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Verification Programs for Abduction

Paolo Liberatore, Francesco M. Donini

We call verification the process of finding the actual explanation of a given set of manifestations. We consider an abductive setting, in which explanations are sets of assumptions. To filter out erroneous explanations, a verification program should propose which assumptions to check. Given the abductive setting of manifestations, assumptions, and a theory relating them, we study the complexity of providing a minimal set of assumptions to be checked in order to identify the actual explanation. We study also the case in which assumptions to be checked are given in a tree-like order.

Keywords: Abduction, Diagnosis, Automated Reasoning

Citation: Paolo Liberatore, Francesco M. Donini: Verification Programs for Abduction. In W.Horn (ed.): ECAI2000, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000, pp.166-170.


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