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Abduction, Explanation, Self-Explanation


Abductive Inference

Ashok Goel, J. Ramanujam & P. Sadayappan. Towards a Neural Architecture for Abductive Reasoning. In Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, California, July 1988, Vol. II, pp. 681-688, IEEE Press.

Ashok Goel, P. Sadayappan & John Josephson. Concurrent Synthesis of Composite Explanatory Hypotheses. In Proc. 17th International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois, August 1988, Vol. III, pp. 156-160.

Ashok Goel & Gerard Montgomery. What is Abductive Reasoning? Neural Network Review, 3(4):181-187, June 1990. (This article is a debate between the two authors.)

Olivier Fischer, Ashok Goel, John Svirbely & Jack Smith. The Role of Essential Explanations in Abduction. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 3(1991):181-191, 1991.

John Josephson & Ashok Goel. Tractable Abduction. In Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, and Technology, J. Josephson and S. Josephson (editors), Chapter 9, pp. 202-215, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Ashok Goel, John Josephson, Olivier Fischer & P. Sadayappan. Practical Abduction: Characterization, Decomposition and Distribution. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 7:429-450, 1995.

Scientific Theory Formation

Todd Griffith, Nancy Nersessian & Ashok Goel. The Role of Generic Models in Conceptual Change. In Proc. Eigtheenth Cognitive Science Conference, San Diego, July 1996. [pdf]

Todd Griffith, Nancy Nersessian & Ashok Goel. Function-follows-Form: Generative Modeling in Scientific Reasoning. In Proc. 22nd Cognitive Science Conference, 2000. [pdf]

Jim Davies, Nancy Nersessian & Ashok Goel. Visual Models in Analogical Problem Solving. Foundations of Science, 10(1):133-152, 2005. [pdf]

Theory Formation in Intelligence Analysis

Summer Adams & Ashok Goel. A STAB at Making Sense of VAST Data. In Proc. AAAI-2007 Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, Vancouver, Canada, July 23, 2007, pp. 1-8. [pdf]

Summer Adams & Ashok Goel. Making Sense of VAST Data. In Proc. IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 23-24, 2007, pp. 270-273. [pdf]

Summer Adams, Ashok Goel & Neha Sugandh. Using AI for Sensemaking in Intelligence Analysis. In Proc. SIAM Datamining Workshop on Link Analysis, Counter Terrorism and Security, Atlanta, April 2008. [pdf]



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