2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Explain: A Tool for Performing Abductive Inference
Authors : Isil Dillig, Thomas Dillig
Published in: Computer Aided Verification
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper describes a tool called
Explain
for performing abductive inference. Logical abduction is the problem of finding a simple explanatory hypothesis that explains observed facts. Specifically, given a set of premises Γ and a desired conclusion
φ
, abductive inference finds a simple explanation
ψ
such that
$\Gamma \land \psi \models \phi$
, and
ψ
is consistent with known premises Γ. Abduction has many useful applications in verification, including inference of missing preconditions, error diagnosis, and construction of compositional proofs. This paper gives a brief tutorial introduction to
Explain
and describes the basic inference algorithm.