The Thought Experiment Approach to Qualitative Physics
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Representation. Pages 1279-1283.
Abstract
This paper discusses the application of the thought experiment methodology to qualitative reasoning. Problem solving using this technique involves simplification of the original problem, solution of the simplified problem, and generalization of the results obtained. Our emphasis in this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in addressing complexity and grain size issues that affect .qualitative simulation. The thought expenment methodology is presented formally, the implementation of a problem solver called TEPS is briefly discussed, and the methodology is compared with related techniques such as approximation, aggregation, and exaggeration.
@inproceedings{ijcai1989p205,
title = {The Thought Experiment Approach to Qualitative Physics},
author = {Hibler, David L. and Biswas, Gautam},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-89}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {N. S. Sridharan},
pages = {1279--1283},
year = {1989},
month = {8},
note = {Knowledge Representation},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/205},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - The Thought Experiment Approach to Qualitative Physics AU - Hibler, David L. AU - Biswas, Gautam T2 - Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-89 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1989 SP - 1279 EP - 1283 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/205 ER -Copied
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