This book is about reasoning with causal associations during diagnostic problem-solving. The authors develop a mathematical model called parsimonious covering theory and link it with probability theory.

Zusammenfassung
This would seem to indicate that many of the essential aspects of diagnostic reasoning are a type of intuiti- based, common sense reasoning. More precisely, diagnostic reasoning can be classified as a type of inf- ence known as abductive reasoning or abduction.

Inhalt
1 Abduction and Diagnostic Inference.- 2 Computational Models for Diagnostic Problem Solving.- 3 Basics of Parsimonious Covering Theory.- 4 Probabilistic Causal Model.- 5 Diagnostic Strategies in the Probabilistic Causal Model.- 6 Causal Chaining.- 7 Parallel Processing for Diagnostic Problem-Solving.- 8 Conclusion.