{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/on-the-adoption-of-abductive-reasoning-for","title":"On the adoption of abductive reasoning for time series interpretation","arxiv_id":"1609.05632","date":"2016-09-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Tomás Teijeiro","Paulo Félix"],"abstract":"Time series interpretation aims to provide an explanation of what is observed\nin terms of its underlying processes. The present work is based on the\nassumption that the common classification-based approaches to time series\ninterpretation suffer from a set of inherent weaknesses, whose ultimate cause\nlies in the monotonic nature of the deductive reasoning paradigm. In this\ndocument we propose a new approach to this problem, based on the initial\nhypothesis that abductive reasoning properly accounts for the human ability to\nidentify and characterize the patterns appearing in a time series. The result\nof this interpretation is a set of conjectures in the form of observations,\norganized into an abstraction hierarchy and explaining what has been observed.\nA knowledge-based framework and a set of algorithms for the interpretation task\nare provided, implementing a hypothesize-and-test cycle guided by an\nattentional mechanism. As a representative application domain, interpretation\nof the electrocardiogram allows us to highlight the strengths of the proposed\napproach in comparison with traditional classification-based approaches.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05632v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05632v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"on-the-adoption-of-abductive-reasoning-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/citiususc/construe","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"},{"task_slug":"time-series-1","task_name":"Time Series"},{"task_slug":"time-series","task_name":"Time Series Analysis"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}