Book Review: Qualitative Process Theory Using Linguistic Variables by Bruce D'Ambrosio (Springer-Verlag New York 1989)

  • Authors:
  • Varol Akman

  • Affiliations:
  • Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06533 Ankara, Turkey akman@trbilun.bitnet

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Probably, most of the readers of this Bulletin are quite familiar with Forbus's [2] Qualitative process theory which I'll refer to from now on as QPT. QPT is a popular, satisfactorily sound, and rather complete (do not read the last two words in the logical sense) theory for reasoning about the physical aspects of the daily world, viz, the enterprise of qualitative reasoning. (See [5] for an excellent recent review of qualitative reasoning.) The book under review is an attempt to fill in some gaps in QPT and render it more complete. And in this, it succeeds admirably.