Foundations of Envisioning
Abstract
This paper explores a particular kind of qualitative reasoning, called envisioning, that is capable of producing causal explanations for device behavior. It has been implemented in a computer program, ENVISION, which can analyze a wide variety of thermal, fluid, electrical, translational and rotational devices. Rather than present the technical details of the envisioning process, this paper examines the theoretical foundations upon which it is built. Many of these considerations are ones that any builder of qualitative reasoning systems must pay attention to. Two such considerations are explanation and robustness: What notion of causality is adequate for causal explanations of device behavior? How can there be any confidence in the analysis of a novel device?
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Text
de Kleer and Brown. "Foundations of Envisioning." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982.Markdown
[de Kleer and Brown. "Foundations of Envisioning." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1982/dekleer1982aaai-foundations/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{dekleer1982aaai-foundations,
title = {{Foundations of Envisioning}},
author = {de Kleer, Johan and Brown, John Seely},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1982},
pages = {434-437},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1982/dekleer1982aaai-foundations/}
}