the problem which has been the focus of city constructors and architectures since the beginning of citizenship life is the issue of the nature of environmental quality. this study, with a review of explaining paradigms of environmental quality and by reliance on basic works, has assumed the question of nature of environmental quality an interdisciplinary concept (civic construction, sociology, ...

Qualitative models are predictive models that describe how changes in values of input variables affect the output variable in qualitative terms, e.g. increasing or decreasing. We describe Padé, a new method for qualitative learning which estimates partial derivatives of the target function from training data and uses them to induce qualitative models of the target function. We formulated three ...

For diagnostic purposes, analog circuits may be qualitatively modeled as resistive networks. We demonstrate that approaches to this task show certain weaknesses if they are based on sign-based qualitative values. In order to overcome these deficiencies, we first introduce qualitative deviation values with a semantics that enables us to model different classes of faults arising in analog circuit...

Qualitative models are predictive models which describe how changes in values of input variables a ect the output variable in qualitative terms, e.g. increasing or decreasing. We describe Padé, a new method for qualitative learning which estimates partial derivatives of the target function from training data and uses them to induce qualitative models of the target function. We formulated three ...

Patient care practices often lag behind current scientific evidence and professional guidelines. The failure of such knowledge translation (KT) efforts may reflect inadequate assessment and management of specific barriers confronting both physicians and patients at the point of treatment level. Effective KT in this setting may benefit from the use of qualitative methods to identify and overcome...

We introduce a stochastic model for complex networks possessing three qualitative features: power-law degree distributions, local clustering, and slowly growing diameter. The model is mathematically natural, permits a wide variety of explicit calculations, has the desired three qualitative features, and fits the complete range of degree scaling exponents and clustering parameters.

Qualitative reasoning has been widely applied in the analysis of complex networks, but the loss of quantitative information easily result in reasoning conflict. In this article, we adopt a hierarchical decomposition strategy of the network, and present a general framework of qualitative graphical inference based on enhanced multi-level knowledge fusion so as to avoid reasoning conflict. The fra...

Understanding qualitative inquiry as a global endeavor leads to several challenges. First, we still live in different worlds of qualitative research—There are local traditions with limited exchanges. This has to do not only with language barriers but also with political and scientific contexts, in which research is embedded. These differences complicate the globalization of qualitative inquiry....

In this paper, we introduce a new class of local consistencies, called f -consistencies, for qualitative constraint networks. Each consistency of this class is based on weak composition ( ) and a mapping f that provides a covering for each relation. We study the connections existing between some properties of mappings f and the relative inference strength of f -consistencies. The consistency ob...