Towards a Definition of Primary Cause in Hybrid Dynamic Domains

Asim Mehmood, Shakil M. Khan

Abstract: The notion of primary cause of an effect or outcome can be defined as the immediate reason behind the outcome, representing the phenomenon --action or event in a dynamic framework-- that is directly responsible for bringing about the effect. When causal analysis is done relative to an observed effect and an observed history of actions or events, this is further categorised as actual or token-level primary cause.