Constraint propagation algorithms for temporal reasoning: a revised report
Readings in qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Reasoning about qualitative temporal information
Constraint-based reasoning
Reasoning about temporal relations: a maximal tractable subclass of Allen's interval algebra
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Rendering with radiance: the art and science of lighting visualization
Rendering with radiance: the art and science of lighting visualization
Prolog (3rd ed.): programming for artificial intelligence
Prolog (3rd ed.): programming for artificial intelligence
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Qualitative Representation of Spatial Knowledge
Qualitative Representation of Spatial Knowledge
Database System Concepts
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: Theory and Practice: Application to Robot Navigation
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: Theory and Practice: Application to Robot Navigation
A mathematical theory of communication
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
A survey of temporal extensions of description logics
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Applying soft computing in defining spatial relations
From the Egg-Yolk to the Scrambled-Egg Theory
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Knowledge-Based Clustering: From Data to Information Granules
Knowledge-Based Clustering: From Data to Information Granules
Spatial and temporal reasoning: beyond Allen's calculus
AI Communications - Special issue on: Spatial and temporal reasoning
Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview
Fundamenta Informaticae - Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Investigating ontology development for engineering design support
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Qualitative spatial reasoning with topological information
Qualitative spatial reasoning with topological information
Practical Software Testing: A Process-Oriented Approach
Practical Software Testing: A Process-Oriented Approach
Topological analysis of 3D building models using a spatial query language
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Floor plan design using block algebra and constraint satisfaction
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Conventional design support software tools cannot effectively manage the complex, heterogeneous information used in engineering and architecture (EA) tasks. Crucially, despite uncertainty being an inherent quality of EA information particularly in the early stages of a design project, current tools solely rely on numerical approaches which do not support such incomplete and vague information. In this paper, we establish a complete framework for developing qualitative support tools that directly address these shortcomings. Our framework is application oriented and addresses the broader issues surrounding the actual use of qualitative methods. It provides design principles and strategies that allow a software engineer to develop custom qualitative software tools according to their specific EA task specifications. Our framework also provides the engineer with practical theory and guidelines for implementing their custom qualitative model and validating their system using context specific test data. We demonstrate the validity of our framework by presenting a case study in architectural lighting in which a prototype qualitative reasoning engine successfully automates qualitative logic about the subjective impressions of a lighting installation.