Preferences and explanations

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-30

  Pino Pérez, Ramón ^a   Uzcátegui, Carlos ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Abduction; Explanatory reasoning; Preference criteria for selecting explanations

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ABDUCTIVE REASONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0041386610     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(03)00042-0     Document Type: Article

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