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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>In <a href="Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> and <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> (especially, knowledge based systems), the <b>ramification problem</b> is concerned with the indirect consequences of an action. It might also be posed as <i>how to represent what happens implicitly due to an action</i> or how to control the secondary and tertiary effects of an action. It is strongly connected to, and is opposite the <a href="Qualification_problem" title="Qualification problem">qualification side</a> of, the <a href="Frame_problem" title="Frame problem">frame problem</a>.
</p><p>Limit theory helps in <a href="Operational" class="mw-redirect" title="Operational">operational</a> usage. For instance, in <a href="Knowledge-based_engineering" title="Knowledge-based engineering">KBE</a> derivation of a populated design (geometrical objects, etc., similar concerns apply in shape theory), equivalence assumptions allow convergence where potentially large, and perhaps even computationally indeterminate, solution sets are handled deftly. Yet, in a chain of computation, downstream events may very well find some types of results from earlier resolutions of <b>ramification</b> as problematic for their own algorithms.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Non-monotonic_logic" title="Non-monotonic logic">Non-monotonic logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Ramification_(mathematics)" title="Ramification (mathematics)">Ramification (mathematics)</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>Nikos Papadakis <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2899788_Actions_with_Duration_and_Constraints_The_Ramification_Problem_in_Temporal_Databases">"Actions with Duration and Constraints: the Ramification Problem in Temporal Databases"</a> IEEE ICTAI'02</li>
<li>Deepak Kumar "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dkumar/UGAI/planning.html">Planning</a>" Bryn Mawr College</li></ul>
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