An overview of approaches to qualitative model construction

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-25

  Schut, Cis ^a   Bredeweg, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

QUALITATIVE MODELS CONSTRUCTION; QUALITATIVE REASONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030100641     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269888900007657     Document Type: Review

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