Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Processes

Forbus, Kenneth D.

Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Processes

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Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. INFERENCE and REASONING. Pages 326-329.

Abstract

Common sense reasoning about the physical world must include an understanding of physical processes and the changes they cause . For example, heating a liquid causes its temperature to rise and if continued long enough may cause it to boil. A style of analysis is presented that combines deKieer's Incremental Qualitative analysis wjth the Quantity Space idea from Naive Physics to reason about the effects of physical processes and their limits . The analysis is demonstrated on an example with practical importance, and further possibilities for applications are discussed .

Kenneth D. Forbus. 1981. Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Processes. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-81. IJCAI, 326–329. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/64

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