Qualitative Structural Analysis Using Diagrammatic Reasoning

Tessler, Shirley; Iwasaki, Yumi; Law, Kincho H.

Qualitative Structural Analysis Using Diagrammatic Reasoning

Shirley Tessler, Yumi Iwasaki, Kincho H. Law

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Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Representation. Pages 885-892.

Abstract

Diagrammatic reasoning is a type of reasoning in which the primary means of inference is direct manipulation and inspection of a diagram. Diagrammatic reasoning is prevalent in human problem solving behavior, especially for problems involving spatial relations among physical objects. Our research examines the relationship between diagrammatic and symbolic reasoning in a computational framework . We have built a system, called REDRAW, that emulates the human capability for reasoning with pictures in civil engineering. The class of structural analysis problems chosen provides a realistic domain whose solution process requires domain-specific knowledge as well as pictorial reasoning skills. We hypothesize that diagrammatic representations provide an environment where inferences about the physical results of proposed structural configurations can take place in a more intuitive manner than that possible through purely symbolic representations.

Shirley Tessler, Yumi Iwasaki, and Kincho H. Law. 1995. Qualitative Structural Analysis Using Diagrammatic Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-95. IJCAI, 885–892. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/115

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