%0 Book Section %1 forbus1988qualitative %A Forbus, Kenneth D. %B Exploring Artificial Intelligence %C San Francisco, California %D 1988 %I Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. %K ai artificial intelligence physics qualitative %P 239--296 %T Qualitative Physics: Past, Present, and Future %X Qualitative physics is concerned with representing and reasoning about the physical world. The goal of qualitative physics is to capture both the common-sense knowledge of the person on the street and the tacit knowledge underlying the quantitative knowledge used by engineers and scientists. The area is now a little over ten years old, which, at least measured in the span of AI, is a long time. So it makes sense to step back and try to systematize the work in the field and describe the current state of the art. %& 7

@incollection{forbus1988qualitative, abstract = {Qualitative physics is concerned with representing and reasoning about the physical world. The goal of qualitative physics is to capture both the common-sense knowledge of the person on the street and the tacit knowledge underlying the quantitative knowledge used by engineers and scientists. The area is now a little over ten years old, which, at least measured in the span of AI, is a long time. So it makes sense to step back and try to systematize the work in the field and describe the current state of the art.}, added-at = {2012-03-12T08:56:21.000+0100}, address = {San Francisco, California}, author = {Forbus, Kenneth D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b970bf1995a19b741a1feda04c594d6c/jaeschke}, booktitle = {Exploring Artificial Intelligence}, chapter = 7, interhash = {8733594ffc96474d2c34ce9881ea282d}, intrahash = {b970bf1995a19b741a1feda04c594d6c}, keywords = {ai artificial intelligence physics qualitative}, pages = {239--296}, publisher = {Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.}, timestamp = {2014-07-28T15:57:31.000+0200}, title = {Qualitative Physics: Past, Present, and Future}, year = 1988 }