Human Reasoning In Soft Computing

摘要

Most contemporary computing systems situate humans only as the end users. Alternatively, human-in-the-loop computing systems employ humans to buttress the system when faced with hard tasks, which enables human reasoning to be used as part of the computational process. This paper discusses how human reasoning can be embedded as part of a Soft Computing environment and examines its implications. It exemplifies the arguments using a prototype help recommender system and highlights how pedagogical recommendations are made with the integration of human reasoning with system reasoning mechanisms. It also highlights a number of research fronts that result from embedding human reasoning to complement other reasoning mechanisms that are present in Soft Computing.