New list INDUCTIVE

[Lev Goldfarb CS]

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	    Announcing a new electronic mailing list called INDUCTIVE 
			(Inductive Learning Group)

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This mailing list is initiated to provide a separate forum for discussing 
various scientific issues related to INDUCTIVE (LEARNING) PROCESSES. We 
strongly feel that these processes are of central importance to cognitive 
science in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, and 
that so far they have not been given the attention and effort they deserve.
Moreover, we feel that the success of the entire enterprise (of cognitive 
science) depends on the success of the effort to model the inductive learning
processes understood sufficiently broadly.

We also believe that the current (and the previous) subdivisions of cognitive 
psychology and AI impedes (and has impeded) the progress of both 
enterprises, since there are serious reasons to believe that all cognitive
processes are built  on top of the inductive learning processes. 

We cordially invite various researchers from the above two disciplines 
(including those working in Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks) to join 
this supervised mailing list. 

As a first question we propose to discuss the very definition of the inductive 
learning process: 
 
	Inductive learning is a process by means of which, given a finite
	positive training set C+ from a possibly infinite class (or 
	category) C and a finite set C- from the complement of C, an 
	agent is able to reach a state (of inductive generalization) 
	which allows it to form an idea about, and REPRESENTATION of, the
	class C. This state, in turn, enables the agent to recognize a new
	object as belonging to class C or not.

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Lev Goldfarb                                      Tel:     506-453-4566 
Faculty of Computer Science                       Fax:     506-453-3566
University of New Brunswick                       E-mail:  goldfarb at unb.ca
Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3 
Canada