Reasoning v. other AI stuff

[Randall R Schulz]

AD,

It's not new. Extensive research has already been done on so-called
"qualitative reasoning." This includes diagrammatic and analogic
reasoning, e.g.

My library includes this title:

"Diagrammatic Reasoning; Cognitive and Computational Perspectives"
Ed. Janice Glasgow, N. Hari Narayanan, B. CHandrasekaran
Pub. AAAI Press / The MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-57112-9


I also know of the "Qualitative Reasoning Group" at Northwestern
(<http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/>).

Though I'm unaware of specifics, there's much more going on. Just search
the Web for "Qualitative Reasoning" or other related topic phrases.

Randall Schulz


Acme Debugging wrote:
> uj797 at victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray) wrote in message
> news:<3eac29d7 at news.victoria.tc.ca>...
> 
>> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ai4udex.html#reasoning in the
>> 
>> AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence (q.v.) distinguishes
>> 
>> between imagistic and syllogistic reasoning.
> 
> 
> Seems like a worthy (introductory?) book on AI. I am unfamiliar with 
> imagistic reasoning. Is this analogous to the logic of music, or the 
> "logical" interpretation thereof?
> 
> I saw nothing on the integration of logic and probability which is a 
> necessary condition to the first-step AI reasoner as defined in this 
> thread.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry