Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning

by Ron Sun

Concerned with understanding and modeling commonsense reasoning with a combination of rules and similarities under a connectionist rubric. Examines the areas of reasoning, connectionist models, inheritance, causality, rule-based systems and similarity-based reasoning. Introduces a new structure, a novel connectionist architecture and a set of fresh ideas leading to new applications.

273 pages, Hardcover

First published February 7, 1994