Abduction-Based Diagnosis: A Competition-Based Neural Model Simulating Abductive Reasoning

✍ Scribed by B. Elayeb; S.G. Wang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 945 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-7315
• DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1995.1019

✦ Synopsis

Diagnosis is an active research area where many diagnostic methods have been proposed. In this paper, we make explicit the features that characterize these methods within a conventional framework as well as within a neural framework. Specifically, we show that each representation of diagnostic knowledge requires a specific reasoning type whichever framework is adopted, logical or neural. Then, we propose a distributed neural model to mechanize abductive reasoning within a neural framework. Finally, we compare our work with other proposals and indicate directions deserving further investigation. 1995 Academic Press, Inc.