Towards a structured approach to building qualitative reasoning models and simulations

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-12

  Bredeweg, Bert ^a   Salles, Paulo ^b   Bouwer, Anders ^a   Liem, Jochem ^a   Nuttle, Tim ^c   Cioaca, Eugenia ^d   Nakova, Elena ^e   Noble, Richard ^f   Caldas, Ana Luiza Rios ^b   Uzunov, Yordan ^e   Varadinova, Emilia ^e   Zitek, Andreas ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development   (Romania)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Framework for QR modelling; NaturNet Redime project; Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling; Qualitative simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; RIVER SYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 40949118541     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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