Automated Abduction

  • Authors:
  • Katsumi Inoue

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond, Essays in Honour of Robert A. Kowalski, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this article, I review Peirce's abduction in the context of Artificial Intelligence. First, I connect abduction from first-order theories with nonmonotonic reasoning. In particular, I consider relationships between abduction, default logic, and circumscription. Then, based on a first-order characterization of abduction, I show a design of abductive procedures that utilize automated deduction. With abductive procedures, proof procedures for nonmonotonic reasoning are also obtained from the relationship between abduction and nonmonotonic reasoning.