Narrow views, old talks, new beginnings

Citation

Williams, B. C.; Shirley, M. H.; Raiman, O.; Falkenhainer, B.; de Kleer, J.; Bobrow, D. G. Narrow views, old talks, new beginnings. Computational Intelligence. 1992 May; 8 (2): 210-215.

Abstract

A response to “Prolegomena to Any Future Qualitative Physics,” which attempts to clarify the goals of the field and describe some of the major research efforts.


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