A qualitative physics based on confluences
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Commonsense reasoning about causality: deriving behavior from structure
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Artificial Intelligence
Qualitative representation of behavior in the medical domain
Computers and Biomedical Research
Machine understanding of devices: causal explanation of diagnostic conclusions
Machine understanding of devices: causal explanation of diagnostic conclusions
Integration of case-based reasoning and model-based reasoning for adaptive design problem-solving
Integration of case-based reasoning and model-based reasoning for adaptive design problem-solving
Functional reasoning theories: Problems and perspectives
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
CFRL: A language for specifying the causal functionality of engineered devices
AAAI'93 Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on Artificial intelligence
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A representation strategy that uses knowledge of both device purpose and structure is presented. The representation is described mainly as it relates to design evaluation. The design evaluation task, which checks that the structural design describes a device that will achieve its stated purpose, becomes difficult with even a small increase in complexity. A way to automate this aspect of device understanding, thus providing a systematic mechanism for evaluating the logical aspects of designing mechanical causal systems, is given. Implementation of these ideas in the Doris system is discussed.