Readings in Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems describes the automated reasoning about the physical world using qualitative representations. This text is divided into nine chapters, each focusing on some aspect of qualitative physics. The first chapter deal with qualitative physics, which is concerned with representing and reasoning about the physical world. The goal of qualitative physics is to capture both the commonsense knowledge of the person on the street and the tacit knowledge underlying the quantitative knowledge used by engineers and scientists. The succeeding chapter discusses the qualitative calculus and its role in constructing an envisionment that includes behavior over both mythical time and elapsed time. These topics are followed by reviews of the mathematical aspects of qualitative reasoning, history-based simulation and temporal reasoning, as well as the intelligence in scientific computing. The final chapters are devoted to automated modeling for qualitative reasoning and causal explanations of behavior. These chapters also examine the qualitative kinematics of reasoning about shape and space. This book will prove useful to psychologists and psychiatrists.

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Information

Publisher

Morgan Kaufmann

Year

2013

ISBN

9781483214474

Topic

Physical Sciences

Subtopic

Physics

Index

Physics

Front Cover
Readings in Qualitative Reasoning About Physical Systems
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Qualitative Physics: A Personal View
Part 1: Overview and Motivation
Chapter 2. Qualitative Simulation
Chapter 3. Mathematical Aspects of Qualitative Reasoning
Chapter 4. History-Based Simulation and Temporal Reasoning
Chapter 5. Other Styles of Reasoning
Chapter 6. Automating Quantitative Analysis
Chapter 7. Multiple Ontologies and Automated Modeling
Chapter 8. Reasoning About Shape and Space
Chapter 9. Causal Explanations of Behavior
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Credits