We point to two different motivations underlying investigation of relations between various types of inference. The former considers inference as an evidential process and the latter as a methodological process. Furthermore, the approaches in the former group classify inferences differently as they utilize different criteria such as ‘validity’ or ‘value of productiveness’ of conclusions. In AI ...

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The underlying motivation for the authors’ research on constraint understanding is comparative constraint understanding. The same constraint can be expressed in different ways in different models, and a comparative constraint-understanding system would be able to assess the extent to which two models have equivalent constraint semantics. Understanding constraint semantics can be used to support...

This paper describes a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach that supports the design of azeotropic separation process structures. CBR finds the most similar existing separation processes and applies the knowledge of their concept for solving new problems. The method is applicable especially in the early phases of process design.

This paper focuses on problems where the reuse of old solutions seems appropriate but the conventional CBR methodology is not adequate because a complete description of the new problem is not available to trigger case retrieval. We describe an information theoretic technique that solves this problem by producing focused questions to fill out the case description. This use of information theoret...

A case-based reasoning system for determining what colorants to use for producing a specific color of plastic was created. The selection of colorants needs to take many factors into consideration. A technique that involved fuzzy logic was used to compare the quality of the color match for each factor. The system has been in use for two years at a growing number of GE Plastics sites and has show...

The license plate recognition system is part of the intelligent transportation system. In the intelligent transportation system, the vehicle image is used as the system input. The first step is to improve the image, after the edge detection, a series of morphological operations are performed to identify the plaque. The main purpose of this research was to increase the importance of plate re...