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WHOSE EXPERTISE IS IT ANYWAY?
Author(s) -
Leitch Roy
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.tb00363.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , automation , information retrieval , library science , engineering , mechanical engineering
The problem is really quite simple: Sacks and Doyle ( S & D) have misinterpreted the goal, or rather some of the goals, of qualitative reasoning (QR) research. Actually, the QR research community should take some of the blame for this. They have adopted a catholic attitude to approaches to QR including within its scope anything that claimed to reason about the qualitative properties of (physical) systems. While per se this may be no bad thing, they have failed to categorize the motivation behind the various approaches, concentrating too much on the technology and clever algorithms and not enough on the principles behind the approaches and clearly establishing just what it is that they attempt to achieve.