[stickel, 1988] M. E. Stickel. a Prolog-like Inference System for Computing Minimum- Cost Abductive Explanations in Natural-language Interpretation. Technical Report 5 Current Results
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This proposal presents an approach to explanation that incorporates the paradigms of belief revision and abduction. We present an algorithm that combines these techniques and a system called Brace that is a preliminary implementation of this algorithm. We show the applicability of the Brace approach to a wide range of domains including scienti c discovery, device diagnosis and plan recognition. Finally, we describe our proposals for a new implementation, new application domains for our system and extensions to this approach.
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