Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9780444599216
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444876706
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444876706
Subject： TP11 automation system theory
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume brings together current work on qualitative reasoning. Its publication reflects the maturity of qualitative reasoning as a research area and the growing interest in problems of reasoning about physical systems.
The papers present knowledge bases for a number of very different domains, including heat flow, transistors, and digital computation. A common theme of all these papers is explaining how physical systems work. An important shared criterion is that the behavioral description must be compositional, that is the description of a system's behavior must be derivable from the structure of the system.
This material should be of interest to anyone concerned with automated reasoning about the real (physical) world.
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