Simply the best: A case for abduction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2408, Issue PART2, 2002, Pages 605-625

  Psillos, Stathis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

ABSTRACT STRUCTURES; SCIENTIFIC METHOD;

LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84884386584     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45632-5_24     Document Type: Article

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