Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box
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 JACK constructs explanations for why a second piece of toast comes out lighter,...
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| description | 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 JACK constructs explanations for why a second piece of toast comes out lighter, why the slide in a tire gauge does not slip back inside when the gauge is removed from the tire, and how in a refrigerator a single substance can serve as a heat sink for the interior and a heat source for the exterior. I report the number of hypotheses admitted for each device example, and provide empirical results which isolate the pruning power due to different constraint sources. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/68392019-04-12T08:32:27Z Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box Doyle, Richard James causal reasoning theory formation qualitative reasoning smodeling 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 JACK constructs explanations for why a second piece of toast comes out lighter, why the slide in a tire gauge does not slip back inside when the gauge is removed from the tire, and how in a refrigerator a single substance can serve as a heat sink for the interior and a heat source for the exterior. I report the number of hypotheses admitted for each device example, and provide empirical results which isolate the pruning power due to different constraint sources. 2004-10-20T20:01:02Z 2004-10-20T20:01:02Z 1988-06-01 AITR-1047 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6839 en_US AITR-1047 213 p. 19331119 bytes 7483468 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | causal reasoning theory formation qualitative reasoning smodeling Doyle, Richard James Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title | Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title_full | Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title_fullStr | Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title_short | Hypothesizing Device Mechanisms: Opening Up the Black Box |
| title_sort | hypothesizing device mechanisms opening up the black box |
| topic | causal reasoning theory formation qualitative reasoning smodeling |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6839 |
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