0 the act of making a person go somewhere with you, especially using threats or violence:
1 the movement of a part of the body away from the central part of the body or from another body part:
Unlike most of these previous works on abduction in the logic programming framework, in this paper we study abduction with penalization from logic programs.
Analysis of the type of abductions made as part of the inference process provides insight into how the system is behaving when answering questions.
Our work is evidently related to previous studies on semantic and knowledge representation aspects of abduction over logic programs.
T he complexity results of extended abduction imply the complexity of view updates and theory updates.
Our second goal is to characterize various types of knowledge base updates through extended abduction.
As such, only the tendons essential for the index finger flexion/extension and abduction/adduction are studied and mimicked in our design.
In his later period, he came to use abduction in a much more general way, as the process by which any creative hypothesis is formed.
In one paragraph, he talks about ' abduction ' according to his original definition, as the matching of observed results with a given law.
