A Computational Model of Tractable Reasoning - Taking Inspiration from Cognition

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  • Lokendra Shastri
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Po lynomia l t i m e complex i ty is the usual ' t h resho ld ' for d is t ingu ish ing the t rac tab le f r o m the in t rac tab le and i t may seem reasonable to adopt th is no t i on o f t rac tab i l i t y in the context o f knowledge representat ion and reasoning. I t is argued tha t do ing so may be inappropr ia te in the context of c o m m o n sense reasoning underl y i ng language unders tand ing. A more s t r in gent c r i te r ia of t r ac tab i l i t y is proposed. A resul t about reasoning t ha t is t rac tab le in th is stronger sense is ou t l i ned . Some unusual properties of t rac tab le reasoning emerge when the fo rma l speci f icat ion is grounded in a neural ly p lausible archi tecture.

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تاریخ انتشار 1993