Minimal change: a criterion for choosing between competing models

Abstract: "We often encounter a situation in which we are forced to make some decision even if there is not enough information. In that situation, we normally use common sense to draw a conclusion from the incomplete knowledge. This reasoning mechanism can be regarded as meta-reasoning which ch...

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Main Author: Satoh, Ken 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo, Japan 1987
Series:Shin-Sedai-Konpyūta-Gijutsu-Kaihatsu-Kikō <Tōkyō>: ICOT technical report 316
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Summary:Abstract: "We often encounter a situation in which we are forced to make some decision even if there is not enough information. In that situation, we normally use common sense to draw a conclusion from the incomplete knowledge. This reasoning mechanism can be regarded as meta-reasoning which chooses the preferred models from several consistent models. This paper formalizes common sense reasoning of tree-structured inheritance systems and temporal projection into one framework, minimal change. Both types of reasoning have a common mechanism to prefer a model which changes minimally in one direction. In inheritance systems, the direction is from superclass to subclass, and in temporal projection, the direction is from earlier state to later state."
Physical Description:31 S.

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