inference mechanism
1Inference engine — In computer science, and specifically the branches of knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence, an inference engine is a computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base. It is the brain that expert systems use to… …
2Mechanism design — The Stanley Reiter diagram above illustrates a game of mechanism design. The upper left space Θ depicts the type space and the upper right space X the space of outcomes. The social choice function f(θ) maps a type profile to an outcome. In games… …
3Statistical inference — In statistics, statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation.[1] More substantially, the terms statistical inference,… …
4Bayesian inference — is statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. The name Bayesian comes from the frequent use of Bayes theorem in the inference process. Bayes theorem… …
5The Design Inference —   Author(s) William Dembski …
6reaction mechanism — Introduction in chemical reactions (chemical reaction), the detailed processes by which chemical substances are transformed into other substances. The reactions themselves may involve the interactions of atoms (atom), molecules (molecule),… …
7Expert system — In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system that emulates the decision making ability of a human expert.[1] Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning about knowledge, like an expert, and not by… …
8Frame language — is a metalanguage. It applies the frame concept to the structuring of language properties. Frame languages are usually software languages. Frame languages are rather focused on the recognition and description of objects and classes , and… …
9Braitenberg Vehicles — are simple automatons, conceived in thought experiments proposed by the cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg. They illustrate the abilities of reactive agents, thus representing the simplest form of Behavior based AI or embodied cognition, i.e.… …
10Descartes: methodology — Stephen Gaukroger INTRODUCTION The seventeenth century is often referred to as the century of the Scientific Revolution, a time of fundamental scientific change in which traditional theories were either replaced by new ones or radically… …
