Abduction and Induction in AI: Report of the IJCAI'97 Workshop

Over twenty researchers participated in this IJCAI’97 workshop to dicuss the general relationship of abduction and induction. The main aim of the workshop was set out to address the issue of the relation and integration of Abdcution and Induction in the context of (practical) AI problems. This focus was summarized by the following questions: What (if anything) distinguishes/characterizes each form of reasoning and their corresponding computational models? How can we characterize different prototypical AI tasks for which it is appropriate to use one of these two forms of reasoning? How can Abduction and Induction be integrated in the context of Artificial Intelligence problems? For example,