This paper describes a program called Pret that automates system identification, the process of finding a dynamical model of a black-box system. Pret performs both structural iden...
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
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...
Abstract. The management of qualitative spatial information is an important research area in computer science and AI. Modal logic provides a natural framework for the formalization...
Davide Bresolin, Angelo Montanari, Pietro Sala, Gu...
Several formalisms have been proposed for qualitative reasoning about regions and their topological relations in space. These formalisms, based on pairwise relations, do not allow...