Resumen de Biotechnology, turbines and brain: 3 domains for qualitative reasoning
Representing and reasoning about incompletely known dynamic systems is an issue which gains more and more attention in the engineering sciences. In the AI field, several relatively recent techniques like fuzzy reasoning, qualitative reasoning, temporal constraint reasoning, etc. have brought new solutions in the last ten years. The innovative power of these techniques relies in that they allow one to take into account the complexity due to imprecise and uncertain knowledge, and that they can capture high level features. As a consequence, they allow one to represent more complex systems, resulting in very efficient modelling support to cope with high level tasks such as monitoring and diagnosis.
