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Record Nr.

UNISA996465481303316

Autore

Nayak P. Pandurang

Titolo

Automated Modeling of Physical Systems [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Pandurang Nayak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995

ISBN

3-540-48520-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 238 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1003

Disciplina

003/.3

Soggetti

Computer simulation

Physics

Artificial intelligence

Computers

Computational complexity

Electronics

Microelectronics

Simulation and Modeling

Physics, general

Artificial Intelligence

Computation by Abstract Devices

Complexity

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Models and model fragments -- Adequate models -- Complexity of model selection -- Causal approximations -- Differential equations -- Order of magnitude reasoning -- Model selection program and results -- Related work -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on the author's PhD thesis which was selected during the 1993 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition as one of the three best submissions. This monograph investigates the problem of selecting adequate models for reasoning about physical systems and applications to engineering problem solving. An elegant treatment of



both the theoretical and practical sides are presented: the problem is precisely formalized, its computational complexity is analyzed in detail, and an efficient algorithm for finding adequate models is derived; on the practical side, a methodology for building systems that automatically construct adequate models is provided, and implementational aspects and tests are described.