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John W. Collins
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 4
Citations - 92
John W. Collins is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Process ontology & Ontology (information science). The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 92 citations.
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Reasoning about fluids via molecular collections
TL;DR: It is claimed that MC descriptions are parasitic on the Contained-Stuff ontology, and rules for generating MC descriptions given a Qualitative Process theory model using contained stuffs are presented.
Proceedings Article
CATMS: an ATMS which avoids label explosions
John W. Collins,Dennis DeCoste +1 more
TL;DR: A new ATMS algorithm (CATMS) is presented which avoids the problem of label explosions, while preserving most of the querytime efficiencies resulting from label compilations.
Process-based diagnosis: an approach to understanding novel failures
TL;DR: This thesis describes a diagnostic technique for explaining unanticipated modes of failure in continuous-variable systems that combines the efficiency of the consistency-based approach with the explanatory power of abductive backchaining.
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Building Qualitative Models of Thermodynamic Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a qualitative domain theory for core phenomena in engineering thermodynamics, expressed in Qualitative Process theory, which is used to support system-level qualitative analyses of typical fluid and thermal systems, such as refrigerators and power plants.