Qualitative reasoning about physical systems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444876707 ISBN 13: 9780444876706

Publisher: Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, MIT Press, 1984

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Daniel G. Bobrow is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, MIT Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0444876707
• ISBN 13: 9780444876706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 491