20 Mar inference
The logical process of navigating from the known to the unknown. When rules of traditional (Aristotelian) or multivalued (fuzzy) logic are followed, it is often possible to act as a detective to piece together the clues and arrive at a solution. Some people are very good at it. AI trys to teach it to computers.
Keywords: production system
symbolic logic
statistical analysis
rule base
rule
reasoning
reason
modus tollens
modus ponens
learning
knowledge base
knowledge
interaction
frame
fact
expert system
domain
declarative knowledge
decision support system
constraint
interpretation
logic
proposition
exception
cognition
AI
References: AI programming
algorithms
chaos
computing
cybernetics
expert systems
formalisms
fuzzy logic
inference
knowledge representation