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
Case-based planning: viewing planning as a memory task
Case-based planning: viewing planning as a memory task
Naive mechanics: a computational model for representing and reasoning about simple mechanical devices
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
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Functional understanding based on an ontology of functional concepts
PRICAI'00 Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Rim international conference on Artificial intelligence
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The EDISON project, which is developing computational models that can solve problems and reason creatively about mechanical devices, is discussed. The project addresses two general issues: the breadth of and interactions between knowledge needed for creative reasoning, and the amount of knowledge needed to describe mechanical devices, their behavior, function, and use. This approach supports mechanical improvisation by applying the concept of device functional equivalence in different situations. The discussion covers the following: two classes of individual objects used by EDISON, device behavior and function, device use in problem-solving situations, and functional similarity and improvisation.