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THE QUALITATIVE REASONING HYPOTHESIS: A RESPONSE TO SACKS’ AND DOYLE'S “PROLEGOMENA”
Author(s) -
Struss Peter
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1992.tb00353.x
Subject(s) - citation , siemens , computer science , psychology , epistemology , information retrieval , library science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
1 . Research on qualitative reasoning has not fulfilled its claims and not achieved its goal of successfully automating reasoning about a sufficiently broad class of physical systems. 2 . The reason €or (1) is that its current mainstream (called SPQR by the authors) is too limited and cannot overcome the limitations by simple extensions. 3. The essential limitation of the SPQR approach is that it focuses on transient behavior, whereas experts analyze asymptotic behavior. 4. The way out for qualitative reasoning is to concentrate on modeling experts’ use of sophisticated mathematical methods. 5 . The sophisticated mathematical models are essentially a. the qualitative theory of dynamic systems and b. numerical analysis.