Automated Reasoning About Classical Mechanics

Title: en_US Automated Reasoning About Classical Mechanics
Creator: en_US Wong, Leon
Date: 2004-10-20T20:29:11Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:29:11Z
Date Issued: en_US 1994-05-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-1488
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7081
Abstract: en_US In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence have become interested in replicating human physical reasoning talents in computers. One of the most important skills in this area is predicting how physical systems will behave. This thesis discusses an implemented program that generates algebraic descriptions of how systems of rigid bodies evolve over time. Discussion about the design of this program identifies a physical reasoning paradigm and knowledge representation approach based on mathematical model construction and algebraic reasoning. This paradigm offers several advantages over methods that have become popular in the field, and seems promising for reasoning about a wide variety of classical mechanics problems.
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-1488