Download or read book Abductive Reasoning and Learning written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches. Abduction is central to all areas of applied reasoning, including artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, machine learning, data mining and decision theory, as well as logic itself.