{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning","authors":[{"name":"Yoshinobu Kitamura","slug":"yoshinobu-kitamura","given":"Yoshinobu","family":"Kitamura","affiliation":""},{"name":"Mitsuru Ikeda","slug":"mitsuru-ikeda","given":"Mitsuru","family":"Ikeda","affiliation":""},{"name":"Riichiro Mizoguchi","slug":"riichiro-mizoguchi","given":"Riichiro","family":"Mizoguchi","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Aiming at explicit description of temporal meaning of causal relations generated by qualitative reasoning systems, this article proposes a ca~sal time ontology which defines a set of general time concepts in qualitative models, called causal time sc~les . Each of them associated with a modeling techmque represents a te111poral granularity and/o~ an ontological viewpoint. They allow us to spectfy temporal performance of the reasoning engines and to id~n tify a general causal reasoning scheme together wtth sophisticated feedback analysis. Lastly, we present a causal time resolution required to derive causal relations in fluid-related systems and a reasoning system satisfying it.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/74","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0074.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/74.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/bibtex/74","volume":{"slug":"1997","title":"Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1997","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/","year":1997,"location":"Nagoya, Japan","dates":"","editors":"Martha E. Pollack","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Diagnosis and Qualitative Reasoning","track":"Diagnosis and Qualitative Reasoning","number":74,"pages":{"first":501,"last":506},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}