A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning
Abstract
Aiming at explicit description of temporal meaning of causal relations generated by qualitative reasoning systems, this article proposes a causal time ontology which defines a set of general time concepts in qualitative models, called causal time scales. Each of them associated with a modeling technique represents a temporal granularity and/or an ontological viewpoint. They allow us to specify temporal performance of the reasoning engines and to identify a general causal reasoning scheme together with sophisticated feedback analysis. Lastly, we present a causal time resolution required to derive causal relations in fluid-related systems and a reasoning system satisfying it.
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Kitamura et al. "A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.Markdown
[Kitamura et al. "A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1997/kitamura1997ijcai-causal/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{kitamura1997ijcai-causal,
title = {{A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning}},
author = {Kitamura, Yoshinobu and Ikeda, Mitsuru and Mizoguchi, Riichiro},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1997},
pages = {501-507},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1997/kitamura1997ijcai-causal/}
}