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The book provides a survey about the field of Qualitative Reasoning, it contrasts and classifies its approaches and puts them into a common framework. Qualitative Reasoning represents an approach of Artificial Intelligence to model dynamic systems, about which little information is available, and to derive statements about the potential behavior of these systems, putting emphasis on a causal explanation of the behavior. Both variables and relationships between variables are described by means of qualitative terms such as small and large or positive and negative. Since this approach also takes into consideration the way how humans reason about physical systems, it can be stated that Qualitative Reasoning participates in the creation of a cognitive theory of non-numerical process descriptions which can be mapped onto a digital computer. This approach can be used for simulation, diagnosis, design, structure identification and interpretation. Areas of application are physics, medicine, the field of ecology, process control, etc. In addition to the classification of existing methods, the book presents a new approach based on fuzzy sets. And the work relates Qualitative Reasoning with such fields of Expert Systems, System Theory and Cognitive Science.
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Book Title: Qualitative Reasoning
Book Subtitle: Modeling and the Generation of Behavior
Authors: Hannes Werthner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6624-6
Publisher: Springer Vienna
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-82579-2Published: 26 May 1994
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-6624-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling, Complexity, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences