Hi, Stuart, Marcus, Peter, Lotfi, all.
Peter McBurney raises the issue of equivalence of two objects
in his posting. As important as that is, I'll side-step it
and address the words "similar" and "similarity".
Assuming that we can satisfactorily represent the objects as
(binary) bit strings, the
).
The work was done no later than 2003 and then published in the following
two papers (Comley and Dowe, 2003) and (Comley and Dowe, MIT Press, 2005):
@inproceedings{ComleyDowe2003,
AUTHOR ="Comley, Joshua W. and David L. Dowe",
TITLE = "Generalised {B}ayesi
