Preface

This special issue of the L. J. of the IGPL “Formal Representations in Model- Based Reasoning and Abduction” is based on a selection of the papers that were presented at the International Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation (MBR018 SPAIN), held at Tobacco Factory University Building, Seville, Spain, October 24-26, 2018, chaired by A´ ngel Nepomuceno, Lorenzo Magnani and Francisco J. Salguero.