Qualitative reasoning about physical systems /

This volume brings together current work on qualitative reasoning. Its publication reflects the maturity of qualitative reasoning as a research area and the growing interest in problems of reasoning about physical systems. The papers present knowledge bases for a number of very different domains, in...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Bobrow, Daniel G. (Daniel Gureasko), 1935-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Cambridge, MA : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, MIT Press, 1984.
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Summary:This volume brings together current work on qualitative reasoning. Its publication reflects the maturity of qualitative reasoning as a research area and the growing interest in problems of reasoning about physical systems. The papers present knowledge bases for a number of very different domains, including heat flow, transistors, and digital computation. A common theme of all these papers is explaining how physical systems work. An important shared criterion is that the behavioral description must be compositional, that is the description of a system's behavior must be derivable from the structure of the system. This material should be of interest to anyone concerned with automated reasoning about the real (physical) world.
Item Description:"Reprinted from the journal Artificial intelligence, volume 24"--Title page verso
Physical Description:1 online resource (491 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780444599216
0444599215