BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-73-387
       ENTRY:: September 25, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Analysis of behavior of chemical molecules: rule formation on
               non-homogeneous classes of objects.
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Buchanan, Bruce G.
      AUTHOR:: Sridharan, Natesa S.
        DATE:: August 1973
       PAGES:: 28
    ABSTRACT:: An information processing model of some important aspects of
               inductive reasoning is presented within the context of one
               scientific discipline. Given a collection of experimental
               (mass spectrometry) data from several chemical molecules the
               computer program described here separates the molecules into
               "well-behaved" subclasses and selects from the space of all
               explanatory processes the "characteristic" processes for each
               subclass. The definitions of "well-behaved" and
               "characteristic" embody several heuristics which are
               discussed. Some results of the program are discussed which
               have been useful to chemists and which lend credibility to
               this approach.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950925]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-73-387