The notion of abduction was first introduced by the philosopher and logician C. S. Pierce, who claims de-duction, abduction and induction are three different forms of human reasoning. Broadly speaking, abduction is a ...The notion of abduction was first introduced by the philosopher and logician C. S. Pierce, who claims de-duction, abduction and induction are three different forms of human reasoning. Broadly speaking, abduction is a rea-soning process invoked to explain a puzzling observation. The study of logic-based abduction has been the most activeresearch in AI, and there are many results around the subject. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art research andpresents some problems for future work.展开更多
文摘The notion of abduction was first introduced by the philosopher and logician C. S. Pierce, who claims de-duction, abduction and induction are three different forms of human reasoning. Broadly speaking, abduction is a rea-soning process invoked to explain a puzzling observation. The study of logic-based abduction has been the most activeresearch in AI, and there are many results around the subject. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art research andpresents some problems for future work.