: 19 September 2007

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2007.04.009

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zbMATH Keywords

empirical simplicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

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• TETRAD

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