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From: fhadsell@csm9a.UUCP ( GP)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: jigsaw puzzles and data fusion
Summary: jigsaw puzzles, flavors of logic & reasoning
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Date: 1 Oct 89 12:32:11 GMT
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In article <2185@hydra.gatech.EDU>, kirlik@chmsr.gatech.edu writes:
> 
> Barry Kort writes:
> 
> (Some stuff deleted)
> 
> >>  You will have to
> >>  to use deductive and inductive reasoning, inferential reasoning,
> >>  combinatorial logic, analogical and model-based reasoning, and
> >>  diagnostic reasoning to accomplish your task.
> 
> >>  That is Data Fusion.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure why, but I find this (type of) problem definition
> somewhat troublesome. Perhaps it is because it seems to smuggle the
> solution methodology into the statement of the problem.  ......... 
> .... These terms are not part of the data of
> experience, nor have the theories giving rise to them reached a
> level of pragmatic utility and uncritical acceptance that we should
> be using them in our problem Definitions. ........ 
> 
. . . . . . .

Alex Kirlik substantiates my worst fears.

We AI'ers have been guilty of the careless definition of terms for a long
long time, and these sins are beginning to catch up with us.  Our customers;
i.e., those few that remain, are much better informed than they were.  They
speak knowledgeably of the various parts of the ill-defined body which is AI.

In mineral exploration we speak of the integrated approach when we employ
more than one discipline, such as geology, geophysics, and/or geochemistry.
Each of these differ in their use of the different flavors of logic and
reasoning.  Integrated exploration is rapidly becoming simply exploration.
In other words the real world demands the interdisciplinary approach now.
All of the three geos use all of the commonly accepted methods of AI; e.g.,
expert systems, artificial neuralnets, hypermedia, natural language, etc.,
but I fear that if I were to speak of datafusion in the exploration
business I would now be ridiculed.

We have enough terms in AI.  Let's now demonstrate, on a grander scale, the
utility of our science.

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 fhadsell@csm9a.colorado.edu           Frank Hadsell
 Professor of Geophysics,  Colorado School of Mines,
 Golden, Colorado   80401     (303) 273-3456