Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning
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MIT-LCS-TR-329.pdf
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Author(s)
Sacks, Elisha
Advisor(s)
Szolovits, Peter
Date Issued
November 1984
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TR-329
Abstract
Qualitative analysis is the study of abstract causal reasoning. It explores the mechanisms whereby humans analyze complex systems abstractly, while ignoring unimportant and unknown low-level details. Previous research has focused on qualitative simulation techniques, analogous to numerical simulation, that use local information about a system to predict its short-term behavior. This thesis presents a new, calculus based, type of qualitative analysis, called qualitative mathematical reasoning. It derives functional descriptions of systems and uses them to predict global behavior.
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