We explore the hypothesis that many intuitive physical inferences are based on a mental
physics engine that is analogous in many ways to the machine physics engines used in …

The paper is a overview of the major qualitative spatial representation and reasoning
techniques. We survey the main aspects of the representation of qualitative knowledge …

The representation of physics problems in relation to the organization of physics knowledge
is investigated in experts and novices. Four experiments examine (a) the existence of …

I was very pleased to be asked to produce a fifth edition of our artificial intelligence book. It is
a compliment to the earlier editions, started almost twenty years ago, that our approach to AI …

Es sabido que en los ùltimos afios se ha producido un importante cambio de orientacién en
la psicologia cientifica. Tras un largo periodo de predominio de la psicologia conductista, se …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

Everyday life provides people with countless opportunities for observing and interacting with
objects in motion. For example, watching a baseball game, driving a car and even dropping …

Inasmuch as people are good at predicting the outcome of physical interactions in the world
around them, why are they so bad at physics, even the branch of physics (mechanics) that …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

I begin by sketching the role of models in perception and discourse/next I consider
reasoning as a process of manipulating models and then their role as representations of …