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Combining Associational and Causal Reasoning to Solve Interpretation and Planning Problems
(1988-08-01)
This report describes a paradigm for combining associational and causal reasoning to achieve efficient and robust problem-solving behavior. The Generate, Test and Debug (GTD) paradigm generates initial hypotheses using ...
Theories of Comparative Analysis
(1988-05-01)
Comparative analysis is the problem of predicting how a system will react to perturbations in its parameters, and why. For example, comparative analysis could be asked to explain why the period of an oscillating ...
Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box
(1988-06-01)
I describe an approach to forming hypotheses about hidden mechanism configurations within devices given external observations and a vocabulary of primitive mechanisms. An implemented causal modelling system called ...