Qualitative Modelling
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چکیده
Traditional, quantitative simulation based on quantitative models aims at producing precise numerical results as answers to user’s questions about the problem domain. Such precise numerical answers are often overly elaborate, and they contain much more information than it is actually needed. In every day life, humans use common sense to reason about problems qualitatively, without numbers. In the area of Artificial Intelligence, methods exist for qualitative modelling and simulation. In this paper, we review some ideas of qualitative reasoning and modelling. We also discuss qualitative data mining as an approach to the analysis of numerical data, and Q2 learning which combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to modelling from data.
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