In Artificial Intelligence, a crucial requirement is the ability to reason about actions and their effects on the environment. Traditional approaches which rely on classical logic...
This paper presents a theory that supports commonsense, qualitative reasoning about the flow of liquid around slowly moving solid objects; specifically, inferring that liquid can ...
The final product of an analyst`s investigation using a visualization is often a report of the discovered knowledge, as well as the methods employed and reasoning behind the disco...
Though arrangement knowledge is well suited for qualitative representations of spatial situations, if we only use this kind of knowledge, we cannot do interesting inferences about...
Abstract. Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narr...