BACON: A PRODUCTION SYSTEM THAT DISCOVERS EMPIRICAL LAWS

摘要

In recent years researchers have produced a number of programs capable of scientific - like behavior. Each of the systems, DENDRAL (Feigenbaum and Lederberg, 1971), meta-DENDRAL (Buchanan, Feigenbaum and Sridharan, 1972), MYCIN (Davis, Buchanan and Shortliffe, 1975) and AM (Lenat, 1976) could arrive at rules that explained observed data. In this paper I discuss another system, BACON, which discovers simple empirical laws like those found by early physicists.