Children make inductive inferences about the causal properties of individual objects from a very young age. When can they infer higher-order relational properties a task that has proven difficult for non-human primates? In two experiments, we examined 1824-month-old infants’ relational inferences using a causal version of a relational match-to-sample task. Results suggest that by 21-24 months o...

We claim that knowledge can be "naturally" inconsistent in some domains such as those involving multi-criteria optimization. So rather than avoiding inconsistency , our concern is to cope with it. This paper presents a technique inspired from inductive learning, to achieve this aim : from an inconsistent set of rules and a set of examples, metarules are learned to solve the contradictions among...

Article history: Received 18 February 2014 Accepted 18 February 2014 Available online 17 March 2014 We provide a correction to the proof of the main result in Crupi and Tentori (2013). © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Michael Schippers (University of Oldenburg) pointed out to us in personal correspondence an error in the proof of the main result in Crupi and Tentori [1]. The flaw spott...

A growing interest in real-world applications of inductive techniques signi es the need for methodologies for applying them. So far a number of methodologies for applying inductive learning techniques are described. After reviewing several published approaches, a number of unsolved problems are discussed, two major problems being the lack of attention to nontechnical issues and the focus of mos...

This paper represents the implementation of an inductive learning algorithm for patients of Radiology Department in Hacettepe University hospitals to discover the relationship between patient demographics information and time that patients spend during a specific radiology exam. ILA has been used for the implementation which generates rules and the results are evaluated by evaluation metrics. A...

In the UK, the development of integrated children‟s services over the past six years has led to an increased need for public sector managers to attend strategic, interagency meetings. However, there is little research in this field that can be used to support managers in ensuring positive outcomes from such meetings. The aim of this research was to identify the main concerns of managers attendi...

1 Information Technology, Pace University, Briarcliff, N.Y. 10510 2 Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y. 10570 Abstract This paper will discuss the second phase of a teaching / learning model utilizing interactive smart eclassrooms in higher education. This phase includes the administering two tools: the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), and a modifie...

We classify the uniformly recurrent subgroups of inductive limits of finite alternating groups.

Previous work in inductive inference dealt mostly with finding one or several machines (IIMs) that successfully learn collections of functions. Herein we start with a class of functions and consider the learner set of all IIMs that are successful at learning the given class. Applying this perspective to the case of team inference leads to the notion of diversification for a class of functions. ...