Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning
Qualitative analysis is the study of abstract causal reasoning. It explores the mechanisms whereby humans analyze complex systems abstractly, while ignoring unimportant and unknown low-level details. Previous research has focused on qualitative simulation techniques, analogous to numerical simulat...
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| author | Sacks, Elisha |
| author2 | Szolovits, Peter |
| author_facet | Szolovits, Peter Sacks, Elisha |
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| description | Qualitative analysis is the study of abstract causal reasoning. It explores the mechanisms whereby humans analyze complex systems abstractly, while ignoring unimportant and unknown low-level details. Previous research has focused on qualitative simulation techniques, analogous to numerical simulation, that use local information about a system to predict its short-term behavior. This thesis presents a new, calculus based, type of qualitative analysis, called qualitative mathematical reasoning. It derives functional descriptions of systems and uses them to predict global behavior. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1496012023-03-30T03:08:19Z Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning Sacks, Elisha Szolovits, Peter Qualitative analysis is the study of abstract causal reasoning. It explores the mechanisms whereby humans analyze complex systems abstractly, while ignoring unimportant and unknown low-level details. Previous research has focused on qualitative simulation techniques, analogous to numerical simulation, that use local information about a system to predict its short-term behavior. This thesis presents a new, calculus based, type of qualitative analysis, called qualitative mathematical reasoning. It derives functional descriptions of systems and uses them to predict global behavior. 2023-03-29T15:10:51Z 2023-03-29T15:10:51Z 1984-11 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149601 13364375 MIT-LCS-TR-329 application/pdf |
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| title | Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning |
| title_full | Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning |
| title_fullStr | Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning |
| title_short | Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning |
| title_sort | qualitative mathematical reasoning |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149601 |
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