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The Meta-DENDRAL program is described in general terms that are intended to clarify the similarities and differences to other learning programs. Its approach of model-directed heuristic search through a comptex space of possible rules appears well suited to many induction tasks. The use of a strong model of the domain to direct time rule Eearch has been demons{rated for rule formation in two areas of chemistry. The high performance of programs which use the generated rules attests to the success of this learning strategy.
Buchanan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.