Ontologies and Representations of Matter

We carry out a comparative study of the expressive power of different ontologies of matter in terms of the ease with which simple physical knowledge can be represented. In particular, we consider five ontologies of models of matter: particle models, fields, two ontologies for continuous material, and a hybrid model. We evaluate these in terms of how easily eleven benchmark physical laws and scenarios can be represented.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• Publication date

  2010-07-03

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1609/aaai.v24i1.7581
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