Qualitative mathematical reasoning

Authors:
Elisha Sacks
Affiliations:
Clinical Decision Making Group, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1985

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Abstract

Qualitative analysis studies the mechanisms with which humans derive the abstract behavior of a complex system from a description of its components and their interconnections, while ignoring unimportant or unknown low-level details. I present a program that analyzes a system by forming and combining mathematical descriptions of its sub-systems. This approach can overcome significant shortcomings in the simulation method used by other qualitative reasoning systems.