An extension of QSIM with qualitative curvature

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 303-350

  Hossain, Abul ^a   Ray, Kumar S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Qualitative constraint equations; Qualitative curvature; Qualitative magnitude; Qualitative simulation; Reasonable function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY;

QUALITATIVE CURVATURE; QUALITATIVE MAGNITUDE; QUALITATIVE SIMULATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0031270858     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(97)00051-9     Document Type: Article

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