We seek to automatically generate multilingual technical documentation from a structured KB. One technique we use is the qualitative simulation of instruction steps in order to derive additional hints and warnings automatically. In order to allow for the qualitative simulation of the instruction steps we propose a declarative executable action representation, with specialization and inheritance...

We present a Hidden Markov Model that uses qualitative order of magnitude probabilities for its states and transitions. We use the resulting model to construct a formalization of qualitative spatiotemporal events as random processes and utilize it to build high-level natural language description of change. We use the resulting model to show an example of foreseen usage of well-known prediction ...

Description of the magnetic Bianchi VI0 cosmologies of LeBlanc, Kerr, and Wainwright in the formalisms both of Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz, and of Misner allows qualitative understanding of the Mixmaster-like singularity in those models.

We introduce a novel approach to description of networks/graphs. It is based on an analogue physical model which is dynamically evolved. This evolution depends on the connectivity matrix and readily brings out many qualitative features of the graph.

This paper gives a qualitative description how Young tableaux can be used to perform a Clebsch-Gordan decomposition of tensor products in SU(3) and how this can be generalized to SU(N).

We consider the effect of including quark delocalization and color screening, in the nonrelativistic quark cluster model, on baryon-baryon potentials and phase shifts. We find that the inclusion of these additional effects allows a good qualitative description of both.

1 . Introduction IBM T.J. TVatson Research 1n this paper we describe an approach to unify the various quantity spaces that have been proposed in qualitative reasoning with numbers . We work in the domain of physical devices, such as electrical circuits using lumped parameter models . We show how changing the quantity space can be achieved in the course of analysis and how this is similar to dyn...

Qualitative Reasoning captures human common sense understanding of the behavior of real world physical systems. Qualitative models use a rich explicit conceptual vocabulary and therefore a qualitative simulation provides an explanation as well as a description of the system’s behavior. These properties make Qualitative Reasoning suitable for use in several application fields like education and ...

In this work is presented the application of qualitative models and statistical methods in quality control of production procedures of various components of an automatic industrial press machine. The methodology of creating a descriptive model of a manufacturing process is presented using qualitative methods of description and a qualitative modeling and simulation application (QMTOOL). The simu...

The simulation and optimization of an actual physics system are usually constructed based on the stochastic models, which have both qualitative and quantitative characteristics inherently.Mostmodeling specifications and frameworks find it difficult to describe the qualitative model directly. In order to deal with the expert knowledge, uncertain reasoning, and other qualitative information, a qu...