Engineering applications of ILP

Abstract

Several applications of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) are presented. These belong to various areas of engineering, including mechanical, environmental, software, and dynamical systems engineering. The particular applications are finite element mesh design, biological classification of river water quality, data reification, inducing program invariants, learning qualitative models of dynamic systems, and learning control rules for dynamic systems. A number of other applications are briefly mentioned. Finally, a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of ILP as compared to other approaches to machine learning is given.