Aggregating inductive expertise on partial recursive functions (Q1187022)

The paper investigates the power of inductive inference performed by a team of more than three inference machines working on the same problem and supervised by a team head (the aggregator). The team head identifies the solution if the majority of the team reach the same solution. The main focus is on how much information the team members have to offer to the aggregator in order that this one correctly identifies the solution. The paper is a companion to an earlier one by \textit{O. N. Osherson, M. Stob} and \textit{S. Weinstein} [Inf. Control 70, 69-95 (1986; Zbl 0612.68077)], by offering supplementary results, mainly for the case when partial recursive functions are inferred (this situation has not been approached in the above-cited paper).