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Getting the Envisionment Right

Benjamin Kuipers
AAAI 1982 pp. 209-212
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Abstract

The central component of commonsense reasoning about causdity is the envisionment: a description of the behavior of a phvsical system that is derived from its structural description by qualitative simulation. Two problems with creating the envisionmcnt are the qualitative representation of quentlty and the detection of previously-unsuspcctcd points ot qualitative change. The representation presetlted here has the expressive power of differenil;ll equations, and the qualitarive envisionment strategy needed ior commonsense knowledge. A detailed example shows IICW it is able to detect a previously unsuspected point at which the system is in stable equilibrium. THE ENVISIONblENT Causal reasoning--- the ability to reason about how things work __ _ is central to expert performance at problem-solving and

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Kuipers. "Getting the Envisionment Right." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982.

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[Kuipers. "Getting the Envisionment Right." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1982/kuipers1982aaai-getting/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kuipers1982aaai-getting,
  title     = {{Getting the Envisionment Right}},
  author    = {Kuipers, Benjamin},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1982},
  pages     = {209-212},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1982/kuipers1982aaai-getting/}
}