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Book One
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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2
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Knowledge Representation
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Abstract:
The central component of commonsense reasoning about causality is the envisionment: a description of the behavior of a physical system that is derived from its structural description by qualitative simulation. Two problems with creating the envisionment are the qualitative representation of quantity and the detection of previously-unsuspected points of qualitative change. The representation presented here has the expressive power of differential equations, and the qualitative envisionment strategy needed for commonsense knowledge. A detailed example shows how it is able to detect a previously unsuspected point at which the system is in stable equilibrium.
AAAI
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2