Synthesizing inductive expertise

Daniel N. Osherson; Michael Stob; Scott Weinstein

doi:10.1016/0890-5401(88)90055-7

Synthesizing inductive expertise

Daniel N. Osherson
, Michael Stob
, Scott Weinstein

Psychology

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Abstract

We consider programs that accept descriptions of inductive inference problems and return machines that solve them. Several design specifications for synthesizers of this kind are considered from a recursion-theoretic perspective.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	138-161
Number of pages	24
Journal	Information and Computation
Volume	77
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0890-5401(88)90055-7
State	Published - May 1988

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Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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