Title
A Plausible Logic Inference Engine.
Abstract
Inference methods play a critical role in cognitive architectures. They support high-level cognitive capabilities such as decision-making, problem-solving, and learning by transforming low-level observations of the environment into high-level, actionable knowledge. However, most modern infernece methods rely on a combination of extensive knowledge engineering, vast databases, and domain constraints to succeed. This work makes an initial effort at combining results from artificial intelligence and psychology into a more pragmatic and scalable computational reasoning system. Our approach uses a combination of first-order logic and plausibility-based uncertainty consistent with methods first described by Polya [3]. Importantly, concerns with optimality and provability are dropped in favor of guidance heuristics derived from the psychological literature. In particular, these heuristics implement cognitive biases such as primacy/recency [1], confirmation [2], and coherence [4]. The talk illustrates core ideas with examples and discusses the advantages of the approach with respect to cognitive systems.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES 2011
Reasoning,inference,logic,uncertainty,knowledge representation,heuristc,psychologically plausible
Field
DocType
Volume
Semantic reasoner,Probabilistic logic network,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Inference engine
Conference
233
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0922-6389
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David J. Stracuzzi19125.68