Reasoning Frameworks for Autonomous Systems
James A. Crowder · Infotech@Aerospace 2012 · 2012
The ability to reason within an Artificially Intelligent System (AIS) denotes the ability to infer about information, knowledge, observations, and experiences, and affect changes within the AIS that enable it to perform new tasks previously unknown or to perform tasks already learned more efficiently. The act of reasoning, or inferring, allows the AIS to construct or modify representations of that the AIS is experiencing and learning. Reasoning allows the AIS to fill in skeletal or incomplete information or specifications about one or more of its domains (selfassessment). Presented here is a discussion of reasoning within the AIS that takes the form induction and abduction: