Qualitative models are better able than traditional models to express states of incomplete knowledge about continuous mechanisms. Qualitative simulation guarant

The ability to reason qualitatively about physical systems is important to understanding and interacting with the world for both humans and intelligent machines

The book provides a survey about the field of Qualitative Reasoning, it contrasts and classifies its approaches and puts them into a common framework. Qualitati

The book provides a survey about the field of Qualitative Reasoning, it contrasts and classifies its approaches and puts them into a common framework. Qualitati

An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition.