Title
Automatic abduction of qualitative models
Abstract
We describe a method of automatically abducing qualitative models from descriptions of behaviors. We generate, from either quantitative or qualitative data, models in the form of qualitative differential equations suitable for use by QSIM. Constraints are generated and filtered both by comparison with the input behaviors and by dimensional analysis. If the user provides complete information on the input behaviors and the dimensions of the input variables, the resulting model is unique, maximally constrained, and guaranteed to reproduce the input behaviors. If the user provides incomplete information, our method will still generate a model which reproduces the input behaviors, but the model may no longer be unique. Incompleteness can take several forms: missing dimensions, values of variables, or entire variables.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1992
AAAI
qualitative differential,qualitative data,complete information,input variable,automatic abduction,incomplete information,entire variable,input behavior,qualitative model,resulting model,dimensional analysis,differential equation
Field
DocType
ISBN
Differential equation,Mathematical optimization,Qualitative property,Computer science,Complete information
Conference
0-262-51063-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
3.54
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bradley L. Richards120937.47
Ina Kraan218318.79
Benjamin Kuipers34111875.19