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Can an Engineer Fix an Immune System?–Rethinking theoretical biology
In an instant classic paper (Lazebnik, in Cancer Cell 2(3); 2002: 179–182) biologist Yuri Lazebnik deplores the poor effectiveness of the approach adopted by biologists to unders...
Claudio Mattiussi
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Semantic Techniques for Enabling Knowledge Reuse in Conceptual Modelling
Abstract. Conceptual modelling tools allow users to construct formal representations of their conceptualisations. These models are typically developed in isolation, unrelated to ot...
Jorge Gracia del Río, Jochem Liem, Esther L...
JASSS
1998
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13 years 4 months ago
Qualitative modeling and simulation of socio-economic phenomena
This paper describes an application of recently developed qualitative reasoning techniques to complex, socio{economic allocation problems. We explain why we believe traditional op...
Giorgio Brajnik, Marji Lines
AICOM
2005
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13 years 5 months ago
The Ants' Garden: Complex interactions between populations and the scalability of qualitative models
Ecological theories often explain the behaviour of communities in terms of the underlying interactions that take place between the species that are part of the community. This clos...
Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles
ECOI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Towards a structured approach to building qualitative reasoning models and simulations
Successful transfer and uptake of qualitative reasoning technology for modelling and simulation in a variety of domains has been hampered by the lack of a structured methodology t...
Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer, Jochem...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Pouring liquids: A study in commonsense physical reasoning
This paper presents a theory that supports commonsense, qualitative reasoning about the flow of liquid around slowly moving solid objects; specifically, inferring that liquid can ...
Ernest Davis
IJCAI
1989
13 years 6 months ago
Filter Preferential Entailment for the Logic of Action in Almost Continuous Worlds
Mechanical systems, of the kinds which are of interest for qualitative reasoning, are characterized by a set of real-valued parameters, each of which is a piecewise continuous fun...
Erik Sandewall
UAI
1993
13 years 6 months ago
On reasoning in networks with qualitative uncertainty
In this paper some initialwork towards a new approach to qualitative reasoning under uncertainty is presented. This method is not only applicable to qualitative probabilistic reas...
Simon Parsons, E. H. Mamdani
ISMB
1998
13 years 6 months ago
BioSim: A New Qualitative Simulation Environment for Molecular Biology
Traditionally, biochemical systems are modelled usingkinetics anddifferential equationsin a quantitative simulator. However,for manybiological processes detailed quantitative info...
Karsten R. Heidtke, Steffen Schulze-Kremer
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Multimodal Reasoning for Automatic Model Construction
This paper describes a program called Pret that automates system identification, the process of finding a dynamical model of a black-box system. Pret performs both structural iden...
Reinhard Stolle, Elizabeth Bradley