Incomplete knowledge of the structure of mechanisms is an important fact of life in reasoning, commonsense or expert, about the physical world. Qualitative simulation captures an important kind of incomplete, ordinal, knowledge, and predicts the set of qualitatively possible behaviors of a mechanism, given a qualitative description of its structure and initial state . However, one frequently ha...

Incomplete knowledge of the structure of mechanisms is an important fact of life in reasoning, commonsense or expert, about the physical world. Qualitative simulation captures an important kind of incomplete, ordinal, knowledge, and predicts the set of qualitatively possible behaviors of a mechanism, given a qualitative description of its structure and initial state. However, one frequently has...

We provide a mini-guide to some of the possible manifestations of weak-scale supersymmetry. For each of six scenarios we provide • a brief description of the theoretical underpinnings, • the adjustable parameters, • a qualitative description of the associated phenomenology at future colliders, • comments on how to simulate each scenario with existing event generators.

We provide a mini-guide to some of the possible manifestations of weak scale supersymmetry. For each of six scenarios we provide • a brief description of the theoretical underpinnings, • the adjustable parameters, • a qualitative description of the associated phenomenology at future colliders, • comments on how to simulate each scenario with existing event generators.

An ongoing process in qualitative research aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of human experiences and behaviour, and the behavioural world of applied practice. This process also aims to improve the usefulness of the findings by giving evidence for practical action. Interpretive description , an alternative to the conventional qualitative approaches, can help in this regard by provi...

On one interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike. On another interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike and also differ with respect to the de-re possibilities they represent for some individual— with respect, that is, to how they represent that ...

This article describes some of the key issues in the use of qualitative research methods. Starting with a description of what qualitative research is and outlining some of the distinguishing features between quantitative and qualitative research, examples of the type of setting where qualitative research can be applied are provided. Methods of collecting information through in-depth interviews ...

This paper proposes a qualitative representation for kinematic robots. First, qualitative geometric primitives are introduced by combining a qualitative orientation component and qualitative translation component using normalisation. A position in Cartesian space can be mathematically described by the scalable primitives. Secondly, the qualitative positions of the components of a robot are deri...