Making a diagnosis when something goes wrong with a natural or m- made system can be difficult. In many fields, such as medicine or electr- ics, a long training period and apprenticeship are required to become a skilled diagnostician. During this time a novice diagnostician is asked to assimilate a large amount of knowledge about the class of systems to be diagnosed. In contrast, the novice is not really taught how to reason with this knowledge in arriving at a conclusion or a diagnosis, except perhaps implicitly through ease examples. This would seem to indicate that many of the essential aspects of diagnostic reasoning are a type of intuiti- based, common sense reasoning. More precisely, diagnostic reasoning can be classified as a type of inf- ence known as abductive reasoning or abduction. Abduction is defined to be a process of generating a plausible explanation for a given set of obs- vations or facts. Although mentioned in Aristotle's work, the study of f- mal aspects of abduction did not really start until about a century ago.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780387973432
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-387-97343-2
- Verlag: Springer US
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.06.1990
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1990
- Serie: Symbolic Computation
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1320 g
- Seiten: 285
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 21 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
