From databases to rule bases
Steven W. Oxman · 2002
Induction is the process of reasoning from specific instances to general concepts. It is the development of universal concepts from individual episodes. Induction is used to develop rules of thumb (i.e. universal concepts) from databases (i.e. collections of records of individual episodes). In the expert system domain, induction is the ability to develop expert system rules from database records. If one was to look at a particular vendor offering induction, it could be looked upon as the ability to develop LEVEL5 or LEVEL5 OBJECT knowledge bases from FOCUS databases.>