t ion which is much more abstract than a place vocabulary, the kinematic topology. Kinematic topology does not define qualitative inference rules, but provides a characterization o...
In this paper we address the problem of merging qualitative constraints networks (QCNs). We propose a rational merging procedure for QCNs. It is based on translations of QCNs into ...
We explore the expressive power of a recently developed qualitative region-based geometry and apply it to the problem of representing and reasoning about the motion of rigid bodie...
Brandon Bennett, Anthony G. Cohn, Paolo Torrini, S...
Qualitative reasoning can, and should, be decomposed into a model-building task, which creates a qualitative differential equation (QDE) as a model of a physical situation, and a ...
James M. Crawford, Adam Farquhar, Benjamin Kuipers
— The purpose of evaluation procedures is to achieve both qualitative and quantitative statements on haptic rendering realism and performance. Since a haptic interface provides a...
Evren Samur, Fei Wang, Ulrich Spaelter, Hannes Ble...