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Handling Default Rules by Autistic Reasoning

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2004)

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Abstract

We employ the formalism of default logic to model the phenomena of autistic reasoning. Our main finding is that while people with autism may be able to process single default rules, they have a characteristic difficulty in cases where two default rules conflict. Even though default reasoning was intended to simulate the reasoning of typical human subjects, it turns out that following the operational semantics of default reasoning in a literal way leads to the peculiarities of autistic behavior observed in the literature.

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  1. Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, UK

    Don Peterson

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK

    Boris Galitsky

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  1. KES International, 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, United Kingdom

    Mircea Gh. Negoita

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Peterson, D., Galitsky, B. (2004). Handling Default Rules by Autistic Reasoning. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30134-9_42

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