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Chapter Sixteen

Demonstrating "When" as well as "What"

| 6.3 The Semantics of Stimulus-Response

The generalization or inference machine of a stimulus-response system in-

terprets the meaning of the examples a designer provides during the dem-

onstration. It takes the demonstrated stimulus-response examples as input

and output behaviors that, if represented as code, would appear something

like this:

On StimulusObject. Stimulus(<formal parameters>)

{

if (checkcontext)

Operation(<ResponseObject>,<other response parameters>)

Some major challenges in interpreting the examples are as follows:

• Which object(s) is the designer signifying ...