This paper demonstrates qualitative spatial reasoning techniques in a real-world diagrammatic reasoning task: Course-of-Action (COA) diagrams. COA diagrams are military planning d...
Ronald W. Ferguson, Robert A. Rasch Jr., William T...
The uptake in the software industry of notations for designing systems visually has been accelerated with the standardization of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The formaliza...
John Howse, Fernando Molina, John Taylor, Sun-Joo ...
We give a brief overview of the main characteristics of diagrammatic reasoning, analyze a case of human reasoning in a mastermind game, and explain why hybrid representation system...
Papers on diagrammatic reasoning often begin by dividing marks on paper into two basic classes: diagrams and sentences. While endorsing the perspective that a reasoning episode can...
Because diagrams are often created incrementally, a qualitative diagrammatic reasoning system must dynamically manage a potentially large set of spatial interpretations. This pape...
Ronald W. Ferguson, Joseph L. Bokor, Rudolph L. Ma...
An important aim of diagrammatic reasoning is to make it easier for people to create and understand logical arguments. We have worked on spider diagrams, which visually express log...