Title :
Real-world applications of qualitative reasoning
Author_Institution :
Knowledge Syst. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
Qualitative reasoning has attracted much interest from the artificial intelligence research community in the last decade. The emphasis in qualitative reasoning on making inferences about the behavior of physical systems where there is incomplete information makes the technology relevant to many real-world industrial problems. Many applications of qualitative reasoning technology have emerged for such tasks as diagnosis, design, tutoring, real-time monitoring and hazard identification. This article showcases some of these recent applications
Keywords :
common-sense reasoning; computer applications; engineering computing; uncertainty handling; artificial intelligence; design; diagnosis; hazard identification; incomplete information; industrial problems; inference; physical systems behaviour; qualitative calculus; qualitative reasoning applications; real-time monitoring; tutoring; Artificial intelligence; Chemical technology; Information technology; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories; Monitoring; Numerical models; Numerical simulation; Predictive models; Temperature;
Journal_Title :
IEEE Expert
